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Fashion industry professional looking for new opportunities in digital marketing.  Thrives in a high-demand and fast-paced environment. Strong ability to multi-task and prioritize; able to apply focus for timely project completion; avid, constant learner; motivated self-starter; embraces challenge; able to work independently and as an active member of a team.

• Responsible for the development of various products, from design handover through bulk purchase order issuance
• Presented alternative design suggestions to reduce costs to meet target margins while maintaining design intent
• Allocated business and assigned styles to vendors based on their manufacturing capabilities, quality and pricing
• Participated in the sourcing of new fabrications, trims, techniques, and silhouettes, and presented to design for consideration
• Served as the vital link between design, technical design, production, sales, planning and factories for all details pertaining to styles
• Tracked and maintained records of, but not limited to, fabrics, artwork, trims, samples, fit comments, approval comments and costing
• Issued sales sample purchase orders in Full Circle and tracked the status of the samples to ensure a timely delivery

Product Developer

• Managed the development of multiple products that met target costs, design standards, and seasonal deliveries
• Communicated with merchants and vendors about achievable development timelines based on projected delivery dates
• Proactively tracked and communicated development and delivery delays to cross functional partners to promote transparency
• Maintained and monitored internal and external work in progress reports to ensure all deadlines were executed
• Prioritized active and incoming projects to accommodate high-priority initiatives while remaining flexible to adjustments
• Organized weekly cross-functional meetings to discuss upcoming projects, deadlines and pending issues
• Resolved production and development issues by serving as a mediator between buyers, upper management and vendors

Associate Product Manager

• Tracked development samples by using calendars and various communication tools to ensure deadlines were fulfilled
• Supported cross-departmental partners to meet project deadlines and achieve desired results
• Ensured design tech packs included necessary information for vendors to accurately execute each development sample
• Managed seasonal budgeting reports to ensure initial markup unit percentage goals were met
• Communicated with vendors to track development sample submissions and bulk deliveries
• Partnered with designers and vendors to set deadlines and cost engineer products to achieve company cost targets

Assistant Product Manager ( Temporary )

• Facilitated seamless communication amongst vendors and internal cross-functional teams to accurately execute projects
• Supported marketing and sales teams by coordinating the manufacturing and delivery of public relations materials
• Updated and monitored work in progress reports to provide accurate timeline information on behalf of upper management
• Coordinated marketing samples and assisted in the photographing of products for marketing materials
• Collaborated with designers to source and review fabrication submissions and design elements
• Organized and maintained samples, trim, and fabric libraries for internal use

• Assessed production lead times and discovered opportunities to shorten them by improving internal processes
• Resolved bulk production issues identified by quality control in a timely manner to maintain product delivery dates
• Audited vendors to confirm delivery dates were maintained and ensured production was on schedule
• Worked directly with buyers to issue purchase orders with international and domestic vendors
• Negotiated costing with vendors to support company initial markup unit goals
• Updated and maintained key communication tools including seasonal calendars, time and action reports and cost logs

Production Coordinator

Skye Solis-Nguyen is a Product Developer at The La Jolla Group (O'Neill) in Tustin, CA.

Skye Solis-Nguyen

Skye Solis-Nguyen

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The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising

The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising