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Nashville, Tennessee, United States

+Collaborate with product development team to create and develop products that meet product briefs, brand vision, & target cost for multiple brands of men's footwear. +Design collections including outsoles, patterns, components by way of illustrations, technical drawings, & spec sheets. +Provide design packages directly to manufacturing partners with coordination of developers. +Initiate sample requests by working closely with developers; review prototypes and direct modifications as needed throughout the development cycle. +Participate in consumer/product research, seasonal concept planning meetings, & design presentations. +Participate in material research to define and source on a seasonal basis.

Mount Juliet, Tennessee, United States

+ Responsible for the overall operations, customer experience, and execution of brand excellence in the store. + Responsible for maximizing sales and profits of the store while also maintaining an exceptional level of customer service by developing strong store shift leaders and employees. + Maximize profits through effective cost control, staff scheduling, inventory management, and ordering.+ Demonstrate concrete knowledge of the POS system and ability to utilize functions to better support sales and labor costs.+ Follow proper cash-handling policies and procedures and ensure they are followed by all employees. + Execute opening and closing administrative duties consistently and accurately.+ Adhere to all company food safety guidelines and operational policies and procedures while ensuring all team members are in compliance as well.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

•Work with team to develop Dockers & Lucky Brand footwear product lines, with focus on specific brand markets and pricing.•Design and develop patterns and outsoles. Including outsole compound selection and construction, pattern making and design, pattern correction, last selection, development and corrections. •Select and detail leather and textiles for upper construction. Knowledge in upper leathers and finishes.•Develop and organize technical design spec sheets and line drawings for international factory (PIM)development and production.•Manage development process, communicating with international factories, issuing corrections, approving: patterns, details, notions and final samples and spec sheets. •Continued management of line development traveling internationally to oversee and confirm all lasts, out soles, patterns, materials, components and fit for market presentations and production.•Execute trend research and analysis studying media, publications and shopping local and international markets.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

•Assist the design team with various tasks including trend research, design presentation, technical specification creation and color selection.•Design collections including hand sketches, illustrations, and technical drawings utilizing Adobe Illustrator.•Develop drawings of outer designs of productions, complementing engineering, marketing, production and sales departments.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

•Assist in routine project activities as shipping, filing, and copying.•Maintain and organize confirmation samples.•Develop and maintain technical specifications for each productworking with designers

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

• Handled customer inquiries, complaints, billing questions, and payment extensions/request for Journey's, Lids, & Converse. • Demonstrated sense of urgency in busy retail call center environment.• Successfully diffused volatile customer situations using problem-solving and active listening techniques which maintained or won customer loyalty. • Assisted online customers for Journey's, Lids & Converse, selling their products while offering suggestions, answering customer questions, and providing consultations.• Consistently generated additional revenues utilizing thorough product knowledge and friendly sales techniques to up-sell product specials and complementary items.• Successfully met and exceeded sales quotas.

Textiles, Merchandising And Design, Apparel Design

Activities and Societies: 2009 TXMD Fashion Show 2011 TXMD Fashion Show

Education record

Footwear Workshop in collaboration with Two Ten - Boston, MA