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El Segundo, California, United States

Huntington Beach, CA

- Design women & girls' casuals, sandals, and boots for Roxy mainline, family channel line, SMU, clearance, and special collaborations (i.e. Stephanie Gilmore & Cynthia Rowley)- Manage materialization, trims, color selection, and print/graphic creation for 100+ SKUs per season- Create new upper designs via hand-sketching, digital CADs, tech pack creation.

Los Angeles

• Assist creative team in a company that manufactures materials for permanent branding, external embellishments, and point-of-sale/packaging for top footwear/apparel/accessory brands.
• Prepare presentations on upcoming trends for clients, from material books & sample kits to market research decks.
• Conduct market research and formulate insights on trends in embellishments and POS in different categories (performance, lifestyle, denim, etc).
• Design material/trim graphics as well as build technical documents in Adobe Illustrator.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Assist start-up Los Angeles shoe brand by fulfilling needs in various areas: social media, product development, merchandising, marketing, event planning, cost analysis, and retail.
• Connect the company with local partners such as suppliers/manufacturers for new product, makers and brands to collaborate with, charities and nonprofits to fund and support, and event planners for markets and fairs to.
• Lead discussions on target customer demographics and wholesale channels. Compiled sales and inventory reports from Shopify into a brand new Excel Sheet tool to forecast orders for new and anniversary SKUs.
• Learn the physical skill of designing and making a shoe by hand.

Manhattan Beach, CA

• Manage new footwear development throughout a season. Started from developing new materialways to developing the entire Spring 2018 sandal line and much of the Fall 2018 boot line.
• Review and decide shoe construction, upper material reinforcement, outsole mold and blueprint, and last to achieve desired design, fit, cost, and quality.
• Communicate frequently with merchandising, design, costing, and material teams to deliver the best quality product at the desired cost and delivery time.
• Communicate with developers and factories in China and Vietnam; have travelled overseas to production lines and material vendors.

Thousand Oaks, CA

- Collaborated with designers and researchers to develop product for clients, ranging from Fortune 500 to start-ups. Communicated directly with clients and presented deliverables.- Designed concepts by brainstorming, designing in CAD, prototyping and testing them.- Performed tests by developing procedures, building set-ups, and documenting results in order.

Alpharetta, Georgia

- Worked with the company’s lens-making processes to improve and analyze existing processes as well as developing new processes- Created experimental matrices and collected data on lens-making processes

New Delhi, India

- Traveled to India to aid in designing a children’s home for Bhutanese/Nepali orphans- Surveyed project site and drafted architectural drawings by hand and in AutoCAD- Designed water supply and wastewater systems by estimating water usage from client and performing soil percolation tests- Fundraised from supporters to send me to India; continued.

Atlanta, Georgia

- Helped develop and analyze a simulation that models a biological cell deforming in response to mechanical load- Analyzed effect of varying bending and stretching stiffness of cell components on overall deformation and elasticity of cell- Wrote MATLAB code to process large amounts of data from batches of simulation jobs

Griffin, Georgia

- Aided with designing generator sets powered by inline, six cylinder diesel engines- Corrected parts drawings, released and cancelled parts, and phased in new product by using company’s parts databases and running reports on product- Ran and shadowed cooling, sound, and air flow tests on new generator enclosures