Sandhya M

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Freelancer / Self-Employed

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Reviews: 2   from 2 Clients
 

Hourly Rate: $30

Jobs Won:1
Jobs Cancelled:0 Help? Longest Job:
2 months

Member Since:May 2010

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Sandhya M
 
Designer, creative writer, research writer, copywriter, event planner

Singapore, Singapore

About Me

I am a fashion designer with over 12 years of comprehensive experience in fashion design, publishing design, creative writing, research writing, costume design, teaching, painting, administration and management.

Areas covered: Singapore

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by Sunil V on 31 Aug 2010

It was a pleasure to work with Sandhya. She was helpful and very professional and accomodating
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Work Experience

Diverse Skill Sets
Design, Retail and Merchandising
• Fashion Design, Product sourcing and visual merchandising for local and international fashion labels.
• Project coordination – Designed and developed product from start to finish. Involved in visual and product merchandising to boost sales.
• Creative and technical consulting for product design, fit analysis and brand launch.
• Responsible for Design and development which included product sourcing from trims to packaging, costing and supplier liaison.
• Managed business operations and export portfolio for clients that the company consulted with.
• Responsible for planning and coordinating exhibitions and fairs to promote the brand.
• Store management for fashion and lifestyle products, which included inventory management, maintaining sales records and training among general managerial duties.
• Planning and managing fashion shows, publicity campaigns, road shows.
Product lines
Casual wear - Ladies and Men’s * Corporate – Ladies, Uniforms * Beachwear - Men’s and boys * Children’s wear - girls and boys * Contemporary – Ladies and girls * Luxury * Fashion Accessories * Lifestyle
Countries
Singapore, Australia, India, USA
• Technical design, merchandising and product coordination.
Product lines
Casual wear - Ladies and Men’s * Corporate – Ladies, Uniforms * Beachwear - Men’s and boys * Children’s wear - girls and boys * Contemporary – Ladies and girls.
• Customer liaisons, organization and execution of tenders for military uniforms and corporate uniforms
• Brand merchandising - Developed branding concept, advertising brochures, liaised with advertising agencies in planning publicity campaigns.
• Research on High-performance fabrics for Government tender offers
Product lines
Military and Corporate uniforms
Countries
Tachlees Inc., New York, USA
• Costume design and wardrobe management for regional feature films, short films and televisions serials – Los Angeles, USA, India

Creative Writing and Media
• Creative and journalistic writing for fashion and travel – “Go” Magazine Singapore * Better Invest group, Canada * Sherman Lambert, USA * Travel website, United Kingdom.
• Translations – Created English to Tamil dictionary for client in United Kingdom (13250 words)
• Scriptwriting and Translations for a documentary film – Persistent Productions, USA.
• Visualisation and creation of advertising concepts for campaigns – MAA Communications and Sasi Advertising, India.
• Research writing and multiple program coordination for a television channel
Real estate and lifestyle based television channel – Space TV, India.
• Illustrations for children’s books – Singapore, United Kingdom
• Art Direction, Publication design, layout and design for books, Illustration,
e-book creation and print management – In10city Pte Ltd. Singapore
Products
Books, Advertising concepts and design, Brand merchandise.

Teaching
• Teaching design software applications to industry professionals – Xincon Technologies, New York, USA.
• Teaching Public speaking and Drama to little children – Acts of Life, Singapore
• Teacher and syllabus coordinator for Art and craft –summer camps, India.

May 2010
Better Investment Group

Articles on real estate investments.-ongoing project

Reviews for this job by:
Client
Randy Bett
Good overall work. Thanks.

Education

Qualifications
Advanced Diploma in Fashion design – La Salle’ International Fashion School, Singapore (1995- 1996)
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) – University of Madras, Chennai, India (1987- 1990)

Other Specializations
Certificate in Corel Draw and 2D Animation – Vector Institute of Visual arts (1995)
Diploma in Fashion Design – India International Trade Centre (1991-1992)
Diploma in Textile Design - Madras Polytechnic for Women (1990-1991)

Proficiencies
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Indesign, CorelDraw, Web PDM, Excel, Word, Publisher, Word Perfect, PowerPoint, Word press, Blogger.

Language Proficiencies
English, Tamil, Hindi.

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