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• Specializes in design and development—from concept to launch—of men’s, women’s, and youth winter-season outerwear, outdoor apparel, and technical mid-layer fleece. Manage all design details, construction standards.
• Traveled to Taiwan office to facilitate communication within the facility and ensure price targets and produce delivery promises were met.
• Designed styles that were number-one sellers for certain categories, most ahead of the trends. Some styles received awards for "Skier’s Choice" from Powder Magazine.

Gardena, CA

• Managed product creation cycle, including development of a comprehensive calendar document for outerwear and accessories timelines. Collaborated with management teams to develop long term product development, in depth.
• Established and implemented departmental policies and objectives, such as BOM’s to reduce costing and construction standards documents for in-house and factory teams.
• Managed a dynamic team of 5 creative and technical professionals.

Seattle, WA

• Led the global creative design direction and development process for multiple product lines. Created design briefs for new and revised silhouettes, fabric and material selection, desired fit, target pricing, and.
• Frequently handled product presentations for global sales meetings, developmental planning meetings, executive line reviews, and retail feedback meetings.
• Managed a creative team of 4 highly skilled individuals, working as liaison between differing needs and responsibilities.
• Achieved #3 overall market position for Ride and Cappel outerwear in the snowboard-specific outerwear category.
• Grew margins by 7% in one year by finding solutions to reduce costs of products.

Preston, WA

• Technical development in creating and maintaining garment specification packs for development prototypes, sales samples and production.
• Approved color lab dips and printed fabrics.
• Created and updated outerwear collection overview for presentations.
• Participated in the development sample review process through all phases of development, offering suggestions and solutions for complex constructions and problem areas with special attention to fit, function and.
• Evaluated all development prototypes, sales samples, and production garments for accurate measurements, fabric/color placements, trim placements, fit measurements and other feature details.
• Communicated specifications with factory for changes/corrections and ongoing development.

Preston, WA

• Created various product related documents and maintained tech specs.
• Coordinated bulk sales samples allocations for US sales reps, product and marketing.
• Created and updated outerwear collection overview for presentations.
• Assembled swatch cards.
• Assisted in glove and accessories development.

Fort Richardson, Alaska