Experience

Associate Member, Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association

• Support the trade association's work to strengthen Bangladesh's garment manufacturing network through sustainable production

Pattern Maker

• Made and cut about 50 production patterns, mainly knits, for Macy's private brands, Karl Lagerfeld, Givenchy Baby, Ascot Sport, and Zara
• Worked on the factory floor through sampling and production, and coordinated technical design packets with partners

Quality Control Manager, then Sales and Production Planner

• Managed $132K in wholesale contracts with Ross, TJ Maxx, Burlington, and Macy's Backstage, communicating with each account on deliveries, price changes, and cancellations
• Built Excel dashboards forecasting weekly sales and open to buy, and coded a Python inventory tracker that compared daily stock sheets to flag sold out styles, cutting a 3 to 4 hour daily check to under 10 minutes
• Entered and tracked POs in our PLM system and kept weekly WIP reports to hold deliveries on schedule

Merchandising and Product Developer

• Designed 72 men's and women's styles that went into production, about 900K units, across outerwear, jackets, shirts, jeans, sweatpants, and skirts
• Traveled to RMG factories and wash facilities across Bangladesh to follow styles through sampling, washing, and bulk production
• Built cost BOMs in PLM, submitted cost sheets at proto, SRS, and bulk milestones, and approved development invoices

Ecommerce Merchandising and Brand Management

• Independently built the brand's Shopify store from scratch and took 300+ styles live with product copy, imagery, SKUs, sizes, and attributes
• Analyzed delivery and sell through by account and built allocation and replenishment rules to guide reorders
• Wrote SQL queries in Google BigQuery to pull sales, traffic, and conversion data for weekly reporting

Designer

• Designed, patterned, and constructed 12 garments for the NYU runway show, running fittings with models over 3 months

Creative Director

• Led creative direction for the club's fashion show in Madrid, directing 1 stylist, 2 designers, 12 models, and 5 staff members

Corporate Buying Intern

• Delivered weekly sales, sell through, and stock to sales analysis by category and vendor for a $100M+ men's designer shoe business across 97 vendors, about $2M in weekly sales
• Supported a 6 person buying and planning team on open to buy, and built charts and PowerPoint decks for weekly business reviews
• Built size scales and store by store allocations for orders, and coordinated with stores on transfers, markdowns, and deliveries in NuOrder

Operations Team Member

• Reconciled distribution center returns and stock transfers in SAP and Shopify with the U.K. team to keep inventory accurate
• Monitored inventory analytics and executed replenishment to protect size availability
• Supported daily store operations and point of sale volume of up to $3K per hour at peak

Founder, streetwear label

• Plan assortment, pricing, and inventory for 4 drops at $70 to $130, using each drop's sell through to plan the next, earning about $22K at 65% margin
• Pattern and sew every piece, source fabrics and trims, and manage sampling through final production, generating about $22K from 240 units
• Cost every style against $20 to $40 in production cost, holding roughly 65% gross margin