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Design Skills:
Assemble market data on key fashion trends. Interpret fashion vision and trends into successful product lines for all market tiers. Create and present trend and concept boards,
color, and graphic direction. Design from concept stage, color, fabric development silhouettes, and fit, brand integrity, and merchandising. Thorough knowledge of garment construction. Travel domestically and overseas for product development, sourcing, and trend research.

Work Experience:

Haus of Grey, Los Alamitos, CA
Senior Technical Designer - September 2018 - Present
Sep 2018 - Present (3 Years)
• Senior Technical Designer for Lifestyle Golf Apparel Company.
• Manage Men's and Women's Technical Design
• Created a more efficient fit sample process, as needed for crossfunctional categories
• Managed to reduce the number of fit samples by styles significantly, from 4 to 1
• Create style-specific tech packs, specs, and BOM's
• Review first proto, check-in specs, fit on live models and convey comments to factories on the first fit through bulk production from PPS to TOP
• Tech pack development for all Haus of Grey Labels including Matte Grey, Heather Grey, and Matte Black
• Coordinate, and conduct fit sessions with the various cross-functioning product lines and across multiple sizes
• Initial tech-pack for development using Illustrator, developing cads, developing specs create BOM using excel, for all categories that included polos, woven and knit jackets, woven bottoms, outerwear including full-fashioned sweaters, and update tech packs as needed throughout the design and development process.
• QC on shipments received from overseas vendors, full-size run, report findings to Creative Director/Owner
• Develop Company Catalogs using InDesign for all Haus of Grey Lines including Matte Grey, Heather Grey, and Matte Blvck.
• Collateral for Sales that included the design and layout for product displays, and layout for special accounts that included website hero pages, featured styles that were brand specific for that account.
• SMU for green grass accounts, including special requests for embroidery, screen-prints, create line sheets, follow up with tech packs for SMU projects, that included polos, hats, screened tees, and other requested items.
• Update and maintain the company website (Shopify)
• Develop eBlasts and send out for company announcements that included the release of all new products, website sales, and company announcements regarding new product

Sublitex - Luna Jai
Technical Designer
Worked collaboratively with VP of Merchandising and Designer for Yoga company.
• Allocate and Assemble tech packs from development stages through production
• Work closely with design and product development teams and be the liaison with the head of the production as well as import and domestic vendors
• Facilitate sampling process of apparel styles from design concept - through prototype to a final, production-ready sample
• Offer solutions to correct fit and construction details for challenging styles when needed
• Manage the preparation of matrices for handover to production
• Lead the creation of block library of patterns to maintain fit consistency within product categories
• Act as a point of contact for vendors, to ensure calendar deadlines
• Identify and alert design and production teams of potential production, quality, and costing issues and make recommendations to ensure brand integrity is maintained
• Lead fittings on live-models
• Follow through with daily correspondence with import factories, sending and tracking comments and follow up on prototypes when needed, ensuring calendar deadlines are met
• Manage fit process, fitting illustrating pattern corrections and style comments using Excel, Illustrator, and Photoshop
• Strong background working with performance and lifestyle knit fabrics
• Catalog layout

Buffalo David Bitton
Design Manager
Collaborated with Creative Director of Women’s sportswear categories ranging from Sweaters, Knit and Woven Tops, Knit and Woven Bottoms, Dresses, casual bottoms and fleece fashion, Jackets and Outerwear. Present trend research, trend direction and inspiration, silhouette, and color. Supervised, managed, and directed team members including in-house graphic artists, assistant designers, associate designers, and technical designers.
• Computer Illustrated sketches and spec details for initial protos
• Worked with agents/factories locally & overseas.
• Lead fittings on live models
• Followed up sample development through trips to Hong Kong (2x per year)
• Maintained WIP reports: initial protos through production
• Prepared Seasonal catalog: 4x per year using InDesign for design and layout
• Prepared PowerPoint Presentations reflecting the inspiration for the season: 2x per year
• Shopped the market and conducted creative research for new ideas and processes
• Travel overseas market research and design development

JNCO Jeans, Inc.
Senior Designer for Girls & Boys Infant - 4-6x Sportswear
Launched new lines for the Children’s Division for Young Men’s company. The focus of the division was to design and develop Sportswear separates for the mid-range market that sold at Mervyn’s JcPenny, and Sears. All development was done overseas.
• Designer for Boy’s Infant – 4-6x Denim & Sportswear Line
• Designer for Girl’s Infant – 4-14 Denim & Sportswear Line
• Computer Illustrated sketches and spec details for initial protos
• Worked with agents/factories locally & overseas.
• Managed fittings and directed corrections and revisions to agents/factories
• Shopped the market and creative research for new ideas and denim processes

Teaze Of California
Senior Designer for Infant & Toddler
• Designer for Infant, Toddler and 4-14 Sportswear: Private Label for Target, and Mervyn’s
• Designer for 4-14 Sportswear Separates and Dresses for ‘Borderline’ Label
• Shopped the market for new silhouette ideas and print processes
• Develop and source fabrics, prints, trims, dye, and screenprint techniques
• Coordinate with in-house pattern makers, sample makers, assistant designers, and graphic artists on the full development of line, including salesmen and buyers samples.

SWAT-Fame
Designer/Merchandising Associate
Sportswear Separates, Dresses, and Co-ordinates for Newborn, Infant, Toddler through 4-16
• Designer for Newborn and Infant Line “L.A. Baby” sold exclusively at Mervyn’s
• Designer for Newborn, Infant Toddler “Luv, Hugs & Kisses”, sold exclusively at Nordstrom’s, Macy’s, and Bloomingdale's
• Designer for Girls Infant, Toddler, 4-6x Private label exclusively for Mervyn’s
• Hand Illustrated sketches and follow up with pattern makers, and sewers
• Meet with a variety of vendors to develop new trims, fabrics, appliques, denim washes
• Managed fittings, worked with pattern makers 1st through production
• Shopped the market and conducted creative research for new ideas and processes
• Travel overseas market research and design development

Samantha Jo & Company/Global Kids, Commerce, CA
Assistant Designer - January 1989 - August 1995
Sportswear Separates and Co-ordinates for Girls & Boys
Associate Designer for Girls Infant - 7-14 sportswear

Freelance: Fashion Design, Technical Design & Consultant - September 2009 - Present
Swimwear: Design capsule themes, design bodies, prints, layout
GWG - Girls with Guns Design, Graphics, Prints, Catalog Layout
Shaun White - for Target - Infant Toddler Design Development, Presentation Boards
Gap and Old Navy: Design for various categories for Girls/Boys: Infant - Toddler
Sunset Brands: Skechers Backpack design and development for Twinkle Toes Brand
Blue Tattoo: Men’s and Women’s Development, Design, Catalog, and Presentation
Crystal Rock: Denim and Pocket Design, and presentations