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Wow!!  I started in 1994, one year after AE became private label.  The majority of my career at AE was working side by side with Roger Markfield for 20+ years!  Anyone who knows Roger might say that is my biggest milestone!!!  :) I have had the opportunity to be part of the amazing growth of AE and have watched Aerie grow from a simple concept into the amazing brand that it is today (I'm proud to say that I am now part of the Aerie Team and love it! )  As I reflect, the best part of my time here at AE has been the wonderful, passionate and talented people that I have had the privilege to work with...and of course, the incredible friendships that I have made along the way.

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As I reflect back on my career at AE, I have many accomplishments and amazing stories.  For me my greatest accomplishment took place in 2006/2007.  I had the opportunity to lead an initiative of implementing a new highly automated fulfillment center on our Kansas distribution campus (Ottawa II).  In less than 18 months & zero impact to the customer experience, this initiative transitioned a cornfield into a highly efficient automated facility processing over 6,000 orders a day.  The demonstration of passion, teamwork, innovation, collaboration and empowerment occurred daily throughout the 70+ member project team made up of external partners, AE technology team & many AE business departments.  We collectively knocked thru numerous challenges to deliver a foundational solution that has expanded over the years to support multiple facilities that currently process an average of over 50,000 orders daily.  Truly a once in a lifetime opportunity!

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My most memorable experience is probably not the most enjoyable, but its definitely the most vivid. It was Cyber Monday, in the 11PM-12AM hour, with my team in a hotel lobby, in Columbus OH, cycling servers in order to keep ae.com up and taking orders. It wasn't the smoothest exercise, but there isn't a greater example I can provide that exemplifies ones ability to directly impact the success or failure of the business on a large scale than that hour. Coming out of that experience, being able to do what you can to help keep the site operational, and working with absolute trust with your team members, is the best feeling I can think of when I reflect on my time with AE.

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Over my 20 years of working for AEO, I have had so many wonderful memories and proud moments.   But to sum up it all, it has to be all the great friends and people I got to work with over the years.  Some of my best friends are people I meet here, and the ones who no longer work here, we still talk.  It just shows you the amazing people we hire and the culture AEO has engraved into its company.  I look forward to another 20 years!!!  #aeolifer

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i have 2 super proud moments that stand out over my 15 year (so far) at AE/aerie. the first is a state of the place where Jay spoke of all the things the company was focued on that year. Video and music played sharing all our great accomplishments as a company and my team at the time had touched all of them. i was so proud of them and all that they had achieved. we were all super excited to see the teams accomplishments and frankly hadn't taken the time to look back.

the next one is the aerie store opening at Spring Street (original). this was one of the fastest turns on a project i can think of. Lauren and Michael Smith, all poured themselves into this one as well as many others. when the doors opened i literally cried. i was so overwhelmed with emotion for the teams collective hard work. This was a one of a kind shopping experience that i was certain would kill it!!

lets keep it brief at just these two. :)

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A defining moment for me is when I was first hired at the Cranberry Twp. AE store in 2005 (I remember the day!). I never would have thought I would be working for the same company all these years later, or would have so many opportunities to lead me where I am today. I have an endless amount of memories with the teams that I have had a chance to work with and be a part of. :)

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My most memorable experience was joining the Aerie team as the #AerieREAL campaign was first being launched. It has been so fun seeing the brand evolve and grow over the years while being a part of this amazing movement, as well as working alongside my incredible team! I have so many great memories, it’s hard to pick just one.

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My most memorable experience was being a brand new teammate in the class of 2005! I started my career as a merchant before transitioning over to my current role. I have worked with many wonderful people over the years. Its been very rewarding to learn from the smartest people in the retail industry.

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One of the best memorable experiences I 've had so far would be implementing the Token Ring network in the early 1990's, which was then replaced by the Ethernet network. At the 540 location, we used to walk along the the tops of the walls above the ceiling tiles to run the cabling. We also implemented the first Checkpoint firewall amd Internet connections.

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The most exciting and cool experience I have had at American Eagle in my 10 years here (both stores & corporate), is seeing how the Site Merchant team even came to be, a few of us took a chance at a job that never existed and now for the last five years have seen it grow into a huge team with lots of goals and responsibilities for the digital business!

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My defining moment at AEO was when I got a job at our corporate office! I had worked in stores for 5 years and was in stores when we launched #AerieREAL and started making some real change, so it was always a DREAM of mine to work at corporate. Now working at the office, it's amazing to see how our brand message really does resonate through every decision we make.