Product Development Professional

Russell Shore

**** ** **** ******., ***** *** Vancouver, WA 98661

Cell: +1-360-***-**** Email: *******@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

Seeking position with a company where I can utilize my experience to bring the company to the next level.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Product Creation Services Feb. 2007 - Current

Vancouver, Washington

Consultant

Develop products for customers including footwear, apparel and accessories.

Work with factory teams to source materials, document sample, and prepare samples.

Hands-on product development to ensure quality and customer satisfaction

Contracted with start-up brands and established brands.

Footwear Specialties International, LLC Dec. 2008 – Sept. 2011

Portland, Oregon

Sr. Development Manager (Contract)

Develop all new products including material selection, grading, fit and wear testing, monitor costing, and production verification.

Manage communication between Sales/Marketing, factories, vendors, and HQ Operations.

Travel to China to work directly with factory technical staff.

Manage and evaluate cost analysis.

Identify new sourcing partners. Identified new factory that reduced average FOB costs by average of 20%.

Monitor defective returns to identify production improvements.

Develop new lasts.

Velocy, Inc. Sept. 2007 – December 2007

Portland, Oregon

Sr. Development Manager (Contract)

Managed sample development for small start-up athletic shoe company that utilized patented technology to improve human performance.

Ensured that Asian suppliers correctly followed patent.

Identified new production factory and mold makers.

Established Asia based team to source components and monitor progress.

Negotiated costs at factory and mold makers.

Traveled to China to monitor sample making.

adidas Group June 1999 – June 2006

Herzogenaurach, Germany

Technical Services Manager, Asia (Guangzhou, China) August 2002 - June 2006

Responsible for communicating technical standards and best practices to adidas and factory staff.

Managed the Technical departments in China, Korea, Indonesia, and Vietnam.

Partnered with HQ team to identify and roll out new technologies.

Monitored use of systems in factories and suppliers and implemented improvements.

Managed installation of 10 Rapid Prototyping machines in Asia.

Conducted Lean training program for 3 Mold Factories. Modified training materials to fit shoe mold making process.

Documented product creation processes to improve consistency.

Implemented use of 3D scanners to improve fit of upper to bottom units.

Worked directly with factory owners and upper management to make process improvements.

Wrote policy for intellectual property protection in mold factories.

Product Engineer (Portland, OR) June 1999 - July 2002

Partnered with product creation teams in HQ to develop high quality samples using CAD tools.

Evaluated and made software recommendations for the technical department.

Created processes for improving quality of prototype samples using reverse engineering.

Evaluated 3D CAD software to find commercialization, marketing, and design benefits.

Created technical documentation.

Participated in line review meetings.

Reebok International, Ltd. Nov. 1993 – December 1998

Canton, Massachusetts

Tooling / CAD Manager (Busan, Korea) January 1997 - December 1998

Managed a team of tooling managers and drafters in the Korea Development Center.

Evolved a team of hand drafters to a team of CAD modelers in 6 months with team using CAD for 100% of their workload.

Managed tooling made in Korea for use in China and Indonesia.

Instructor in in-house footwear training programs (1 and 3 months duration).

Technical Development Manager (Fuzhou, China) June 1995 - December 1996

Development Manager for cycling, basketball, tennis, and running.

Managed technical development based in partner factory.

Liaison to factory as representative of HQ based technical team.

Trained in Reebok HQ and conducted the training for factory staff.

Taught pattern engineering to local staff.

Asst. Manager, Tooling (Busan, Korea) November 1993 - May 1995

Assisted tooling manager in controlling schedule and quality and worked with Commercialization.

Maintained and monitored tooling schedule and followed up with mold makers as needed.

Inspected tooling prior to delivery to shoe factories.

Created technical development manual that was used in HQ and liaison offices.

Represented tooling department in commercialization meetings.

EDUCATION

Utah State University, Logan, Utah. Pre-Electrical Engineering, August 1989 – December 1991.

Busan National University, Busan, Korea. Exchange student, Sept. 1990 – December 1991.

Southfields College, Leichester, UK. Footwear Technology Program, January – April 1994. Curriculum included design, cutting, stitching, assembly, lasts, and material testing.

SPECIAL SKILLS

Advanced skills in MS Word, Excel, Access, Visio, Project, and PowerPoint.

Advanced skills in Rhinoceros 3D CAD modeling software.

Proficient in pattern engineering with Crispin 2D and 3D software.

Proficient in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.

Korea language skill; speak, read, and write with basic competence.

Mandarin language skill: basic conversational ability.

INTERESTS

Running, ocean swimming, computer technology, and learning languages.

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