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| Desired Industry: Apparel/Fashion/Sewing |
SpiderID: 29460 |
| Desired Job Location: portsmouth, New Hampshire |
Date Posted: 11/6/2009 |
| Type of Position: Full-Time Permanent |
Availability Date: END OF NOVEMBER |
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U.S. Work Authorization: Yes |
| Job Level: Experienced with over 2 years experience |
Willing to Travel: Yes, Less Than 25% |
| Highest Degree Attained: Bachelors |
Willing to Relocate: No |
Objective:
Actively seeking opportunities as a Graphic
Designer in which I may utilize
my talent, education and experience.
Experience:
EXPERIENCE: BAUER
August 2009 - Present
Freelance Apparel Graphic
Designer
(Apparel Design Department)
Greenland, NH
*Designing graphics for tees, sweats and caps for
the Men’s and Kids’ hockey apparel.
NEW BALANCE
September 2009 - Present
Freelance Apparel Graphic
Designer
(Apparel Design Department)
Brighton, MA
*Designing graphics tees for the Men’s and
Women’s Running and Fitness apparel.
TIMBERLAND
October 2009 - Present
Freelance Graphic Designer
(Licensing Department)
Stratham, NH
*Designing apparel look
boards for Women’s licensed apparel.
CONVERSE, INC.
February 2006 - May 2009
Kids’ Footwear Designer
(Footwear Design Department)
North Andover, MA
* My Adults’ grunge plaid Chuck Taylors have been
featured in the movie “Juno” worn by the main
character Ellen Page. They have also been featured
in August, 2007 issue of Teen Vogue magazine in
the “Back To School Shoe Special” section featuring
the top 29 coolest back to school shoes.
* My Men’s military eagle Chuck Taylors were worn
by commentator Ernie Johnson who co-hosted
TNT’s NBA show “NBA on TNT” with Charles
Barkley.
* Chosen to design a skull printed Chuck Taylor to
be worn by one of the main characters in the
popular video game “Guitar Hero”.
* My top selling graphics packages have been major
volume drivers for Converse.
(These packages were each sold in one season.)
- Flames pack 100K pair sold
- Skull flames pack 75K pair sold
- Heart Breaker pack 75K pair sold
- Girl‘s glitz foil pack 75K pair sold
* Designed engineered and repeat graphics and
material packages for the Chuck Taylor Adults’ and
Kids’ lines in addition to designing for the Special
Make Up (SMU) team which services such accounts
as Footlocker, Famous Footwear, Sears, J.C. Penney
and Journeys among others. Five of my Chuck
Taylor print packages, in both Adults’ and Kids’,
were top gross sellers for the company, and, in
some cases, the Kids’ prints were taken up into
Adults‘ collections.
* Designed Kids’ footwear for the Sports Authentics
business (Converse Court & Running franchises) as
well as designed all Kids‘ product for the Jack
Purcell (Premium) line.
*Footwear design responsibilities included new
creation footwear, new uppers, color ups, material
and trim selection, blueprint and upper pattern
revisions, designing to cost, creating detailed
techpacks, and for thoroughly communicating ideas
and concepts appropriately through U.S.
development team to factories in China.
* Experience with small parts and hazardous
materials testing regarding Kids’ product.
* Experience performing trend and market research
involving: Visiting key accounts to gain a better
understanding of what product is selling well and
what is not, and to highlight areas for
improvement. Gaining a better sense of competitor
product in the marketplace, and to better
understand the direction the market is traveling
towards in regards to new seasonal themes and
fashion trends. And lastly, traveling both
domestically and internationally to research our
core consumers, new key silhouettes and
constructions, new graphics and color themes, as
well as new material executions.
TIMBERLAND June
2002-October 2005
Men’s Apparel Graphics
Designer
(Apparel Design Department)
Stratham, NH
* Designed apparel graphic packages from initial
concept to bulk production across all Men’s
categories of apparel including graphic tees, knits,
wovens, sweats, outerwear and bottoms.
Packages included but were not limited to, center
front chest and side seam graphics, lower back hem
prints, graphic embroideries, and inner lining
artwork.
* Solid knowledge of screen printing techniques
including sublimation printing, water based inks,
metallic and rainbow foil printing, discharge
printing, high density printing, puff printing, RF
weld appliqués etc.
* Designed and developed trims consecutively
season after season in-house,
saving the company thousands of dollars not
having to depend on an outside vendor.
* Rendered hand sketches of apparel silhouettes in
Illustrator to create product briefs for techpacks to
be sent to China for development. Updated all
product color briefs, black and white detail
sketches as well as all graphic package techpacks.
* Attended fit sessions with development.
* Conducted product handoffs with Merchandising
and Product Development teams.
* Solid knowledge of PDM (Product Data
Management) software.
Education:
EDUCATION: Notre Dame College
2001-2002
Manchester, NH
(Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts with a concentration
in Graphic Design and Illustration)
Mount Ida College 1998-2001
The Chamberlayne School of Design &
Merchandising
Newton, MA
(Associate’s degree in Graphic Design)
Skills:
SOFTWARE: Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Word
PDM – Product Data Management
Additional Information:
* Excellent creativity and the
ability to translate ideas into market appropriate
graphics packages.
* Exceptional versatility and
adaptability.
* Very detail oriented.
* Dedication and drive as a hard-working individual
who also thrives in a team environment.
Reference:
Available upon request.
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