Karl "Kajomo" Moritz

Experience

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  Victor Costa, Inc.

  Oct 1989 - Jan 1990

  Assistant Designer

  Assistant Designer: Provided design assistance including sample, Pattern Development, fabric sourcing, fit, and procurements for Women's Couture Lounge wear department within well-known couture label. Communicated design concepts to product development team.

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  Brenner International

  Apr 1990 - Jun 1992

  Patternmaker / Assistant Designer

  Pattern-Maker / Assistant Designer: Create First Pattern through Production of Patterns in Women's sportswear. Assisted Designers with input in garment design, aspects of sourcing, procurements and sales samples..

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  NogginDeco

  Sept 1990 - Sept 1996

  Owner-Designer

  Owner-Designer, Pattern Maker, Complete creation of Avant Guard Millinery that was solid in local Dallas retail shops. WWD cover my unique Hats. Have sold NogginDeco hats to such music celebrities as Lady Miss Kier for Deee-Lite, Primus and Fishbone.

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  Sunny South/Jo Hardin

  Jan 1992 - Sept 1995

  Production Pattern Maker

  Production Pattern-Maker: Provided First Pattern Development through Production Cad Pattern making, including fit, block development, and production fabric layout for women's tailored sportswear. Create First Pattern Marker for fabric yield analysis for cost/production team. Worked closely with Design department and Production Sourcing teams.

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  R & A Collectibles

  May 1992 - Jun 1994

  Production Pattern Maker

  Production Pattern-makerCreate First Patterns, Markers, Sales Samples, and Production Patterns and Marker making, Work closely with design on all aspects of garment production.

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  Olympic West Sportswear

  Oct 1996 - Jun 1997

  Production Patternmaker

  Production Pattern-Maker: Responsible for First through Production Pattern Development utilizing Auto-CAD. Grading and Photo Samples in Men's and Women's outerwear and sports apparel for large apparel companies including Lands’ End, L.L. Bean, and North face. Worked closely with Design, Engineering, and Sourcing / Costing Departments.

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  Eddie Bauer

  Sept 1997 - May 2005

  SR. Tech Designer

  Eddie Bauer, Inc. Redmond, WashingtonSenior Pattern-Maker / Technical Designer: Outerwear / Street Outwear / EB Germany. Senior Pattern-maker, Fit Specialist and CAD Administrator for Pattern Dept. Developed German and EB Core product lines in Men’s and Women’s; Pants, Tops, Street and Performance Outerwear. Provided technical expertise; fit harmonization and product support to design team, ensuring that product construction, quality and fit standards are maintained or improved.Pattern Development team for DeeDee Jonrowe, the foremost female dog musher sledding races in Iditarod, Alaska. Show less

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  Nike

  May 2005 - Dec 2013

  Sr. Tech.Designer

  Senior Technical Designer: Men’s Sport Culture / Men’s and Women’s Tennis.Manage technical aspects of product design feasibility for Western and Asian including ensuring consistency of fit and construction quality. Oversee all fittings and communicate technical design specifications problem-solve and communicate with international vendors and collaborate with Design, Merchandising, Costing and Sourcing departments. Manage technical aspects of product design feasibility for Western and Asian including ensuring consistency of fit; problem-solve and communicate with international vendors; and collaborate with Design, Merchandising and Sourcing departments. Oversee all fittings and communicate technical design specifications and corrections in a timely manner to international vendors. Create pattern fit blocks and specification sheets and illustrate fit and construction design corrections using Adobe Illustrator. Review with design team new product line feasibility and implications. Create Product Development of 'Inline' styles for Maria Sharapova, Serena Williams, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Developed 100% Fit Blocks for Men's Sportswear. Developed 100% of Men’s & Women’s Fit Blocks for Men’s & Women’s Tennis. The Tennis had no Fit Block prior to my position.Travel internationally to Nike’s Product Creation Centers. Developed all Men’s & Women’s standardized Apparel Fit Blocks for Tennis. Nike Tennis Block Development in Core Fit structure and Nike Pro. Tennis had no Fit Block prior to this.Worked with Optitex Auto Cad System, Adobe Illustrator. Show less

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  Icebreaker Merino, Inc. - VFC

  Nov 2014 - Apr 2019

  Technical Specialist

  Icebreaker Merino, Inc. - VFC Portland, OregonTechnical Specialist Manage technical aspects of product design feasibility for Men’s & Women’s including ensuring consistency of construction standards.Update the former 2012 Construction Manual by creating new 212 pages in Adobe Illustrator images along with photos of samples to be used for each description. Created 14 sub folder fields for all this updated image. Updated Construction Manual to review what is no longer needed and what needs to be added. Create a construction library of images with an actual photo image with detail sewing construction from the type of ISO to thread types.Created a standardization for construction by meeting with Merchandise, Design team to set upstandardization for Interlings (Fusing), Zipper slider puller placement, zip guards, storm flaps.Software use: Excel, Outlook, Word, and Optitex Auto Cad System, PDM and Adobe Illustrator CC2019. Show less