With significant experience as a Global Product Development & Design Leader, I have been integral to account management & driving impactful brand strategies to reach multi-million-dollar increases. It is my passion to utilize my textiles & retail industry expertise to drive high-level concept & design for clients, successfully driving revenue growth through partnership management.As a leader, I have managed freelancers and design professionals through timeline execution while working with A-List clients & through successful branding from a global perspective.Some of my key achievements include: ✅Spearheaded initiatives and directed Art Departments through artistic template development for pitches to retailers, conducted professional and detailed presentations utilizing PowerPoint, storyboards, mockups, and 3D samples, successfully achieving buy-in to establish 20 new SKUs possessing 5-25K units each and 4 new programs✅Launched major product collections exclusively to Barnes & Noble and Paper Source, maximizing team collaboration and networking skills to obtain key brands including Jonathan Adler, Vera Bradley, MoMA, and Disney, securing $9M in annual revenue✅Traveled annually to China to partake in the Canton Fair, coordinating factory visitations to vet and recruit prospective vendor partnerships, while facilitating existing vendor renegotiations, certifying photo-approved samples, production approvals, and investigating new business directions through cost-effective modern technologies, supporting an overall sales increase of $25M✅Led the annual promotional Barnes & Noble Tote program, growing the business into a core line that produced the most departmental revenue annually, leading to being infixed quarterly throughout stores, generating a $20M annual businessI would like to connect with like-minded professionals. Feel free to contact me through this profile if you wish to connect.