Nicole De Jong

Nicole’s interest in business started at a young age; she began working at her father’s machine shop helping in all aspects from office work to production. Her firsthand experience has given her tools she is able to apply to Product Development. Recently, she has graduated from Los Angeles’s FIDM (Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising) with her Associate of Arts Degree in Merchandise Product Development.

While studying at FIDM, she interned at Billabong under the head Product Developer for SMU. Her duties included reworking CADs, making coversheets, tracker sheets, art boards, tagging TOP and PPS, and organizing samples, fabrics, and trims. Nicole also volunteered as the Managing Editor for the Orange County campus’s student run fashion publication (MODE).