Lead for all Licensing relationships, maintaining, renewing as well as seeking new partnerships. Since taking over the role mid 2014, I have been responsible for several contract renewals and have signed 7 new Worldwide Licensing agreements with some of the biggest Licenses in consumer products.Manage all product development for the Core team on all Video Game and Mobility products that are non electronic for BDA’s Consumer Product Division, Power A. BDA is one of the largest merchandise marketing firms in the world. Supervise the development and support staff. My team supports 9 Licensed Partners as well as multiple promotional and OEM opportunities.Extensively research the market to identify trends and competitors’ offerings. Analyze sales information from various retailers including Amazon.com, Best Buy, Game Stop, and Toys R Us as well as game blogs, newsletters, and “trend” sites. Confer regularly with design team to develop product ideas and prepare concepts for customer review and initial sampling creation. Prepare product brief for manufacturing group. Work closely with offshore production facilities to assure quality and reliability. Visit facilities to monitor ongoing production. Manufacturing processes include cut-and-sew, injected plastic, molded silicone, 3-D sculpts, and simple electronics. Oversee all testing to assure compliance with international safety standards, experienced in Toy safety regulations worldwide. Manage each product line through manufacture, shipping, and customer delivery. Monitor all shipments to assure meeting each customer’s specific due date. Key customers include Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Game Stop, Amazon.com, and Toys R Us.

Lead Developer for all product lines

Managed an off site employee only retail location and branded merchandise website for one of Sunrise Identitys customers. Duties included and not limited too - maintaining inventory within the store, selecting new products for both the retail location and web site, embellishing logos on products selected within customers brand guidelines, creating loads (product information)obtaining cost information, setting the sell prices to ensure proper margin for the program. Expanding the product line of the on site store to entice repeat customers. Increase sales within the retail site from and average of $2000.00 per week to $8000.00 in just under 2 years.

Responsible for over 50 accounts sales and customer service in the wholesale apparel industry. Worked in teams and backed up 3 co-workers account loads at approximatley the same size. Won Account Executive of the Quarter Award which is given and voted on by the department.

Purchasing, inventory management, program/product development, hardgoods expert, brand management, cost negotiations, vendor relations, tradeshow experience, client presentations, knowledgeable on several decoration techniques, importing and exporting experience, worked with several overseas manufactuers (asia and germany), sourcing new products, working with a large team to complete several promotional catalogs a year.