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Senior Footwear Designer 

Creative & Design

Ugg Boots

Post Malone and Offset wearing boots I helped work on while at Ugg

Osiris Skate Shoes

Fortunate to have worked on footwear for both pro skaters and surfers during my time at Osiris.

Nike sb

Bluesky Nike sb Cortez project with inspiration from the nine club podcast.

<p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Senior Footwear Designer with 10+yrs experience designing for some of the top brands in the footwear industry and skate industry.  Designs have been worn by everyone from Brian Lotti, &amp; PLG to Post Malone, Offset, and more.  Reach out to see how I can help elevate your brand.</span></p>

*Execute design work for M’s & W’s footwear according to the visual language of clients as well as Corporate Identity guidelines
*Design and create illustrations and technical drawings for new design concepts finding creative solutions to individual products
*Provide Tech Packs consisting of tooling cross sections, upper specs, last info and materials to overseas development teams

Freelance Footwear Designer

•Design Men’s + Women’s footwear for inline, SMU categories and high profile Collabs (Palace, atmos, Gallery Dept.)
•Work on colors & materials for all projects using foundational & seasonal palettes.
•Apply seasonal brand direction, market research, trend insight, and consumer knowledge to design against briefs from product team. 
•Manage and drive multiple design projects, tooling & upper tech packs, shell pattern revisions while adhering to strict pricing and calendar deadlines.

Senior Footwear Designer

•	Manage innovative footwear design projects, color and materials development from initial concept to production for Performance, Outdoor, City & Coastal Lifestyle products.
•	Designed, introduced and launched new styles in PFG footwear, which increased market share and bottom line profitability.
•	Act as a Footwear Design partner to collaborate with apparel on branding strategy, seasonal corporate color, material, and trend direction with a strong eye for detail.
•	Work closely with PLM’s and Development to provide tech packs, color/material info, updated line art, and graphics/patterns as needed.

Footwear Designer II (Men’s, Women’s, Kids)

•	Work in a team environment to create shoes for performance and lifestyle categories.
•	Create SMU's for key accounts both domestic and international.
•	Responsible for coloring and materializing 100+ shoes per season for Men, Women and Kids.
•	Technical designer for all metal embellishments, catalog graphics and additional footwear features.
•	Work directly with professional athletes & artists to ensure all endorsed footwear exceed expectations.


Footwear CMS & technical designer

•	Create footwear designs based on category briefs.
•	Research color/trends/materials to successfully incorporate into designs.
•	Worked directly with NBA players to create PE (player edition) colorways.
•	Design shoebox for all performance categories of footwear incorporating solutions to current problems.
•	Work is completed in a team environment under strict deadlines.


Footwear Designer (contract)

•	Design hard and soft good products including basketball footwear, headphones, cell phone cases, and bags for clients.
•	Involvement in all aspects of design including brainstorming sessions, ideation sketching, development phase, final renderings, creating tech packs, SMU's, line-sheets, organizing and managing samples.
•	Research current trends associated with specific projects and design accordingly.


Product Designer (contract)

•	Work extensively on Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to create forward thinking designs for customers.
•	Generate technical documentation, image processing, graphic editing, on a per project basis.
•	Travel extensively creating virtual tours, 360-degree aerial animation and HTML pages for clients.
•	Assist with product inventory and train incoming employees as needed.


Tactical Survey Technician III

•	Worked in the footwear design department assisting with the creation of all footwear and graphic designs.
•	Created new colorways for existing footwear line.
•	Assisted in creating graphic logos for professional athletes. 
•	Helped produce the catalog layout for the 2003 Spring/Summer season.


Footwear Design Intern

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Alex Dann — Senior Footwear Designer at Footwear Design

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Academy of Art University

Eckerd College

Northfield Mount Hermon