Over 25 years of experience in home furnishings, design and product development for both Domestic and Import businesses. A comprehensive understanding of multiple product categories including case goods, accent furniture, lighting, accessories and outdoor furniture. Proven experience leading creative departments, design teams and product toward projected revenue goals.
Specifically, my expertise is in the following areas but not limited too...
Furniture Design Conceptualize ideas based on trends Understanding of martials to capture the beauty and the integrity of design concept Understanding buying patterns of retails to insure clear direction of design focus The basics – Sketch, cad and rendering Sales involved with this process to insure sell through
Project management Specifically check and balance on the necessary steps for project vision Understanding price points margins and buy into product categories Domestically - Doing all the front-end work (Cads, materials, specs, cost full scale drawings, etc.) Overseas sample review process – Check all samples for finish, size, engineering, cost and specs to insure design integrity Sales involved with this process to insure sell through
Customers buyers and trends Customers - A clear understanding of buying practices of major retailers and design to fulfill their retail/consumer needs Buyers – Experience in personalities and what they gravitate towards when buying Trends – Clear on the trends that are dominating the current market place as well as emerging trends... • Global Modern • American Contemporary • Industrial Modern • Bling • Urban Clean • Traditional
Leadership and people skills on teams I have managed • I lead by example nothing I ask to be done I have not done before • Furniture designers, project managers, art directors, showroom designers, sales, Owners, etc. • Positive attitude, clear direction, a true cheerleader for entire team • Love for the job and true sincerity
Regards,
Robert Soussana 562 472 6452 robearsoussana@ yahoo.com
Modus Design Group, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, US, Creative director
Modus furniture (100 million annually) Los Angeles California 11/17 – 2/20 Case goods home furnishing Manufacturer importer (Living spaces, Macy’s, City, Urban barn etc.) Managed a 12 person team of designers project managers and freelancers * Managed staff through mentoring, motivating and focused team building skills. * Managed and reviewed all sketches rendering & cads before proto approval * Delegated all workload to designer and project managers , which included managing their daily task, and overview workload * Gather market data on fashion, trends, fabrication, materials, color schemes and designs for annual introductions Personal Design responsibility * Sketches, 3D rendering, cads, and all material selections * Manage all aspects of the “fine art” product development process * Insure all samples meet all cost/margin goals. Import & design responsibilities * Vietnam, Indonesia & China travel to communicate to our factories all necessary information for best execution of samples for our mass-market customer presentations. * Reviewed/approved all drawings from vendors * Reviewed and fine tuned all prototype samples for production Showroom responsibilities * Plan layout of all merchandising for all 2 showroom layout * Pre-mercindised all staged vignettes * Physically set up showroom * Educated sales on all new market intros
Arizona State University, Tempe Camp, AZ, US, BArch, Interior Design
Studied Interior design with a Architectural background
