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Streetwear

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SENIOR DESIGNER & DEVELOPER

IT & Technology

handbags, leather goods, & ready to wear. Offering extensive knowledge in
design, development, production, purchasing, & sales. Proven track record
meeting and exceeding deadlines and budgets. Ability to effectively manage
multiple competing priorities. collaborative team member with the ability to both
lead and participate. Flexible and open to change with enough self awareness to
course correct as needed. Strength lies in building and creating infrastructure,
work flow, & process improvement.

Communicate with all oversees & domestic suppliers & factories
Work with Creative Director to turn company vision into reality
Make technical packages & submit to factories and handle all communication
Design into price point for healthy margins
Communicate development timelines with team
Source, develop, order, & manage all raw materials
Design and develop custom hardware
Complete and submit all BOMs to factories
Create & implement design & development department organizational systems.
Created and manages interactive team WIP charts for tracking & acquiring
development, production, & COG, data to create company efficiencies and inspire positive change.

Developed the handbag and small accessory department.
Successfully launched fourteen lines in three years.
Exclusively designed and developed New Balance x Staud accessories & footwear collaboration
Worked with creative director to sketch & design bags.
Made and completed technical packages.
Main point of contact for multiple factories worldwide
Company sales growth of 2-20 million in 2 years. Handbags & Small Accessories
responsible for 80% of total revenue during this time.
Responsible for material sourcing, design, development, purchasing, & dispatching to factories.
Lead of design team operations (calendar & deadlines).
Facilitates warm handoffs from design to development & development to production.
Review seasonal sell throughs to determine carry over opportunities

PRODUCT DEVELOPER & DESIGNER

Collaborated with Creative Director
Completed CAD images for ready to wear and Handbags
Participated in fittings
Sourced and purchased all Ready to wear & handbag materials
Created cut tickets and worked with sample room

DESIGN ASSOCIATE

Successfully launched 6 seasons with Increased sales of 49% in first year.
Nominated for best tween Spring 2016 line at market
Responsible for creating all tech packs and BOMs.
Reviewed weekly selling reports to design into best selling bodies, colors, and prints.
Facilitated warm hand off to technical design.
Sent out all completed tech packs to factories and managed development
process
Oversaw each style from initial idea throughout development
Worked in a team of 3 (Technical Designer, Production Coordinator, & me) to complete line.
Casted models, styled, and organized photoshoots for Ecom and editorial.

DESIGNER

Wrote purchase orders
Developed & maintained lasting relationships with vendors
Used SAP software
Met delivery deadlines
Coordinated with shipping department
Responsible for creating weekly sell through reports to present reorder
opportunities to CEO

PRODUCTION COORDINATOR

Carried out multiple roles to support a start up company.
Organized receiving shipments and sending out to DCs
Completed ASNs
Developed handbags with factories
Went to sales appointments and completed orders.
Created Shopify account and managed e-commerce and social media

ASSISTANT PRODUCT DEVELOPER

regularly traveled to market once a month to meet with buyers and secure
orders.

ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE

Wrote purchase orders
Negotiated price, material quality and delivery dates with vendors
Reviewed weekly sales performance to identify potential re-order opportunities
Developed & successfully implemented a system for coordinating FIT, PP, & TOP, samples

ASSISTANT BUYER

Influenced new students to achieve peaceful living environments.
Mitigated conflict.
Sales and marketing to increase student enrollment.

ADMISSIONS SALES & RESIDENT ADVISOR

SHOWROOM INTERN

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Taylor Gregory

Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising

Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising