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Design Director

I am a designer of Men's and Women's footwear ranges that includes everything from conceptual fashion-forward footwear to price-driven mainstream footwear. I have years of footwear design, merchandising, and development experience and utilize that to design unique products that fit into any company. 


Specialties: Designing and creating forward thinking product that fits into the given market place while staying true to the companies ethos. 


• Set the creative direction for the brand after researching the entire men’s fashion world.
• Through visual presentations, trend boards, and material sourcing I brief executives as well
as the design team on new designs and initiatives.
• I manage a team of designers that assist with color ways, technical packages, special make up projects, and new designs to ensure all product designs meet the standards of the brand and project the current direction for the company.
• Managing entire SKU count for company through merchandising matrix by assessing current
and previous sales numbers; utilizing this data to inform everyone involved of the design direction for the company while pushing new creative ideas in the process.
• Also working with the marketing team to ensure all marketing assets meet company standards including campaign images, online presence, castings, collaborations, and tradeshow booths.

• Managed all aspects of footwear design from new shoe designs, material direction, color direction, to branding.
• Managed a team of three designers to complete all color cads and tech packs.
• Sourced overseas factories for production to meet seasonal deadlines and insured all footwear met company standards of quality.
• Collaborated with the development team on all technical aspects to create samples, source materials, come up with new and interesting footwear techniques.

Footwear Designer

• Led a full redesign of men and women’s footwear as lead designer for Circa Select, a lifestyle segment of C1rca.
o Breaking away from traditional active lifestyle, I utilized inspiration from current fashion and art to design product that infused the footwear with a more contemporary fashion appeal. o Set a new precedence with the Circa Select line by sourcing new materials, colors, and patterns for every season to incorporate an expansive, fresh boldness to the line.
o Worked closely with the apparel team in order to merchandise with them to form a cohesive collection.
• My design process began by hand-sketching every piece and then completed them in Illustrator.
• Completed all designs and technical packages for men’s and women’s for the development team before every deadline.
• In addition to the Circa Select line responsibilities, I designed all of C1rca’s collaboration footwear which included working with special retail stores, online and catalog distributors, artists, musicians

Manage all intake of sample designs and distribute to design team.
Work with design team on sample approval and management in PLM system.
Distribute samples to all corresponding sales representatives on time.

Sample Coordinator 

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