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North Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Baltimore, Maryland, Us

 Advisor and IT partner for all product and merchandising technology solutions for the organization, including Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Digital Asset Management (DAM), 3D, Digital Catalog, Sourcing Allocation, Master Data Governance, Pattern Management, Last and Tooling management, Costing Optimization, Color Digitization, Wear Testing and Quality Assurance. Led the strategic IT roadmap process for the global Product Creation, Merchandising and Innovation organizations, driving over $20M in technology investments. Liaison between the business and IT to define business requirements, strategic planning, and architecture recommendations to align to the global technology landscape. Implement and maintain global IT demand management process for new technology with overall responsibility for steering these proposals to fully funded and approved programs from $250,000 to $10 million. Align with functional leaders to deliver technology solutions and business processes to support the growth and scale into a $10 billion organization.

Baltimore, Maryland, Us

 Leader within the IT organization responsible for all enterprise applications supporting our merchandising, product, sourcing, and innovation teams. Built strategic partnerships with industry leading technology companies, including: Adobe, Dassault, Centric, Gerber, Optitex, Lectra, SAP and Microsoft. Migrated all Product applications to the cloud to support Under Armour’s global expansion and growth. Partnered with our operations team to redefine product calendars to move from 2 to 4 merchandising seasons per year, reducing the development calendar by 5 months. Spearheaded a digital asset management strategy to support our product and brand marketing teams and digital sell-in tools, saving $1.4M in print costs per year. Adapted PLM technologies to optimize duty savings and drive procurement through our supply planning systems, delivering $7M in duty savings in the first season. Delivered technology systems and processes to support 20+ consecutive quarters of 20+% growth.

Baltimore, Maryland, Us

 Built team to 7 teammates to support our rapid growth and entry into new product categories, equaling 42,000 style – colors per season across footwear, accessories, and apparel. Manage all IT applications to bring products to market, supporting our product line managers, sourcing managers, designers, and developers, totaling 1,200 active users. Drove technical enhancements to provide operational efficiencies and support expansion into new sourcing regions and markets Integrated our PLM application with best in class point solutions. Reduced color approval process from 21 days to 0 days through a certified digital color approval process.

Baltimore, Maryland, Us

 Integrated our PLM application with our core SAP ERP system to ensure data integrity and an efficient procurement process based on clean product and vendor master data. Eliminated master data inconsistencies on 42% of active style-colors by normalizing PLM data model with ERP. Innovated with technology partners to overhaul BOM management to address speed and usability challenges, reducing clicks to complete a BOM by 58%.

Seattle, Us

 Managed team of business analysts to provide technical tools to REI’s house label brand. Lead selection and implementation of Dassault’s MatrixOne application across REI’s apparel, cycling, camping, and backpacking product categories. Automated merchandising reports from PLM to drive adoption across Design, Product Line Managers, and Sourcing and establish reports as the major sell in tool to REI’s merchandising organization.

Seattle, Us

 Founded the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) B2B committee and established the XML specification as an EDI alternative for member companies. Built procurement system off of the OIA XML standard to transact at once purchase orders with participating brands, including real time inventory look-up web services. Managed roll out of procurement system across national chain of retail stores to drive regionally relevant assortment management, special orders/endless aisle, repair/warranty issues, and employee purchases.

Seattle, Us

 Learned merchandising fundamentals managing open to buy dollars, inventory, and purchasing. Responsible for meeting in stock and turn goals for assigned product categories. Maintained strategic vendor relationships.

Seattle, Us

 Digitized management of REI’s employee purchase program across 250 vendor partners, capturing use and value of the program to over 6,000 employees. Partnered with strategic vendors to promote key product introductions to retail employees. Integrated program with homegrown learning management system to increase employee product knowledge.

Seattle, Us

 Learned retail fundamentals and operations at REI’s flagship store. Provided exceptional customer service and expert product advice to customers. Consistently met sales and membership goals for department.