Golf

Fashion

Fishing

Lifestyle

Outdoor

Skate

Snow

Streetwear

Surf

Tech

PRODUCTION MANAGER

Offering a technical outerwear background, including workwear and lifestyle. I have traveled to Asia, working with mills, and traveled both domestically and internationally for manufacturing. A creative, collaborative, problem solver, who can wear many hats.

Walmart, Kohls, Sams Club, Fred Meyer, Wrangler, Target, GS Private Label, and Licensed Brands

At production handoff to the factory, responsible for strike-off reviews, lab dip and fabric approvals, and spec/fit reviews.  Manage all bulk fabric, buyer approval samples, pre-production, and production sample submits for Consumer Testing Labs (CTL) as per retailer testing requirements.  Trouble-shoot testing failures with the factories to ensure products pass CTL testing at all stages.  Conduct internal testing to compare against CTL testing results.  Cross check PO against factory submits for garment packing, carton markings, UPC stickers, and hangtags for bulk, replenishment, and dotcom orders.  Book and review all BV audits to confirm back to the factory for on-time shipping.  Trouble-shoot any failed audits.  Implemented WIP report per factory to track greige, dye, cut, print, sew, and pack quantities per PO by style to confirm factory handover, XFTY, and LDP dates, reporting weekly production status to execs and logistics teams.  Ship samples to retailer buying teams, photo studios, and internal teams as needed throughout the production process. 

Mens Outerwear Lifestyle, Technical Outerwear, Fish/Hunt, Workwear, Bottoms, SMU; Women's Tech/Lifestyle Outerwear

Partner with design to complete sketch and style detail handoff sheets prior to handoff to development and technical design teams. Coordinate with overseas vendors and planning on finish good deliverables, calendar timelines, and purchasing on raw material deliverables. Create and manage bill of materials throughout development and production timelines. Create preliminary garment target costs at early stages of development and manage garment cost through production to meet targeted margins. Work closely with technical design on proper garment execution to achieve design direction through production stage. Partner with domestic and international vendors and suppliers to source materials for technical and lifestyle woven's fabrics, technical knits, and trims.

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Mens and Womens Technical Snow/Ski Outerwear, Mid Layer, Base Layer, and Mountain Bike:

Accountable for direct leadership of Technical Design and Product Development in execution of Dakine's development process for spring and fall seasons reporting to VP of Product. Managed $6.5MIL sales volume through FW17 season for all categories. Work closely with Product Line Managers to analyze line plan goals, garment feature packages, and design goals in order to successfully strategize factory allocation and margin goals for the season. Guided design and development teams through garment price negotiations, sampling and product approvals, material development, and fit and construction analysis. Created and managed all development calendars, efficiently driving deadlines and on-time deliverables. Established, evaluated, and managed domestic and foreign supplier and vendor relations. Partnered with the sourcing team in Asia to source long term partners to support long term growth. Worked closely with production, procurement, and merchandising teams to create policies, processes, and procedures for successful internal and external communications. Worked closely with procurement on the Vendor Compliance manual, standardizing garment labeling for all apparel categories. Managed fabric sourcing for technical woven's and knits, managed all print development, SMS material buying, material testing standards, costing, and deliverables.  Managed seasonal development costs and team travel costs for budget reporting.

APPAREL DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR

Mens and Womens Technical Snow/Ski Outerwear - FW13 through FW17

Implemented the Dakine Outerwear Standard Construction Manual. Created the tech pack template, feature coding system, and master bill of materials used in conjunction with the manual. Created the Dakine Outerwear Development and Technical Design Internal Procedure Manual. Created and managed the development calendar and deadlines to vendors. Responsible for managing all development from concept to finished product. Reviewed all prototypes, salesman samples, and pre-production samples against bill of materials and tech packs with technical designer and designer to meet target FOB. Created seasonal gross profit reports including net profit forecasts based on garment buys and target vendor MOQ's. Studied US, EU, and Canada regulations to effectively build compliant care lables. Built catalog feature call-outs and layout, fabric specifications, and main hang tag specifications. Sourced and developed Dakine branded trims while partnering with graphic teams and design. Managed fabric sourcing for technical woven's and knits, managed all print development, negotiated prices, managed lab dips and SMS material deliverables.

PRODUCT DEVELOPER

Mens, Women's, and Kids: Disney, Lids, Bakerboys, Spencer's, Tilly's, Boeing, Young and Reckless, and Emotion

Sourced the client's design ideas to overseas vendors and determined the best calendar timelines in order to meet requested delivery dates. Negotiated internal costs provided by vendors in order to meet the company's specific target price to sell back to the client. Managed the development process from the first prototype to the top of production sample for sunglasses and accessories. Created technical sketches with specifications and trim menus for overseas manufacturing. Ensured all CPSIA and Prop 65 guidelines were met.

Independent Contractor:  NIKE

Merchandised men's and women's product based on merchandising standards and planograms for Nike. Submitted neat and accurate reports by specific deadlines, including daily activity logs with before and after photos of projects. Maintained a good rapport with department employee personnel and collaborated on retail space merchandising. Educated staff on new merchandise with goal of increasing sales. Traveled domestically to assist with Nike installs at large sporting good department stores with the Winston Nike merchandising team. Assisted with Graham & Gunn custom suiting events throughout the Los Angeles and Orange County area in California.

SENIOR MERCHANDISER

Cycling Apparel

Interpreted clients visions into graphics that fit the cycling industry for their sponsored teams. Studied layouts, proposed illustration sketches and other related materials in order to become familiar with assignments. Contributed to the creative process to help determine style and technique that best suited the desired results while conforming with pre-production requirements and pattern specifications. Utilized Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to make a project executable for a screen-print or digital print to sublimation. Monitored art through the process of creating a customer sample, print sample, and cut sample prior to production. Analyzed art from orders and made appropriate adjustments to existent art so the file would be print ready.

PRODUCTION / GRAPHIC ARTIST

Mens Technical Snow/Ski Outerwear and Mountain Bike

Collaborated with the design team in the early stages of design during reviews of flat sketches and vendor costs. Managed the development process from first prototype through top of production sample. Established quality standards for vendor sourced materials for internal garment builds. Managed bill of materials for both technical outerwear and mountain bike. Communicated comments on strike-offs and graphics to fabric mills. Attended fittings and documented all changes for distribution to the design and development team. Troubleshooted vendor design interpretation through proto-type fittings. Tracked all samples, tested fabrics, lab dips, repeat prints, logos and graphics, and vendor sourced materials. Worked with the research and development team to test the quality and characteristics of all materials used. Communicated with overseas vendors to track product deliverables.

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