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Highly creative, passionate, detail orientated & innovative designer.

Industry Skills
Excellent Draping/Pattern Making/Sewing/Fashion Illustration/Technical Drawing/Trend Forecasting/Sourcing/Line Plan

Computer Skills
Photoshop/Illustrator/CS4/U4IA/Microsoft Excel/Work/Powerpoint

INTERNSHIPS
June 2010 -July 2010
Brentano Fabrics
Textile Design/Special Project/Marketing Intern
-Assist CEO and Design Team with day-to-day operations in the design room.
-Organize and maintaining fabric library, design room and sample areas
-Work on fabric archives
-Work in Sample Room--pulling swatches and memos, pack shipments and prepare for shipping
-Work with Head Designer taking their sketches to Illustrator and creating full repeats
-Successfully organized over 204 swatch cards by color for a showroom in Hong Kong
-Maintain the up-keep of the design studio
-During NEOCON 2010 I updated the social media sites, twitter, facebook and flickr

June 2010- July 2010
TLD Design Center & Gallery
Textile/Fiber Artist Intern
Assist Designer with day to day operations in the design room & with Classes
Organize raw materials and samples
Maintain Fiber Art Tools/Equipment
Assist with Textile Fabrication: Weaving, Felting, Machine Knitting

January 2009-April 2009
Kate Boggiano
Fashion Design Intern
Assist the head designer in selecting colors and styles
Preparing samples for Sales Events, Photoshoots etc.
Pattern Layout & Cutting
Work with Tech Packs-Technical Design
Assist with Sales at Events and Showroom

July 2008-December 2008
Sony Pictures: The Beast
Costume/Wardrobe Intern
Assist On/Off Set Costumers
Shopped/Sourced for Looks
Organized Costume Collection

July 2007-March 2008
Michelle Tan
Fashion Design Intern
Assist head designer in daily operations in store/design room
Pattern Layout and Cutting
Hand-sewing of Labels, Hems, Buttons and closures, final touches on Samples & Final Garments
Sales In/Out of Store, Shop Chicago and various other events

Work Experience

June 2008- August 2009
Florodora: A Downtown Boutique
Sales Associate/Cashier
Assist Customers in Merchandise Selection
Arrange In/Out of Store Display
Assist at various Sales Events

February 2008- August 2008
CCC Study Collection
Student Assistant to the Curator
Inventory and Catalogue of Collection
Record into Past Perfect-Online Database
Assist in Photo Documentation of Collection

April 2007- August 2007
Nordstrom B.P.
Cashier
Operate POS Register
Assist Customers in Merchandise Selection
Provide an Accurate & Friendly checkout experience
Help Sales Reach Daily Goal--upsell
Open Nordstrom Accounts/Discount Cards

Honors & Awards
2010
MODEL MAYHEM PHOTO OF THE DAY

2010
Gen Art Plastics Make it Possible
Fashion Design Competition
Top 10 Finalist

2010
Chicago Fashion Foundation
Future of Chicago Fashion
Design Scholarship Finalist

2009
Teen Vogue Fashion University
Selected to Attend 3 Day Event in NYC
Featuring Designers, Stylists and Editors
Fashion Industry Seminar

2008
CEO National: Moderator-Keynote
Selected to Moderate Seminar
Echols Consulting LTD

2008
CCC Literature Art: Showcase
Featured Student Artist
3 Piece Mixed Media Series

2007
OH! Oxygen Mentor Walk
Selected as Future Female Leader
Art & Design: Fashion Design