Expert Details
Retail, Fashion, Production, Supply Chain
ID: 731902
New York, USA
Expert embarked the fashion industry as a buyer and was hired by one of the largest buying offices at the time, Frederick Atkins. In the last 25 years she has worked with some of the most important buying offices in the United States, and has helped to open and streamline thousands of stores both nationally and abroad, including the inaugural Sears store in Panama. She’s had participation in private label for such stores as Dillard's and Harvey Nickels of England. Her experiences and continued effort to stay up to date in the industry have led to her expertise in the retail and design facets of fashion.
Expert is praised for having industry know-how and for sharing tricks of the trade that her every day experiences have afforded her in presentations that are realistic and easily comprehensible. She has been featured on the “Today Show” and Fine Living Television as a retail expert and on Univision, playing herself as an industry maven as a judge on the Project runway type show Mission Catwalk, Along with television appearances, she has given presentations to the International Fashion Group, is a frequent speaker at the New York Public Library of business and Science with two award winning videos on retailing & starting a fashion line featured on the library’s website, and is regularly invited to teach workshops at Texworld USA and the MAGIC market week in Las Vegas trade shows each season. Known notably as having the most practical business sense, she is a preferred speaker at a multitude of regional and international fashion events including Miami Fashion Week, Jamaica Fashion Week, Asia Fashion Summit, and the Istanbul Textile Conference.
Education
Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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Year: 1987 | Degree: MBA | Subject: economics | Institution: NYC |
Work History
Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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Years: 1998 to 2014 | Employer: Global Purchasing Companies | Title: Director | Department: |
Responsibilities:Available upon request. |
Additional Experience
Training / Seminars |
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Women’s Wear Daily WWD.com (Retailer Roundtable), California Apparel News, Crain’s Business, New York Public Library (SIBL) international tradeshow key note speaker |
Other Relevant Experience |
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Fine Living Television, “Designer Living with Sheila Bridges”, The Today Show feature from Vocation Vacations |
Fields of Expertise
business ethics, clothing, fashion, fashion industry, globalization, management, product, purchasing, retail, retail forecasting, retail industry management, retail management, retail operations improvement, retail product, retailing, supply chain, supply chain management, supply chain optimization, supply system