• Provide trend direction and innovative ideas to enhance product lines, leading seasonal creative direction for fabrics, color, trims, and designs.• Design and develop new concepts for the running, nordic ski, and cycling markets, overseeing the entire process from initial concept to production.• Collaborate closely with production managers and overseas partners to ensure effective communication on product changes.• Create comprehensive tech packs encompassing measurements, bill of materials, trims, color, and design detail specifications. Lead fit sessions to ensure accurate prototypes.• Develop new graphics for logos, prints, and yarn dyes.• Create 2D artwork of designs to support merchandising and sales efforts, capturing design concepts for sales workbooks.• Travel to trade shows to identify new sources for fabrics, trims, and gain inspiration for future trends.• Collaborate effectively with team members, both remotely and in-office, fostering a cohesive and productive work environment.• Implemented a new visual technical specification (tech spec) packet, resulting in improved accuracy for prototype sampling.

Successfully operates a freelance apparel design and product development business catering to the sportswear and outerwear outdoor active market.

• Maintained clear communication channels with overseas factories and development centers, ensuring successful style development throughout the season.• Assisted in managing product creation by coordinating tech packs, fabric selection, construction details, measurement specifications, style reviews, fit sessions, and color creation.• Collaborated closely with team members in product development, sourcing, fit engineering, material research, and merchandising to achieve acceptable target margins and deliver high-quality products.• Utilized strong visualization skills to transform 2D sketches into 3/4 views, detail sketches, and lining sketches, facilitating accurate sample development.• Responsible for creating comprehensive bills of materials, construction instructions, and inputting initial usages.• Designed products for men's and women's sportswear and outerwear, utilizing excess materials. Includes designing to cost, achieving target margins, illustrating construction details and presentation of design ideas.• Created innovative yard dyes and explored various color combinations for prints, yarn dyes, jacquards, and embossed prints, enhancing the visual appeal and marketability of the products.• Actively participated in Columbia's Transformers group, contributing to the development, writing, and updating of operating procedures to ensure efficiency and consistency in processes.

• Maintained responsibilities as Apparel Product Technician 1 (Technical Design I) and II, ensuring accurate and timely execution of design-related tasks.• Contributed to the development of the seasonal story by providing inspirational images and innovative ideas. • Designed select products and oversaw their production, including tech pack creation, fabric selection, construction details, measurements, fit sessions, color coordination, and catalog artwork. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams in product development, sourcing, fit engineering, material research, and merchandising, working towards achieving target margins and delivering high-quality products.• Traveled to Asia to provide on-site assistance in the creation of the "City" outerwear product line.• Assisted the Design Operations Manager and Category Design Director in onboarding new employees, conducting process and technology training, interviewing candidates, and maintaining the design team's calendar as a point person for the Associate Design team.• Served as the design representative for the Columbia internship program at the Art Institute of Portland and Oregon State University.• Managed, trained, and interviewed interns, effectively utilizing their skills to support the design team's workload throughout different seasons.• Supported the design team in creating presentation materials for review meetings, ensuring impactful communication of design concepts.

• Assisted assigned designer(s) in the creation of tech packs, ensuring accurate documentation of garment specifications, fabric selection, measurement specifications, construction details, and fit session sketch updates for the assigned seasonal category.• Entered information into the Product Data Management (PDM) system, by updating bill of materials, artwork packages, color information, and sketches.• Completed special product make-ups for various accounts and Columbia products.• Provided support to the merchandising and design teams by creating CAD books and color, fabric, and style presentation boards.