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Design Director Consultant

Specialist & Consultant

Albizu is a creative professional with over 19 years of accessories, graphic, and illustrative design experience, 16 of which devoted to fashion based product design in lifestyle and sportswear. Having In-depth knowledge of manufacturing processes, materials, applications, licensing in sports teams, leagues, and entertainment licenses and their standards, he is adept at multitasking and the management of large 10+ or small teams with a proven track record for being highly efficient at developing budget sensitive product using group brainstorming, innovation, graphics, and materials that tell a story and resonates with the consumer in varied account types and retail experiences. 
He loves collaborative creative people, creating product, gaming, and sketching. 
He is seeking  opportunities in the Greater  Boston Area.

• Work independently or within teams to provide creative strategy, design leadership, brand development, product development, project management, product strategy, drawings, graphic services, technical spec builds, industry trends and pricing insight

Some examples of work include:
      •HAT CLUB LLC (https://www.hatclub.com)  Design Director Consultant  2019

     •PVCK (https://www.pvckintl.com)  Senior Product Designer  2019
       Design product, graphics, and provided photo retouching

    •Ultra Sport (http://www.ultrasp.com)  Senior Product Designer  2015
       Design licensed product for UK football teams (Chelsea FC, Fulham FC, West Ham United FC, Sunderland FC)

    • Sportin' Styles (http://www.sportinstyles.com)  Product Designer 2015
       Design product (scarves, ties, socks) and patterns for seasonal apparel
     
     • Red Line Gear (http://www.redlinegear.com)   Accessories Product Designer  2014-2105
       Design product and patterns for seasonal apparel

     • “Noah’s Ark” ONE 2 BELIEVE PUBLISHING 2010
       Illustrated full color internal pages and front and back covers
     
     • “The Nativity” ONE 2 BELIEVE PUBLISHING 2009
       Illustrated full color internal pages and front and back covers

     • “By Reason of Passion,” AIDA IRIZARRY AUTHOR 2004
       Illustrated front and back book cover
     
     • Puerto Rican Parade of Western New York (www.prparadeofwny.org/)  Web Designer2003
       Website design, coding, photography and maintenance

Freelance Design Director, Illustrator, Senior Product Designer, and Graphic Designer 

• Led feedback and review of concepts for fashion based tier 1 headwear that elevated products and brand expression.
• Designed quick-to-market regionalized, performance, premium, and mass apparel referenced product lines for subsidiary brands.   
• Set up subsidiary brands with reliable sourcing, and S.O.P. requirements for product creation and development. 
• Advised on digital content creation, their timelines, product marketing, product photography styling, store visuals, and branding.

• Founded, recruited and mentored lifestyle team of graphic and apparel designers focused on trend right holistic product stories for headwear and apparel design collections using innovation, materials, costing, graphics, storytelling, culture, fashion, and color.
• Used trend presentation, selling tools, product curating, and exclusives, to influence accounts, vendors, internal stakeholders, and external audiences to support lifestyle headwear and apparel product ranges in the selling process.
• Executed quick-to-market process vision to react to trends, providing customization, low minimums, and faster timelines. 
• Initiated cross-department collaboration using headwear components on apparel for effective costing of cohesive collections. 
• Coordinated factories to ensure pricing, proper execution and delivery of prototypes and production samples to meet deadlines.
• Used price negotiating to implement standardization of colored adjustable components, influencing new design review asks.  
• Coached teams on standardization for logo sizes, embroidery, graphics, placements, colors, technical design and professionalism.

Product Design Manager: Lifestyle

• Organized and executed product roadmap for ideation, concept, critique, development, prototype, production, and selling tools along overlapping seasonal calendars for over 800 product items in 4 categories and 6 distinct global product lines annually. 
• Provided go-to creative and strategic direction to 10+ member design team, fostering innovation and consumer insights, resulting in on trend inspired team designs that ultimately increased revenue for department to over $60 million in one year. 
• Designed innovative headwear and accessories for design labs, footwear tie-ins, key accounts, in-line programs, quick strikes, special project launches and highest selling items for Fall 2015, procuring over $3million in revenue. 
• Delegated team roles and tasks with crossover GTM calendar, increasing accountability, efficiency and communications.
• Standardized company wide global design process with multi silhouette concept blueprint and rear adjustable variations.
• Supported global trend team establishing color, materials, marketing brand strategy, and merchandising collaborations. 
• Boosted visual, verbal and audio account presentations with, trend, product history, and sample facts, resulting in millions of sales.
• Used international travel for supervising production, and making fabric selections for future seasonal product use.  
• Consulted NYC HQ on brand DNA, fabrics, product aesthetic, accounts, appropriate workflow, segmentation, and SOPs 

Assistant Product Design Manager: Lifestyle - Sports / Entertainment / EK / NE Branded / Flagship

• Founded department, recruited, and provided leadership and mentoring for talent on creative direction for product life cycle.
• Coached team to create alternative design concepts speaking to specified market, resulting in above goal revenue of $6 million.
• Provided trend based seasonal product designs supporting the Sports Licenses division contributing to surpassing $50 million goal.
• Proactively identified key potential Entertainment collaborations and cross-promotions resulting in innovative, exclusive, high profile account collections for movies, comics, video games, and special events that have effectively become standard in industry.
• Conducted successful celebrity design lab sessions at flagship store grand openings and exclusive meetings with consistency.   
• Facilitated introduction to Diamond Distribution, resulting in increased product distribution and division sales success. 
• Developed internal strategy for new license approval procedures and protocols, resulting in 50% designer workload reduction.
• Provided leadership reporting in on trade shows with written communication, increasing team exposure to diverse product stories resulting in more inspired designs.
• Developed and employed alternative research methods with team to obtain insight into market and competitive product design.

• License responsibilities include Sports: Major League Baseball (MLB), National Hockey League (NHL), Hardwood Classics: National Basketball Association (NBA)
Marvel Entertainment: Iron Man 1, 2 , 3, The Incredible Hulk, Punisher War Zone, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Wolverine, Thor: The Mighty Avenger, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The First Avenger, The Avengers, Marvel x NBA
Warner Bros. DC Comics Entertainment: The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Watchmen, Green Lantern, Thundercats, Looney Tunes, Looney Tunes x NBA, Looney Tunes x MLB, Hanna-Barbera,
Hasbro: Transformers 1, 2, 3, G.I. Joe The Rise of Cobra, G.I. Joe Retaliation, Battleship
Disney: Archive, Alice in Wonderland, Tron: Legacy, LucasArts: Star Wars,
Classic Media: Masters of the Universe, Voltron,
Dark Horse Comics: Hell Boy, B.P.R.D.
Ubisoft: Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, Splinter Cell,
The Simpsons, and
Coke

Lead Product Designer: Entertainment Licenses Lifestyle

• Provided creative design on headwear using market research, fabrics, original graphics and unique cap construction development.   
• Accurately approved consistent graphics, tech pack specification, and product samples for production. 

Assistant Product Designer

Responsible for all public media presence for organization including graphics, logos, posters, and pamphlets website design, coding, photography and web maintenance.

Lead Media Specialist

• Created accurate technical design spec templates, graphic tech packs using component sizing, and production guidelines.

Global/ Domestic Tech Designer

• Reviewed and aided in the assembly of technical design specs, tech packs, logo 100%s, sell sheets, approvals, and design tools. 

Production Artist

Rendering Caricatures, Illustrations, Portraits
Consistently drew over 25 profile portraits or humorous rendering of client per part time day

Caricature Artist

Designed posters, fliers, brochures, editorial ads, t-shirts, and event calendars for all events

Lead Graphic Artist

Designed layout and logos for advertisement in print.

Graphic Artist

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