Brand Portfolio available upon request.Core Competencies:•Data-driven Product Strategy: create a strategic product roadmap informed by in-depth analysis of historic product performance and customer journey through the brand. •Merchandising & Planning: link data-driven inventory strategy seamlessly to the brand’s revenue goals. Manage investments while taking into account lead times, safety stock targets, sales targets, size curves and shipping efficiencies.•Collection Management: manage product team operations, workflow, calendar and budget. Contribute to developing a customer-facing identity for the product that effectively taps into the brand’s chief value proposition.•Recruitment and Team Building: help position design, development, fabric, technical and production resources within a team framework that is best suited to achieve the goals of the company.•Product Development: execute product from design through production, including technical work for wovens and cut and sew garments in both domestic and international settings.•Factory Sourcing: connect clients to an extensive network of international vendors for small to large scale production.•Fabric Sourcing: provide access to an international mill network cultivated over a decade of sourcing. Utilize R&D expertise to develop new and innovative fabrics. Utilize expertise in print development, including the ability to develop custom/original artwork.

• Took styles from initial concept to production in all dress categories (wovens, cut and sew knits and fully fashioned knits).• Managed in-house sample room consisting of cutters, sewers and pattern makers; balanced workflow between in-house team, local and overseas factories to maximize sample development efficiency and tracked all styles in progress to ensure timely completion.• Merchandised line while acting as the design liaison to sales, print and production departments, thereby pulling together the needs of each and translating them into sale-able, timely product with minimal costing issues.• Performed local and overseas fabric and trim sourcing for knits and wovens. • Managed Assistant Designers and interns to complete team deliverables with accuracy and on schedule.

*Stone Fox Bride, Embellishment, Development & Production Consultant (New York, NY) *Peter Som, Design Assistant (New York, NY) *Kal Rieman, Design Assistant (New York, NY) *Jen Kao, Design Assistant (New York, NY) *Calvin Klein Women’s Sportswear, Freelance Textile/Print Design Assistant (New York, NY) *Marketplace-Handwork of India, Technical Design Consultant (Chicago, IL and Mumbai, India)