Software Skills
Adobe Illustrator
Trello
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Word
Microsoft PowerPoint
Sector Experience
Consumer Goods
Manufacturing
Technology
Experience
Tosha Hays
Design
Owner and Creative Director
1/2020 - Present
Manage and run all aspects of client services for design, product development, sourcing, and entrepreneurship.
Advanced Functional Fabrics of America
Product Management / Strategy
Chief Product Officer
12/2016 - 12/2019
Expert in building active and passive advanced product soft goods. Key member of leadership and management team. Led team of product designers, developers, weavers and knitters building digital textiles and product. Owned the development process from product conception to production. Worked closely with software, system integration, semi-conductor fiber drawing team, and business development to build advanced product in partnership with industry and member network.
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Start-Up
Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer
4/2014 - 5/2017
Built all segments of a start-up business from board hiring, fundraising, building marketing, product, and operations departments. Led all segments of raw material development, product development & design, project management, production, supply chain, client relations, and investor management. Developed unique and proprietary materials with a B2B business strategy.
SPANX
Design
Senior Director, Design and Development
12/2006 - 4/2014
Head of Product Development & Design for privately held, high-growth company with an international focus. Grew from domestic distribution in one channel to four brands with diverse, complex business models in four channels of distribution, sixty countries and four continents within five years. Key responsibilities included creative and technical design, trend, merchandising, sourcing, and product development. Led Research and Development (consistently invented patentable products).