Manager Project

Craig B. Barndt / *** East ** Street #** / New York City / New York / 10016

E-mail: ********@***.***

Cell: 917-***-****

Skills: Marketing Manager, Showroom Manager, Visual Merchandise Manager, Sales Executive, Interior Designer, Merchandiser, and Product Development

Employment:

Aronson’s Floor Coverings 9.28.10 - 4.28.11

Project Manager: Sold fine quality carpeting to designers and architects. Produced proposals and price quotes based on the customers specifications.

Raymour and Flanigan 10.09 – 9.25.10

Design Associate: Sold total room concept to retail clients.

Hokanson Carpet 2.11.08 -10.16.08

Marketing Director

Hokanson is an importer of high quality carpets and rugs that are sold to the design trade.

The company has five showrooms and many dealers around the globe.

• Developed and managed a yearly advertising budget of 250K dealing with

“Architectural Digest”, “Veranda”, and “Interior Design “ magazines

• Developed advertising budget, placed advertisements, developed creative art work, and scheduled the artist for the sales team

Cast Classics 9.23.05 - 2.11.08

Showroom Manager

Cast Classics is a manufacturer of fine outdoor furniture. The company goal is to make the outdoor space as luxurious as the indoor living space.

• Increased sales in the first year by 25%.

• Sold to interior designers, managed visual display of the showroom, processed orders, organized deliveries.

Ethan Allen 10.26.03 – 7.1.05

Design Associate

• Coordinated fabrics, furniture, window treatments, and decorative accessories for retail customers.

Workbench Furniture 5.30.81 – 9.1.03

Vice President of Design 1982 - 2003

• Managed a two million dollar department budget.

• Worked with advertising, merchandising, and operations on all aspects of product

development, styling room sets for print materials, and visual merchandising of

all stores.

• Attended all major domestic and European furniture and accessories markets.

• Developed two accessories and one bedding program for resale.

• Supervised Visual Merchandising of forty stores and supervised a staff of ten.

• Developed the upholstery and matched the fabric to frame. Shopped the fabric markets.

• Communicated visual merchandising standards to management and staff. Supervised the opening of forty stores

• Workbench closed all forty stores in 2003.

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY / BFA/ Associates Degree Advertising Art/ Art Institute Pgh.

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