Project Manager Sales

DANIEL P TREUSCH JR

**-** ***** ******. **, Forest Hills, New York 11375, 718-***-****,

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I am a well networked leader with a good sense of design specializing in

woven fabric design, product development, color design, and print design.

I can lead a team or work among a team in a collaborative environment. I

am looking for a design position where I can contribute to the bottom line

of a growing organization.

FIBERMARK - West Springfield, MA 2010 - Current

WALLCOVERING PROJECT MANAGER / CONSULTANT

. Create green wallcovering product line for the commercial & residential

wallcovering markets.

. Develop the North America commercial wallcovering customer base.

. Develop sales tools and product data tools details for sales force.

EASTERN TEXTILES - New York, 2009 - Current

DESIGN CONSULTANT

. Design color palettes for polyurethane upholstery and woven fabrics for

the residential and commercial industries.

. Sell complete design capabilities to resellers and distributors.

. Develop resource library of textiles from various suppliers across the

globe.

DESIGNTEX - New York, New York, 2005-2009

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT DESIGNER

. Led a team of 10 project managers to 18 MILLION in product sales.

. Led all product sourcing efforts and developed relationships with

domestic and international suppliers.

. Highly knowledgeable about developing color palettes and color trends

across multiple commercial textile and wallcovering product lines.

. Have implemented testing and quality control measures to ensure first

quality suppliers and products.

. Created and managed standards libraries ensuring product development

standards are met and enforced.

. Manage customer projects, designed and source products from suppliers

around the globe. Products included: nearly every category of textiles,

wall coverings, large format digitally printed designs, Loophouse hand

tufted rugs and 3form architectural panels.

. Additionally I developed products and relationships with many A&D firms

such as Gensler, Rockwell Group, Forest Perkins, HGA, HOK to name a few.

. In addition to textiles, I designed and sourced vinyl, non-woven, green,

and textile wall covering/wallpaper.

. Managed a division to design, manage and source digital large format

print designs ranging from acrylic sheets to dye sublimation fabrics for

same and similar accounts as listed previously. This division delivered

a single-year sales increase of 25%, benchmarking year end revenues of

1.25M

. Proficient in MS Office and Adobe Photoshop.

WEARBEST SIL-TEX MILLS, LTD. - Garfield, New Jersey, 2003-2005

SR. HOSPITALITY STYLIST

. Managed customer projects, including creating original woven textile

fabrics.

* Responsible for design, quality, price, color and customer service

relating to all aspects of the customers project.

* Created designs for upholstery, top of bedding, drapery, panel, privacy,

and multifunctional products.

* Design fabrics that are competitively priced, meet customer's technical

specifications and delivered according to customers deadlines.

* Communicate with suppliers overseas to provide customers with cost

effective jacquard and dobby fabrics for upholstery, bedding and drapery

projects.

* Creation of a step-by-step guide for customers so they can fully

understand the mills capabilities.

* Implementation of a standards library used to aide customers in the

design process.

* Worked with fabric finishers to develop project and product finishes:

such examples were Crypton , stain resistant fabric finishes and fire

resistant treatments.

* Proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator, JacqCAD, MS Office, Apple and IBM

systems.

Fortune Fabrics, Inc. /Wyoming Weavers - Swoyersville, Pennsylvania, 1998-

2003

DESIGN DIRECTOR

* Supervised a staff of three, responsible for design and contract fabric

product development; including patterns, color, yarn and construction of

jacquard and dobby contract woven fabric.

* Created designs for upholstery fabrics that were mid to low range for

jobbers, retailers and wholesalers.

* Implemented marketing and sales decisions for our domestic and

international clientele.

* Created original design, editing and application of weaves on 1/2 & 1/4

count jacquards as well as 16 harness dobby looms

* Designed fabric card mockups, layouts of sample cards and designed

marketing promotions.

* Developed the company's color forecasting and trend analysis.

* Specified custom yarn development including flat, high twist, textured,

chenille, boucles, man-made, natural & blended yarns.

* IT support for IBM and Apple computer systems.

PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1998

BACHELOR of SCIENCE in TEXTILE DESIGN

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