• Founder and Designer of a collection of handloom scarves and textile-based home accessories that are hand-woven in villages across India. • Develop hand dyed, and hand-woven textiles designed with a minimal and modern aesthetic but are rooted in traditional craft. • Manage all aspects of design, production, import, marketing, and sales of seasonal collections. • Collaborate with US based designers for customized products. • Presented (with a translator) foundation-funded workshops on product development and design to rural weaving clusters to help them stay relevant in the current marketplace. • monsoontextiles.com

• Led the Banana Republic Fabric & Trims R&D team translating the brand product strategy into clear, executable direction for global sourcing team, vendors and suppliers.• Utilized technical expertise to translate the design intent on fabric requests to meet raw material objectives, requirements and cost parameters.• Planned, engineered and executed long-term design requests with global sourcing partners and vendors that offered creative solutions and met the brand’s pricing and sourcing architecture. • Ensured that products met brand’s rigorous performance and integrity standards.• Developed high performing individual contributors and leaders of others.

• Freelance Sr. Manager--Fabric R&D role at Banana Republic and Old Navy• Created a fabric portfolio matrix to identify current state and new opportunities for Denim. • Expanded fabric vendor base into Asia to meet a new requirement of core-priced product offerings for both Mens and Womens categories. (Banana Republic)• Created an environment of close collaboration and mutual respect within the newly-structured denim team that was perceived as an example of ideal Cross Functional Team dynamics. (Banana Republic)• Assessed the current denim fabric portfolio and identified fabric rationalization opportunities as well as expansion of certain fabric families. Developed additional fabric bases to meet needs. (Old Navy)• Created an online fabric database that housed key fabric attributes that become the essential reference tool for R&D and Design. (Old Navy)

• Led first global fabric rationalization process that reduced number of fabric bases by 30% and maintained portfolio database to increase fabric efficiency and reduce potential liabilities.• Drove seasonal innovation and continuous R&D in fabric development by partnering with fabric vendors/participating in trade shows and cross functional stakeholders within LS&Co.• Identified and resolved product integrity/safety issues ensuring LS&Co quality standards were met. • Negotiated initial prices for high volume fabrics to continuously reduce COGS.

• Increased and maintained adoption metrics from below 50% to 80% in the first two seasons. • Collaborated with European and Asian partners to develop a core fabric and finish portfolio for the new Global Curve ID platform.• Led on-site finish development trips and ensured aesthetics and COGS were met by analyzing finish component costing and negotiating with vendors.• Re-engineered finishes to utilize more sustainable processes resulting in reduced costs.• Partnered with fabric and finishing vendors to identify, evaluate and resolve high-risk issues in both costing and production replication.• Partnered with finishing vendors to upscale capabilities to expand source base and also identify and research new finish technologies.

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