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Product Developer & Designer

Engineering & Production

I simply love designing and developing apparel. When I am not working, I spend most of my time surfing or playing in the mountains.

• develop 50 SKUs per season with oversees factories in China, India and Peru
• started the manufacturing supply chain in Peru for the knitwear category
• manage all knitwear SKUs from development through production
• collaborate with the company president, creative director & head of 
production to develop line plan, costing strategies & merchandising strategies
• negotiate CMT costs with factories
• source yarns, trims & hardware + mills & factories 
• manage design team to follow merchandising  & costing strategies
• costing for the knitwear category
• assist in styling for all lookbook & e-comm photoshoots
• collaborate with creative director & designers for seasonal concepts
• fit all knitwear styles from development through production
• provide solutions & strategies for the knitwear category
• travel to develop & manage manufacturing relationships
• attend seasonal yarn shows for inspiration & sourcing 


• design men’s and women’s knit tops and base-layers
• design and develop seasonal color palette
• meet with creative director to develop lineplan and calendar • create development tech packs and specs
• approve lab dips and knit-downs
• style e-commerce and social media photoshoots

Design Consultant

• Design 2019 sweater line.
• Trend forecasting
• Hand and computer sketching
• Present concepts and sketches in design review meetings
• Jacuard artwork design
• Hand-off sheets

Freelance Sweater Designer

• Collaborate with a team of engineers to research, design and
create wearable technology applications for the medical market.
• Knit wearable technology samples using shape memory alloy
• Co-wrote a paper on wearable technology systems
• Assist in teaching several university courses including Wearable
Technology, Intro to Structural Apparel Design, Experimental
Fashion Design, Fashion History, and Intro to Textiles
• Manage a team of undergraduate interns

Graduate Research, Teaching Assistant

• Design women's knitwear yoga line
• Hand-sketch and complete technical sketches
• Complete tech packs and BOMs using Full Circle.
• Trend research and forecasting.
• Communicate with factories to track garment and sample
development.
• Work with technical designer to ensure the best sample fit.
• Work with the product developer to source trims and fabrics.

Freelance knitwear designer

• Work with senior designer to design and develop the women’s
sweater category
• Hand sketch and create technical sketches
• Jacquard design & development
• Develop all CADS, color ways, & print layouts
• Compile competitor research and trend research
• Samples shopping.
• Create seasonal color palette
• Track and comment on all lab dips & knit-downs,
• Managed assistant designer.

Sweater Designer

• Create all technical sketches in Adobe Illustrator
• Participate in hand offs
• Work closely with technical design team and product developer to
realize sweater designs,
• Create and complete tech packs in Full Circle
• Create and complete line sheets,
• Develop stripe patterns and color ways
• Meet with yarn vendors for purchasing
• Sample shopping.

• Drape and create patterns for all ballet and modern dance
performances
• Hand sketch
• Sample and fabric shopping
• Sew and embellish costumes
• Arrange and conduct fit sessions
• Manage the seamstress and volunteer staff

Assistant Costume Shop Director

• Assist with fit sessions
• Create technical sketches
• Complete tech packages using excel
• Spec garments
• Work with local factories for production checks and quality
inspection,
• Hand knit sweaters and swatches for the Fall 2011 collection.

freelance assistant technical designer

• Create hand and technical sketches
• Complete trim sheets and tech packs
• Update and organize line sheets.
• Communicate with wash lab, color lab and resource team for
development of samples
• Update BOM’s
• Organize and produce trend research for upcoming seasons.
• Attend design meetings and fit sessions.

knit tops design internship

Megan Johnston is a Product Developer & Designer at Jonathan Simkhai in Los Angeles, CA.

Megan Johnston

Megan Johnston

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University of California, Davis

University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art & Planning