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Associate of Arts Degree, Fashion Design- Graduated June2014- FIDM

Junior Designer
TravisMathew Apparel
February 2014 – Present Huntington Beach, CA

Assist the Design Director and Sr. Designer with full men’s lifestyle collections; categories ranging from: polo shirts, pants/shorts, outerwear, woven shirts, knits, fleece and denim.
• Prepare and send detailed tech packages and art files to vendors for all categories
• Follow-up and comment on overseas production of garment samples from proto to SMS
• Work with tech designer on all specs and fit
• Responsible for cad creation, revision and SMU cad creation requests from the sales team
• Attend all fittings and send a note review caption.
• Track changes made through design process
• Collaborate with the team and assist in the season kick-off boards
• Design styles for each season in Illustrator.

Pre-Production Coordinator
Hybrid Apparel
August 2013 – February 2014 Cypres, CA

Worked in a unique function where design and Production crossed.
• Work directly with the product developer and designer to gather information in order to execute a completed tech pack
• Follow up with lab dips, strike offs, fit samples and pre-production samples with vendors
• Attend hand off meetings to ensure production team has all information to start production

Development and Manufacturing
The Walt Disney Company
January 2011 – August 2013 Fullerton, CA

Part of a multi-functional team, which designs, develops and manufactures costumes for Disney parks worldwide
• Create all graphics and prints for fabric development, follow up with vendors to ensure accurate strike-offs
• Set up and maintain tech-packs for international and domestic vendors, document and track all vendor samples
• Assisted the Patternmaker in draping and first patterns for all new development and redesigned characters
• Assist the designer with storyboards, fabric development, and studio buy-offs
• Manage purchase orders for fabrics from the beginning of development to end of production
• Keep in constant contact with our vendors for pricing, delivery dates, lab dips, shipping, payment and customs clearance
• Attend trade shows to source fabrics for new and redevelopment fabrics
• Work in SAP to analyze yields for replenishment fabrics on upcoming orders per fiscal quarter

Design and Merchandise Internship
Cleveland Golf/ Cleveland Classics Apparel
June 2010 – December 2010 Huntington Beach, CA

Part of a dynamic and creative design team that specializes in men’s active wear golf apparel
• Assist the designer in organizing swatches, sketch files and garment samples.
• Collaborate with designer to create color-ups of existing artwork as well as original print patterns in Illustrator/ photoshop
• Assisted the designer in fabric development for active wear knits
• Assisted in creating tech pack illustrations

Designer (Freelance)
Aimee`
September 2009 – June 2010 Long Beach, CA

Designed and created fashions for a new line of clothing for plus size young women
• Composed all tech-packs which included specific details about fit, fabrics, trims and flats
• Duties ranged from performing market research, developing creative and innovative designs, conceptualized mood boards
• Conducted daily fittings and partnered with patternmakers to ensure accurate specs and fit of garments
• Sourced and purchased all fabrics, notions and trims for the fall clothing collection

Designer
Naked Zebra
January 2009 – September 2009 Los Angeles, CA

Part of design team creating a young contemporary line for a wholesale fashion company
• Responsible for all development, which included sample tracking, fit comments, lab-dips and artwork approval
• Traveled overseas to China to communicate with factories, source fabric and trims, and follow up with new and current garment production
• Executed designated styles from inception to completion while maintaining consistent communication with vendors and department managers in order to meet tight deadlines

Costume Production Assistant (Music and Lyrics)
Warner Bros. Studios
January 2006 – July 2006 New York, NY

Closely monitored the execution of shooting schedule to ensure costume production/availability was on schedule
Sourced trims and fabrics needed to create all costumes for entire film
Showcased knowledge of fashion, costuming, and budgets when purchasing $50,000 of apparel and accessories
Demonstrated flexibility when asked to perform a variety of tasks both on and off set