Resume

Employment history and skills

 

Resume

Versatile creative mind rooted in a strong design background.  Proficient, efficient, and organized design professional with years of experience ranging from technical bag design to color, print, and graphics.

 
 
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EMPLOYMENT

Roam Art Designs

Principal Designer 
Roam Art Designs is a cottage brand producing art supply bags for urban sketchers.
Design, source, and produce bags.  Create all graphic, photo, and web content.

Brixton

SMU Designer
Designed women’s, men’s, and youth apparel and headwear assortments for client accounts using color and graphic placement. Built tech packs for orders including fabrics, blanks, graphic dimensions, Pantone TCX color, and trims.

OGIO

Travis Mathew
Designed Travis Mathew’s 2020 luggage collection. Ranging from the Slack Pack backpack, Skyscraper convertible duffel/backpack, Sub-Zero soft-sided cooler backpack, to Stow Away wheeled carry-on.

FUSE Collection
Premium collection for the urban customer inspired by ultralight thru-hiking packs. Built from lightweight nylon ripstop Cordura and eco Cordura, Fuse is trimmed with outdoor inspired micro stretch mesh, elastic cord, water-resistant YKK zippers, and reflective hits.  Adopted by tastemakers Jeff Staple, Westerlind, the LA Clippers, and more.  Panel loader backpack, toll top backpack, center zip backpack, duffel bag, and duffel pack, all designed from ideation to market.

Atom Collection
Cost Effective Collection designed for back to school and golf tournament markets with mixed materials, bold color, and embroidery customization in mind without sacrificing design. Composed of large and small backpacks, duffel bag, mini backpack, courier bag, cinch pack, cooler, and cooler backpack.

Target
Designed Flux backpack sold in Target stores nationwide in the USA

Costco
Designed Prospect backpack, 200K units produced and sold nationwide in the USA.

Color
Patriotic collection placing print and color on exiting product

NIKE

Design Assistant for Nike Golf Apparel.  Assist with apparel graphics, color, schematics, and miscellaneous projects.

Epson America

Epson America Social Media Community Manager - Public face of social media to over 200K followers on Twitter channels and 1M on the Global Facebook page.

Website graphics designer - Designed graphics including headers, left column ads, and video title cards.

OAKLEY

Accessories Design - Designed all accessories for Spring 2016 Factory Pilot capsule collection— backpack, duffel bag, and four hats. Created color specs for many Fall 15 styles. Worked closely with apparel design and merchandising during the process to ensure my designs aligned with the overall vision

Footwear Assistant Product Line Manager - Assisted Footwear Product Line Manager by updating spreadsheets, pricing, M1, presentation slides, and meeting materials.

Footwear Colorist - Coordinated with merchandizing and design to color over 40 styles, new and carry over and created detailed CADs for each style.  Color matched CYMK swatches to Pantone TCX library to create new swatches

Nixon

Men's Accessories Designer - Designed accessories from bags, wallets, to tech accessories.

 
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SKILLS

Design

  • Product Design

  • Concept Development

  • Sketching

  • Rendering

  • Tech Packs

  • Presenting

  • Organization

  • Communication

  • Time Management

  • Trend Research

  • Materials

  • Trim Design

  • Color

  • Print

  • Schematics

Design Programs

  • Adobe Creative Cloud: Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat

  • Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

  • OS: PC, Mac

Social Media

  • Copywriting

  • Strong writing, grammar and spelling skills

  • Monitor multiple social channels

  • Field customer concerns

  • Diffuse challenging customer interactions

  • Scout key users and reviews for publicity

  • Collect and compile account analytics

Social Media Platforms

  • Twitter

  • Facebook

  • Instagram

  • Google Plus (G+)

  • Hootsuite

  • Tweet Deck

  • Falcon