- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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

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.

- 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

- 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

- 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

- Client Book Sales - Personal Shopping - Local Email Marketing

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

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