Amanda James Email & Phone Number

Dallas, Tx, Us

AMANDA JAMES DESIGN GROUP / SOCIETY JAMES• Founder spearheading creative, sales, and manufacturing operations, thriving on process optimization and identifying areas for efficiency improvement, automation, and establishing strategic business practices. • Produces D2C retail & e-commerce, as well as B2B wholesale & private label, selling to retailers like Anthropologie. • Accomplished 25% YOY growth through domestically-produced goods and overseas full-package product.• Expanded portfolio of in-house labels, launching 3 brands, through thoughtful merchandising towards specific demographics, price point, and medium, to drive growth across sales channels.• Utilizes agile & hybrid frameworks to design & oversee end-to-end execution of product from digital assets, campaigns, social media, and UX/UI design, to physical product, marketing materials, and brick & mortar showrooms.• Facilitates cross-functional planning, road mapping, milestones, stand ups, design reviews, sprint demos, and retrospectives to bring projects & phases from ideation to close.• Conducts market research and reviews customer feedback, KPIs, and business insights to identify new opportunities, develop initiatives, design forward thinking programs, and generate buy-in from stakeholders. BLUR STUDIO• Led discussions for this Emmy winning visual effects production studio. Advised on real world pattern making techniques & clothing construction to generate & tweak the fit of CGI garments using Marvelous Designer / CLO 3D.HILLERY SPROATT• Consulted this fine artist on the process of creating technical artwork for product development from her original hand paintings, as well as onsite campaign creative direction and photoshoot production services.CONSERVATORY ( NOW ARDEN )• Advised on concept, interior design, and materials for this upscale restaurant, as well as creating original artwork.

• Guided cross-functional teams to execute 150-piece monthly collections resulting in $3+ million / month in sales.• Managed silhouette design, print artwork procurement, textile sourcing, color and trend analysis, and missy & plus fittings to realize product designs for smooth production.• Analyzed stakeholder feedback, sales data, trend forecasts, and supply chain performance to inform product design and production decisions resulting in sales to major retailers like Belk, Dillard’s, and Chico’s.• Capitalized on a variety of printing technologies to reduce waste and maximize ease and speed of iterating.

Los Angeles, California, Us

• Oversaw highly skilled textile & apparel teams (in-house, contractor, and overseas), as well as spearheading special projects & interdepartmental programs.• Generated 12 collections per year with monthly deliveries composed of 30 SKUs, 12 textile artwork designs, x3 color ways resulting in international distribution to boutiques and majors like Bloomingdale’s & Barneys.• Increased backward integration from 10% to 90% by scaling the full-package, knit, and textile departments through cultivating supplier vendor relations across Asia and managing supply chain development.• Implemented digital transformation initiatives in printing & design processes, accomplished strategic timelines, and collaborated with stakeholders to achieve vertical production goals.• Liaison for licensed partnerships and cross-industry collaborations.• Identified, designed, and implemented process optimization that facilitated programs, measured progress, detectedblockages, and mitigated risk, while managing workflow cadence across disparate teams.• Owned documentation and program operations, including communication, tracking, deadlines, and action items.• Worked with organizational leaders, defining long and short term programs to achieve strategic initiatives, establish team priorities, allocate resources, manage budget, and govern change management.