Ramsey MacDonald: Senior Manager, Raw Materials Sourcing and Product Costing in North Bend, Washington

- Established a new company to deliver an innovated product line for customer desires - Alignment of Government standards of all business laws and acquired certification - Strategically designed, developed, and sourced over 45 styles in the first year - Creation of e-commerce site to increase year-end sales by 20% - Construction of design using different techniques in cut and sew, RF welding and seaming construction - Delivered sourcing plans to meet company vision, merchant requirements, and company financial goals - Relationship building with Asian and USA factories to build product line to commercialization

• Established newly acquired companies to align to new sourcing and development product platforms and outline new product offerings, including, Cuddle Clone, Air Kayak, Modern Mutt • Aligned with government standards for all business laws and acquired certification • Build new sourcing plans for newly acquired brands to meet company financials and continue upward growth by 20% • Set forth new product offerings and establish a new shipping channel to meet on-time offering • Strategically designed, developed, and sourced over 150 styles in the first year • Constructed designs using different techniques in cut/sew, RF welding, and seaming construction • Work on the alignment of the Shopify e-commerce platform with new products

• Manage a team of production coordinators to ensure projects are appropriately assigned and tracked • Partner with internal teams to forecast product needs and communicates those requirements on to appropriate external vendors, including coordination of schedules, bidding, and statement of work through execution • Communicate the project status to all cross-functional team members • Develop and maintain positive working relationships with internal teams and 3rd party suppliers • Create proposals and briefs for internal clients

- Initiated profitability and creation of new styles to increase baseline by 1 million dollars within the year - Launched 20 new design styles to production for retailers in softgoods, hardgoods, and electronic products - Maintained and updates to 80 carry-over styles built domestically - Manage sourcing fabrication of new and carry-over products to reduce cost - Lead team of designers and developers between 2 states to ensure new and updated products completion - Collaborated with market research, design, development from idea creation to product completion - Supported the shipping department to ensure product consolidated containers to ports from Asia ports

- Product development of REI private brand, technical packs, day packs, ski packs, dog gear, bike packs, -and bike accessories. - Collaborated with gear designer to interpret product concepts to engineer production-ready prototype specifications and production - Development on average of 30 styles per season and overseeing 113 carry-over styles - Implemented of original Enovia/Technia PLM system for REI gear in private brand as a superuser and tester - Engaged with sourcing team and overseas vendors to build products, and ensure product specification accuracy - Merchandising of season products to Product buyers, collaborate on costing, production timing and targeted IMU - Experienced in overseas factories working on the production floor, collaborate on construction with factories to build products to meet our specifications - Analysis of QA inspection reporting including product, and factory compliance - Initial set up of product testing with collaboration with the testing team of outcome need from best testing practice