Antoinette Love: Sr. Product Developer in Los Angeles, CA

• Manage the Product Development Assistant through training, mentoring and delegating responsibilities • Work closely with the Senior Designer, Technical Designer and Merchant to execute production to calendar milestones set at expected company margins • Attend weekly fittings with Design and Technical Design to insure factory is moving through fitting stages correctly and on time • Heavy calendar maintenance and tracking to hit expected milestones in development process • Responsible for on time delivery for mainline, SMU and Wholesale accounts including Ross, Costco, and TJ Maxx • Working with a wide variety of product including men’s and women’s active and lifestyle categories as well as main developer for all legging and bra programs, cut and sew knits, fleece, french terry, and seamless product • Develop all trims including hang tags, woven labels, tear away labels, logo labels and zipper developments • Communicate regularly with factories overseas working through raw material developments, fabric sourcing and garment cost negotiation as well as BOM accuracy updates and order tracking • Continuously training new team members on processes and procedures as well company policies • Travel to factories both overseas and domestically to work through cost negotiations and better production execution

• Work closely with the Designer, Technical Designer and Merchant to execute fabric and fit requirements at expected company margins • Heavy cost negotiation with factories and nominated trim and fabric suppliers • Heavy fabric development with fabric mills and factory sourcing • Heavy data entry in PTC Windchill PLM system and internal Compass line sheet system. • Working with wide variety of product including men’s and women’s in active and lifestyle categories • Communicated with factories for samples, production progress and raw material developments • Review and share tech packs and BOMs from PTC Windchill FlexPLM with factories at each stage of garment development • Attend weekly fittings with Design and Technical Design to insure factory is moving through production process correctly • Submission of all trims, fabric, and garment developments to Design for approval • WIP reporting updates and data tracking for Management weekly