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Contract Designer

Seasoned fashion and active apparel designer who thrives in fast-paced, high-energy environments. Brings creativity, organization and a can-do attitude to all individual and cross-functional projects.

•	Designed Women’s Active & Contemporary collections for three consecutive seasons
•	Develop color palette & present trend/silhouette inspiration for seasonal collections
•	Work directly with Owner to ensure design vision is reflected in each seasonal collection 
•	Help analyze current market condition to identify opportunities and propose new product characteristics, assortment, & color merchandising
•	Collaborate with Technical Design & Production Manager to accurately convey design concept through initial proto development

C l i e n t  L i s t :
OMsignal Biometric Smartwear, Montreal, Canada
• Design support-top & bra concepts for initial launch of Women’s collection, Spring 2016
• Advise in-house textile team on design development of Men’s seamless & cut-and-sew designs for Spring 2016 & work directly with CPO on new brand collaborations

Betabrand, San Francisco, CA	 						   
• Partner with Product Development Director to design concepts for Spring 2016 Skort Collection

BOKWA Fitness, Los Angeles, CA									
• Design Women’s & Men’s Performance & Layering collection for Spring/Summer 2016, initiating overall trend, color, fabric & concept direction
• Examine current market & existing product line to create seasonal line plan & color merchandize assortment

Freelance Apparel Designer

•Helped to design and manage Women’s Jackets & Woven Bottoms categories for four seasonal collections
•Researched market trends to provide seasonal concept & silhouette direction 
•Partnered with in-house & overseas production team to develop product and meet calendar deadlines
•Created CADs, technical sketches & BOMs for tech pack upload into Enovia PLM 
•Attended fit sessions to ensure accurate design vision execution & tech pack revision updates
•Worked with Design & Tech Design teams to create accurate tech pack for initial proto development across categories: Sweaters, Swimwear, Dresses, Seamless, Woven Tops/Bottoms, & Knit Tops/Bottoms

Freelance Designer

• Designed Women’s & Men’s Performance, Lounge/Layering and Accessories collections for 10 consecutive seasons, bringing over 100% growth in three years time
• Created initial tech packs including technical sketches, bill of materials, construction notes and artwork layout and placement information and passed to production team in order to meet critical deadlines
• Worked alongside Senior Designer to develop new fabric and trims, held responsible for evaluation, commenting & tracking of all new development
• Worked directly with Production Managers and in-house Technical Designer to ensure successful development of product
• Prepared trend research, developed seasonal concept theme and silhouette inspiration for upcoming seasonal collections
• Analyzed product lines and their place in the market in order to identify gaps and made recommendations to Founder on product characteristics necessary to fill gaps
• Helped to develop library systems including: color lab-dip, print standard, approved color standard and trim
• Recruited and mentored two design interns in apparel design and product development

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Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign