Rick

"Probably the one that shaped my career the most was that internship that ultimately kind of led me into the job I'm in now."

"I oversee for our company all of product development, uh, sourcing and retail strategy."

"A lot of communication, touch bases and, and whatnot around there. Same, same goes for the retailers themselves."

"Have to rely on the ability to kind of take and assess a problem, break it down, and come up with the steps to solve that."

"It's really fun to kind of have the tools to be able to come up with an idea and actually see it make its way to market."

"Those people that are able to adjust [to] the changing environment will make it through."

"all the different people you meet."

"You have to be very flexible... you have to adjust with their needs."

"That jump from, kind of being a working professional into the management side was something that I think I would've loved to have gone through some more"

"A jumping off point for a lot of recent college grads would be either on the vendor side as an analyst, um, or on the merchant side."

"If you are succeeding in your top three responsibilities in your role, then you're gonna be making a bigger impact than probably anything else you could do."

"I think the biggest thing was that I had an idea what I wanted to do going into school. I think that if I hadn't had an idea of kind of the general direction that I wanted to go, I probably would've held off on going to college."

"Professor Kelso did a great job in kind of bridging the practical problem solving with the technicals of the industry."