Emma Chao Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

Scary Mommy | The Dad | Cafe

NY, NY

New York, NY

Full-time web designer for women's lifestyle brands including:- Style Me Pretty [Weddings + Home]- Style List [Fashion]- Kitchen Daily [Food + Recipes]- Makers [Stories of Trailblazing Women]

New York, NY

Freelance Web & E-commerce designer for two luxury haircare brands, Kerastase & Shu Uemura. Lead designer on daily newsletters, specialty landing pages, social media branding, and web banners. Spearheaded and re-designed the Shu Uemura website to be responsive across desktop, tablet, and mobile.

New York, NY

• Earned promotion following demonstration of exceptional time and project-management skills, the ability to learn and adapt quickly to new systems and processes, and taking initiative while working with several members.
• Supervised and managed workload of seven production designers working on 40-50 sale programs weekly, all at different stages of execution. Closely monitored their work progress to ensure quality execution and deadlines.
• Provided visual direction and feedback on creative collateral and product images to team.
• Gathered information and worked closely with buying, editorial, product, and QA teams to develop processes and standards for the entire production team.
• Proofed 40-50 sale programs weekly, to maintain quality assurance and be error-free. Managed inventory flow of each sale program to guarantee in-stock inventory for positive shopping experience.
• Managed special event projects, including designers such as Herman Miller, Kartell, and Blu Dot.

Greater New York City Area

• Worked closely with buyers and copywriters to gather all information needed to build events within Fab's extensive content management system.
• Produced and managed 18-20 daily events per week, the most efficient and fastest designer out of a team of 20.
• Edited ~300 to 400 images weekly; color corrected, siloed products on white, ensured all images met Fab standards.
• Created engaging sale program visuals for each event.
• Ensured all product details, inventory, and copy provided by buying and editorial teams were properly input and aligned.
• Visually merchandised all products on the sale program page to ensure cohesiveness and flow.

• As a senior merchandise planner, main duties included developing and executing financial plans and monthly forecasts for $30M women’s division, presenting weekly and monthly sales results to VP and team, and.

• Managed a $25M men’s and women’s footwear business. Responsibilities included placing seasonal orders, negotiating deliveries and pricing, maximizing gross margins, and supervising marketing efforts.

• As a merchandise planner for two years, main responsibilities were developing and executing monthly forecast & annual financial plans in order to proactively impact the bottom line for $150M women’s footwear business..

Ba, Economics

Activities and Societies: · Dean's List 2006 · 2nd place winner in Target-sponsored case study · Yuri Kochiyama Mentorship Program.

Graphic Design Certificate, Graphic Design

Continuing Ed Student, Adobe Photoshop Cs5 And Cs6, Adobe Indesign, Graphic Design