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Owner/ Craftsman

Expert understanding of production pipeline from concept to design, development, manufacturing, and implementation. Exceptionally strong skills in people management, developing organizational and program processes, design and merchandising, customer service and project management within retail, events, and residential spaces.

Design and build company focused on residential furniture, custom retail displays, office environments, and artist concept development. Provide design consultation, prototyping and development, production and installation.

Managed production, inventory and installations of the wholesale stock fixture and POP program for US and Canada. Redeveloped stock fixture and POP program including managing design, prototyping, overseas production and market implementation.
Produced custom brand environments and product displays across all distribution tiers. Developed display concepts for seasonal product and marketing initiatives to meet account-specific needs.
Department resource for new material sourcing, engineering guidance and production process.

Environmental Design Senior Production Manager

Managed design and production of wholesale and retail display windows, stock fixtures, custom buildouts and store environments including retail showrooms, pop-up and shop-in-shops.
Provided seasonal designs for global product launch displays and trade show booth designs, and managed vendor production.
Lead the creative and production teams to develop the Visual Merchandising Guidelines and annual Fixture and POP Guide for global use. These guides enabled all regions to customize their environments according to a single comprehensive and helpful design source, giving Vans a consistent global identity that maintained brand standards.
Utilized my history of furniture design and production to manage concept development for both new retail and wholesale programs. Developed relationships with the VF Innovation team to keep up-to-date on new materials and resources to help influence and progress the Environmental Design program.

Environmental Design Senior Design Manager

Developed the Visual Merchandising program at Vans from conception. Focused on gaining regional coverage and employee organization. Built training tools and reporting systems for all remote workers across North America. Team focus was to gain brand coverage across all Sales channels and measure growth in the industry.
Managed 13 remote employees across U.S. and Canada providing leadership and employee development.
Constructed Global Visual Merchandising Standards, providing processes for requesting custom imagery, fixtures, and buildouts. Standardized stock fixture and POP materials program, provided in-store creative support for new product and category launches and successfully managed program’s $6.5M budget.
The work developed in this program initiated Global Marketing Reviews, and became the foundation of the Go To Market process for the company.

Field Visual Merchandising Manager

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John Wilber: Owner/ Craftsman in Birmingham, AL

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