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Manager, Product Designer
Jazwares
Culver City, CA
Jun 2021 - Present (3 years 6 months)
Client: Walmart, Target, Amazon, Fun.com, Costco, Sam’s Club, Hot Topic, & GameStop
Responsible for the illustrations, making concept sheets, tech packs, sample comments, working on pitch decks for new licenses, presenting concepts to licensors
• Work closely with the VP and Director of design in pets and costumes
• Delegating work to the design team,
• Mentor design team to help them understand construction, manufacturing, and design standards for costumes and pet products.
• Have worked on Licenses costumes, dress up, pet products, & accessories for Marvel, Star Wars, Squishmallows, & Paramount
• Day-to-day operations include reviewing sample quality, sample approval, reviewing FEPs, illustrating, designing form a style guide, with any communicating with product developers and brand team
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Product Developer
Loungefly Funko
Burbank, CA
Mar 2020 - Jun 2021 (1 year 3 months)
Client: Hot Topic, Barns & Nobles, Spencer’s, Just Got Pin, Sanrio, & Disney Parks
• Responsible for creating spec’s for backpacks, coin purse, passport bags, wallets, purses, pins, lanyards, & keychains
• Have worked with Licenses accessories for Disney, Pixar, Star Wars, Marvel, DC, Hello Kitty, Harry Potter, Pokémon, Studio Ghibli, and Friday the 13th
• Day-to-day operations include reviewing sample quality, sample approval, reviewing TOPs, communicating with Asia, buyers and licensors on sample comments, and specs new silhouettes bodies.
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Sr. Designer
Palamon
Irvine, CA
Sep 2015 - Mar 2020 (4 years 6 months)
Client: Walmart, Target, Sam’s Club, Justice, Spirit, Fun.com, & Amazon
• Responsible for the design including Halloween costumes, role play, accessories, and seasonal products
• Create Licenses products for Peppa Pig, Little Tikes, Num Noms, Hotel Transylvania, Zak Storm, Tube Heroes, We Bare Bear,
Assassin’s Creed, American Horror Story, Fingerlings, Peanuts, and Rick and Morty
• Assists Head Designer with workload for tech packs and designs
• Traveling to Asia to communicate with the factories, fabric shopping, and approve samples in person
• Responsible for the design including Halloween costumes, role play, accessories, and seasonal products
• Day-to-day operations include fashion illustrations, tech packs, creating multi-view turns for hard goods, team brainstorming, fashion
trend research, and reviewing sample quality
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Freelance Designer
MGA Entertainment
Van Nuys, CA
May 2015 - Sep 2015 (4 months)
• Design Bratz fashion doll’s clothing and playsets
• Assisting design team with fashion illustrations, toy illustrations, creating multi-view turns for toys, graphics, brainstorming, fashion,
and toy trend
• Day-to-day operations include research with sample makers, checked sample quality, and expected to understand the brand and
character personalities
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Designer
Sky Hosiery Inc.
Alhambra, CA
Mar 2014 - Oct 2014 (7 months)
• Designed Halloween costumes, hosiery, gloves, and lingerie
• Projects entailed mood and inspiration boards, researched fashion trends, competitive products, and sourced textiles
• Responsibilities are Tech packs, flats, fashion illustrations, worked with sample makers, and developed graphics
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Assistant Designer
Honey Punch
Los Angeles, CA
May 2013 - Nov 2013 (6 months)
Client: Nasty Gal, Ocean Drive, and Francesca’s
• Designed Halloween costumes, hosiery, gloves, and lingerie
• Designing contemporary women fashion
• Tech packs, flats, inspiration boards, inventory, sourcing trims and fabrics, worked with knit and woven fabrics, research fashion,
trends, import and domestic samples, assisted lead designer and associate designer