Mountain Hardwear
Product Developer | 09/2007 - 10/2012
Core responsibilities include initial communication to vendor of design intent and fit for development of prototype and salesman samples, attending and commenting in fit sessions, creating bills of material, updating and correcting design sketches as needed after initial handoff from designer to ensure clear understanding by vendor, communication with remote offices to ensure correctness of patterns and fit, entering comments into PDM system and related spreadsheets in regards to prototype and salesman samples for use in remote offices, communicate with factories (mainly China, India, and South America) regarding production, status delays, and follow up, attend scheduled meetings with product managers to review any issues, work with quality engineer to learn construction methods, sequence of operations, and general manufacturing methods to help troubleshoot any development problems throughout the season, give input and suggest improvements on current processes.