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Atlanta Georgia & Sarasota Florida Areas

My knowledge of marketing, product life-cycles, physical development time frame constraints, as well as my creative input & influence working with the Mill, both directly & indirectly, led to my consultant role with Techlon, a Taiwanese fabric mill. Responsibilities included: Developing a line of indoor/outdoor fabrics objectively based on global trends. Specifically addressing trend in detail by market relativeness, focusing heavily on colour & texture. Identifying, analyzing & predict aesthetic trend themes globally, nationally & regionally, scrutinizing specific trend themes not only in colour & palette use, but in pattern, scale & application use as well. Oversee Trend-book & Style-guide development gauged by continual market research, attending trade shows & store evaluations. Collaborate cross-functionally to determine new design initiatives as well as manage the physical sample development.

Austin Tx Usa

I have over 14 years of experience in the outdoor furniture industry ranging from Marketing positions, Managing Industrial & Graphic Designers as well as nearly a decade in Product Development bringing digital & sketch concepts to life through design initiatives & execution of prototypes. Attend trade shows as frequently as possible both domestically & internationally assessing trend & innovations. My main focus was looking forward to establish initiatives & work with industrial designers to create meaningful, fresh product for the Market. I also oversaw physical sample development based on a objective approach of upholding product selected to sample with integrity of CAD specifications, interacting with management earlier in model & rendering stages to fine tune details based on cost, cube & retail goals by clients, trying to uphold the integrity of the design & the specific details that make it unique.

Birmingham, Alabama Area

Upon the acquisition of Plantation Patterns, by Home Casual, I was assigned the task, alongside the new President, to understand responsibilities, business interactions & day to day roles of the now vacant desks of upper management who were now gone. I was directly involved with hiring to fill gaps, strategically aligning personnel with as lean of a team as possible, while managing daily meetings to discuss retail account assortment at the SKU level ensuring materials are on order & being fulfilled. I teamed with the Engineers on true costing based on SAP stage base cost breakdown. I engaged & collaborate with Engineering, R&D, & Creative team members to evaluate possible efficiencies gained by changing fabric bolt width based on cut/sew pattern-work or vise-versa. Analyzing stripe & engineered patterns with special consideration of application for consumption & selvedge. Prepare financial reports for programs that involved ‘blended’ costs for margin evaluation. I was responsible for providing the President with financial analysis breakdown for quoting & or product revision for all accounts. This detail indicating fabric [type, weight & cost] logistic terms & cushion fill [material & cost] consumption of materials & margins indicated by SKU as well as total program forecast margin analysis. I strive for strategic understanding of the market through store walks, analysis of retail assortments from multiple perspectives, retail, material, construction & branding (good, better & best) based on brand name, palette assortment, colour & patterns. I teamed with sourcing yearly for internal product review of umbrellas to understand pricing based on attribute specifications.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

I collaborated with the sales leadership team on design needs based on market trends based on analysis of competition, demographic & economic climate. Creatively collaborated with the design team nurturing assigned design initiatives based on set identified needs. I worked daily with product development with possible new compelling concepts, materials & techniques. Manage sample progress objectively based on CAD specifications yet being mindful of possible production concerns & cost saving options. Roughly 1/3 of the year spent in Asia in a variety of factories developing physical prototypes: Furniture frames, table-tops, cast aluminum, stone & WeatherStone™, [Brand of GRC], yarn & woven board development focusing on mixing of yarns, new extrusions & techniques striving for a richer, more valuable look with minimal cost impact.

Bs Marketing, Coles School Of Business - Marketing

B.S. Plant Science, Plant Sciene & Identification, 3.7 Gpa