Certified Professional Career Coach and Personal Branding Specialist, expert in training job seekers on how to develop high impact resumes and LinkedIn profiles that significantly increase interviews and job offers

Advise Your Career

Breaking into the job market can be tough. Are you struggling to stand out? I'm here to help.

I spent 18+ years at a Fortune 1 company, only to find myself unemployed. Frustrated with the career services I received, I took matters into my own hands.

Now, I'm a career coach, working with motivated professionals like you to:
- Create stellar resumes
- Craft a memorable personal brand
- Nail that interview

In just seven years, I've written over 2K resumes and freelanced for three major resume sites. In addition, I have conducted 1K interview preparation session with clients.

Here's what I bring to the table:
💥 Personal Branding Strategy
💥 Career Coaching
💥 Resume Writing / Best Practices
💥 LinkedIn Optimization
💥 Interview Preparation
💥 Executive Bios

Ready to land your dream job? Let's chat!
Get in touch for a free consultation to kick-start your career today.

Career Coach 

Advise Your Biz 

Ever wonder how Walmart and Sam's Club keep their shelves stocked? 🤔

I'm the behind-the-scenes guru! 🧙‍♂️
Working closely with suppliers, I master:
✅ Retail Link
✅ Item setup
✅ Forecasts
✅ Order maintenance
✅ Demand planning
✅ Global cross-functional team collaboration

Real impact?
I streamline processes, making sure you find what you need on your next shopping trip. 🛒

Looking to optimize your supplier processes? 📈
Let's chat! Drop a comment or send me a message. 📩

Retail Consultant

The Northwest Group, LLC

Unlocking the secrets behind Entertainment and Sports' License item success at Walmart and Sam's.
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As a seasoned analyst, I singlehandedly
- Boosted sales through precision analysis and forecasting
- Issued game-changing reports for the VP of Sales

My secret sauce:
- Crafting budgets and wise inventory flows
- Spearheading special projects
- Collaborating with buying teams for optimal replenishment

Curious how my expertise can transform your sales performance? Let's chat & elevate your business success! 🚀

Senior Sales/Replenishment Analyst 

Welspun Group

Unlock the secrets behind $300M in sales 📈

At Welspun, I cracked the code on 250+ items for Walmart and Sam's Bath Sheet and Towel business.⚡

What did I do? 🧐
- Sales analytics and item forecasting 📊
- Provided all-star support to VP of Sales 🌟
- Prepared budgets, forecasts, and reports 📚
- Communicated with factories and led special projects 🏭
- Facilitated support meetings with Walmart and Sam's 🤝
- Worked hand-in-hand with replenishment managers 🚚

The result? 💥
In-depth item analysis for Welspun programs by size, color, and brand. 🔎

Senior Sales Analyst 

Walmart

🞕Unlocking the secret to managing a $4.5B business at Fortune 1! 👀

At the world's largest retailer, I helped transform Home Decor and the Fabrics & Crafts areas. How? By:

➡️ Recruiting and developing a star planning team within Merchandising
➡️ Nurturing eight direct reports with the right infrastructure
➡️ Engaging with cross-functional stakeholders to drive growth initiatives across competitive categories.

But there's more:

🏆 Empowering them to handle daily and recurring responsibilities
🏆 Guiding them to manage the portfolio to plan

Planning Director-Home Division

As the founder of Advise Your Career, I specialize in empowering professionals to land their dream roles. With over 18 years of experience at a Fortune 1 company and extensive expertise in personal branding, resume writing, and interview preparation, I’ve helped thousands of clients achieve their career goals.

𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬:

🎯Authored 2,000+ resumes and conducted over 1,000 interview prep sessions.
🎯Certified Professional Career Coach (CPCC), Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW), and licensed CPA."

𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:
I craft compelling career narratives that showcase your unique value to employers. My mission is to provide you with the tools, confidence, and strategies needed to excel in today’s competitive job market. Let's work together to unlock your full career potential.

Andrew Watkins, CPCC, CPRW, CPA

Amazon

Head, 3P Vendor Management, Selling Partner Services

Leading the Lead Management Strategy and operations at 'Amazon Buy with Prime' org.

Manager of Sales Strategy & Operations, Buy with Prime

Manages two NA programs - a. Voice of Sales Reps (VoSR) and b. Centralized Sales Business Intelligence Engineering. VoSR currently owns a defect elimination charter in NA Sales with a 3YP to scale worldwide!

Manager, NA Sales Operations & Insights, Selling Partner Services

At Alexa Shopping, we don’t just launch “capabilities”, we drive customer impact! Currently building Alexa Shopping Planning Org to focus on planning mechanisms, data auditing, solution providing!

If you're program/product manager, BA/BIE, Data engineer and can work from any place in the US, please hit me up!

Manager, Alexa Shopping Planning

Spearheaded 2 global programs for VAT services on Amazon in 7 EU marketplaces. Built & led a team of 42.

Leadership Principles Demonstrating: Ownership, Think Big, Deep Dive, Earn Trust and Hire & Develop the Best.

Manager, VAT Services on Amazon, International Seller Services 

PwC India

As a strategy consultant for a major Indian state's statistics department, interacted with Agriculture Statistics Office (ASO), Industrial Statistics Office (ISO), Socio-economic Statistical Office (SESO), General Surveys & Statistics Office (GS&SO), Reference Technical Section (RTS) and Information Technology & Data Analytics Center (IT&DAC) wings and responsibilities were as following:
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1. As-Is study, Gap Analysis and To-BE requirement:

•	As-Is study of current business processes, ICT infrastructure
•	Understand data dissemination, workflow timeline
•	Understand the pain areas of the current process and application
•	Gap Analysis of As-Is processes and applications 
•	To-Be requirement planning for stakeholders. 

2. FRS, Technical Architecture:

•	Functional Requirement Specification (for the proposed unified system covering most of the activities including ease of data integration among internal sections, data analysis) 
•	List of other services and Technical Architecture  
•	Incorporate Global Best Practices
•	Moving towards TQM by adopting ISO Standards

3. RFP & technical and financial bid evaluation:

•	Prepare Request for Proposal for IA/SI selection
•	Co-ordinate with client for technical and financial evaluation of the submitted bids 
•	GCC (General condition of contract)
•	SCC (Special condition of contract)

Management Consultant

Salt n Soap | Online Grocery Store | Kolkata | India

In 2012, I co-founded www.saltnsoap.com, one of the leading e-grocers of Eastern India. I helped the team to take different strategic business decisions using data analytics (Tools used: R and Tableau). Successfully negotiated with the companies like ITC, Mother Dairy, P&G, Best Food etc. as a part of their online extension and with CCAvenue, PayTM for gateway partners.

Also, Contributed as one of the moderators of Facebook and Twitter accounts of Govt. of West Bengal, Tourism Dept., Apart from regular digital marketing tasks, analyzed important live social media data to come up with sentiment scores of different travelling destination in Bengal.

Co Founder

Team Lead: 
Project Name: Development and support of Oracle E-business suite for an Indian metro city's municipal corporation. 

I worked as Oracle business analyst and SCM functional consultant engaged full time basis at client site, interfacing with the client’s internal IT team and the business users in roll-out and support for Oracle applications R12 modules, client specific customization, interfaces, capacity building and user training activities creating awareness for ERP usage. 

Accomplishments:
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1) In June 2015, the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) has feted client's e-delivery of municipal program as a National Best Practice in India.
2) Working on Government 'Delegation of Power'.
3) Setting up whole hierarchy for ERP roll-out.
4) Writing several SOPs to reduce clients' dependency
5) Developments: Enhancement of current ERP system after inclusion of Deviation scenario of a particular file processing in a govt. organization.

Assistant Manager

From conquering the intricacies of VAT compliance to mastering the art of Alexa shopping, and orchestrating innovative new seller recruitment strategies, I've had the privilege of leading a team of over 60 brilliant minds in the e-commerce industry. My passion lies in assembling diverse, globally-minded teams that not only thrive but also foster inclusion.

Before my Amazon journey, I embarked on the mission to make sports accessible to countless Indians via Decathlon's omni-commerce channels. Managing teams as large as 42 members during my stints with consulting and delivery at PwC, Virtusa, and IDS honed my leadership skills.

In 2012, I co-founded SaltnSoap.com, one of India's largest online grocers. I conceptualized, launched, and scaled the business to serve millions of customers across Kolkata, Ahmedabad, and Rajkot, culminating in a successful takeover.

My toolkit includes mastery in program management, project management, Scrum methodologies, and vendor relations, all facilitated by tools like Taiga, JIRA, Excel, R, and Tableau. With an MBA from IIM Calcutta and certifications in Six Sigma Green Belt and Data Analytics, I'm primed to excel in any challenge that comes my way.

Feel free to connect and let's discuss how we can collaborate to achieve great things together. You can reach me at +1-425-209-7368 (Text/WhatsApp: 10am-8pm PT). Let's chart the course to success!

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