Fashion

Lifestyle

Outdoor

Skate

Snow

Streetwear

Surf

Yoga

Health & Fitness

Sustainability

Highly skilled, development professional with twenty years of experience in global manufacturing.
Strong team leader and project manager with a talent for problem solving, gaining cooperation among stakeholders and delivering a quality product on time and within budget.


• Elevated product development team to improve processes, optimize tools and promote cross functional collaboration
• Mentored team members and managed workload through prioritization and delegation
• Implemented cost processes and predictive costing tool increasing first cost accuracy and streamlining cost transparency across global supply chain
• Transitioned 90% of material components to be nominated allowing for ability to pivot in the face of global trade issues and unprecedented demand volatility
• Fit innovation task force member/leader for core block and inclusive sizing relaunch; executing wear tests for 250 ambassadors
• Manage the identification of garment construction, material allocation and product functionality that supports product directives
• Drive innovation and operational support in new product categories
• Create and execute Go to Market Calendar, mitigating risk to supply chain disruptions

Senior Director of Product Development

• Managed style development process from concept to commercialization.
• Analyzed vendor database and integrated responsible supply chain based on vendor
strengths, region, and capacity
• Increased profitability through fabric platforming
• Partnered with vendors to problem solve development and production issues through clear
communication and leveraging vendor expertise
• Oversaw Tech department; built and implemented SOP, led weekly fit sessions
• Created “Concept to Consumer” mapping strategy for clear calendar milestone management
• Drive innovation and sustainability initiatives through material development and vendor collaboration. (Ex #1 performing boardshort, The Apex)
• Attend trade shows such as Outdoor Retailer
• Launched Women’s collection with 100% preferred fibers

Director of Product Development

• Promoted several times during tenure
• Strategized to deliver design’s vision at the required price point.
• Re-engineered styles when necessary to hit margin
• Anticipate and creatively solve potential quality issues.
• Action lab and wear testing; report findings and suggest call to action to team leads • Managed relationships with vendors including quarterly international travel
• Analyze season data and report metrics of margin, budget, and adoption ratio
• Drove cost negotiations to ensure target margin goals were achieved
• Attend Market Adoption meetings. Report revisions to cross functional teams

• Coordinate approvals for all all fabric/wash/trim/color details between design and vendors • Communicate with manufacturers to produce garment prototypes and showroom samples
• Update and maintain PLM

Product Developer

• Supervise sample room and organize workflow for patternmakers, sewers, cutters, technical designers, and dye house coordinator
• Manage the execution and timing of prototypes and salesman samples

Sample Room Coordinator

• Created and maintain design boards
• Create and distribute line sheets
• Coordinate and distribute salesman samples
• Coordinate lab dip requests; track approvals with local dyehouses
• Test fabrics for shrinkage and publish results to patternmaking team • Maintain styles in apparel database

Design Assistant

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