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Zac Andrews: Director of Global Design - SOREL in Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

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Zac Andrews

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Director of Global Design - SOREL
Portland | United States
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  • Consumer Focus
  • Design Leadership
  • Creative Strategy
  • Product Management
  • Leadership
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SOREL

Director of Global Product Design | 09/2024 - Current

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adidas

Design Director - Collaborations and Partnerships | 08/2021 - 09/2024

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Reebok

Footwear Design Director - Sportstyle + Collaborations | 10/2017 - 08/2021

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PUMA Group

Senior Team Head Design - Running/Training Footwear | 09/2016 - 09/2017

My role at Puma is to oversee all running and training footwear projects and designs that fall under the "Versastyle" (urban) category. This includes all street running, athleisure, contemporary essentials, and vis-tech footwear (totaling roughly 200 sku's seasonally). Furthermore, I'm tasked to manage 2 footwear designers as well as their projects, which includes Rihanna's Fenty Training line among many others.
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CRDWN

Founder/CEO/Creative + Design director | 03/2013 - 09/2016

Founder of CRDWN (pronounced ‘cordwain’), I began this company to fill the niche in the affordable luxury footwear segment. With the boom of a new progressive business model throughout the corporate industry, which allowed for a more casual workplace setting, CRDWN’s ‘hybrid’ footwear model has been well received and continues to grow on a global level. www.CRDWN.com
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Life & Limb Design

President/Creative Director | 01/2012 - 08/2015

Life & Limb is a full service design house dedicated to premium design work for all industries. Our goal is to service your design needs, whatever they may be, with professional creatives at the top of their given industries.
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Sanuk

Freelance Designer | 08/2013 - 09/2013

Brought in to design specific footwear projects.
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Vans

Freelance Designer | 05/2013 - 06/2013

Brought in to design specific footwear projects.
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Billabong

Freelance Designer | 01/2013 - 03/2013

Redesign of mens and womens footwear/accessory Spring 2013 line
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Reef

Senior Footwear Design Manager | 06/2009 - 01/2012

In addition to the responsibilities listed below as Footwear Designer I, more of a leadership role was assumed. These additional duties included helping merchandisers create new design briefs for advanced projects, calendar/timeline management, setting design review dates and running the meetings, identifying color stories throughout the line, and overseeing all deliverables that are expected of a menʼs footwear design team.
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Reef

Footwear Designer | 11/2006 - 06/2009

One of three footwear designers for the menʼs footwear line, which includes sandals, closed-toed footwear, and kids footwear. All aspects of basic footwear design was utilized. Responsibilities to fill design briefs included sketching, hand and computer renderings, tooling drawings, patterning, mold assessments, color CADʼs, and materializations. Additional responsibilities include trend reports, creating color palettes, China trips, and development.
Education history
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Academy of Art University

BFA | 2002 - 2006

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University of Arizona

| 1999 - 2002

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