Shaun Albin
Director of Private Label · GovX, Inc.
Lake Oswego, OR
In My Own Words
I am an innovative, self-driven apparel creation professional, with 25+ years of experience. I have been a Marketer, Designer, Developer, Product Manager, and Innovation Lead. I understand manufacturing, sourcing, and material development as well as mining for consumer insights to drive product creation. I am skilled in leading multiple projects from concept through completion. I enjoy tackling detailed hurdles or big picture visions. I'm well versed in fostering relationships, mentoring talent and leading teams.
Work Experience
Director of Private Label
GovX, Inc.2022 – 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.
Global Apparel Creation
Jordan Brand - Nike Inc2017 – 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.
Product Manager - Training Apparel
Jordan Brand - Nike Inc2016 – 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.
Senior Innovation Lead - Jordan Apparel
Nike Inc2013 – 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.
Senior Apparel Development - Nike Pro Combat
Nike Inc2010 – 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.
Senior Apparel Development
Nike Inc2010 – 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
Owner
BioRacer USA2007 – 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.
Sports Apparel and Graphic Designer / Consultant
CorsaDesign2003 – 2010
• Apparel Design and Development, Graphic Design, Marketing and Business Development Consulting. • Clients: Winds Enterprise, McDavid USA, Nike Golf
Senior Designer; Performance Apparel
Winds Enterprises2007 – 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
Custom Apparel and Design Director
Canari Cyclewear2003 – 2006
• Launch and manage custom cycling sublimation apparel department. • Responsible for designing all catalogs and print collateral
Designer / Account Exec
Squadra, Inc1996 – 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.
