Shaun Albin: in Lake Oswego, OR
Shaun Albin
Lake Oswego | United States
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GovX, Inc.
Director of Private Label | 11/2022 - 05/2023
• Form relationships with factory partners to develop apparel styles with competitive pricing.
• Initiate consumer insight discovery and use findings to create consumer driven products.
• Create marketing narrative to tell the product story.
• Manage the sample process and oversee approvals for materials, trims, and strike offs.
• Attend fit sessions and give comments on garment quality, construction, and sizing.
• Develop a pricing and sales strategy to increase brand adoption.
• Develop and communicate product vision and strategy.
• Work with Finance and Accounting to place all orders within seasonal deadlines.
• Develop Forecasting tool with the collaboration of inventory analysts.
• Develop and implement strategies to diminish aging inventory.
• Oversee seasonal photo shoot to ensure top notch reflection of the brand online.
• Collaborate with brand ambassadors to obtain feedback on quality, fit and functionality of GovX Gear apparel.
Jordan Brand - Nike Inc
Global Apparel Creation | 09/2017 - 11/2022
Senior Developer
• Partner with liaison offices to build relationships and communicate product details for production.
• Fabric and trim sourcing and development.
• Garment construction and testing.
• Responsible for developing and delivering product in accordance with calendar seasonal dates and gates, product specifications, sustainability, performance and profitability goals.
• Use project and people management skills to navigate competing priorities.
• Utilize CLO 3D apparel tools to improve efficiency and promote sustainability through the reduction of physical prototypes.
Jordan Brand - Nike Inc
Product Manager - Training Apparel | 07/2016 - 09/2017
• Build relationships, communicate, and lead product creation teams from design through manufacturing.
• Understand the consumer, analyzing product and competitive trends in the key global markets.
• Collaborate with regional and global partners to determine product line, costing and pricing needs of consumers in key markets and channels.
• Support product creation process through key interaction with product and graphic design, materials, tech design, sales, development and operations.
• Create and communicate a vision for product classifications, driven through strong end-in-mind storytelling and consumer-right product strategies.
• Line plan and brief the appropriate style/SKU level to optimize productivity, margin and revenue.
• Lead consumer insight research with product creation team to guide seasonal offerings.
• Develop, maintain and foster key relationships between geographies, internal sales team and marketing.
Nike Inc
Senior Innovation Lead - Jordan Apparel | 10/2013 - 07/2016
• Ideate, build, test, and refine innovative apparel solutions based on athlete insights.
• Utilize “outside of the box” thinking to improve product creation and commercialization.
• Create presentations to update key stake holders and validate innovation direction.
• Incorporate sustainability, material innovations, advanced methods of make and range of motion studies to deliver products
which benefit the athlete and environment.
• Responsible for offering a commercially viable version for the everyday athlete, while aligning with current and future business
needs.
• Collaborate with material vendors and factories for onsite visits, product creation and brainstorming sessions.
Nike Inc
Senior Apparel Development - Nike Pro Combat | 12/2010 - 10/2013
• Overall style development, from receiving prototypes, to tracking and approving buy- ready status at a garment and fabric print level.
• Responsible for product direction on refresh of Young Athletes Hyperstrong product line. Focus was to make Hyperstrong product “kid right” with fit, function, design and pad size in mind.
• Stretch assignments for Nike's Innovation Zoo, building functionally innovative apparel for Tactical Athletes.
• Stretch Design and Development Project for Radio Shack Cycling Team.
Nike Inc
Senior Apparel Development | 01/2010 - 12/2010
• Responsible for developing seasonal, pinnacle styles with technical performance features.
• Overall style development, from receiving prototypes, to tracking and approving buy- ready status at a garment and fabric print level.
• Team member on Running Swift tight project. Resulting in a Nike patent
BioRacer USA
Owner | 11/2007 - 01/2010
• Direct to Consumer Custom Cycling Team Apparel.
o Owned the direct-to-consumer experience for all cycling team apparel through one on one consultations and planning in
order to deliver customized, seasonal apparel.
• Execution of custom graphic designs specific to each cycling team.
• Factory liaison, scheduling, logistics, product sourced in Europe.
CorsaDesign
Sports Apparel and Graphic Designer / Consultant | 02/2003 - 01/2010
• Apparel Design and Development, Graphic Design, Marketing and Business Development Consulting.
• Clients: Winds Enterprise, McDavid USA, Nike Golf
Winds Enterprises
Senior Designer; Performance Apparel | 05/2007 - 06/2008
• Design and develop innovative sports apparel by combining elements of technology and science with the appropriate fabrics and construction.
• Participate in Motion Analysis study as applied to garment design for athletes in motion.
• Create presentations and marketing story for client engagements.
• Guide and manage Junior Designers
• Clients: Skins Australia, Puma, Bike Athletic, Russell Athletic, Alleson Athletic
Canari Cyclewear
Custom Apparel and Design Director | 11/2003 - 08/2006
• Launch and manage custom cycling sublimation apparel department.
• Responsible for designing all catalogs and print collateral
Squadra, Inc
Designer / Account Exec | 09/1996 - 06/2003
Account management, marketing, new product development and production coordination, Design custom cycling apparel as well as marketing material and concept designs for trade show booths.
Education history
Cal State San Bernardino
BA
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