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Los Angeles, CA, US

Los Angeles, California, United States

Vertically integrated design agency providing footwear and apparel from idea to conception. Designed and developed footwear and apparel across many price points, in APAC and EU, including sport, casual, dress, cement, vulcanized, skate, running, trail, boots, sandals, and heels for a wide variety of markets, genders, and lifestyle categories.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Managed the entire supply chain and product development lifecycle for footwear, apparel, and plastic goods. Improving efficiency within the supply chain process to reduce lead time and friction. Providing clients with full lifecycle service from manufacturer selection to delivery to warehouse.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Led a team to design, develop, produce, and deliver a new line of footwear for MARCUS ALEXANDER. Manage phases of design for all genders and categories ranging from skate, casual, sandals, nautical, boots, and fashion. Produce concept sketches, material specifications, tech packs, renderings, and component drawings. Oversee the execution of SEO, SEM.

Oakland, California, United States

Lead Instructor for Explore Your Idea and Go-To-Market Strategy for Early Stage Entrepreneurs across 8 cohorts. Delivered a curriculum that taught students how to build empathetic businesses while integrating user research.

New York, New York

Directed the design of footwear and accessories for multiple Levi's & Bass lifestyle categories, launching over 1,500 SKUS and growing the category to over $60M in annual revenue. Design development and sampling for many brands (Pony, Etonic, Phat Farm, Baby Phat, Mountain Gear, Walmart) by collaborating with overseas factories and suppliers to create and.

Greater New York City Area

Lead designer for Levi’s across multiple lifestyle categories. Design development, sampling for Levi’s, Phat Farm and Pony. Create detailed technical packages, including material specifications, trim, CAD packages, color details, style, and pricing. Responsible for overseas development, including last, materials and outsoles.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Create new season samples, patterns, and style development for a multi-million dollar product line by collaborating with a small team to select materials, design, and develop the product.
• Conceptualized, designed, and developed accessories for bags, backpacks, belts, footwear, hats, and wallets, by collaborating with design, merchandising, and production teams.
• Created detailed CADs and technical drawings of the accessories and modified designs to meet production needs.
• Provide factories with technical drawings and design modifications of components and materials to produce prototypes.
• Spearheaded sales of the new accessory lines of the company, resulting in a 40% increase in sales of accessories.
• Used current market trends, color palettes, trim selection, and materials to create engaging designs.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Attended 3D design workshop with Lead Nike 3D designer
• Blogged for Nice Kicks. http://bit.ly/1CNTaRD
• Color, Material and Finishing workshop with Jordan Brand Materials designer
• Created logo, branding and marketing strategy for sub-brand of PONY
• Designed sneaker for the multi-faceted man that lives in the city but loves the outdoors.
• Presented to panel of 10 industry veterans, live streamed on YouTube.

Los Angeles, CA

• Assist with color and materials with trend boards, market research, and graphic direction.
• Sourcing with component suppliers, leather agents, leather suppliers, and shoe factories.
• Design men’s capsule footwear line for Fall 2014
• Execute footwear design line art, detailing, and technical packages in Adobe Illustrator.
• General administrative duties to include client follow-ups, inventory organization, maintaining studio space, ordering supplies, shipping, etc.
• Sit in on business development, design and new client meetings.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Support Creative Director in ideation, sketching, conceptualization, and presentation.
• Source materials and fittings

• Analyzed financial performance metrics in CRM, Crystal, Excel, PFIN, Opsmart and Salesforce, and reported findings in weekly presentations to the executive team.
• Monitored and analyzed monthly operation results against budget to identify areas of improvement. Collaborated with cross-functional teams on tasks such as process design, project management, and financial analysis to.
• Improved operations by analyzing metrics from employee feedback questionnaires, communication audits, market analysis, and need assessments.
• Reduced contract renewal risk by ensuring that delivery of licenses coincides with contractual allowances for Content Providers, Government, International, K-12, North America Higher Education and Professional Education.
• Improved process efficiency by 45% and reduced revenue recognition steps by 50%, resulting in faster recognition and higher accuracy rate.
• Generated detailed analytics to monitor customer satisfaction and assisted in developing root-cause analysis and problem-solving initiatives.

• Conducted extensive research and performed casework for constituents, interest groups and legislative committees.
• Served as an advocate for constituents in the Illinois Congressional District, by answering constituent case inquiries, conducting case follow-ups, and documenting actions taken, in order to increase community support.
• Assisted the Congressman and staff in responding to constituent inquiries via phone, email, and live chat; drafted emails and letters; monitored hearings and conducted research; and performed general office operations.
• Analyzed bills, compiled data on voting records, and closely tracked and reported on congressional activities to determine impact on constituents.
• Assisted in the development of policy recommendations, drafted memos to advise staff and completed research projects.

• Aggregated liability input files, formula database files, and run control files in the ALFA modeling environment to forecast multiple projection models into a single Life Insurance model, utilizing the ALFA scripting.
• Automated predictive insurance analytics, alphanumeric data merging processes & loss reserving forecasting for efficient reserve analysis.
• Successfully improved response rate by 25% by conducting market research to measure the effectiveness of marketing, advertising, and communication strategies used to attract a younger talent base.
• Designed surveys and tracked compensation offered by competitors to graduating seniors; compiled information and analyzed the correlation between compensation and brand building strategy.
• Performed SWOT analysis to collect and analyze data on student demographics, needs, preferences and job decision factors to identify brand awareness deficiencies.
• Conducted a brand awareness and compensation study in the New York metro area (N=1000) to analyze the possible factors that influence young professionals’ employment decisions.

Associate'S Degree, Footwear Design

World Sneaker Championship

PENSOLE is an innovative Footwear Design Academy created to provide students the opportunity and knowledge required to become a.

Ipensole Completion, Footwear Design, N.A

PENSOLE is an innovative Footwear Design Academy created to provide students the opportunity and knowledge required to become a.

Leather Technology

Leather Symposium University of Northampton Leather Technology Centre

Bachelor, Business Administration; Actuary Science L Interest; Finance

International Baccalaureate