Kristine Kunkel Email & Phone Number

Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

Denver, Colorado

- Responsible for ensuring that products are tested, inspected, and compliant in all areas, including: government regulations, retailer guidelines, and internal SOPs.- Was the company expert on travel item (toys, in vehicle, etc.) government regulations and collaborated with the cross-functional team to resolve any safety concerns. - Maintain knowledge of industry and retailer regulations, standards, and best practices to ensure compliance with applicable laws and certifications. - On boarded vendors, which included communicating product compliance expectations and standards. - Managed all safety and quality risk assessments for new products, including all new to the company categories or concepts.- Communicated and maintained test plans with vendors for all current season products. - Maintained state law tag licenses for active factories. This includes registrations for 13 states and the FDA registration for applicable products/factories. - Lead investigations into product non-conformances, customer complaints, and safety incidents, identifying root causes and implementing corrective actions.

Aurora, Co

- Lead the end-to-end development process, from ideation to commercialization of new consumer products consisting of retail hardwood floor tools, finishes, cleaning solutions, and product packaging. - Developed innovative packaging solutions for several new products including a thermoform and paperboard combination package for the Express Mop and corrugated options for a new line of Spray mops. - Lead communication with cross-functional team members, new and existing vendors, and third party packagers to design, develop, and maintain packaging as well as new products.- Retained the Wal-Mart and Lowes mop categories by completely redesigning and developing a mop and packaging to fit customer requirements and time constraints.- Created specification and BOM documents for all new retail products developed, including over 70 new products over all categories. Includes specifying the testing parameters for both packaging and hardgoods components.

- Managed the containment projects and cross-functional timelines for up to 25 projects at one time.- Increased PetSmart sales by developing and designing a new line of luxury collars and leashes positioned at the PetSmart customer.- Increased quality assurance practices by generating and maintaining the technical specifications for all new products.- Increased retractable sales at pet specialty stores by developing a full retractable leash program from concept to product phase.- Designed and engineered 3 lines of cat collar buckles, implemented on all Petmate breakaway cat collars. Engineered to breakaway at specific forces.- Maintained excellent customer service by managing testing schedules and protocols per buyer requests.

- Worked with customers to develop quality standards and testing protocols for products.- Increased brand exposure by engineering packaging for new products to display marketing and branding initiatives.- Developed a fashion line of collars and leads using new, fashion materials. Organized and implemented the testing of the new materials to customer technical requirements.- Designed graphics and specifications for a line of collars and leads directed at the Wal-Mart customer.- Designed 3-D parts and injection molds for a new line of dog chews. Worked with the injection molding facility to develop the manufacturing process for a cornstarch based product.- Engineered and designed 3-D parts for several injection molded and rubber molded dog toys and chews.