Eric Garnatz: Director of Product Creation - Footwear, Apparel, and Accessories at KX Lab in Los Angeles, California

- Cultivate relationships with new clientele regarding potential engagements to identify and mitigate risks associated within each product/project. - Set and drive revenue/profitability targets in all teams and product categories, owning financial performance within Product Creation/Development. - Deliver monthly communications on progress, challenges, and opportunities to support the CEO and executive board.

- Negotiated profitable product costs and contract terms (lead times and MOQ) with vendors/manufacturers to achieve sales and margin goals. - Led, developed, and mentored the product development team while identifying capacity issues and building roadmaps to identify additional team members. - Managed our product testing and "athlete/player services" responsibilities to ensure that product had superior fit and quality for both our customers and PGA tour sponsored players.

- Initiated the creation of cost breakdown documents with our vendors to allow for negotiation of price based on tracking of specific seasonal material and labor costs. - Created a product testing program that ensured quality, fit and performance of our footwear product for both lifestyle and golf categories. - With the signing of PGA tour players, instituted a program to created customized footwear based on each of their specific fit requirements using 3D scanning technology.

- Developed presentations for national speaking engagements in collaboration with the company president. - Oversaw the completion of consulting project contracts and project timeline between clients and IKR.

- Directed the product development team delivering products that surpass customer expectations (fit, design, performance, manufacturability, and quality). - Led the facility commercialization and production team in the Nike process and standards of product excellence. - Drove the automated innovation initiative discussions and application into seasonal product design intent. - Built collaborative/customer focused cross-functional teams processes for Development, Technical Engineering, Materials, Commercialization, Quality, and Costing to ensure product integrity.