Sandra Bledsoe Email & Phone Number

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.

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.

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.

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