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Instructor
Lisa A. Shanley, Ph.D.
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 and head of the Apparel Design
program at Auburn University for nine years. She taught apparel
patternmaking, grading, garment construction, and apparel
production processes. 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 and president of Wild Ginger Software, Inc.
She began her programming career in 1992 with the development of her very first pattern making program - SchemaCAD for DOS.
She currently lives in Kingston Springs, TN with her husband Paul and four cats Velvet,
Winston, Bella, and PJ.