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Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
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Bob Boule
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Gopinath Rebala
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The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
5. Introduction
Laura Dudney is the Product Coordinator for Fossil Men’s eyewear and for their other brand, Relic. Fossil corporate is
located on 2280 N. Greenville Avenue in Richardson, TX 75082. Their phone number is (972) 699-2280 and Laura’s email
address is ldudney@Fossil.com.
6. Fossil has always been an influential fashionable company, and when I called around to find connections, Laura
Dudney, the product coordinator for Fossil, was the first person I thought of, since she was a close friend of my future sister-in-
law and my brother at the University of Texas at Austin. My brother had always talked to her about how her and I were
working towards the same degree and would tell me all of the opportunities that she obtained. I knew instantly that I wanted to
know what it was like to be in her shoes, especially after she got her dream job shortly after graduation. Fossil has also always
been one of my favorite stores, since I love their style and their products. “Fossil is modern vintage,” which is exactly what my
style is and one of the reasons I chose to do my career connection there. Working with merchandise that I find interesting will
provoke my creative aspirations and I wanted to see firsthand how the Fossil Company works. The company is exactly where I
7. would love to work, which I found out after research that was done on the company background before going in to shadow
Laura. The atmosphere is very relaxed with creativity being a necessity with excellent benefits and reasonable requirements.
Fossil started out as a fashionable watch company and eventually grew into an accessories and apparel store, along with
the watches. Their target market is between the ages of 25 and35, and is illustrated through their core customers “Mark and
Julie”. They are young at heart and fashionably trendy with an appreciation for the past. The price point is about $20 to $300,
depending on the merchandise being purchased.
Description
8. The responsibilities of the position of product coordinator is involved with product development, including researching
trends and creating trend boards to illustrate the direction the current line should go in. Product coordinators get to work closely
with other countries, especially for overseas production, such as China, primarily Hong Kong. In this particular case, Laura is a
part of a team called the “warriors of weather” meaning that they work with products like sunglasses, soft leathers, and
accessories pertaining to different seasons. As product coordinator, Ms. Dudney’s job was to send ideas in terms of color and
shape of men’s eyewear to China in order for them to send her a sample back. She would then re-sketch the sunglasses and
change the label or any other aspect of the glasses that she believes could be improved and sends them back to production.
9. According to Ms. Dudney, in order to work in this field a potential employee needs to be able to work with people and
be a team player due to much collaboration with production in China and the design team. Also, one needs to have strong
opinions and be able to back up their designs. Rejection of a design may be relatively common, so someone that wants to work
in the field needs to be able to take criticism and not let it affect them personally. Being hardworking, creative, and resilient are
also good qualities to have. She highly recommends retail experience, because it is necessary to gain skills such as knowledge
about the product, point of sale, inventory, connecting with customers and management, learning sales plans, and how to know
if sales are behind or ahead of the sales from the year before. This will help to develop products in ways that will satisfy
customers because of the understanding of how sales works.
10. Ms. Dudney’s career path was different than most college graduates, in the sense that it was much easier. She attended
the University of Texas at Austin and obtained her bachelor’s degree in Fashion Merchandising. While in college, she did an
internship with Stanley Korshak in Dallas. The internship taught her what it was really like to work in the fashion industry,
including getting to know the core customer and the image of the company and how it operates. What she really stressed as
being important to her career path was her job in retail when she was in high school and college. She worked for BCBG for two
years, an experience that she claimed to greatly help her in being successful in her current position. Working in retail truly
helped her to understand the customer’s needs and wants along with teaching her how to work in the employee’s position,
learning what sells and how to sell it.
11. When it comes to Ms. Dudney’s most and least liked aspects of the job, getting to collaborate in a team environment
and see her creativity come to life is high on her list. Since her responsibilities are never the same from day to day, so it is
difficult to become bored. Getting to work on the spring line, the most important line for Fossil, is also one of her favorite
projects to work on. Her least liked aspect is the stress that comes along with deadlines and having to keep the lines up when
they are having problems. For example, Fossil’s line Relic is not catching on as well with customers, so Ms. Dudney’s job is to
reinvent it to try and make it more popular. The advantages of the position are a good discount in all Fossil stores, freedom to
pursue creativity, a big responsibility, and great benefits. Benefits include a 401 K plan, medical, dental, and vision insurance,
tuition reimbursement, a casual work environment, flexible spending account, employee assistant program, discount on
licensed and fossil brands, paid time off and holidays, as well as life and AD&D insurance, a discounted gym membership and
12. even a free watch for new employees. The disadvantages are once again the stress and the criticism that comes along with
creating your own designs.
Personal Analysis
When I first walked into the Fossil corporate office, I was thoroughly impressed with lobby and the way it was
decorated and exactly how “Fossil” it was. Shortly after, I met Laura Dudney, a friend of my future sister-in-law and my
brother from college that got a job as a product coordinator at Fossil a mere five months earlier. As she was answering my
questions and leading me around the entire office I was in awe of what I was hearing and seeing, mainly because it is the job I
13. have dreamed of. Travel is involved, although not as much now because of the economy, and it is a mixture of design and
merchandising, basically the job I have been hoping to find ever since I decided to work for a dual-degree between both majors.
Ms. Dudney showed me her trend boards, there were two in her cubicle, and I got to see the ideas behind Fossil men’s eyewear.
Ms. Dudney gets the samples of men’s sunglasses that come in in a very basic form from China, and then she sketches up her
ideas to make them more “Fossil.” This normally involves her first sending them pictures of her trend board and of the shapes
that she believes will be big for the upcoming season, and when she receives the prototypes back she looks them over and
sketches out her ideas for improving the color and the logo and even the types of lenses and sends them back for full
production. This career would be perfect for me due to the creativity that is directly involved as an everyday aspect along with
14. the actual merchandising involved. Travel is an added bonus, to get to see production in China along with New York and other
fashion capitals would be amazing.
I would be successful in this career due to my skills in design and in merchandising, along with my passion for fashion.
I work well in a team environment, can work independently, and can also take direction if needed. This career surprised me
because I never expected there to be design involved, since I always considered merchandising and design careers to be
relatively separated when primarily in the merchandising side of it. This is truly the career I have always been dreaming about,
and Ms. Dudney was the person to show me. I never knew what product development was about before shadowing her and she
really opened my eyes to a new possibility.
18. 1. Are you able to sketch and actually design in this position?
2. I read that fossil collaborates with other countries; does that mean that traveling is a main aspect of your career?
3. After you graduated college, how many jobs did you apply for before getting this one?
4. What internships did you do while in college and how did they help you?
5. I read that Fossil collaborates with some prestigious brands such as marc by marc Jacobs, Diesel, DKNY, and Michael
Kors. Do you get to work for them in your position?
Emily Wiley
1621 Maple Street
Denton, TX 76205
19. Ms. Laura Dudney, Product Coordinator
Fossil
2280 N. Greenville Ave.
Richardson, TX 75082
20. EmilyWiley
1621 Maple Street
Denton,TX76205
November18,2008
Ms. Laura Dudney,ProductCoordinator
Fossil
2280 N. Greenville Ave.
Richardson,TX75082
Dear Laura,
Thank youfor the opportunityyouprovidedme toshadow youfor the afternoon!Igainedalot of
insightintowhatyoudo foryour careerand it made me lookforwardto hopefullybeinginyour
shoesone day!I lovedlearningabouthow yougettostill getto designinyourfield.
The nexttime I visitfossil Iwill have agreaterappreciationforthe workthatgoesinbehindthe
scenesof the Fossil products.Thankyoufor sharingyourtime andknowledge of the fieldwithme!
Sincerely,
EmilyWiley
Universityof NorthTexasStudent