Freelance Contractor. Consultation/development management of luxury product, accessories and ready to wear.
• Partner with luxury brands to drive product design, development, and market strategies for accessories and ready-to-wear collections.
• Develop trend forecasting models to identify emerging opportunities and align product offerings with target demographics.
• Streamline operations to improve profit margins, optimize workflows, and negotiate competitive vendor contracts.
• Created product testing processes with staff engineers.
• Lead global projects with international travel for factory visits and quality assurance audits.

• Provided leadership and subject-matter expertise over new product design, development, packaging and launch of strategic and licensed product lines such as Bulova, Caravelle New York, Wittnauer, and Harley Davidson watches.
• Daily involvement with trend setting, design direction, establishing target costs, sampling priorities, and launch/relaunch efforts. JEAN-PIERRE
• Domestic and International Event Management and production
• Directed successful re-launch of Caravelle New York brand resulting in developing brand positioning within Kohl's, securing an advertisement billboard in Times Square, and achieving worldwide coverage to increase sales from $4M to $6M.

• Secured highly sought-after contract position in luxury niche, overseeing product design, development, and production of the Ted Baker and Tommy Bahama licensed watch lines. Executed successful product launch.
• Approved/revised color specifications and CAD drawings and ensured design integrity was upheld throughout process with clear communication and product specification documentation to factories.
• International Event Management + Production. Ensured that all packaging, sizing, and display requirements were met.
• Maintained cost and profit margins for all assigned product lines through careful expense management and price negotiation.

• Oversaw pre-production and production for all accessory categories, including handbags, men's bags, belts, small leather goods, gloves, hats, jewelry, and shoes.
• Streamlined production processes to minimize returns by introducing robust quality checks.
• Minimized product returns by introducing structure and quality testing to the production process. Sourced and developed materials internationally, maintaining design intent while reducing costs.

• Successively promoted through positions of increasing authority, transitioning from Designer into a Product Development Manager.
• Produced detailed technical drawings that clarified design details and construction directions for internal and foreign factories.
• Managed all aspects of go to market, product development, packaging and SKU additions and significant special projects for public relations, editorials, and store exclusives.
• Recruited by the Vice President of Development to train new team members on key Product Development technical terms and construction principles.
• Proactively sought ways to lower handbag costs without compromising design by traveling to factories and inspecting processes.
• Maintained the highest quality and ensured all handbags fully adhered to internal standards with daily quality control meetings.

• Performed a wide range of marketing support functions, with ownership over creation and circulation of the weekly product availability reports as well as producing the catalogue for the small leather goods division.
• Coordinated entire go to market strategy, production lifecycle for the small leather goods national catalogue, including managing photo shoots, developing layout, and proofreading final version.
• Designed and presented planograms for accounts and supported them with visual merchandising in the small leather goods and cosmetic bag showrooms. Assisted with showroom sales.
• Owner of redesign of internal catalogues, using Photoshop techniques.
• Developed strategic plans/planograms to successfully market newness.