Enthusiastic, strong and creative leader with a focus for driving results through team building, individual development and logistical planning. A passion for sustainable textile coloration and continuously striving to learn more within the field. Extensive textile knowledge and bringing visions and story moments to life by driving clarity, determination, creativity and years of hands-on experience.
Skills
Superior score on 100 Munsell Hue Test.
Proficient in PLM.
Proficient in Photoshop, illustrator, InDesign and Excel.
Understanding fabric properties, construction and finishes.
Experience
2021 to Current
COLOR ASSISTANTVontier Corporation – Jacksonville, FL,
Support Macy’s private label brands with approval of development and production submits as well as development of seasonal color palettes
Timely manage color approvals on lab dips, strike-offs and bulk orders for solids, patterns and heather fabrics.
Develop strong partnerships with domestic and international partners.
Provide knowledge of dyes and dyeing techniques for varied fiber contents; knowledge of textile structures and their influence on color appearance; knowledge of industry standards.
Understand visual and instrumental color evaluation with precise and consistent technique: ability to use spectrophotometer, light boxes and other color tools.
Support with research of color trends and creating color presentations.
Facilitate digital and visual color searches within the color library and supplier libraries.
Administer the communication of color palettes through entry into Macy’s color system.
Distribute color standards and/or color cards to all Macy’s internal partners.
Partner with Digital Merchants in communicating and managing Hex values.
Responsible for alignment audits on decisions owned by the supply chain.
Attend key brand meetings and support company initiatives.
Provide CAD matches for colors on palette.
Assist with color library updates.
2018 to 2021
MARKETING MANAGERBalfour – Tallahassee, FL,
Managed people, store operations and store environment to achieve sales, service, organization, customer satisfaction and profitability goals and maintain operational standards.
Oversaw and executed all in-store events and initiatives in partnership with the Retail Brand team - delivering over $200K per bi-monthly initiative and $150K from in-store and virtual shopping events a year.
Responsibility for all marketing communication, training and delivery of rewards and recognition for the store team.
Coached, managed and focused a team of 25 diverse employees, providing them with a common purpose and inspiring them with the power of the brand.
Managed financial budgets including labor costs and overall expenses.
Developed in-store employee engagement strategies that aligned with the business and maximized the role of store within the district (MTZ: Sustainability Project, Employee Runs, “Retailympics”).
Created succession plans, and effectively managed performance and corrective action processes in order to drive human resources planning.
2018 to 2020
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT COORDINATORDISTRICT VISION – City, STATE,
Collaborated with designers and mills to ensure product designs were manufacturable and met set price-points.
Partnered with the design team in researching, designing and developing product by classification from concept through execution.
Communicated project parameters and timelines and created design storyboards for client presentations.
Ensured completion of timely approvals of all lab dips, strike-offs and samples for construction, fabrication, coloration, and design.
Managed color, created color palettes for the apparel category and maintained physical Pantone swatches.
Certified sample product design specifications in color, pattern & construction.
Guided assistant designers and interns in the execution of tasks.
Managed and prioritized tasks based on development timelines and communicated with product managers accordingly.
Led projects from design concept through sample specs, tech sheets, costing requests, and production hand off.
Organized files and kept inventory of used prints and fabric sample archives.
Presented designs to the Creative Director.
Traveled to shop appropriate markets and initiated new product concepts.
Worked with the development team to prepare technical specifications to factories.
2013 to 2020
RUN CLUB COORDINATORNIKE NYC HEADQUARTERS – City, STATE,
Logistically planned and assisted with empowering and leading over 350 New York City runners on a 16-week marathon training program (Project Moonshot) resulting in 90% engagement and usage of services provided.
Obtained and collected runner and pacer attendance rates, programming wins, opportunities and feedback.
Tracked trends in the NY marketplace to plan and execute Nike Running events for East territory.
Collaborated with stakeholders on evaluating all running events.
Developed and led training sessions for all pacers.
Communicated labor hours and pacer performance to DTC leadership.
Developed and executed media stories including brand, innovation and sustainability.
Supported and aligned with Nike Run Club events.
Recruited and maintained a diverse pool of pacers throughout each year.
Curated elevated running events that connected to brand initiatives and the global running community.
Scheduled, supervised, trained and developed a team of 70+ pacers year-round.
Worked closely with the East Running Field Marketing Team, partners, and Nike Run Club coaches.
Education
Expected in 2020 to to
Bachelor of Science: Textile Development And Marketing Fashion Institute of Technology - New York, NY, GPA:
Expected in 2018 to to
Associate of Applied Science: Marketing Management Bronx Community College - Bronx, NY, GPA:
Accomplishments
Marathon finisher: Bear Mountain, Chicago (2x), NYC, Tokyo
Leader of NYC running crew, RASA CLUB (Running Aesthetics, Style Aesthetics)
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