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Technical, Functional Outdoor Apparel 🦆⛺️ | Motherhood ✨

I am an action-oriented leader! I bring a technical mindset and efficiency, process-based methodology to creative, development and production projects. I am extremely detail-oriented - successful at tracking and analyzing each tiny detail within a product, while also maintaining a macro vision towards achieving the strategic, long-term goals of the business and/or product at hand.

One of my greatest strengths lies in the strong relationships I build and maintain with every vendor partner, despite their location nor native language. I have experience in sourcing new domestic and international vendors, resourcing established volume-driven programs, vendor onboarding, establishing vendor manuals, managing to production requirements, and regulating compliance through fabric and product testing. I have an intuitive sense for bringing order to chaos, and driving the product team towards success despite unforeseen challenges. 

My passion remains in supporting fashion and lifestyle brands that have a hand in pushing the fashion industry towards greater sustainability.

Senior Manager - Product Development and Production

Senior Product Developer

- Product development with a specialty in knitwear, swimwear, hybrid bottoms, garment dyed apparel, and scalable sourcing for volume programs
- Managing fabric/materials liabilities and readiness for chase strategy
- Production planning and management for core, volume-driven, all-year-round product lines
- Resourcing of core product lines to drive margin, quality, and sourcing improvements
- Collaborative work with the Planning team to maintain demand-driven production with the shortest possible bulk lead times
- International and domestic manufacturing

Product Development and Production

- Manage all partnerships and communication for new development with full-package international vendors
- Collaborate closely with design team to manage all products in development, including new lab dips and handlooms for core/carryover products
- Work cross-functionally with merchandising and planning teams to iterate seasonal assortment based on evolving consumer feedback and product requirements
- Cost engineering FOB / ELC with the goal to supersede target margins
- Support creative and technical design teams in all product fittings
- Final approval on the Bill of Materials within PLM generated tech packs
- Weekly reporting to merchandising, planning, and production teams on the timely development of all new products to bulk start
- Ongoing work to mitigate risk within the supply chain as each new product / capsule collection is developed
- Present new product opportunities to design and merchandising teams for adoption

Product Developer

- Managed specs to match fit intent for all products, working primarily with the PLM system
- Owned technical design communication with all vendors
- Completed the fit expansion into tall size ranges for core t-shirt programming, based on extensive fitting data, return rate data, and competitive product evaluations

Technical Designer

- Managed full product lifecycle for all esby apparel, soft goods, and leather handbags from initial concept through to timely receipt
- Lead design development, collection assortment, and sustainable sourcing driven by sales goals and target margins
- Iterated planned product assortment until the last minute based on target market demands, evolving budgets, manufacturer availability and constraints
- Managed deep relationships, technical communication, and costing negotiations with multiple cut/sew, knit, dye, and wash facilities within the U.S.
- Established new, successful production and logistics partners - diversifying to mitigate risk within the supply chain
- Regularly work to minimize carbon footprint and maximize budget in air vs. freight shipping of bulk fabrics
- Final approval on all tech packs, materials planning and buying, and product quality assurance
- Developed global seasonal calendar to track ongoing development and production processes and improve front-end efficiency
- Developed new tech pack formats, product development standards, product file management, and PO systems to streamline and reduce opportunity for error
- Size chart development with on-going analysis to improve size/fit consistency; lead all fit meetings with wide size range of models
- Produced esby’s first custom print design and custom fabric developments
- Lead all domestic and international design and sourcing trips
- Expanded into lean production strategies, manufacturing solely based upon demand and maintaining lean fabric inventory by regularly developing liability fabrics into new capsule collections
- Launched program to recycle and resell gently used esby product
- Worked closely with CEO, COO, and Director of Merchandising to develop seasonal flow strategy and execute in a timely, efficient manner

Director of Production & Design

- Manage end to end IT projects using Whole Foods Market PM Delivery Framework
- Create IT project timelines and track daily progress of all impacted teams
- Support cross-functional teams on IT project's to unify and collaborate towards shared goals
- Weekly reporting to WFM leadership on the current progress, successes, and challenges of each in progress project
- Support Whole Foods Market business leadership and system users in strategic problem solving to improve current business and system processes
- Ensure all product development goals are effectively met by development partner(s)
- Collaborate with internal and external product owner teams to establish best practices and unify our development process standards
- Represent Whole Foods Market when traveling to work with current & potential technology partners
- Agile Velocity Certified Scrum Master

IT Project Manager | CSM, Strategic Supply Chain & Merchandising Technologies

My specialty lies in supporting emerging brands from conception thru launch: developing innovative apparel designs, perfecting technical fit, and producing small-batch, Made in USA collections with a conscious footprint.

Contract Fashion Designer + Consultant

- Support Whole Foods Market business leadership and system users in strategic problem solving to improve current business and system processes
- Manage ongoing and evolving business requirements throughout an iterative development process
- Elicit functional requirements from WFM business partners for efficient, user-driven technical product development
- Document highly detailed, consistent functional requirements and user stories to outline all business needs for each new development phase
- Create process flow designs depicting the business goals and systematic goals of each new development phase
- Ensure all product development goals are effectively met by development partner(s)
- Collaborate with internal and external product owner teams to establish best practices and unify our development process standards
- Represent Whole Foods Market when traveling to work with current & potential technology partners

Business Analyst, Strategic Supply Chain & Merchandising Technologies

- Serviced 20 high-profile clients to design, develop, and produce over 96+ garments and soft goods
- Consult clients towards fact-based, research-based apparel design and development
- Established design, development and production guidelines for Trunkist's end to end apparel product development process
- Private label garment design: mood boards, fashion illustration, flat sketching, sourcing
- Cohesive, sellable and trend-driven collection development
- Supervise, educate and coordinate a team of 3 - 7 technical designers and sewers to work in a collaborative and efficient manner on every project
- Support design team in creative, rapid problem solving, and adaptation of the timeline and processes to meet primary client needs
- Build estimate budgets based on historical cost of services and cost of goods according to each, unique client project
- Manage spending to meet estimate budgets for each client project
- Manage technical product development: technical design, pattern, fit sample, pre-production sample, top of production check
- Manage product life-cycle from initial design concept through development, to production, to new, improved product iteration based on consumer feedback
- Liaison with our production and manufacturing partners to successfully produce apparel according to our product specifications and timelines; Manufacturing in NYC, Chicago, LA, Cambodia, Peru
- Ensure all product development goals are efficiently met, launching products to market within 6 months or less
- Cost management and quality assurance of each production run
- Recruited emerging fashion brands and entrepreneurs to hire Trunkist as their apparel product development partner 
- Represent Trunkist in business development and community events: grassroots marketing strategy, speaking engagements, educational events, trade shows, conferences

Director of Fashion Design

- Awarded Austin’s Most Talented Designer, April 2014 
- Fellowship 500 Business, Ethical Fashion Forum
- Sustainable, technical garment design
- Brand creative direction
- Social media marketing
- Photoshoot + event production
- eCommerce operations
- Direct to consumer + wholesale account relations

Founder + Creative Director + Designer, Swimwear

- Client Book Sales
- Personal Shopping
- Local Email Marketing

Stylist + Personal Shopper

- eCommerce operations
- Marketing content creation
- Photoshoot production
- Launched + developed affiliate blogger program

eCommerce Social Marketing Manager

- Sales Lead
- Personal Styling
- Open and Closing Boutique Procedures

Mallory Curlee-Green is a Technical, Functional Outdoor Apparel at Duck Camp in Austin, Texas.

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