In-Store Project Management

Leigh Ann Tischler

New York, NY ***. ***. **** ****************@**.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/leigh-ann-tischler

Visual Storyteller:

Dedicated visual and crea8ve services professional with proven experience in all families of business driving sales through visual storytelling. An award-winning window designer with a specialty in working with film studios to launch movies at both Sony and Bloomingdale’s and known for being an analytical problem solver. Specializes in set design, flagship store-wide campaigns, and national store visual campaigns from shopping bags & printed collateral to 3D events. Brought LED video tile technology into Bloomingdale windows as well as robotics. An art curator seeking out a diversity of artists from all backgrounds and mediums as well as robotic animators and now researching AI and AR technology use in retail design. A retail experience architect.

Skills:

Window Design & Visual Merchandising // Beauty, RTW & Home // Interior Design // Visual Special Event Planning & Design For In-Store Campaigns // Experience Creator // Team Builder & Management // Powerpoint Presentations // Postmortem Briefs // Focused Communicator // Project Management for New Stores, Renova8ons & Special Events // Brand & Visual Iden8ty // Projects and Events With 3rd Parties // Skilled Multi-tasker // Well Organized // Custom Fixture Design // Graphic Design Art Direc8on // Prop Design and 3D Production // Art Curation // Personal Fine Art // All Arts // Digital Content Curation & Direction //Mentoring // Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Experience:

Bloomingdale’s, 59th St. Flagship, New York City, NY 2015 - 2024

Director of Window Design and Special Interior Store Campaigns // Beauty // Fashion Accessories // Fine Jewelry // Building Facade Light Shows

• Set the window calendar installation dates to coincide with the needs of the businesses and budgets. Conceptualize ideas, design, and production for installation.

• Campaign planned and worked closely with cross-functional partners including the Fashion Office, Integrated Marketing, PR, and Finance.

• Marketed and sold sets of windows to specific brands to gain extra funding and save on existing budget.

• Proud team leader of graphic designers, produc8on, and stylists. Curator of discovering new production shops and artists’ talent to showcase in the windows and in-store art gallery exhibits. Design specific windows for key branch stores to install.

• Developed and designed color light shows for the building facade with external programmers on 4 blocks.

Operations Director // Visual Carpenter and Paint Shop

• Run the schedule and opera8ons by the project for the visual carpenter and painter shops between the windows and in-store installations.

• Oversee the workflow calendar and supervise the budget and vendor chargebacks with the finance team.

Bloomingdale’s, 59th St. Flagship, New York City, NY October 2011 - August 2015 Visual Manager of Mens & Young World

• Reimagined the fashion leadership, and installation of central visuals for the 59th St. flagship. Designed specific shops and special promotions individual to the 59th St. flagship store. Ex. PRIDE, Breast Cancer Research with The Tu Tu Project, and a General Electric Holiday Pop Up Shop.

• Direct staff, Divisional, SMMs, MMs, and DMs in merchandising and maintaining store standards.

• Aligned closely with fashion houses, buyers, and SMs to maintain brand identity for vendors as well as

Bloomingdale's.

• Designed and installed press previews for the Fashion Office and PR. Set up prototypes for central

directves to branches.

Additonal Relevant Experience

Sony Style Stores / Sony Plaza Inc. / Sony Electronics, New York City, NY Visual Director/ Creative Manager

• Designed, produced and project managed the SONY PLAZA Madison Ave windows, SONY STYLE MALL STORE windows and SONY PLAZA visual events. Visual merchandising in the SONY WONDER TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM. Team partner on the visual development and installation of METREON, an interac8ve technology mall in San Francisco.

Bloomingdale’s, 59th St. Flagship, New York City, NY

Visual Manager of Beauty, Fashion Accessories and Special Events

• Designed specific shops and special promo8ons individual to the 59th St. flagship store. Directed staff, divisional, and dept. managers in merchandising and maintaining store standards. Directed cosmetics companies and fashion accessory vendors to incorporate their brand image within Bloomingdale’s guidelines.

Macy’s Northeast, New York City, NY Divisional Creative Planner

• Designed and purchased visuals for new stores and shops in over 70 stores, never going over budget. Developed visual merchandising directives seasonally for the Northeast Division. Conducted research and development of contractors, mannequins and prop vendors.

Awards:

• VMSD Interna8onal Compe88on BEST IN SHOW non-holiday windows: 2022

• Retail Design Industry Porlolio: Luminary Award 2019

• VMSD Winning Windows: 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022.

• Bloomingdale’s “Highest Honor “: Best of the Best 2016

Select Volunteering and Engagements:

• RDI : Retail Design Ins8tute NY Chapter Professional Member : 2024

• LIM COLLEGE : The Business of Fashion & Lifestyle, NYC : Fashion Scholars Mentorship Program : 2024-26

• In-Store Asia VM-RD Retail Design Awards 2024 Jury Panel : 2024

• Rockefeller x City Harvest - The Flag Project : 2023

• Woman’s History Month Panelist at LIM College : 2023

• Sachse Construc8on Retail Summit Guest Speaker : 2022

• FIT Student Porlolio Reviews : 2016, 2024

• Student Tour Guide : FIT, LIM COLLEGE, Indiana University : 2015 - 2023

Education:

B.F.A. PainOng and Graphic Design, Architectural Rendering University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

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