Fashion

Lifestyle

Moto & Powersports

Outdoor

Yoga

Camping

Travel

Hiking

Beach

Boating

Comedy

Trend Analyst

Driven by a commitment to the customer
and seeking a position to build on my
experience in active and lifestyle apparel. 

Focuses on business growth and
increasing revenue through innovation,
brand development,
and meeting customer needs.

Approaches design with enthusiasm and a
collaborative attitude.

Reinforces ideas with market research
and sales while experimenting
with color, print and trend.

Innovates new fabric
qualities while controlling cost and
leveraging within each season.

Travel experience includes
factory and vendor meetings
in China and Hong Kong; 
trend research in Paris, London,
New York City, Miami and Portland;
customer research in
Nashville and Washougal
for Motocross Championships.

-Creates seasonal mood boards, color palettes, and trend packets for the buying team.
-Categories include apparel, footwear, accessories, home, and intimates. 
-Collaborates and consults with buyers to finalize assortments.
-Researches market to report on merchandising, marketing and key items. 
-Reports on key influencers and social media strategies. 

Tops, Active, Dresses, Sweaters
-Successfully launched women’s active category. Bookings started strong  and continue to gain momentum. 
-Elevated the women’s lifestyle product by creating a versatile assortment. 
-Increased sales by evolving core product and key items. 
-Responsible for entire design process for above categories - initial concept, customer identification, color palette, fabric development and innovation, designing and sketching styles, assorting and placing graphics, tech packs, hitting target margins, all stages of fittings, and presenting at sales meetings.
-Managed an Assistant Designer.

Senior Designer

Knits, Dresses, Sweaters, Athleisure
-Increased sales in athleisure and tanks, beat plan by 31%. 
-Managed Assistant Designer, guided her growth and promoted her to Associate Designer.
-Improved execution of samples by coordinating new processes and communication with overseas vendors.
 -Styled photoshoots and created trend boards to communicate seasonal trends to our stores.

Designer

Designer - Love Your Style (2011)
Associate Designer - Inked & Faded (2008- 2010)
Associate Designer - Apostrophe (2008 - 2010)
Assistant Designer - Petites, Metaphor (2006 - 2008)

-Designed all categories (including knits, wovens, denim, sweaters, dresses)  for both career and casual brands.
-Responsible for all PDM linesheets.
-Managed CAD team to create cohesive print stories. 
-Spearheaded trend presentations to educate buyers.

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