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| Lisa Shanley, Ph.D. -
President |
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 Dr. Lisa Shanley earned a
B.S. at Eastern Illinois University in fashion
merchandising, an M.S. at Illinois State in
clothing and textile science, and a Ph.D. at
Oklahoma State in functional design of
apparel.
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She was an associate professor at Auburn University where she taught apparel patternmaking, grading, garment
construction, and apparel production processes for 9 years. She has presented her work at more
than 30 conferences and published 24 technical papers.
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| As a consultant, Lisa has
developed prototype garments for the U.S. Navy and
Dow. She was awarded TC Squared and Navy Research
Fellows and over the course of her near decade
long university career, she competed for and won
nearly a million dollars in competitive contracts and research grants. |
| Lisa is the sole programmer
for Wild Ginger Software, Inc. She began her
programming career in 1992 with the development of
her very first pattern making program - SchemaCAD for DOS. |
| Paul and Lisa married
in Auburn in 1991 and started the company that
would become Wild Ginger Software, Inc. in 1992.
They currently live just outside Nashville with four
three cats - Velvet, Mr. Winston, Bella, and PJ. |
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| Paul Shanley - Vice President |
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| Paul Sylvester Shanley
learned to sew when he was 18. Today, he continues
to learn about the fine arts and technical skills involved in apparel design and construction. |
| After a brief apprenticeship
with a Florida theatrical costumer, Mr. Shanley
focused heavily on prototype development, design,
and construction within the functional and
protective apparel industry.He has consulted on
apparel issues for the U.S.Army, U.S.Navy, duPont, Dow Chemical, GX-Tech and others. |
| He continued to work with his
wife Lisa on product development, technology, and
marketing while managing his own private
consulting business. Paul is now officially on
board, as of the year 2000, as the company
Visionary as well as Technology Evangelist through
marketing and advertising programs and campaigns.
Paul is one of the Directors on the Board of
Directors for The Home Sewing Association. HSA is
the home sewing and notions industry's largest not-for-profit trade organization. |
| Paul currently serves as one
of two industry advisors to the Executive
Committee of PACC, the Professional Association of
Custom Clothiers and has been asked to remain for
a second term in 2004 - T.B.D. He was also one the
national panel of judges for the Year 2003-2004
Make It Yourself With Wool contest, with the finals held in Sacremento, California, early in 2004. |
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| Karen Campbell - Technical Support |
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| Karen Campbell learned to
hand sew when she was 5 and started making her own
clothes at age 12. Commercial patterns were just a
starting place for creating her own designs. While
living in Japan she studied flat pattern design and tailoring. |
| She has taught sewing and
flat pattern design to children and adults and
written articles on design and construction
techniques. She has also done Costume Design. Many
of her designs & flat pattern techniques are featured in "The Costume Book" by Mary Burke Morris. |
| She currently lives in
Colorado Springs, CO with her husband Jim and two
cats - Zoey and E.J. She has two children, Brian and Susan. |
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