Ira Devorkin Email & Phone Number

Dallas / Fort Worth Area And Dongguan City, China

Asian sourcing in the home furnishings,hospitality furnishings, giftware, home decor, furniture, lighting, wall art, accent furniture and leather accessories industries for wholesalers, retailers and distributors. I have lived in China as needed. I have managed a Chinese staff of 5 to 50 people. My role is to source projects given to me and introduce my customers to China factories that can manufacture competitive and proprietary products. I act as the bridge between the US and China manufacturers! I manage the relationships between the factory and my customer. I also do domestic China outsourcing for case goods makers that need to find more aggressive makers to work with within China. We are aggressive manufacturers of hospitality furnishings. My factories sell name brand hotels mostly in the USA and China. We have "boutique hotel " abilities. My factories make products for the home decor, wall decor, mirror,giftware, candle,outdoor garden, and decorative lighting industries at the wholesale and retail levels as well as Ecommerce. Mostly proprietary branded products and consumer goods. We have amazing abilities in leather accessories for men and women. Currently producing leather hand bags for Harley Davidson and Ferrari. We are a primary vendor of leather goods for the USA, Europe, Japan, and Australia. Additionally we manufacture DSLR camera bags, pet carrier bags," fashion" ladies hand bags, wallets, cosmetic bags, and promotional bags, everything we do is custom and proprietary. We work in genuine leather, PVC, PU, and fabrics. We have 2 quality control offices in China that boast American qc standards. Affiliated with Interpro HK with consumer goods.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area & Dongguan City, China

Vice President of sourcing and Business Development for Padma's Hospitality - Contract Division, and product sourcing for "key accounts" at retail which were mostly catalog retailers such as Frontgate, Ballard Designs. Sourced hospitality furnishings for Hilton Garden Inn, Marriott, Starbucks, Palazzo, MGM, Sheraton China, and Venetian.

Dongguan City, China

Duties were to open and manage a new sourcing, design support and product development office to oversee IMAX's growth activities in Mainland China. This included locating and expediting the building a 4 story office & showroom in DongGuan City, China. This four-story venture in the DongChen District of DongGuan City required my supervision over a six-month period of time. Duties included hiring and managing the Chinese office staff that assisted my sourcing of six new factories a month, supporting the Vice President and three buyers that came to China several times per year, and working to maintain an aggressive product development criteria of 600 new introductions twice a year. I also supported in-house and out-of-house designers that were sent to China throughout the year to design and develop new product. In total, I was involved with over 70 factories in China. Additional tasks included assisting the Global Sales Division in China, as well as arranging all Mainland China travel. With the help of my hand-selected staff, I exceeded all company needs by bringing famous industry designers to IMAX such as Carolyn Kinder and brought Donald Trump Home to the company. Additionally I worked along side of sales to bring needed product to many larger retailers that the company did business with. Our office and showroom was awarded the "Best designed foreign office and showroom" in DongGuan City, China by HERE DONGGUAN Magazine.

Greater Memphis Area

Duties included product development/design and working with OEM customers within the lighting, giftware, home décor, furniture, and accessories industries. I increased the company's sourcing by establishing an office in the Philippines, as well as expanding into China. I spent 50% of my time overseas working with customers to develop proprietary productsand assisted in managing the China office.

Miami, Florida

Headed sourcing and product development for this framed-mirror manufacturer whos business was primarily in the hospitality industry. I was hired to help source and launch their home furnishings division. I applied my China and Philippines sourcing programs as the sole developer of product.

Austin, Texas / Irvine,Calif.

I started a partnership sourcing for U.S. manufacturers. Working as Vice President, I headed all marketing and selectively established China resourcing for lighting, lighting fixture, furniture, accessory, home décor, candle, and giftware manufacturers across the country. I worked to continuously find U.S. manufacturers that wanted to establish offshore relationships in an effort to increase their pricing advantages in their respective marketplaces. OEM customers I resourced for included Bassett Mirror, Iris Worldwide, Northern Lights Candle, Casa Bisque, TomLin Designs, John Richard Collection, Thomasville, Lasting Products, Inc., Quoizel and A'Homestead Shoppe. I provided additional resourcing strengths in Mexico and the Philippines.

Lexington, N.C.

Successfully established company's offshore presence so they could grow private label business with several major retailers in the USA. I coordinated offshore purchasing, manufacturing, packaging, quality control issues, and shipping logistics. I had direct retail account involvement with the marketing and sales departments. LampCrafters/TomLin Designs sold decorative accessories, portable lighting, accent furniture, and lighting fixtures to companies such as Ethan Allen and Bombay.

Dallas, Texas.

Accomplished all offshore giftware, accent tables, and tabletop manufacturing goals in the Far East for this OEM maker. I initiated additional manufacturing production from China factories. The company's Mexican-owned manufacturing abilities were sold out. I headed marketing of national sales within the retail mass merchant category. I introduced many mass-market key representatives to Lasting Products to help sell home décor and table-top lines into the marketplace. I resourced 70 gift items for a national brand product launch. I worked directly in merchandising products for the company's owned retail stores in the Dallas, Texas metro area. Retail customers included Dollar General, Pottery Barn, Bombay, Macys. I sourced the entire line presentation that was sold to Home Interiors of Dallas, a direct selling home party giftware distributor. This amounted to $25 million dollars of sales to Lasting Products.

Greater Chicago Area

Sold lighting parts to portable lamp and fixture makers across the country. My working sales territory covered eight states with 40 accounts. I managed several sales associates in other parts of the country. I helped with offshore relations, was involved in U.S. marketing, and worked with the company's largest customers, including major U.S. retailers. Over my 16 years with the company, I was directly responsible for Berman Sales Company's aggressive growth.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Managed a Retail Furniture Store. Additionally became assistant Furniture buyer and Lighting buyer for the company which had 5 store locations. I had complete control of store merchandising, advertising, and in-house promotions.

Intermediate Studies, Chinese Language Studies

Activities and Societies: Language learning Graduated !

Business, Communications

Activities and Societies: University radio station Top 40 radio !

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Business/Corporate Communications

Activities and Societies: Campus radio station Had a chance to work in radio both as a student on the campus station and professionally.