I started my career in retail with JC Penney when they were in New York City and moved to the wholesale side where I really developed my education in the fashion supply chain. The interesting piece of this is that although I was involved in buying, sales, marketing, sourcing, logistics, and quality assurance, I had no idea at the time that these were all links in the supply chain. Today, all the various departments that interact with the product, from ideation to consumer, are considered integral links in that chain. When I moved over to academia after my last position with an Irish linen company, I decided to write the textbook Fashion Supply Chain Management, having identified a void in that space in education. I developed the outline and pitched it to Fairchild Books who had previously published my textbook Menswear: Business to Style and I was off, but due to administrative pressures at LIM, I needed help, so I brought on a second author. Trust me, I use the term expert lightly as there is so much to learn about the supply chain and with changes in technology and software platforms, there is literally something new every day. So that term to me is relative.