Oversaw design team in creating floor sets for Seasonal Décor, Outdoor Living Furniture & Décor, Seasonal Home Textiles & Table Top in licensed and private label brands, accountable for $350M in sales. Created seasonal style guides and themes for merchants, vendors, and in-house design teams to establish trend-right assortments. Curated products and designs into cohesive assortment within multiple lifestyle themes. • Rebuilt team, filling 3 open design positions at time of hire within 2 months; played leadership role in aligning team to resolve design project running 6 months behind schedule and jeopardizing nearly $180M in lost sales. •. Negotiated and resourced photography contract for e-commerce, in-store signage, and packaging for Outdoor Living, Décor & Grills; sourced new vendor in China reducing grills bill by 65% and saved additional 30% by working closely with Studio while delivering improved images versus previous year. • Enabled delivery of best-in-class retail assortment of 2018 & 2019 Jaclyn Smith Christmas Shop deliveries representing $80M in retail sales. •. Rebranded 8 seasonal brands with no recognition under trusted brand umbrella of “Essential Home”; secured agreement across 2 business units and 12 merchants while decreasing cost of packaging and labels by 15%.

Managed the business of 4 proprietary and 2 licensed mature brands accountable for profitability, rightsizing assortments to market needs, and leading innovative product launches. •. Improved direct sales to Amazon through development of new variates within collections creating multiple sales; boosted sales between 25% and 220% in unique brands year-over-year. •. Introduced customization program for key accounts leading to 30% increase in 3 key accounts. • Drove SKU rationalization across all brands, eliminating 20-80% SKU’s across brands with “dead” inventory and focusing on best sellers to improve working capital for new launches. • Identified and introduced new product categories within neglected brands, boosting sales by 25%.

Oversaw design teams across 2 offices in United Sates and Hong Kong; supported up to 11 brands in 3 U.S. offices executing 4 product launches per year. Created 3-year business plans, quarterly design, and sample development. Served as liaison to license agents and artists including Disney, Mattel, Coke, Jim Shore, and BRITTO. • Launched 3 new licensed and in-house concept brands, annually with first year sales averaging $350K in wholesale revenue per brand. •. Grew existing mature brands, including Jim Shore brand delivering $1M incremental growth in new collections and product categories annually. • Travelled extensively to source, trend and attend trade fairs in U.S., China, India, and Philippines with focus on new product categories, negotiated prices and finalized photography samples and production masters.

Line Development, Product Design and Sourcing for brands: JS by Jim Shore, Britto bebe, Britto for Disney, BILLY THE ARTIST, Global & Vine.

Sourced and developed fashion forward, age appropriate print, patterns, and graphics for all accessories and jewelry products. Delivered new imagery for themes and aligned strategy to seasonal goals in conjunction with DMM. •. Established minimum art and product file standards and improved sample drop rate from poor art from 20% to zero. • Saved $50K in 8 months in new art purchases by establishing Physical and Digital Asset Library for existing art files.

Part of a team that is launching a retail brand where we intend to create a dynamic & fully integrated philanthropic experience. Our goal is to raise resources and awareness for charitable causes and revitalizing communities worldwide, with a goal of touching 50 communities in the next five to eight years. Freelance.

PREMIER PROVIDER OF GOURMET, HANDCRAFTED GIFT BASKETS; ACQUIRED BY 1-800 FLOWERS IN 2008Led team of 6 Product Managers/Designers, Creative Manager, and 7 Graphic Designers and Illustrators. Executed trend research, sourced vendors, and created sales plans. • Increased revenue by 12-16% over 4 years through sales data analysis and identifying new trends. •. Improved sourcing, creation, and usage of trademark private brands to 60% of total product mix & increased margins.•. Saved 50% in sample shipping and improved design development and sourcing lead-time by 3 months.

● Recruited to improve the sweater development and specification process across all categories. Increased successful sampling by 300%, improving overall quality and vendor relationships.● Traveled internationally for major trend shows including Pitti Filati, Premier Vision, Indigo and Directions, directly responsible for store-wide trend interpretation for the sweater category including presentations to the design and merchandising teams.

Merchandising arm of Lord & Taylor, and 11 regional Department Stores● Responsible for the sweater design & merchandising of the Mens, Young Mens, Juniors and five childrens areas with a staff of two designers and one assistant designer.● Increased Holiday 2001 placements 21- 46% across all areas of responsibility and added double digit growth in Holiday 2002. Grew internally sourced Juniors program from 30 to 66% of total program by establishing new spec blocks based on market & customer profile. ● Structured and executed a European /Asian vendor research trip and sourced yarns for balance of design team saving the company $50k in travel & exceeding design team needs.● Recipient of the 2000 Outstanding Support Executive Award for most focused Development.● Promoted in 1999 from Designer to Head Designer - Accomplishments in the Designer role include:● Collaborated with woven & knit designers; establishing theme, palette and direction of two updated RTW brands. Partnered with Market Reps to meet pricing & margin requirements.● Developed new key item yarns with partner mills. Introduced Cashmere-like Loungewear to Intimate assortment and doubled program units the second year.

The “Softer Side of Sears” private brand launch era at Sears● Managed the complete assortment for two traditional brands and sweaters design of two updated brands. Implemented & redesigned Asian import programs with buyers, incorporating emerging trends, fabrications and new items from vendors presentations. ● First Product Manager / Designer to be awarded and included in the 1996 Buyer Team Award for Apparel.

General Merchandise Retail & Catalog● Managed the direct import Womens Knit, Sweater and Active-wear assortments for 8 private brands.● Responsible for the import programs from trend/color, to style, print pattern, line assortment, price negotiations and fit.

Embellished Better Sportswear sold in boutiques & Neiman Marcus● Initiated merchandised, multiple fabrication capsule groups resulting in fewer stock units and higher profits. Created design themes for “Items” for cohesive sales presentations.● Led implementation and training of CAD system to eliminate $20k/ year outsourced studio service work.

Better Sportswear Brand found in Major Department Stores and Catalogs• Created a graphing process for intricate intarsia designs which became the hallmark of the label in the late 1980's•Responsible for brand integrity of sweater product from sketch to stock orders insuring proper fit, color and quality.• Developed all color palettes, woven yarn-dyes and prints for the brand before the dawn of CAD.