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Consultation services catered to experimental product, interior, and fashion designers. Clients include fashion brands, artists, architects, and wearable tech start-ups.• Work with clients to specify and source textiles---new and antique---for finished goods production.• Manage all projects from initiation to completion, including assessment and quote, execution, timely delivery, and billing.

New York, Ny, Us

Managed operational functions of the Master’s degree program, directly supporting two C-level Program Directors, 10 Faculty, 20 contract employees, and 32 students.• BUDGET: Planned and tracked annual program budget including operation expenses, contract employee salary, and special events.• STAFF: Hire, schedule, and supervise a roster of 20-25 specialized contract employees, including models, pattern cutters, tailors, and equipment mechanics.• SCHEDULING: Schedule department meetings, student onboarding, weekly critiques, guest lectures, and weekly fit models from NY agencies. • SPACE MANAGEMENT: Manage and book conference rooms, lecture halls, and auditoriums on campus for standard operation and special events.• VENDOR RELATIONS: Cultivate and maintain positive working relationships with external industry partners, including vendors, sponsors, and collaborators.• INDUSTRY RELATIONS: Coordinate site visits to leading design houses, factories, and showrooms within NYC, Brooklyn, and New Jersey.• EQUIPMENT & INVENTORY: Oversee equipment and supply inventories for the program’s studio spaces, which included a cut-and-sew factory of 42 industrial machines and a suite of 12 industrial knitting machines, occupying a full factory floor off Union Square. • SAFETY: Maintain standards of safe facilities operation as prescribed by The New School and Director of Buildings, including bi-annual trainings for emergency preparedness and response.

New York, Ny, Us

Managed the Specialty Construction Lab which operated as a resource hub supporting experimental prototyping across 8 unique design programs in Parsons.• WORKFLOW SYSTEMS: Initiated and developed necessary resource systems---a supply store with POS, tool lending services, etc.--- for students and faculty. • STAFF: Train and supervise a staff of 15 Student Technicians in customer service, and safe & proper equipment usage to support daily operations.• INDUSTRY RELATIONSHIPS: Established a material donations & distribution program with external fashion and interior design professionals, amounting to approximately $50,000 in material donations distributed to students and design programs within 2 years.

New York, New York, Us

Cultivated textile collection for internationally-acclaimed architecture, planning, and design firm. Supported textile needs across all design teams, projects, and luxury retail clients. • Specified and developed custom textiles with vendors, mills, and artisans (embroiderers, hand weavers, etc.) for residential and luxury commercial retail clients, primarily Dior, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Fendi, and Bulgari.• Liaised between vendors and internal interior and architectural design teams, sourcing and bringing in new vendors as needed.• Curated internal sample reference library, which included currently available and custom textile, leather, carpet, and rug samples, as well as 30+ years of prior project development and vendor samples, notes, and records.• Managed archive library of antique textile, rug, and wallpaper samples and documentation for inspiration, adaptation, and use by design teams.• Maintained inventory records and re-strategized warehouse storage of all textile stock belonging to PMA, by implementing routine collection of surplus project materials for use on future projects. This initiative led to over $200,000 in profit from fabric ends within three years.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Managed collection of 30,000 design objects including jewelry, fashion, and textiles ranging from 6000 BCE to present-day.• Oversaw all specialty storage facilities, including monitoring daily environmental stats, best-practice preservation storage, record-keeping, and data entry adhering to institutional and industry standards.• Performed conservation treatments on collection textiles, accessories, and garments for preservation, photography, and exhibition.• Wrote conservation and treatment reports, and entered into the TMS data tracking platform.• Supervised a team of four department volunteers, including University of Cincinnati students interning for program credit.• Represented the institution when traveling for art accompaniment duties, including security and safe transport of the high-value property of the Museum and affiliated lenders.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Art History & Fine Arts

Master'S Degree, Abd, Fashion & Textiles Studies