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 of the merchandising team.• 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 were met. • 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.• Proofed event details once completed in order to ensure a smooth quality assurance process.• Assisted in other special projects, such as building pop-up shop events with high profile designers such as Andy Warhol, Kate Spade, and Le Creuset.

• 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 collaborating with merchants to develop profitable in-season assortment strategies under tight deadlines.

• 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. Juggled multiple priorities at once in order to meet urgent deadlines. Main achievements were increasing sales by $12M from ’08 to ’09, training 3 summer interns, and winning two awards for outstanding results.

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