Jodie Milmore

- Designed and developed licensed children’s apparel, dress-up and hair accessories, footwear and hosiery for major retailers such as Amazon, BuyBuyBaby, Kohl’s, Target, and Wal-Mart. - Designed an average of 3,000+ styles annually, averaging $80M at POS. - Integral team member for projects which secured new fixture spaces in BuyBuyBaby, Kohl’s, Target, and Wal-Mart, with multi-million dollar earning potential. - Established new procedures, created reference manuals, and provided training to optimize employee efficiency and effectiveness. Aforementioned procedures were estimated to save an average of 5 hours per style for Designer responsibilties. - Collaborated with cross-functional team and overseas partners to drive process improvements as part of the PLM task force. - Traveled domestically and overseas for meetings with clients and/or vendors, as well as for trend research. - Manage and train design team members, freelance designers and design interns. - Created technical packages such as measurements, bill-of-materials, construction, and color schemes.

- Designed footwear for major corporations using licensed and/or self-created original art for retail, giveaways, fundraisers, etc - Primary liaison to overseas vendors; arranged for on time assembly, and distribution of products. - Assisted with website design, marketing, screen printing and running CNC machinery as needed.

- Collaborated with owner to create an organic childrenswear brand with core focus on sustainability. - Conducted online marketing initiatives such as paid ad placement, affiliate and sponsorship programs, email promotions, and viral marketing campaigns on social media platforms. - Launched and authored blog as a support system for parents to learn new environmentally conscious craft projects with their children, learn new “kid-friendly” healthy recipes, source other environmentally conscious brands/products, and to showcase their childrens’ accomplishments. - Conceptualized, created and separated graphics for placed and all-over prints. - Tested and fit samples, and approved or implemented changes accordingly. - Created marketing items such as look-books, packaging, website ads, sales emails, etc.

- Created custom artwork for placed and all over prints. - Sketch rough and detailed drawings of accessories, and write specifications such as color schemes, construction, material types, and accessory requirements. - Confer with sales and management executives or with clients to discuss design ideas.

- Hired as part of new design team to upgrade product, revise garment fits, and update trend direction. - Responsible for development, design, technical packages of all men’s woven shirts, fleece, knit tops and sweaters for 116 location retailer. - Created yarn-dye plaid and stripe assortments for men’s and junior girls apparel. - Assisted with development, design and technical packages of men’s bottoms/outerwear and junior girls tops/bottoms/outerwear as needed. - Managed fit sessions with live models as well as dress forms, and modified designs as necessary.

- Created placed prints, fashion flats, tech packs, and packaging using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. - Created order forms and invoices, organized design and customer information. - Responsible for the shipping of design inventory to retailers, as well as receiving of inventory and supplies.