Randa Wadie, Assistant Store Manager

Randa Wadie

Assistant Store Manager

Victoria’s Secret Beauty & Accessories Kuwait at Al Shaya

Location
Kuwait - Al Kuwait
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Experience
7 years, 1 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :7 years, 1 Months

Assistant Store Manager at Victoria’s Secret Beauty & Accessories Kuwait at Al Shaya
  • Kuwait
  • September 2013 to March 2015

• Managing Victoria’s Secret store by:
 Preparing the weekly team schedule
 Coaching and developing the sales associates
 Communicating the daily, weekly, and quarterly sales targets to the team and setting the directions for how to achieve such targets.
 Communicating with the different departments in the company to have the store operating successfully and up to the brand and company standards.
 Doing weekly evaluation for the store performance by identifying the strengths and weaknesses, and setting action plans for any areas requiring development.
 Evaluating the staff performance, and discussing the feedback with them for better results
 Interacting with the store customers on daily basis, and dealing with their needs and complaints.
• Participated in the opening of Victoria’s Secret new store at Al Fanar mall in Kuwait.

Internship at Resilience&
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • July 2013 to August 2013

- Served as an Intern at Resilience& Middle East offices, and was focusing on the training programs powered by Resilience& Academy, along with assisting senior managers in business development, market research, and project management. The performed tasks included the following:

 Creating different client databases for the academy, based on market research, and supported by LinkedIn connections for the provided contacts
 Participating in the team strategic meetings, and preparing comprehensive meeting minutes for the whole team accordingly
 Marketing for Resilience& Academy's upcoming events on social media
 Preparing proposals' support documents, formatted as per a provided document structure
 Creating an outline for a 5 hour training program, customized as per the client's needs
 Creating contacts' databases for Kuwait hotels, and for international book publishers in US & Europe
 Contacting all hotels in Kuwait requesting quotations for training events, and preparing summarized comparison sheets accordingly. This included lots of E-mail and phone communication
 Contacting some book publishers to have clear understanding of their publishing process and requirements
 Preparing templates for LinkedIn and E-mail messages to be sent for the participants and speakers of an upcoming Resilience& conference Performed quality audits on many projects at Valeo Egypt, whether internal audits to guarantee the quality of the projects internally, or external audits on the official customer deliveries.

Quality Assurance Engineer at Valeo Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • September 2011 to November 2012

• Performing quality audits on many projects at Valeo Egypt, whether internal audits to guarantee the quality of the projects internally, or external audits on the official customer deliveries. • Leading and participating in many Root Cause Analysis meetings for problems detected across the different projects at Valeo Egypt, to come up with lessons learned for the whole organization. • Worked in Quality Assurance Process improvement at Valeo Egypt, by updating quality checklists and tailoring them to match the different product lines’ activities. • Initiated a self-check checklist to be filled by the technical team before quality review, to minimize effort and re-work at quality audit time.

Dot Net Developer, SW Tester, and System Analyst at Fawry Banking
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2010 to August 2011

• Participated in the testing process of Bills Warehouse Project at Fawry, this included workflows testing, web services testing, and UI testing.

• Was responsible for the System analysis, updates and integration of some Fawry services on the website of Credit Agricole Egypt.

Software Engineer at ITWorx Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 2007 to May 2010

• Mentored other software engineers at ITWorx in their SharePoint ramp up, helped them with the ramp up plan, and assigned them small technical tasks as an application to the ramp up readings. • Developed in Municipality of Jeddah’s Building Permits Project: an automated system managing processes related to initiating and activating permits for constructing buildings, villas, and walls through workflows that manage the request from application to completion. • Assisted in the EMEA Education Solution Support Center of ITWorx. Provided development and technical help to fix issues reported by clients who have recently introduced Microsoft Education Solutions in automation of their teaching, learning, and administration processes. • Led my team in SLK (SharePoint Learning Kit) Release 1.4 Project at ITWorx: a project required by Microsoft to fix critical issues in SLK, an open source e-learning tool, and to extend its functionality to support non e-learning content. In addition to being considered as SLK specialist at ITWorx in order to do different SLK customizations for ITWorx internal and external projects. • Participated in Mohamed Bin Rashid Foundation - Bait Alhikma Project: a project concerned of creating a platform as a base for researches, scholarships and development communities in the Arab world. Worked on development, some modules’ integration, and Microsoft Community Server localization. • Worked on customizing MLG (Microsoft Learning gateway) 2007 for Essex Schools Deployment Project at ITWorx. Participated in development, packaging, unit testing, and documentation of the project.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at The American UniversitySohag’s Secondary School for GirlsAUC
  • June 2007

also studied two minors at University: Mathematics & Business Administration

Specialties & Skills

People Training
Software Testing
Business Administration
People Management
Quality Assurance
flowers arrangement
problem analysis
driving sales
communication
customer service
training
people management
business administration

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Introduction to CMMI for Development V1.3 Certified (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2011
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Certified (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2008
Business Writing (Training)
Training Institute:
Professional Training Centre (PTC)
Date Attended:
December 2011
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Certified (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2008
Basic Life and Emotional Skill School (BLESS) Certified (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2009
Early Chilhood Education Certified (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2016
International Computer Driving License (ICDL) (Training)
Training Institute:
Avenue
Date Attended:
April 2015

Hobbies

  • Social Development
    was a member then the leader of a development/charity organization in Egypt by directing and motivating the members towards the vision and the targets of the organization, and initiating and organizing the organization’s upcoming events.
  • Singing
    joined university choir and had joined many singing contests with that choir
  • Psychology
    attended Basic Life and Emotional Skill School course which was a deep course in dealing with the psychology of the self and how it interacts with itself, others, and God.
  • Flowers Arrangements
    Completed Flowers Arrangements and Designs Course at Fleurinjy School and have done many beautiful arrangements through and after the course
  • Children Development
    have just finished an online course about early childhood education have joined many social and professional groups about children development and how to deal with it, and have been applying that on my son joined many social activities before that had direct interaction with children whether through entertaining them, educating them, or dealing with their needs and problems