• Servicing a hand full of contracted clients in the merchandising industry. From research to customer engagement I provide a full line of design services to help companies manage their creative process. • Elevating product conversations by adding out of box thinking to deliver a more non-traditional design solution to their product needs.• Providing companies/brands with identities and guides that help them drive their brand promise to their consumers. • Helping overseas factories build identities to help them sell their companies as brands.• Designing and Building on trend merchandising for companies that need new and fresh ideas in their industry.• Helping companies see the whole business from a design and creative perspective. From color choices to content creation everything is looked at from a holistic point of view with my clients.

• Focused on all new and existing creative services for Apex International Footwear.• Collaborating with many teams to help drive their corporate brand and product initiatives.• Working with international offices to help design and develop on trend footwear of all types. • Providing a design and product resource for brands needing an extra creative push in their footwear categories. Not only do we have a great team of designers we can also produce the products with very competitive costing in mind. • Very passionate about the creative process and customer service. Hit me up if you would like to bring a footwear line to your current brand assortment or just need a little help with your existing footwear needs.

• Manage and direct all private label package design projects for Anthem's Wal-Mart account.• Work with building client relations between cross functional teams with in Wal-Mart's food and consumable categories.• Help creative direct multiple Anthem agencies through writing detailed creative briefs and job details by project.• Present/deliver brand relevant design strategies to merchants and marketing that fill the need of individual projects.• Work with suppliers to make sure all dielines and production details are in line with all design needs and vice versa.

• Delivered market trend/color research along with design direction for Habit™ and Kings River™ Hunting Apparel and Accessories. • Traveled US market to support product categories by analyzing trending details with-in the outdoor industry.• Helped create and drive innovation in each product assortment by developing new fabrics, trims and technical features each season.• Set up development strategies to get executive approval before any development takes place.• Responsible for all brand and design development after strategies where set.• Oversaw all product design communications between Mahco US & Mahco International.• Designed and maintained all art for product branding, development and packaging.• Managed “The Perfect Fit” for apparel by overseeing the fit process from initial development to final production.• Addressed fit opportunities through fit reviews and on going communication with multiple manufactures. • Responsible for following all fit and testing procedures for many outdoor retailers: Bass Pro, Cabela’s, Sportsman’s Warehouse, Dicks, REI, Maurice, Wal-Mart, Sam’s and K-mart • Manage all outside design resources to execute corporate strategies for many Mahco product lines. From packaging to product execution I help look for the best quality work for the best price when needed.

• Specializing in Product Design and In Store Communications.• Partnered with companies to establish new products and identities that are inline with their future objectives.• Bought product, packaging and in store presentations to life using 3D and 2D software.• Maintained all daily task for the business. Quoting, Invoicing and managing all outside resources to help execute projects when needed. • Kept track of all contracts, with suppliers, individual contractors and major retailers.

• Designed athletics and hikers for all gender categories for first year. Moved into Sr. role taking on additional responsibilities of the team within the second year. • Managed and delegated annual workload of over 23 categories of footwear and accessories of private label brands among five category managers.• Designed footwear and other consumer products through ideation sketching, Photoshop renderings, and photo-realistic modeling.• Conducted Individual evaluations on all managers • Maintained all hiring responsibilities for the design team • Was responsible for meeting package drop dates and maintaining accurate product sampling and integrity of designs being translated by import factories.• Designed and managed the development of backpacks for back-to-school season (4 years).Traveled to Orient to work side by side with suppliers on the detailing and development of samples. • Facilitated upper management product reviews for New York & Bentonville

• Designed athletics and hikers for all gender categories for first year. Moved into Sr. role taking on additional responsibilities of the team within the second year. • Managed and delegated annual workload of over 23 categories of footwear and accessories of private label brands among five category managers.• Designed footwear and other consumer products through ideation sketching, Photoshop renderings, and photo-realistic modeling.• Conducted Individual evaluations on all managers • Maintained all hiring responsibilities for the design team • Was responsible for meeting package drop dates and maintaining accurate product sampling and integrity of designs being translated by import factories.• Designed and managed the development of backpacks for back-to-school season (4 years).Traveled to Orient to work side by side with suppliers on the detailing and development of samples. • Facilitated upper management product reviews for New York & Bentonville

• Designed ads for local businesses • Brainstormed with customers to get overall feeling of the product & art needed • Designed promotional booklets• Designing logos, t-shirts, brochures & marketing kits