Ashton Stephens
Los Angeles
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Junior Product Developer
Gallery Department
Los Angeles
07.2024 - Current
- Managed cut and sew knitwear development for domestic styles from initial sketch to pre-production, ensuring timely delivery of samples.
- Create and maintain accurate BOMs throughout the development process.
- Maintain development WIP and provide updates to all cross functional teams.
- Coordinated approvals for wash, lab dips, and trims, facilitating smooth progression through development stages.
- Work closely with in house sample and pattern maker on initial 1st proto samples.
- Manage new fabric and custom trim developments.
- Coordinate with the Design, Tech and Production teams to ensure calendar deadlines are met.
- Issue PO's for fabric, trims and samples.
- Communicated daily with domestic vendors to expedite sample receipt, maintaining development schedule.
- Attend fittings to ensure all comments are captured to styles.
- Request and negotiate cost to ensure margin goals are met.
Product Developer
Liverpool
Los Angeles
10.2023 - 07.2024
- Manage all women's denim development from 1st Proto to Pre-Production stage.
- Daily communication with import factories to ensure samples are received in a timely manner.
- Source and manage all fabrics and trims throughout the development process.
- Upload and maintain style, fabric and trim entry into PLM system.
- Issue fabric and trim PO's for proto and SMS samples.
- Request and negotiate costing for all women's denim styles.
- Daily collaboration with cross functional teams, design, tech and production.
Product Development Coordinator
Madhappy
Los Angeles
11.2022 - 08.2023
- Manage development for domestic and imports from initial sketch to Pre-Production.
- Proficiently set up styles, colors, trims, and fabric in PLM system.
- Create and maintain accurate BOMs throughout the development process in PLM system.
- Formulated cost sheets, meeting quarterly margin targets effectively.
- Attend development fittings and capture all changes in BOM.
- Track and develop custom trims and labels.
- Maintain development WIP and share with cross functional teams.
Product Development Coordinator
Cult Gaia
Los Angeles
04.2022 - 11.2022
- Manage development from initial sketch to SMS of RTW and Knits.
- Launch seasonal trim and fabric developments with appropriate vendors.
- Process and issue POs in PLM system each season for fabric and trims.
- Set up all new RTW and Knit styles, raw materials and trims in WFX.
- Review all new lab dip, fabric and trim submits with design for approval.
- Attend all development fittings to capture BOM changes and communicate updates to factories.
- Build process to track, cost and organize all SMS samples and ensure samples are distributed to the appropriate department.
- Assist in gathering and cross checking development costing for RTW and Knits.
- Liaise daily with cross functional teams including Design, Tech, Production and Merch.
- Daily communication with vendors and factories to ensure key calendar deadlines are met.
Product Development Assistant
Alo Yoga
Los Angeles
09.2020 - 03.2022
- Manage all accessories samples from 1st proto to TOP stage.
- Coordinate with sourcing, raw materials, tech and design teams to ensure on time delivery per seasonal calendar.
- Maintain development WIP in excel to track and manage all styles in PLM system.
- Follow up with import vendors to ensure samples are received in a timely manner.
- Request and manage all SMS samples.
- Coordinate the shipping of reference samples, fabrics and trims to import vendors.
Product Development Assistant
Paige Denim
Los Angeles
09.2019 - 09.2020
- Responsible for all denim sample requests from customers.
- Create cut tickets for the samples room and imports.
- Communicate and follow up with the sample room and factory on delivery dates for samples.
- Coordinate with design, tech and the sample room to execute delivery of samples.
- Review all style set up forms from all denim designers, women's fashion denim and basics and men's.
- Modifying and creating illustrator sketches to match design specifications and fabric requirements.
Education
Merchandising Product Development -
FIDM, Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising
Los Angeles, CA06-2019
Skills
- Knowledge of Garment Construction
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Fabric and Trim Sourcing
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Cost Management
- Vendor Relationship Management
Timeline
Junior Product Developer
Gallery Department
07.2024 - Current
Product Developer
Liverpool
10.2023 - 07.2024
Product Development Coordinator
Madhappy
11.2022 - 08.2023
Product Development Coordinator
Cult Gaia
04.2022 - 11.2022
Product Development Assistant
Alo Yoga
09.2020 - 03.2022
Product Development Assistant
Paige Denim
09.2019 - 09.2020
Merchandising Product Development -
FIDM, Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising