Innovative design leader with extensive experience in managing collaborative teams and driving creative strategies. Skilled in relationship building and market analysis, consistently delivering cohesive product collections that align with brand vision and meet market demands.
Work History
Product Collaboration Director
7 Months
MacKenzie-Childs | 01.2026 - Current
Spearheaded design and implementation of brand partnership initiatives to elevate brand impact.
Facilitated collaboration with cross-functional teams to align multi-brand vision and production capabilities.
Established consensus-driven processes to develop infrastructure for new business division.
Developed and delivered compelling presentations to effectively communicate design concepts to internal teams and external partners.
Managed collaborative discussions to gather and integrate design feedback from multiple brands for prominent collections.
Directed project management, design facilitation, and coordination of all facets within this expanding segment of the design organization.
Design Director
5 Years 11 Months
MacKenzie-Childs | 01.2020 - 12.2025
Led design strategy to enhance product lines and align with brand vision.
Oversaw creative direction for seasonal collections, ensuring cohesive aesthetics.
Mentored and empowered designers, fostering skill development and creative exploration.
Conducted market research to identify trends and inform design decisions.
Streamlined design processes, improving efficiency in project delivery timelines.
Established design guidelines that ensured consistency across all product categories.
Presented design concepts to stakeholders, securing buy-in for new initiatives.
Managed projects from concept to completion, ensuring timely delivery within budget and scope constraints.
Trained team, delegating tasks and offering insight to help meet tight deadlines.
Increased design team efficiency by implementing streamlined workflows and enhanced cross-functional collaboration.
Mentored each designer to promote confidence and productivity, which encouraged new ideas and fostered positive working relationships.
Cultivated a culture of innovation within the design team by encouraging experimentation and embracing new approaches to problem solving.
Managed workloads of designers to optimize productivity and timeliness of task completion.
Developed and managed design briefs and trend reports to ensure clear communication of vision to creative teams throughout the project lifecycle.
Design Manager
1 Year 6 Months
MacKenzie-Childs | 07.2018 - 01.2020
Led design team in creating innovative product lines aligned with brand aesthetics.
Developed and implemented creative briefs seasonally, to enhance cohesion and stakeholder alignment.
Mentored designers, fostering skill development and promoting a collaborative work environment.
Streamlined design processes, reducing bottlenecks for new collections through effective project management.
Hired and mentored junior designers, providing guidance on design principles, techniques, and best practices to enhance their skill set and brand knowledge.
Spearheaded design process to align with company goals and standards.
Streamlined creative review process by implementing a centralized feedback system that increased productivity across the team.
Established performance standards for the design team that fostered accountability and improved overall results.
Built strong relationships with designers through active listening, collaboration, and clear communication of design objectives.
Implemented an effective onboarding program for new hires that reduced training time while maintaining quality standards.
Optimized internal processes by establishing clear guidelines for file organization, and asset management.
Enhanced design team efficiency by streamlining workflows and implementing project management tools.
Facilitated design team meetings and issued action items.
Coordinated with cross-functional teams to ensure design specifications were aligned with production capabilities.
Textiles Designer
10 Months
MacKenzie-Childs | 09.2017 - 07.2018
Developed innovative textile patterns that enhanced product lines and brand identity.
Conducted trend research to inform seasonal collections and align with market demands.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to execute design concepts and ensure production feasibility.
Led design review sessions, providing constructive feedback to junior designers for skill development.
Created detailed technical specifications for textile production, ensuring accuracy and quality standards were met.
Optimized textile costings by negotiating with suppliers for lower material costs without compromising quality.
Incorporated out-of-the-box thinking to create new designs for Soft Home and Upholstered Furniture projects.
Attended industry trade shows to source new materials, stay current on trends, materials, and technologies, informing future design strategies and collections.
Managed multiple projects simultaneously while adhering to strict deadlines, resulting in high-quality work delivered on time.
Core Concept Leader
4 Years 2 Months
Eileen Fisher | 07.2013 - 09.2017
Led cross-functional teams to implement seasonal collections aligned with company direction, foundational brand concepts and core values.
Developed and executed conceptual training programs to align teams with core brand values and improve performance.
Fostered culture of sustainability by promoting eco-friendly practices across all department operations.
Trained employees across the company on core product concept and brand design language.
Increased team productivity by streamlining communication and implementing effective project management strategies.
Trained employees on core product concepts and brand design language to ensure consistent understanding and application.
Fostered a culture of sustainability, promoting eco-friendly practices within all department operations.
Analyzed and archived brand history to inform current and future product development strategies, ensuring alignment with core brand aesthetics and values.
Mentored and empowered junior staff members, helping them develop leadership skills and advance their careers within the organization.
Core Concept Team Member
16 Years 7 Months
Eileen Fisher | 02.2001 - 09.2017
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to conceptualize and develop innovative design solutions.
Led design reviews, providing constructive feedback to enhance project outcomes and cohesive product outcomes.
Conducted market and brand research to inform design strategies and align projects with brand guidelines.
Implemented conceptual improvements that streamlined cohesion across product lines.
Played a key role in ensuring new collections were executed according to brand values, showcasing Eileen's founding principles.
Actively participated in continuous learning opportunities, such as workshops or conferences, staying updated on industry trends and advancements, as well as innovative leadership training and facilitation skills.
Leather and Knits Designer
10 Years
Eileen Fisher | 07.2007 - 07.2017
Led design projects from concept to completion, ensuring alignment with brand vision and values.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop cohesive product lines, enhancing customer engagement.
Presented design concepts to stakeholders, articulating vision and receiving constructive feedback for refinement.
Managed timelines and deliverables for multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring adherence to deadlines.
Created detailed specifications for production teams, ensuring accuracy and quality in final products.
<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform
<ul><li>- Working in Collaboration with the Central Quality team in the development of Quantitative checklists for Aggregate reports.</li><li>- Performing QR of Safety reports i.e, PADER, DSUR, PBRER and DSURs.</li><li>- Managing QR Team for Safety reports and acting as a training lead for Safety Writing Team.</li><li>- Prepared and Performed QC of the trackers for RSI project.</li><li>- Performed Quality review of cases in Argus database for VOQR project. Created error-free reports and other outputs according to tightly defined specifications to ensure timely reporting of assigned job to program management.</li><li>- Participating in weekly meetings on a regular basis to understand the client's requirement for a particular program and ensure that the team meets or exceeds the targets in terms of quality, quantity within the scope of time constraints</li><li>- Responsible for reviewing the SOPs, job aids as per program specific requirements.</li><li>- Acting as a subject matter expert and helping the team members with day-to-day trouble shooting activities.</li><li>- Signal detection and risk management plan authoring or other assigned PV related activities for client's product(s), per the regulations and SOPs when required.</li><li>- Exhibiting a growing awareness of program strategy and thinking capability alongside independence.</li><li>- Reviewing and providing solutions for issues relating to program delivery or escalating appropriately to the Team Lead / Program Lead as required.</li><li>- Providing standards for gathering information for use in trend analysis.</li><li>- Involved in people development in partnership with PDG leads.</li><li>- Ensuring that all training (internal training and client training) are successfully completed in a timely manner.</li></ul> at Syneos Health<ul><li>- Working in Collaboration with the Central Quality team in the development of Quantitative checklists for Aggregate reports.</li><li>- Performing QR of Safety reports i.e, PADER, DSUR, PBRER and DSURs.</li><li>- Managing QR Team for Safety reports and acting as a training lead for Safety Writing Team.</li><li>- Prepared and Performed QC of the trackers for RSI project.</li><li>- Performed Quality review of cases in Argus database for VOQR project. Created error-free reports and other outputs according to tightly defined specifications to ensure timely reporting of assigned job to program management.</li><li>- Participating in weekly meetings on a regular basis to understand the client's requirement for a particular program and ensure that the team meets or exceeds the targets in terms of quality, quantity within the scope of time constraints</li><li>- Responsible for reviewing the SOPs, job aids as per program specific requirements.</li><li>- Acting as a subject matter expert and helping the team members with day-to-day trouble shooting activities.</li><li>- Signal detection and risk management plan authoring or other assigned PV related activities for client's product(s), per the regulations and SOPs when required.</li><li>- Exhibiting a growing awareness of program strategy and thinking capability alongside independence.</li><li>- Reviewing and providing solutions for issues relating to program delivery or escalating appropriately to the Team Lead / Program Lead as required.</li><li>- Providing standards for gathering information for use in trend analysis.</li><li>- Involved in people development in partnership with PDG leads.</li><li>- Ensuring that all training (internal training and client training) are successfully completed in a timely manner.</li></ul> at Syneos Health