Academy Sports + Outdoors

Technical Design Manager Sep 2011 – Jul 2017 Katy, Texas All product for Private Label brands: BCG, Magellan, O’Rageous, Game Winner, Brazos, and Austin Trading Co. for all categories of Men’s, Women’s, Juniors, Boy’s, Girl’s, Toddler, Infant, Plus, and Big and Tall. - Created and implement standards, policies, and procedures while developing and leading the Technical Design Department.- Defined fit intent, lead fit sessions, and communicated corrections to cross-functional and vendor partners within the time /action calendar. - Create garment specifications, block pattern library, and gender grading for all product categories to ensured size and fit consistency building brand integrity. - Implemented fit sampling process utilizing 2D/3D Optitex with pattern corrections, grading, building pattern, fabric, and avatar library for in-house and vendor partners. Reduced cost achieving up to 30% sample reduction and time savings of over 12 weeks in approval process.