Andrew Parkman

Forum Snowboards * Acted as freelance designer for a variety of the FA '08 snowboarding boot line including boots concepts, production versions and completed technical packs

Freelance Footwear Design * Design focused on conceptual lacing systems for new and established products. Including a variety of clients in snowboard boots and advanced athletic footwear

* Design Internship with New Balance Court Group * Worked with designers in Basketball, Tennis, Cross-Training, Versatility, and Custom product divisions * Projects included design concepts for advanced New Balance visual technology, a series of redesigns of Basketball shoes and working with national shoe retailers on special color-ways

SOMB Style * Primary designer for casual lifestyle footwear

* Primary duties involve footwear color design lifestyle + legacy footwear Jordan Brand * Design of player exclusive basketball, cleated and lifestyle footwear for Jordan athletes * "Head to Toe" color application working with the Jordan team of apparel color designers * Team member for seasonal trend research, inspirational story telling and color palette creation * Proficient in Nike software Virtual Sample System VS2 and CD+M * Perfect color vision with a flawless score on the Munsell Hue Test

* Responsible for all Men's footwear design and development including footwear last creation, mold design, technical packs, material sourcing and finish experimentation * Handled all timelines, corrections and approvals with overseas suppliers * Responsibilities included trend forecasting, seasonal color and material palettes, market shopping and print research

* Lead footwear designer for entire Men's athletic and lifestyle Diadora line * Responsibilities included complete oversight of keeping timelines, developing technical packs, revising product blueprints, correcting wooden molds, designing molded insoles and creating seasonal color palettes * Development role involved travel to China to work with mold shops, last suppliers, leather tanneries, material suppliers and the development facility * Brand development functions included working with marketing by developing and designing the marketing materials, catalogs, boxes, and hang tags * Secondary responsibilities included representing the brand at trade shows and coordinating with internal sales staff