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Instructional Shop Technician II
CSULB
Long Beach, CA
Dec 2019 - Present (4 years 11 months)
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Laser Lab Technician
Pasadena, CA
Jan 2017 - Dec 2019 (2 years 11 months)
Orientating students with machines and best practices
Solving issues with files
Laser cutter maintenance
Graphic design for the shop (informational signage for students)
Social media management
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Model Builder
Penwal Industries
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Nov 2016 - Feb 2017 (3 months)
Airbrushing models
Producing high fidelity components for models (milling, using the lathe, hand cutting,etc.)
Making jigs to expedite model making processes
Translating blueprints for measurements
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Industrial Design student
California College of the Arts
San Francisco, CA
Sep 2012 - May 2016 (3 years 8 months)
Industrial Design Student
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Design Intern
Pottery Barn
San Francisco, CA
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015 (2 months)
Mood board creation
Concept development
Concept presentations to design team
Tech packs for manufacturing
Sketching
Tools Used: Photoshop, AI, Large format printers, Outlook, Google Apps
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Industrial Designer
+one
San Francisco, CA
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015 (1 month)
3D from development and material renderings
Materials research
Model making
Tools Used: Lathe, Keyshot, SolidWorks
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Production Assistant
Kate Koppel Design
San Francisco, CA
Aug 2014 - Nov 2014 (3 months)
Cutting down wood panels for laser cutting
Finishing record dividers ( sanding, filling, )
Packaging products for shipping
Tools Used: Table saw, Sander
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Visual Stylist
Bloomingdale's
San Francisco, CA
Sep 2009 - Aug 2012 (2 years 11 months)
Designing interior environments to make vendors pop
Concept development
Installing exciting and engaging window displays to push store campaigns
Graphic design
Driving trend statements through well executed mannequin styling
Managing team installations and concept building meetings
Assessing weekly signage reports
Collaborating with my team to enhance company directives
Tools Used: Heat gun, Paint, Various types of rigging, Drills
Awards: Save Our Sales, Be the Best, Golden B
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Plumbing Associate
The Home Depot
Bakersfield, CA
Jul 2008 - Jun 2009 (11 months)
Stocking merchandise
Assisting customers
Setting displays for seasonal merchandise
Walking on hand reports
Training new associates
Mixing paint
Awards: Golden Apron, Silver Apron
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Visual Stylist
Bloomindales
Chevy Chase, MD
Aug 2007 - May 2008 (9 months)
Creating looks for men's, women's formal dresses, women's coats, swim, cosmetics And fragrances.
Designing interior environments to make vendors pop
Concept development
Installing exciting and engaging window displays to push store campaigns
Creating graphics
Driving trend statements through well executed mannequin styling
Managing team installations and concept building meetings
Assessing weekly signage reports
Collaborating with my team to enhance company direcctives
Awards: You Rock,I was part of the opening team for this particular Bloomingdale's. some of the looks that I created were featured in one of the seasonal DVD's that contained the best of for Bloomingdale's
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Display Artist
Urban Outfitters
Jan 2007 - May 2007 (4 months)
Building walls
Adapting seasonal changes for my store
Painting
Wallpapering
Silk screening windows with graphics
Building shadow boxes and various other items to hold merchandise
Wiring lights
Building scaled versions of rooms
Purchasing and maintaining a purchase log for materials needed and purchased
Ordering lumber
Traveling to other stores to assist and train new display artists
Maintaining tools
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Freelance Display Artist
Urban Outfitters
Feb 2005 - Nov 2006 (1 year 9 months)
Traveling to stores to aid in the building of displays
Training new display artists
Painting
Wallpapering
Building props
Building rooms to a smaller scale
Silk screening
Maintaining tools
Purchasing lumber and other building materials
Filling out order reports
Photo recaps
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Housewares Manager/ Operations Manager
Urban Outfitters
Jun 2004 - Jan 2005 (7 months)
Training new associates
Merchandising my department
Cycle counts
Unpacking freight
Payroll
Inputting hours
Scheduling my employees
Maintaining a safe and productive workplace
Floor moves
Opening new stores
Filling out incident reports
Catching and dealing with shoplifters
Balancing the safe
Making deposits to the bank
Filling out banking audits
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Receiver Promoted to Housewares Manager
Urban Outfitters
Mar 2003 - Jun 2004 (1 year 3 months)
Receiving new goods
Processing and censoring new goods
Weekly cycle counts
Transferring goods to other stores
Filling out transfer slips and inputting into a central log
Weekly calls to out corporate office to go over cycle counts numbers and discrepancies
Training new employees on loss prevention and operational procedures
Catching and processing shoplifters
Balancing the safe
Filling out banking logs
Payroll
Schedules
Photo recaps
Assisting customers with purchases
Walking the floor to assist in productivity
Opening new stores