kent bogdan

- Design management and development for overseas vendors - Coordination with US brands, planning, production and logistics - Sourcing and vendor matrix development - Maintaining of development documentation including tech packs and construction details

- Product design and development for Home Gym Concept program with sporting goods team - Researched quantitative and qualitative guest data, creating user personas that identified current guests needs - Worked with CFT’s executing trend direction, competitor strategy and product offerings - Utilized Concept Board with design team and business partners, while working in a virtual environment - Aligned with sourcing for business partnership options - Presented final strategy and product proposal with merchandising

- Direct product lifecycle and technical product solutions for hard and soft line programs - Identify innovation opportunities, including materials and manufacturing processes - Collaborate with Quality and Testing to assure product quality, prototype and production runs meet safety requirements - Maintain state-of-the-art technical specifications and quality requirements for consumer products - Co-devlop with CFT’s, ensuring accountability of product reviews, including fit and quality consistency of each product - Measure and evaluate factory samples in comparison to product specifications and construction requirements - Ensure all development documentation is maintained, including tech packs, bill of materials and construction details

- Product development and design for large retailers owned brands: furniture, luggage and sporting goods - Sole designer for Rossport Outdoor - Maintain current trend & color direction for all Rossport Outdoor product categories - Sole designer for all brands manufactured by ACE Casual Furniture - Designed and coordinated new showroom, tripling the size and product offering from previous space - Reduced cost and increased margin by introducing and implementing technical specification packets - Traveled extensively to international factories to troubleshoot and improve design and manufacture of product

- Leading efforts to develop new global supply partners and consolidate current supply base - Thorough knowledge of supplier capabilities, capacities, and costs - Manage design process and strategy, contribute to concept design and product creation - Guest research and round table sessions creating a holistic end to end user experience - Optimize product designs and costs by negotiating with the factories engineering and operations teams - Establish relationships with global supply partners, drive for speed in reduction of development time - Manage supplier timelines for product development ramp-ups, production and shipping - Integrate key compliance elements including C-TPAT, Social Accountability - SA 8000, QC, and US Customs within supply chain processes - Extensive global travel and troubleshooting at the factory level

- Product development and design for large retailers owned brands: gas grills, outdoor heating, luggage and sporting goods - Drove $15 million in growth revenue with new indoor/outdoor heating and gas grill programs - Led and maintained competitive studies for market strategies and current trend - Developed and designed gas grill program with Lowes, increasing production by 50% - Managed design teams in US and Asia