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Greater New York City Area

• Director and Designer for multi brand showroom in Manhattan specializing in urban mens, licensed and outdoors. • Managing several private label brands as well as executing high volume apparel collections for Ross Stores, Burlington Coat Factory, JC Penney, Rue 21 and many other national discount chains. • Responsible for executing full company rebrand and new b2b website that has proven extremely effective in generating new business.

Riverdale, Ny

• Founder / Creator of sports fashion hybrid with seasonal collections consisting of over a dozen cut & sew silhouettes.• Built business to 250k yearly sales • Creative Lead (apparel, graphics, ad campaigns, digital)• Managed manufacturing, Tradeshows, digital initiatives • Implemented Youtuber influencer campaign that generated millions of impressions • Peaked at #1 ranked menswear brand on Trustpilot • Designed cousinsbrand.com

• Hired by NY Giants icon Victor Cruz as Creative Director of his clothing brand.• Contemporary graphic driven streetwear concept.• Generated roughly 1.5M in sales over a 3 year period stocked in major retailers and smaller boutiques as well as a robust e-commerce business.

• Founded edgy streetwear lifestyle brand in 2004.• Marketed products with influential club promoters in NYC. • Gained major traction after we debuted the brand at the 2007 MAGIC tradeshow• Peaked at 80 retail accounts worldwide including Karmaloop, Zumiez, Up Against the Wall and Michael K.

• Brand that pioneered the ‘throwback’ jerseys in early 2000’s. • Designer - jackets, graphic t-shirts and hats. I worked closely with the Creative Director on seasonal collections for Stall & Dean as well as sub brands like Blue Route and Ivy League. • Valuable experience that inspired me to create Cousins Brand.

Conceived and mocked up Ads, designed Logos and collateral for Pharmaceutical Ad Agency.

Ba, Journalism/Fine Art

Bachelor'S Degree, Advertising