GLOBAL SOURCING & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONALI am an innovative executive with 20 years of outstanding experience growing business and categories into profitable ones that occupy significant market share. With a proven history of success within manufacturing, wholesale and retail capacities, I am an expert at assessing a market to exploit opportunity and accelerate growth. It is this versatility that gives me a first-hand understanding of how decision-makers manage their businesses. My international business experiences have taken me all around the world. I have personally assessed hundreds of factories in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan and I intimately understand how to bridge the gap between global manufacturing and North American retail.My formal training in Computer Graphics & Marketing anchors my unique skill set. I have a thorough knowledge-base of printing and pre-press that I leverage when managing new product development. I am proficient with industry standard software like Photoshop, Illustrator and CorelDraw that helps me work more effectively with my office colleagues. With a proven ability to create a vision, through the combination of analysis and trend forecasting, I specialize in establishing and cultivating crucial client relationships, assessing competitive markets and implementing sales and marketing strategies. I can help your company strengthen its brand and position in the market to unlock sales potential and maximize profit.Specialties: Buying (leadership, merchandise procurement, management, marketing, negotiating, advertising, financials, channel management), global procurement, fx%, store design & fixtures, plan-o-gram POG planning, product presentation, relationship building, analysis based strategy building, P&L management, contract law, RFP/RFQ processes, digital creation and ecommerce.