Experience

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  Life's little treasures

  Oct 2012 - Dec 2012

  Sales associate

  Children's Boutique/selling children's and babies clothing

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  Target

  Oct 2013 - Jun 2014

  Merchandise flow team member

  Overnight Duties: Unloaded Truck & placed boxes on palettes; Distribute items throughout the store in the locations they belong to; Zoned items to look full.

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  Hot kiss/first kiss

  May 2015 - Jul 2015

  Junior fashion design intern

  Sketched flat technical sketches using Adobe Illustrator; Took pictures of apparel and uploaded the photos onto the computer to rename the files.Folded bought stock & stored them away; Hung apparel by style and sizes in the closet.

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  Loungehouse/pajama drama - a division of dreamwave llc

  Feb 2016 - May 2016

  Girls sleepwear and intimates | design assistant intern

  Assisted and worked closely with VP of Design in day to day tasks; Designed prints and silhouettes for various collections by copying over previous sketches and altering it to match new style bodies; Prepared technical sketches using Adobe Illustrator and helped with production art set ups ( artwork); Prepared CADs for market meetings with national retailers.Pulled prints from developed CADs and organized them into print files; Created & scaled repeat patterns; Inputted style number and season data into Excel Workbook.Assisted in creating trend boards; Assisted in creating color story boards; Cut fabric swatches with pinking shears for color story and Mounted down fabric swatches; Prepared fabric swatches to send out to factories. Show less

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  The children's place

  Dec 2016 - Dec 2016

  Freelance design assistant

  Sorted & organized samplesCopied & pastes images in Adobe & saved them to populate systemsPrinted & prepared boards & other materials for market week

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  Aden & anais, inc.

  Feb 2017 - Aug 2017

  Babies and infants | freelance operations assistant

  Responsible for providing administrative & processing support to the Operations & Logistics team.Managed day to day operations of selected retail accounts: Wal-Mart, Target, Macy’s, Bloomingdales, Kroger, Fred Meyer.Accurately executed on all routing procedures associated with retail accounts.

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  Aeropostale

  Aug 2017 - Nov 2017

  Freelance production assistant | women's knits

  Supported the team with administration work, data entry, sample tracking, purchase order tracking.Logged in comments in comment charts from design team; Searched styles, tech packs, etc. in PLM.Maintained WIP reports.Prepped packages & checked for packages in mailroom.Assisted with maintaining fabric library for all departments; Updated fabric boards for the fabrics department.

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  Jet

  Nov 2017 - May 2018

  Pets | freelance vendor acquisition manager

  E-Commerce Procedures: Supported the Pets department in helping vendors get their items published on site.Supported pets department in various projects such as PDP clean up, titles clean up, creating tickets for site issues & keeping track of the tickets created.

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  One jeanswear group

  Jun 2018 - Mar 2020

  Macy’s and wal-mart private label – women’s | product execution assistant

  Responsible for requesting, tracking, receiving and managing Style & Co, Charter Club, I.N.C, Maison Jules, and Karen Scott advertising samples for Macy's as well as Sofia Vergara & Scoop advertising samples for Wal-Mart; Frequently used Centric PLM for requesting sample needs; Actively followed up with factories overseas via email on status of advertising samples to make sure account due dates are met.Maintained weekly WIP reports and tracking charts from overseas factories to keep department up to date with samples.Followed up with Macy's and Wal-Mart accounts daily with updates via email when they need status of their advertising samples.Checked Macy's TOP samples for accuracy of buttons, rivets, belts, threads, zippers, color using Bill of materials (BOM) files in Centric PLM.Commented and approved or rejected lab dips for Charter Club and Maison Jules accounts. Show less

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  Adjmi apparel group

  Jul 2020 - Feb 2021

  Champion kids | sample & production coordinator

  Created Ad and Top sample requirement charts for the season using quantity recap files and used as a tool to communicate with the overseas factories on deadlines.Received Ad and Top samples from overseas factories and reviewed the samples for graphic placement measurements; Measured any other detail of samples if necessary; Reviewed samples for correct colors comparing them against approved lab dips and strike offs; Checked for any type of damage and discrepancies on samples.Reviewed TOP samples for accuracy of UPC ticketing information using AS400. Show less

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  Inmocean

  Mar 2021 - Jan 2022

  Wal-mart private label – kids swimwear | production coordinator

  Created WIP charts and packaging charts in the beginning of production order stages for Wonder Nation girls/ boys and Wonder Nation baby/toddler.Created purchase orders from order summary files using Blue Cherry.Received strike offs, lab dips, shade bands, trims, mock up samples, aesthetic review samples, TOP and keeping samples from overseas offices and proceeded with CTL approval procedure or internal procedure.Consistently communicated with overseas offices with heavy follow ups on CTL reports, strike offs, lab dips, shade bands, and sample status’s .Checked hang tag, swift tacks, hangers, and care labels on samples for accuracy of approved information as well as checking samples for any visible discrepancies and called out to overseas by using photos and describing the issues. Show less

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  G-iii apparel group

  Jan 2022 - May 2022

  Calvin klein performance | women’s cut and sew knitwear –outerwear | product sample manager

  Managed sample log for 100+ styles for SMS, Design proto and Special cut samples; Steamed and photographed all SMS samples and sent mass email to teams for review; Organized SMS samples by fabric group and color in the showroom and placed them in their designated areas.Managed sample log for 100+ styles for SMS, Design proto and Special cut samples; Steamed and photographed all SMS samples and sent mass email to teams for review; Organized SMS samples by fabric group and color in the showroom and placed them in their designated areas.Managed special PVH sample requests by requesting samples from factories and actively following up until samples arrived.Coordinated with the company photo studio on photo sample sending and status/ sent photo samples to the photo studio. Created CADs in Adobe Illustrator based on special cut sheets pulling sketches from line sheets, recoloring solid apparel bodies, recoloring prints, and rearranging layouts. Show less

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  Centric brands

  Sept 2022 - Feb 2023

  Girls dresses – pastourelle | associate manager, product development

  Department was cut from Centric Brands - Laid offManaged, reviewed, approved, and gave detailed comments on product development submissions including lab dips, strike-offs, trims, final bulk approvals, and pre-production samples and sent the comments to overseas factories.Thoroughly reviewed pre-production samples on dress forms with technical designer to make any callouts on workmanship and noticeable fit issues.Created and maintained internal master comment log charts on each style for development submissions; Filed physical development submissions by style and season.Coordinated closely with Designer, VP of Division, and Disney Product Ambassador to utilize Disney approval systems (OPA) to upload character items to receive Disney comments and approvals.Managed creating fabric packets from cut fabric and style component information from in house sewing/cutting team and requested fabric detail sheets from factories for fabric content information.Utilized FlexPLM to assign style numbers to new styles, create line sheets, aid in the creation of tech packs, and update BOMs when needed. Show less

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  Theory

  Jun 2023 - Nov 2023

  Women’s mainline | freelance product development associate

  Partnered with PD managers to communicate daily with factories on all proto and SMS sample development.Built BOMs in Centric PLM using pattern maker’s cutter’s must and trim chart for in house Proto and SMS requests.Maintained Air table WIP charts and managed all Proto and SMS sample delivery dates.Tracked the proto, SMS, and PR samples and organized on racks by category and fabrication; Send PR and SMS samples to Merch team.Attended weekly PD touch base meetings; Attended technical fittings as requested; Attended virtual sketch handoffs meetings and in person SMS sample rack review meetings.Created purchase orders in Centric PLM for finished SMS and PR samples.Helped Production team to collect costing from factories on Proto and SMS samples and inputted into Air table which factories submitted costing.Worked with inhouse sewers to collect status on styles they are sewing and inputted status in Air table WIPs.Assisted Mainline and Outlet Technical Design teams with measuring TOP samples; Checked for any workmanship and construction issues.Assisted the Mainline Fabric team with organizing fabric library and any other tasks needed. Show less

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  Isaac morris ltd

  Feb 2024 - now

  Product development coordinator