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

Director of Global Design - SOREL
Portland | United States
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SOREL
Director of Global Product Design | 09/2024 - Current

adidas
Design Director - Collaborations and Partnerships | 08/2021 - 09/2024
Reebok
Footwear Design Director - Sportstyle + Collaborations | 10/2017 - 08/2021

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.
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
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.
Sanuk
Freelance Designer | 08/2013 - 09/2013
Brought in to design specific footwear projects.

Vans
Freelance Designer | 05/2013 - 06/2013
Brought in to design specific footwear projects.

Billabong
Freelance Designer | 01/2013 - 03/2013
Redesign of mens and womens footwear/accessory Spring 2013 line
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.
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
Academy of Art University
BFA | 2002 - 2006
University of Arizona
| 1999 - 2002
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