Shaun Albin: in Lake Oswego, OR
Shaun Albin
Lake Oswego | United States
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Work experience
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.