Freelance Designer
May 2010 - present

Clients:
• Team wear mfr
• Triathlon Performance Apparel – high performance cycling and triathlon clothing
• A range of private clients via PPH, logos, t-shirt prints, sewing, bag prototyping
• Quantum Lingerie - Nightwear designer for M&S and Boux Avenue (new brand of Theo Paphitis)
• Caged Steel - MMA fight-wear clothing design, logo design, web design (not live yet), various marketing material
• SPEG - Cycling wear brand, clothing design project
• Sew-You - logo & web design (my design no longer online, customer decided to do their own), marketing, start up support
• Flacks Fitness - designing new club merchandise T-shirts and Hoodies, designed marketing poster to promote classes
• Stevia-shop.co.uk – brand identity/ web site/ packaging


Product Designer for ALTURA
August 2008 - May 2010 ZYRO LTD [distributor to the cycling industry], Thirsk

- Design and development of ALTURA Technical Bikewear products
- Men's/ Women's and Kids clothing & accessories
- Concept development for Road biking, MTB, leisure and commuter range
- Meeting the needs of the end user, while taking into consideration construction, colour,
materials, aesthetics, price and brand objectives
- Create highly detailed specs & production packs including size charts
for garments, trims and graphics reducing initial development time of prototypes
- Detailed instruction on unique product features guiding supplier to solve production issues
- Full concept development and design for new in house high end urban bag brand
- Shop reports and competitor market analysis
- Trim: concept, design and development, Branding: development, concept, names and logos
- Adhering to brand guideline with an eye to detail
- Daily contact with factories, keeping a close eye on hitting key dates in the development calendar
- Conduct fit sessions assessing fit and aesthetic appearance
- Coordinate user trails to test function and fit
- Liaising & negotiating with factory on pricing, development of designs till production stage
- Approving all garment construction, fit and quality and production strike-offs
- one of my shorts design got top marks in two magazine product reviews in July 2010 (articles on request)



Production Manager
August 2007 - Aug.2008 Lambton Tailoring LTD [sister company of Com Plan Technology], Leeds

- Day to day communication with factories
- Liaising with factory on prices
- Work under own initiative
- Capable of working under extreme pressure
- Booking manufacturing capacity
- Planning production schedules
- Manage critical path
- Managing sample and bulk production
- Arrange shipping of bulk
- Ensure that all components are at the factory for CMT production runs
- Visiting various factories around Europe to ensure production runs on time
- Quality checks at factory as well as on all samples
- Liaising with customer on product/ production progress
- Retain records for billing/ reconciliation and signing off invoices
- Sourcing/ buying of trim and cloth
- Additionally, I continued Garment Technologist duties
- Assign work i.e. Pattern cutting, spec writing etc.



Garment Technologist
May 2007 - Aug. 2007 Com Plan Technology, Leeds

- Working on mainly traditional tailored products [men's and women's]
- Writing specification documents
- Measuring, checking quality and creating fit logs
- Liaising with customers, factories and sales team
- Creating costing markers using Assyst
- Calculating cloth usage
- Ordering of fabric and trimmings
- Progressive problem solving
- Managing critical path
- Graded size charts



Design Room Assistant / Junior Pattern Cutter
Sept. 2006 - Feb. 2007 Bluenile London, London

- Producing and amending patterns for prototypes and production
- Liaising with designers and sample machinists
- Working on both jerseys and woven
- Customers include: TopShop, River Island, ASOS,
Jane Norman and Sisters Point
- Assisting the Garment Technologist
- Measuring samples
- Checking fit and quality
- Coordinating sample production, following and updating critical path
- Producing specifications