Melissa Mergaert Email & Phone Number

Carlsbad, California, United States

Carlsbad, California, United States

Men’s Outerwear & Layering

•Led team and cross-functional partners to deliver products that met quality and cost expectations, for products that proved to have high customer satisfaction through sales and product reviews. •Nurtured team recognition, celebrations, and achievements to continuously support company culture and happiness. •Managed & designed multiple programs simultaneously throughout the product life cycle, while meeting all expected deadlines, and supporting the execution of departmental initiatives and objectives. •Provided design expertise, and set trend direction for all managed programs, by interpreting global trends, and applying them in a way that made sense for our customer audience.

•Designed multiple overlapping programs from concept to creation, while managing sample comments, lab dip comments, costing, and developmental business shifts. •Managed team from 2-5 and designed for categories: Apparel, Home, Travel, Toys, Collars & Leashes and Accessories.•Proposed innovative, cost conscious solutions appropriate for the overall business and customer. •Presented all designs to cross-functional teams and leadership. •Traveled to overseas factories and China office for timely developmental decisions and material selections. •Collaborated exceptionally with sourcing, product development, packaging, and quality assurance, to ensure thoughtful product execution.

•Designed complete Bond & Co. Apparel collection from concept to creation, reviewing samples, fitting samples, lab dips, and creating and updating tech packs simultaneously.•Designed apparel, accessories, beds, and bowls for Owned Brands Reddy brand reviewing samples, fitting samples, lab dips, and creating and updating tech packs simultaneously.

Greater San Diego Area

•Communicated with factories: request samples, lab dips, and ensure all samples were sent on time. •Created all tech packs, with new designs: adding all garment specifications, branding information, and scale prints to achieve desired design. •Reviewed all samples, to assure specified measurements were met, within required tolerance. •Fit all new developed garments, propose necessary fit changes, and communicate updates to factories. •Maintained organization of all tech pack files, size charts, and copyright submit records.

Greater San Diego Area

•Analyzed sourcing, costing and plan development for most cost effective and target satisfying options •Developed and maintained tech packs •Managed production specification for all factories and agents •Communicated with oversees vendors •Reviewed and advised fit comments for protos, samples, and bulk production •Owned shipping and receiving of protos and all samples•Prepared presentations for collection overview •Developed line sheets and maintain all revisions •Performed Trend & Market Research •Worked closely with sales team on meeting customer’s needs and requests *Global Product Development for Taylormade Adidas Golf SS16 & FW16 & SS17.

*Design, Product Development, and Merchandising for Robert Talbott Inc. Fall 2015 & Spring 2016 Women's Collection.

Monterey, Ca

•Designed and developed complete women’s collections from concept to execution•Analyzed sourcing, costing and merchandising plan development for most cost effective and target satisfying options•Assisted with and maintained women’s merchandising assortment sheets •Developed and maintained all women’s tech packs•Managed production specification for all factories and agents•Communicated with oversees vendors and Italian sourcing partner daily•Reviewed and advised fit comments for all women’s protos, samples, and bulk production•Owned shipping and receiving of women’s protos and all samples•Updated Women’s sales immediate recaps•Prepared presentations for collection overview•Developed line sheets and maintain all revisions•Trained in company inventory control system•Researched trends through blogs and forecasting sights such as stylesight.com•Worked closely with sales team on meeting customer’s needs and requests•Traveled for Women’s shows and collection debuts•Traveled to Europe for Paris Premiere Vision & Italian factory meetings •Coordinated sales rep and photo shoot samples promptly and with urgency•Effectively met calendar dates and deadlines by monitoring details persistently and often

San Francisco Bay Area

•Engaged in customer satisfaction meetings with solution proposals•Trained at leather punching, pressing, and finishing equipment•Maintained accurate, current and complete email list•Performed quality control assessments on finished goods•Organized and sorted bills, statements and inventory slips•Packaged and received large mail orders

Associate Of Arts (Aa), Fashion/Apparel Design

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Business Administration (Marketing Concentration)