Cristina Hull Kunz: Designer/ Product Developer Gift and Home in Corona, CA

- Manage entire product cycle from initial design concept and color through production - Communicate concepts and direction seasonally to marketing and e-com to create in-store, mailer and web marketing to ensure a cohesive shopping experience for the customer - Doubled sales in primary categories by identifying trends and sales to expand and maximize products and assortments - Developed a SOP for CPSIA testing and QC requirements - Analyze competitors costing and relevant products to remain current - Travel domestically to ensure we are reaching the needs of each store as well as as well as travel internationally - Maintain VLPs and WIP reports to communicate states and delivery on all projects

- PLM administrator and Product Integrity/Compliance Committee Member - Manage the workloads of each developer in the Accessories pod and adjust style counts according to individual strengths and the needs of the pod per season - Create, Update and Follow T&A calendars to meet development and production deadlines - Managed and developed Colab and SMU projects including: Monster, Red Bull, Rockstar, Tilly’s and Pac Sun - Worked with design pre-handoff to expedite sourcing needs while creating bottom up costing to confirm that each product hits targets at initial handoff stage - Review and negotiate each style by style along side the responsible developer - Correspond with facilities to guarantee that design/ concept of each and every style is brought to life as envisioned by design, marketing and merchandising - Conduct Fit meetings to ensure fit and quality

- Assisted and Created initial Design CADS and tech packs - Maintained relations with factory overseas to meet deadlines - Traveled abroad quarterly to manage sample line in time for market - Assisted in the entire garment process from initial design to production

- Assisted with creating and updating specs along with the corresponding patterns according to customer fit comments - Coordinated lab dip comments to our in-house dying facility - Communicate with sample makers in-house to create proto samples with the correct construction according to the function and requirements of each customers - Facilitated the transportation of appropriate patterns, specs and fabric to the production factory in Mexico - Maintained the production calendar of the facility in Mexico while coordinating the production needs of each customer