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Kohl’s Corporation |
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Retail / Technical Design Services |
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In her current position as Technical Design Manager, Ms. Walker’s responsibilities include formulating brand identities and establish construction standards through research, competitive analysis, and customer insight; building product packages including technical specification, engineering, drawings, reference materials/trims, minimum construction standards, tolerances, labeling/packaging, and manufacturing instructions; training, leading, coaching, influencing technical design teams, 9 cross-functional teams in 2 locations ; and more. |
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Global |
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Training highly effective teams (global); Home product development, factory oversight; Multi Classification Home Product Development; Quality Assurance Auditing; and more. |
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International Women’s Leadership Association; National Association of Professional Women (Secretary of the Western Milwaukee Chapter); Served as a mentor in the International IWLA. |
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Ms. Walker has 25 years of experience in her field and has served 10 years at Kohl’s Corporation. She has extensive experience in multi-classification product development from tech pack creation, sampling, factory oversight, product testing & QA; delivering first class consumer products sourced globally. |
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Obtained a Bachelor of Science in teaching (economic sciences from Viterbo College, ‘82); Master of Science degree in organizational leadership from the Indiana Institute of Technology (Ft. Wayne, 2018) |
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Increased profitability 5 to 7% on current styles with manufacturing cost reductions and value engineering; Engineered technical design processes to increase efficiencies, reducing sample turn time by 50%; Consistently maintain low defect return rates at 12% for majority of programs. |
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NAPW Woman of the Year (2012-2013); Women of Outstanding Leadership (IWLA - 2014); Inducted Member - Alpha Chi National College Honor Society, Nov 2016, Nominated by Indiana Institute of Technology; Inducted Member - Sigma Beta Delta - International Honor Society of Business, Management, and Administration, May 2017, Nominated by Indiana Institute of Technology |
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