Ramsey MacDonald

Senior Manager, Raw Materials Sourcing and Product Costing

2025 – Present

Founder & Director of ramsey gear

2016 – Present

- Established a new company to deliver an innovated product line for customer desires - Alignment of Government standards of all business laws and acquired certification - Strategically designed, developed, and sourced over 45 styles in the first year - Creation of e-commerce site to increase year-end sales by 20% - Construction of design using different techniques in cut and sew, RF welding and seaming construction - Delivered sourcing plans to meet company vision, merchant requirements, and company financial goals - Relationship building with Asian and USA factories to build product line to commercialization

Telemark ski instructor

2018 – 2024

Instructing, beginner to advanced level telemark class Continuing my own skill set

Senior Sourcing Manager

2022 – 2022

• Established newly acquired companies to align to new sourcing and development product platforms and outline new product offerings, including, Cuddle Clone, Air Kayak, Modern Mutt • Aligned with government standards for all business laws and acquired certification • Build new sourcing plans for newly acquired brands to meet company financials and continue upward growth by 20% • Set forth new product offerings and establish a new shipping channel to meet on-time offering • Strategically designed, developed, and sourced over 150 styles in the first year • Constructed designs using different techniques in cut/sew, RF welding, and seaming construction • Work on the alignment of the Shopify e-commerce platform with new products

Manager, Production

2020 – 2021

• Manage a team of production coordinators to ensure projects are appropriately assigned and tracked • Partner with internal teams to forecast product needs and communicates those requirements on to appropriate external vendors, including coordination of schedules, bidding, and statement of work through execution • Communicate the project status to all cross-functional team members • Develop and maintain positive working relationships with internal teams and 3rd party suppliers • Create proposals and briefs for internal clients

Senior Product Development Manager

2015 – 2016

- Initiated profitability and creation of new styles to increase baseline by 1 million dollars within the year - Launched 20 new design styles to production for retailers in softgoods, hardgoods, and electronic products - Maintained and updates to 80 carry-over styles built domestically - Manage sourcing fabrication of new and carry-over products to reduce cost - Lead team of designers and developers between 2 states to ensure new and updated products completion - Collaborated with market research, design, development from idea creation to product completion - Supported the shipping department to ensure product consolidated containers to ports from Asia ports

Manager, Global Sourcing of Gear, Gear Accessories & Footwear

2013 – 2015

- Manage global vendor strategy, product costing/placement and oversee vendor communication - Strategically sourced and development of over 96 styles per season over 7 countries branded stores - Collaborated with European and Asia storefront to meet needs for these store locations - Responsible for factory allocation of outdoor gear, footwear and accessories lines through to commercialization - Achievement of reducing the cost to exceed target IMU goals - Managed and audited up to 30 international suppliers and factories for pricing and compliance - Responsible for new PLM system execution for the specification of gear, and footwear lines

Gear Developer

2009 – 2013

- Product development of REI private brand, technical packs, day packs, ski packs, dog gear, bike packs, -and bike accessories. - Collaborated with gear designer to interpret product concepts to engineer production-ready prototype specifications and production - Development on average of 30 styles per season and overseeing 113 carry-over styles - Implemented of original Enovia/Technia PLM system for REI gear in private brand as a superuser and tester - Engaged with sourcing team and overseas vendors to build products, and ensure product specification accuracy - Merchandising of season products to Product buyers, collaborate on costing, production timing and targeted IMU - Experienced in overseas factories working on the production floor, collaborate on construction with factories to build products to meet our specifications - Analysis of QA inspection reporting including product, and factory compliance - Initial set up of product testing with collaboration with the testing team of outcome need from best testing practice

Gear Technical Designer / Product Engineer

2005 – 2009

- Managed EMS branded camping products including, tents, sleeping bags, full-size packs, day packs, travel packs, and travel accessories - Designed products and worked with new designers to interpret the concept package, and use PLM systems to engineer production-ready prototype specifications - Collaborated with overseas vendors to create products and ensure accuracy, as well as traveling to the factories to inspect & collaborate with vendors

Allocation & Replenishment Analyst

2000 – 2005

- Managing inventory to stores, proper flow of product through the DC/HUB, proper allocation method on all Key Recs, - Maintaining store stock levels in the chain of store - Determining optimal inventory levels to order for the following season per style - Building and maintaining ladders, analysis of styles, turns, and sell-through - Managing unique store exceptions, Maintaining low stock list, communicating to stores on store generated low stock list

Store Manager

1998 – 2000

Duties and responsibilities: Customer service, Retail sales, supervising up to 27 associate and management staff as well as hiring and training management and sales associate personnel, Staff scheduling, Staff periodic evaluations and staff progress reports, Maintaining daily sale figures, Maximizing sales productivity, Forecasting and projecting monthly and yearly sales, Loss prevention training, Visual merchandising

Assistant Store Manager

1996 – 1998

Duties and responsibilities: Customer service, Retail sales, supervising associates, Hiring, Summit training, Scheduling, Evaluations, Visual merchandising, Responsibility for running general day to day activities in the absence of the store manager

Bachelors

1993 – 1995

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