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Learning to cook/bake

Senior Designer/Brand Adviser


•	An experienced performance apparel designer that uses creativity, a sound aesthetic sense, and valuable experience wanting to work with an active brand and make a mark in the industry by using innovation in fabrication, construction, and fit utilizing leading trends.  Willing to relocate domestically or internationally for position.


•	Direct designers on upcoming trends within the active, intimates, sleepwear, and performance categories
•	Create presentations for sales meetings with major retailers 
•	Collaborate with creative director to develop prints, laces, and color stories
•	Update tech packs, sketches, bill of materials, and working documents for upcoming seasons
•	Advise small businesses on factory opportunities, garment construction, fitting process, competitors, and design aesthetics
•	Design customized kits for cycling clubs, companies, and individual riders 

•	Design retail and custom cycling apparel with input from creative director, sales team, and custom apparel customers
•	Utilize customer and athlete feedback to improve existing and new styles by using innovative fabrics and technologies 
•	Establish relationships with new factories and vendors
•	Ensure that deadlines for retail and custom products are met
•	Layout artwork into pattern pieces for sublimation printing

Senior Designer of Cycling

•	Develop Performance Swim (Men’s and Women’s) and Women’s Fashion Swim lines from initial trend research to final production
•	Work closely with sales to ensure designs are meeting market needs
•	Direct print artists so on trend prints are designed and put into repeat
•	Order and track all components for sampling and fit processes
•	Collaborate with fabric vendors to make sure the most innovative product appropriate fabrics are used and are price appropriate
•	Build tech packs to include Tech Sketches, BOMs, and fit comments in Excel (or in NGC)
•	Communicate with production team about timelines, factory requirements, and product status’
•	Generate costing exercises for each new style developed
•	Adhere to calendar deadlines for multiple over-lapping seasons
•	Lead Men’s Designer to assure calendar, production, and sampling dates are met

Senior Designer of Adidas Swim

I held various job titles at Warnaco:
Associate Designer (Speedo Racing)
Assistant Designer (Anne Cole/Op Swim)
Mid-Level Graphic Designer (Private Label Brands and Licensed Brands)

Designer (Speedo Women's)
•	Create concepts for Women's Fitness Swim Category.
•	Select appropriate Prints and colors for each Category (Contemporary Performance and Aquatic Fitness).
•	Manage all Tech Packs in PLM—Super user (instructor and process contributer).
•	Sketch initial concepts, Color-Ups, and Technical Sketches for tech packs using Adobe Ilustrator.
•	Over-see print selection and development by purchasing artwork from studios, directing print artists, creating colorways in  Adobe    Photoshop/Illustrator, and preparing pitch sheets.
•	Meet with vendors to develop new trim/fabrics and approve lab dips/production submits.
•	Fit Contemporary and Missy Styles with emphasis on bust support and comfort in water.
•	Work with technical designers on new technologies and complex interior constructions.


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Find out detailed information about Bre Neidt, Senior Designer/Brand Adviser in Long Beach, CA

Bre Neidt: Senior Designer/Brand Adviser in Long Beach, CA

Bre Neidt

Various

Jaggad

Manhattan Beachwear / The Original Swimwear Company

Warnaco

American College

American College