Cherish Thanchan

41 Ramblewood Dr. Newburgh, NY 12550

845.392.6751 ~ Cthanchan@albany.edu ~

Education:

University at Albany

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration

Concentration Information Technology Management

Cumulative GPA 3.65

IT Experience

Price Chopper, Continuous Improvement Intern

Schenectady, NY

Fall 2012

  · Only team approved by Director of corporate brands to reduce package size, change shelf presentations and

reduce shelf size of specialty food items in Price Choppers “Westgate” branch.

  · Created a 4 star employee rewards program to provide employees with an incentive to keep product shrink

levels under 2.5% each quarter.

  · Worked on a team of 5 to reduce excess inventory and increase sales.

  · Analyzed past sales, shrink and forecasting reports, past employee training methods, computer generated

procurement system and clustering data to find solutions to inventory problem and declining sales in specialty

food items.

iPhone App Project

  · Designed surveys that were administered around campus to measure acceptance of application.

  · Utilized Excel to forecast revenue, costs, profit and yearly increase.

May 2013

  · Produced a working tool in Microsoft Access that created reports showing stores with highest excess inventory

and ranked top item offenders from each category within each store.

Spring 2012

  · Planned, analyzed and designed 4Piece which is an application for Albany students that integrates their email,

blackboard, homework assignments, electronic reserve, school closing and test date notifications as well as

gives them access to library archives and ebooks into their iPhone or Android.

Systems Analysis and Design (ITM 415)

Price Chopper “Shops 4 U”

  · Worked in a team of 4 colleagues to develop a database and website solution for Price Choppers current

problem of gaining online market share.

Computer Skills

Computer Programs: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Web Expressions, Visio, Adobe Photoshop

Computer Languages: Java, VBA, SQL

Clubs

Albany Business Leaders Emerging

Fall 2011- Spring 2012

  · An organization which sets up and runs Relay for Life and Walk for Breast Cancer.

  · Talked to experienced traders at New York Stock Exchange and received a better understanding of stocks and

America’s financial structure.

  · Set up and participated in community clean-up of downtown Albany so that the people of that area can take

interest and pride in the area they live in.

Work Experience

J&C Home Improvement

Beacon, NY

June 2009-August 2012

  · Team leader in a group of 4 which planned home improvement projects, gathered materials and carried out

improvement plan.

  · Duties included cutting grass, home repairs, and installation of wood floors and restoration of rusted metal

structures.

  · Used macros to differentiate between administrators and customers, wrote sql statements to create queries for

customer order tables, used update queries for inventory and product price, and used relationships between all

tables so that integrity would be enforced.