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Designer / Technical Designer
New York, NY
Sep 2015 - Present (8 years 11 months)
-Designed Men's line from concept to final product.
-Managed business finances, marketing and design development including technical designing.
-Created and successfully launched website and e-commerce.
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Designer / Technical Designer
TrHust™ Clothing, LLC.
New York, NY
Dec 2012 - Present (11 years 8 months)
- Established business finance plans, brand concepts, and intellectual property.
- Designed Men's line from concept to final product. Including technical spec work, proto and sales sample development, line planning, source managing, buying and imports. Performed trend research, color story, and theme development.
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Designer
Camden, NJ
Sep 2016 - Jan 2017 (4 months)
-Designed and produced T-Shirts for Winter 2017 NJCORE “Telling Our Story” Project.
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Associate Technical Designer
New York, NY
Mar 2015 - Sep 2015 (6 months)
-Created technical packages and construction detail sketches.
-Supported fit approval process, concentrating on fit and construction.
-Prepared designers for fit sessions, evaluated samples, wrote comments and communicated daily with overseas vendors.
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Associate Technical Designer - Knits
New York, NY
Jan 2009 - Nov 2012 (3 years 10 months)
Brand: Blue Label CYO, Black/Purple Label, RLX Men's and Women's
- Responsible for creating and managing tech packs from initial hand-off through final stock approval.
- Solved development issues including pattern corrections and fit/construction of samples.
- Produced detail sketches, logo placement for construction, and How To diagrams/manuals.
- Created new graded spec standards and Communicated with vendors overseas to solve daily production issues.
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Technical Designer/ Designer
Headgear Sportswear Inc.
Virginia Beach, VA
Dec 2007 - Jun 2008 (6 months)
Brand: Blac Label Premium, Simple Mathematics, Gun Metal, and True Ambition Footwear
- Created and managed trim packages, sales catalogs, and technical packages of all company brands.
- Developed new trims, stitches, prints, embellishments, sketches, techniques, and selected fabric washes.
- Trained designers to create production ready artwork, vector re-draws, color separations, and spec measurements.
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Assistant Designer
Virginia Beach, VA
Jan 2006 - Jan 2008 (2 years)
Brand: Azzure’ Denim - Imperial Junkie
- Performed graphic design duties including creating garment flats, trims, and seamless patterns.
- Updated specs, technical sketches, CAD’s, and developed denim washes. Responsible for sample development including fabric trim sourcing, and sample approval comments.