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From pop culture entrepreneurship to product development in large corporations, I build
relationships with people of all kinds, and lead a range of business responsibilities. I especially enjoy
bringing order to chaos, and helping teams create best practices that bring their best work to light.


Matured company's product creation capabilities by moving them from offline documents into a PLM system.
Provided overall direction of business-critical features & identified the needs to inform product roadmap & knowledge management with PLM as the core of the product development process.
Applied Agile methodologies enabling teams to easily adapt to process change and elevate cross-functional collaboration.
Converted business requirements into detailed user stories, detailed functional specifications, use cases, requirements specs, process flows/diagrams, workflows, business scenarios, attributes  & specifications.
Supported department leads in change management and the training of teams.

Product Owner, PLM (Consultant)

Led the turnaround of a team struggling with role clarity & process maturity; responsible for dayto-day
management of team priorities & employee development for 9 product developers across
two brands, responsible for 1800 SKUS per season, including 600 quick turn SMU SKU's.
Increased factory-direct manufacturing program from 37% to 82% of the total business over 3
years by transitioning 6.5M pairs of shoes of multiple product types.
Developed multi-year sourcing strategy enabling $18M in savings through factory consolidations,
volume discount negotiations, agent's fee & duty rate savings.
Traveled to factories overseas to discuss yearly forecasts & negotiate the seasonal pricing of 4
FW brands with a target savings of $4M over previous year.
Created development calendars for US & Asia teams as well as for factories to ensure deadlines,
costing KPIs & quality standards are met.

Global Director of Footwear Development & Sourcing

Created & implemented costing processes, standards & calendars for 3 FW brands to ensure that
seasonal financial KPI's were met & to support the successful management & price negotiations of
2000+ SKU's per season.
Managed a team of 8 developers responsible for 100 SKU's pp / season.
Managed 2 costing analysts responsible for collecting the financial data of 3 FW brands to track
profitability growth, cost savings & financial targets for various product groups.
Traveled to overseas to negotiate LOP rates & the seasonal pricing of 2 FW brands.
Successfully negotiated with material suppliers to lock pricing for several seasons without
increases by consolidating vendors & leveraging production volume.

Global Senior Manager of Footwear Development & Costing

Developed approximately 150 SKU's per season of various product types ranging from WP Boots,
Technical Skate, Kids, Women's & Sandals.
Trained new developers in spec writing, using the PLM system, development SOP's & brand standards.
Traveled to Asia for development.

Global Senior Footwear Developer

Partnered with women’s product manager to create 21 new styles  for Spring & Summer collections.
Provided model designs & tech packages, material & color selections for the seasons.
Worked with agents & factories to develop projects from prototype to catalog sample

Footwear Design/Development (Contract)

Designed projects across all footwear product categories ranging from snowboard boots, casual women's models, classics, skate & kid's shoes providing tech packages, material & color selections.
Traveled to Asia for product development & to  Europe for design inspiration & market research. 

Footwear Designer

Managed a 14 person sales team responsible for the sale of multiple product categories including snowboards, skateboards, hardgoods, outerwear, footwear & apparel. 
Supervised office administration, team manager & warehouse staff.
Organized & presented new product lines & sales targets at annual sales meetings. 
Led the coordination & set up of seasonal trade shows.
Managed the inventory & purchasing of softgoods of distributed brands.
Created & tracked seasonal budgets & sales goals. 
Increased efficiency & profitability within the Sales department by streamlining & developing SOP's. 
PLM system integration.

Sales Manager & Operations

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