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.
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.
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 cats - Velvet, Mr. Winston, Bella, and PJ.
Karen Campbell - Technical Support
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.