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Associate Designer
Freelance
Orange County, CA
Mar 2012 - Present (12 years 8 months)
Womens Footwear, Accessories, and Sportswear. Participated in the design process in all categories of womens products as needed. Sketched cads, created and maintained tech packs, spread sheets, and PLM, and any other tasks needed in Design or Merchandising, to help the design process run smoothly.
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Assistant Designer
Irvine, CA
Sep 2009 - Feb 2012 (2 years 5 months)
Womens Footwear, Accessories, and Apparel. Designed from trend research to production approval. Sketched cads, created technical packages, inspected samples for correctness function and fit, and communicated comments with sourcing team and vendors. Used filing systems; Full Circle and PLM. Responsible for making and keeping track of all style changes and maintenance of sample lines.
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Assistant Designer
Huntington Beach, CA
Sep 2007 - Mar 2008 (6 months)
Womens and Mens Performance Outerwear and Accessories. Sketched styles in Illustrator from Designer’s hand drawn sketches, colored up prints and created swatches in Illustrator, created and shipped color story sheets, updated matrixes and technical packages with fit and visual comments. Responsible for Men’s, and Women’s full sample lines, including organizing, shipping and receiving sample line for events and photo shoots. Responsible for extensive fabric library.
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Fit Model
Huntington Beach, CA
Apr 2006 - Mar 2008 (1 year 11 months)
Womens Sportswear and Performance Outerwear. Modeled garments and provided feedback in development fittings. Learned about the import product development process and technical steps needed to execute quality product for production. Traveled to Hong Kong with design team to meet and fit with vendors.
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Visual Merchandiser/Assistant Buyer
Seal Beach, CA
Aug 2007 - Jan 2008 (5 months)
Womens Footwear, Accessories, Sportswear, and Swim. Solely responsible for the creative visual appearance of all product in the store, including window displays, racks, décor and placement of new product on the sales floor. Assisted the manager with buying to choose merchandise which was best suited for our customers.
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Intern
Huntington Beach, CA
Mar 2007 - Jul 2007 (4 months)
Womens Sportswear. Sketched design options, re-colored cads, and prepared print pitch sheets. Conducted internet-based trend research. Traveled with design and merchandising team to a vendor visit in Hong Kong to fit and update tech packs as changes were made. Organized sales samples, and dressed models for the Holiday 2007 Sales Meeting.
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Sales Associate
Costa Mesa, CA
Nov 2005 - Jun 2006 (7 months)
Womens and Mens Footwear, Accessories, Sportswear, and Swim. Communicated the Quiksilver Spirit and helped customers feel welcome. Operated the cash register and assisted customers in selecting merchandise for themselves and as gifts. Became more familiar with Action Sports Industry target customer and product.