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Seattle

Greater Seattle Area

Responsible for creating standardized programs to guide the store design teams which ensured brand consistency throughout the China Asia Pacific region. Programs were created in collaboration with cross functional project teams, most often including category, marketing and operations for adoption and adaptation in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Japan and India.

Greater Seattle Area

Created and implemented design guidelines, evaluating current regional store concepts and processes to determine what could be adapted to meet regional conditions, while ensuring company brand equity.

Greater Seattle Area

Liaison between the concept design and regional design teams, responsible for translating the vision to in market designers for implementation of stores.

Seattle, WA

Led a team of regional design managers responsible for all renovations, company programs and facilities requirements within existing stores across the United States and Canada.

Greater Seattle Area

Store Concepts team partner responsible for development and implementation of large-scale company initiatives from ideation through rollout, utilizing resources from multiple business units.

Greater Seattle Area

Team leader and business partner responsible for collaborating with category, marketing, operations and designer leadership on new concepts, custom and pilot projects. Managed a team of designers and project managers.

San Francisco Bay Area

Established and managed a new non-standard store process for store design; facilitated all feasibility studies and managed the pre-approval phase of the store delivery process for Europe and US non-standard stores.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Brand re-imaging for the Limited from sleek/black to wood/neutral concept. New concept programming, design development and consultant management for Limited Brands, including the first pilot store in Beverly Hills, CA. Generated rollout design for multiple stores per week for Limited Brands, Bath and Body Works and At Home Concepts.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Rollout design and space planning for specialty retail stores, including Bullocks Department Stores and Hanna Barbera; generated relevant AutoCAD documentation.