Native Southern Californian Product Designer with an both Accessory and Apparel background, currently working in the Greater New York City area.

Experienced senior level accessory designer with over 20 years of proven history in the mass and privately owned market accessory development within the Children's, Tween, Junior's, Young Women's, and Licensed Brand market.

Extensive travel experience to Asia and Europe for prototype review, material sourcing and design inspiration. Excellent cad sketching abilities and presentation and merchandising skills, good color sensibility and keen eye for research and spotting trends.  Extremely effective in visually and verbally communicating with overseas  development partners, able to offer quick and effective production solves.

Within the last 9 years I have enjoyed bringing concepts to customers for the following tween & kids product categories: bath & beauty, stationary, activity sets, room organizational accessories, cold weather, hats, scarves, belts, legwear, armwear, footwear, handbags/slgs, luggage, and hair accessories.

I am proficient in Adobe CC Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Excel, Power Point, flat sketching, photo editing, creating graphics and swatches.