Experienced in all areas of creative design and development of highly successful and profitable innovative products for carpet collections for woven high end residential and commercial markets. Created many diferentiated products and market 'leaders' through design led innovation. Believe in the power of design excellence to generate margin through design innovation and designing efficiently but always to achieve differentiated products that create a unique position in their markets.Skilled in developing creativity in design teams, exploiting creative talent and in the development of processes to deliver consistently outstanding and profitable differentiated products.Specialties: Creative design leadership and developmentSetting and delivering global design strategies to achieve growth and profitabilityGlobal design network- development of strategic initiativesDesign management and process developmentDevelopment of CAD systemsNegotiating supplier contractsDeveloping design training programmes for design personnel Continuous improvement team principles and processes
Listed skills include Textile Design, Carpet, Ned Graphics, Textiles, and 15 others.