Experience

• Established style, material, and color trends, including seasonal color palettes
• Evaluated and revamped Totes logos and branding, increasing brand visibility at retail
• Created over 100 new styles and 400 SKUs per season, working directly with suppliers to create new patterns and outsoles
• Developed product for value by specifying proper materials, manufacturing processes, and designing to meet import specifications for lowest possible duty rate
• Managed development timelines, including all sample tracking to meet sales team needs

• Ensured products created best customer value, achieving margin and FOB goals
• Responsible for 15 to 20 projects, totaling over 50 SKUs per season
• Innovated new lighted Stride Rite products, starting with Spring 2015 season, including the brand’s best-selling product in the category
• Responsible for the design direction and execution of Saucony Children’s product, from Fall 2010 to Spring 2015, notably the children’s group’s best-selling product to that date
• Managed the integration of the Merrell Kids line into the children’s group design team
• Responsible for managing design internship program during four consecutive summers
• Developed new concepts through all stages, from brief to market-ready
• Created new lasts and outsoles based on consumer and market insights
• Traveled extensively to factories to review designs and problem solve production issues

• Generated concepts to meet consumer needs based on sales and trend forecasts
• Created volume driving product utilizing competitive market research
• Designed children’s-specific product for Saucony and Sperry brands

• Designed for all genders and categories, including sandal, athletic, boot and casual styles
• Established and managed Atsco Footwear’s design internship program
• Designed innovative product concepts for the U.S. re-launch of the Kangaroos brand
• Created account-specific product for special make-up and private-label programs
• Presented design and prototype concepts to sales and marketing
• Enhanced brand presentations at retail by redesigning packaging

• Communicated functional and user-friendly design concepts for a medical product

• Translated multiple licenses’ content into new video game concepts
• Ideated new software and hardware concepts to revitalize the Atari brand

• Assisted designers with trend research, sketching, color-ups, and marker renderings

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Industrial Design

Associate of Applied Science, Interior Design

Achievements

AWARDS

• BEST SHOE YOUTH RUNNING 2011, Running Network - Saucony Kinvara 2

PATENTS

• US Design Patent (D798,550), Footwear Sole, October 3, 2017
• US Design Patent (D794,940), Footwear Upper, August 22, 2017
• US Patent (9,687,046), Reversible Strap for an Article of Footwear, June 27, 2017
• US Design Patent (D551,830), Footwear, October 2, 2007

KEY SKILLS

• Proven product success at retail, by focusing on customer need, trend, and marketplace intelligence
• Creating high value product by focusing on balancing customer need, and component cost
• Communicating proof of concept through research, presentation, and quick mockup testing
• Delivering overlapping projects from brief to market by self-priori- tizing, and communicating with team resources
• Extensive knowledge of footwear manufacturing, including working directly with suppliers on solutions

COMPUTER SKILLS

• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Dreamweaver 
• Sketch Book
• Microsoft Office Suite