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Sr. Product Developer

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Apparel Production - 16 years professional experience heavy import & domestic
Product Development - 16 years professional experience heavy import and domestic
Purchasing - 2 years professional experience
Admin - 2 years professional experience
Experience managing a team of individuals with proven retention success
Microsoft Office suite: Outlook, Word, Excel. Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator
WebPDM, Oracle, EBA, SAP, ACS400, WinFashion, PTC Windchill FlexPLM

•	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

Product Developer

- In charge of implementing stringent testing standards and vendor audit program companywide
- Initial tech pack creation, maintaining product information and updating spec sheets accordingly
- Checking all measurement specifications and making fit comments to factory
- Trade show travel manufacturing sourcing
- Flat sketches in Illustrator
- Work closely with Sales/Customer on specific product developments
- Meet with trim/fabric vendors to source new innovative product
- Work closely with factory on developments, garment construction, costing etc...
- Constant overseas and domestic factory communication daily
- Oracle order tracking
- Lab dip approvals, Proto/PP sample approvals, TOP approvals in conjunction with fittings and with customer approval

Product Development Specialist

- Manage schedules and work load of six Purchasing Coordinators daily 
- Directly involved in selection, interview process, as well as hiring decisions for Coordinators
- Run weekly meetings between Domestic Sales Operations and Purchasing dept.
- Set up seasonal buy plan to determine factory moqs were met to place POs
- Heavy Excel use with V Lookups/Pivot tables
- Make sure to adhere to PO generation deadlines set by Management
- Set up reference sheet for all Retail Major accounts to make sure all special PO requirements were met
- Set up, reviewed/edited, approved ERP system training manuals created by the Purchasing team under my direction
- Distributing work assignments during seasonal buy periods, Prioritization setting, Handled personnel issues
- Work with Accounting department and Costing department to confirm any price discrepancies

Purchasing and PO Supervisor

- Interact with and monitor Design team on product development status 
- Complete style costing for Original/Revised/Final costing approval and communicate approvals to Planning department
- Sit in on fittings to better understand comments given as per tech design and to give production imput
- Work closely with Tech Design and Design on garment details to ensure best cost negotiating stance before sending to factory
- Work closely with fabric mills/garment vendors to insure that color approvals lab dip/bulk fabric are sent in a timely manner 
- Communicate daily with Planning/Merchandising/Sales to ensure on time compute and entry of units and finalizations
- Work closely with Tech Design to ensure garment comments went out on time and fit is to BCBG standards
- In charge of creating new style file for any reorder garments in WebPDM and updating BOM information
- Coordinate the efforts of Product Development with weekly meetings
- WIP production tracking with weekly report updating distributed company wide
- Prepare pre-cost information with best estimates of regular line costing to set reasonable wholesale costing
- Negotiate production costs with garment factory/fabric mill
- Weekly report updates for costing markup/ WIP/ product development

Production Supervising Coordinator

- Product Development for Men’s and Women’s Woven, Knits, and Sweaters in the import category from conception to salesman samples
- Communicated daily with overseas vendors and domestic agents to ensure on-time delivery of first prototypes and salesman samples
- Tracked design approvals for lab dips and trim approval to relay information to the vendors and various departments
- Maintained interoffice communication daily with Design, Tech Design, Production, and Merchandising
- Ordered and tracked all fabric/trim orders for salesman samples
- Developed apparel trim, including buttons, snaps, zipper pulls, etc. for all import styles with various trim vendors

Import Product Development Coordinator

- Communicated with overseas and domestic manufacturers on production and quality control issues 
- Received all overseas and domestic finished product 
- Handled all the details for successful import of 85% of company apparel 
- Tracked production TNAs from factory
- Created WIP report per season
- Directed all domestic production in three different local factories with daily communication and frequent visits with onsite inspections 
- Shipped to all wholesale customers worldwide and handled all company shipping in general 
- Invoiced all clients, heavy computerized purchase order entry, and maintained contact databases 
- Managed customer service, including return authorizations 
- Completed the collection costs

Assistant Manager, Production & Product Development

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

Antoinette Love

Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising