EXPERIENCE:

HUSH PUPPIES, Rockford, MI
Footwear Designer
Designer for Hush Puppies Women's line. Design of footwear from concept through development to finished product. Computer and Freehand sketching of Upper, outsole, ornament and sock/footbed designs. Travel to China and Brazil to round up development issues at the end of each season.

TRG ACCESSORIES, St. Louis, MO
Freelance Textile & Bag Design
Creating Textile Prints, Presentation Art and Bag designs on a freelance basis

BROWN SHOE WOMENS PRIVATE LABEL
Footwear Designer/Assistant Line Builder
Women's Fashion Athletics, Slippers, and Junior EVA/Beach Footwear, both licensed Art and Private Label Designs. Detailed illustrations and color renderings of footwear, including outsoles and ornamentation. Line Builder of Junior Sandal EVA/Beach Footwear.

NATURALIZER FOOTWEAR, St. Louis, MO
Footwear Designer
Computer & Freehand illustration of Women's Footwear designs, Trend, style & material research. Detailed illustrations and color renderings of footwear, including outsoles and ornamentation.

IXL ENTERPRIZES, Chicago, IL
Website Production Artist & Illustrator
Website production artist for multi-client design firm. Also involved in designing
“Look & Feel” of websites, created illustrations and did basic HTML coding.

CARS.COM, Chicago, IL
Website Graphic Designer & Illustrator
Computer graphics, page design and illustration for the Cars.com web site.

TOMMY HILFIGER, Boston, MA
Assistant Footwear Designer
Women’s footwear design. Detailed illustrations and color renderings of footwear designs.

HUSH PUPPIES, Rockford, MI
Junior Footwear Designer
Freehand illustrations of women’s and kids footwear designs. General illustration
for use in presentations and brochures. Assisting lead designers.

EDUCATION:

ARS SUTORIA, Milan, Italy
Footwear Modelist/Style Certificate
Concentrated course in footwear design and pattern making.

GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Grand Rapids, MI
Studied computer graphics and animation, graphic design, illustration and cartooning.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Proficient on both MAC & PC. Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Homesite Web Builder, Corel Draw, Corel Photo Paint, Adobe Image Ready, BB Edit, Quark Xpress.