Kathleen Nolan Heady

SUMMARY Dedicated team player with proven success building and managing relationships with co-workers, customers and the general public. Energetic and resourceful, eager to take on new challenges to meet corporate initiatives. Benefited from working at a small company by gaining cross-functional experience in all aspects of the creative and technical processes. Core strengths include: Experienced with product creation for the textile industry from concept, to artwork, to technical execution. * Extensive knowledge in creating repeats and artwork for industry, utilizing Adobe CC Suite and various textile industry software. * Valuable experience in creating concept boards for color and design presentation and inspiration purposes. *Hands on experience with domestic fabric mills * Direct experience with overseas fabric mills and vendors * Fabric work in procion dyes, acid dyes, and Pro-chem pigment * Resist work, direct work, dye bath, silkscreen, silk paint and gouache artwork