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Freelance Product developer

Talented, enthusiastic fashion product development professional with a strong hands-on experience in forecasting, marketing analysis, design, garment construction, pattern, trim and fabric sourcing, costing, CAD technical sketches, art works, line sheet, and screen printing.

Responsible for developing key item products based on sales data and current trends. Developed and managed a T&A calendar for meeting a deadline of each season and promotional project. Sourced fabric, washes, and trims and built a color, print, trim and fabric board for design and merchandising team. Directly worked with a head merchandiser, buyers,a production supervisor, and art director, a head designer, and technical designers to build balanced seasonal product assortments. Created tech-packs and communicated with overseas and domestic vendors to produce prototypes. Directed product fittings and provided revision notes to technical designers to create production ready samples. Forecasted new trends and researched competitors in the market as well as collected data from sales.

Senior Product Developer

Lead and mentored production and buying team members and managed relationships with over 50 overseas and domestic vendors. Monitored and assessed their performance to meet consistent product quality and superior margins through negotiation. Managed production in all apparel categories in all areas of production stages requiring costing, sourcing, testing, fitting, approvals of color, and quality. Partnered with design, merchandising, logistic, QC, distribution center, technical design, and legal. Counter-sourced and provided options to design and merchandising team where necessary to ensure global margin goals are attainable for production execution.

Apparel Production Supervisor and Domestic buyer

*Contributed design and fashion suggestions to a creative department via brainstorming session and line planning
*Created a seasonal presentation board and tech-packs
* Managed the delivery and quality of prototypes, sales samples, and final T.O.Ps.
* Troubleshoot production or cost issues with design through entire development and production process.
*Organized and planned sample fabrics, trims, and washes.
*Developed and managed a T&A calendar for meeting a dead line of each project.
* Worked with an art designers, sourcing department, technical designers, and a production manager to approve quality of product line within a targeted price.
*Communicated and negotiated with overseas vendors on a daily basis.
* Traveled to China to develop seasonal lines.

Merchandising & Product development

* Assisted with pre-production and production for the "Roxy", "Hot topic" and "Kowboys" labels.
* Managed design and delivery of a new product line for company brand " Rock Anthem".

Account coordinator and company brand product developer

*Assisted a head designer in trend board, line sheet, tech-pack, fitting and sampling proto type for seasonal line.
* Monitored time and action calendar for in-house pre-production and production.

Assistant Designer - Men and Women's screen T-shirts and sportswear

*Assisted a merchandiser, a creative director, and designers in producing samples, generating new product ideas, organizing fabric charts and production sheets, illustrating sketches and creating presentation boards.

Women's dress Assistant designer Intern

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Pearl You: Freelance Product developer in Redondo Beach, CA

Pearl You

IZ & CO

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Forever 21

MEK Denim

Mydyer

Jake's dry Goods

Lapis

Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising

University of Incheon