Company Statement: In 2000, Carolina Pad helped transform the stationery industry. How? By introducing fashion school and office products! In the 1980s and 1990s, Carolina Pad, like many other paper product manufacturers, faced the twin challenges of declining profit margins and stiff competition from overseas. The company shifted its focus from manufacturing products to designing them. Carolina Pad was the first company to add fashion to school and office products. Clay, who bought majority interest in the company in 2003, also expanded operations internationally, opening offices in Shanghai and Hong Kong.

Our relationship started in 2000 and lives on today 2012. TRUE STORY: My entire relationship with Carolina Pad and Paper was developed one day while shopping Walmart I picked up a Mr. Nifty pack of paper clips. I liked the marketing and presentation. So I sent Mr. Nifty and email, then a postcard, then an email until Mr Nifty aka. Paul Wagner had no choice but to meet with us and review our products and the rest is history!

Creative Innovator

• Created Stuck on School, Just Write and Just Write for Learning product campaign concepts and presentation boards.
  
• Provided the outside pulse on trends in toys, fashion, candy and technology.
• Engaged in ideation, brainstorming, concept rendering, sketching, and project management for stationary and candy products.
  
  

Resourceful

• Our relationship started in 2000 and lives on today 2012. TRUE STORY: My entire relationship with Carolina Pad and Paper was developed one day while shopping Walmart I picked up a Mr Nifty pack of paper clips. I liked the marketing and presentation. So I sent Mr. Nifty and email, then a postcard, then an email until Mr Nifty aka. Paul Wagner had no choice but to meet with us and review our products and the rest is history!
  
• Took the ten day Mr. Nifty tour, “How to shop the stationary market in Tokyo.”
• Worked with Mr. Nifty and provided research to targeted teen demographics with fashion and trend forecasting measurements
  
  

Goal Oriented

• In 2000 our relationship with Carolina Pad helped to shape the companies new thinking and direction into creating fashion school and office products.

Recommendations:

• "Tina has X-Ray vision that finds fun in the most unlikely of places. She sprouts creative concepts with such ease, and knows the business landscape so well, that she has the luxury of selecting the ones worth cultivating."
  -Jason Van Anden, President, Quadrant 2, Inc.
• "Tina is very bright, very knowledgeable, cooperative and works well with others. I'm sure she'd make a very positive contribution to your team." -Richard Keats, Owner, Kaywood Industries, Inc.