Laura Dudney is a product coordinator for Fossil Men's eyewear. Her responsibilities include researching trends, creating trend boards, and collaborating with overseas production in China. She sends ideas and samples to China and provides feedback to improve designs before full production. Shadowing Laura gave Emily insight into product development and how creativity is an important part of the role, despite expectations that merchandising and design are separate fields. Emily was impressed by the creative and collaborative aspects of the job and believes she could be successful in a similar career.
From the University of Central Florida's Ad Club:
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From the University of Central Florida's Ad Club:
Come hear from advertising guru Justice Mitchell. Justice will help you figure out your place in the dynamic advertising marketplace. He'll share firsthand insight into the roles and personalities of both traditional and in-house agencies--and where the digital world is going.
This is a portfolio of mine to showcase my artworks and my design skills, the artworks mainly are from year 2009 to 2015. And I am a fresh grads student from Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Hopefully through this web, I'm able to find my employer.
I’m Katie, a visual person and learner. I prefer using artworks to communicate with people instead of using words.
This is my digital portfolio,
A showcase of my artworks, experiences and journey.
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A showcase of my artworks, experiences and journey.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
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Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
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Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
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Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
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In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
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The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
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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
Ms. Laura Dudney, Product Coordinator
Fossil
2280 N. Greenville Ave.
Richardson, TX 75082
19.
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 get to designinyourfield.
The nexttime I visitfossil Iwill have agreaterappreciationforthe workthatgoesinbehindthe
scenesof the Fossil products.Thankyoufor sharingyourtime andknowledge of the fieldwithme!
Sincerely,
EmilyWiley
Universityof NorthTexasStudent