Creative and multi-talented Senior Designer with 15+ years of experience designing fashion forward wovens, knits, jackets, and accessories for a global clothing brand. A detail oriented team player and manager. Skilled in working in fast-paced environments with an excellent eye for fit, construction, and styles. Possessing strong illustration and collaboration skills with experience in art and design, fashion, textiles, cading, and tech packs. Bilingual skills (English, Mandarin) help facilitate easier communications with overseas factories.
Professional Experience
Career Note: Caregiver | March 2019 - Present
Took professional time off from the workforce to raise toddler children. Covid extended this beyond the anticipated time frame.
OBEY Clothing | Irvine, CA | 2005 - 2019
Senior Designer | December 2010 - March 2019
Developed Menswear clothing and accessories designs from inspiration, concept, and sketches to final products. All designs sold in over 1000 stores around the globe.
Performed market research to identify fashion trends to create hundreds of market appropriate designs for a renowned streetwear brand including wovens, knits, jackets, accessories, and trims/labels.
Collaborated & managed 6-8 menswear design team members at a time to ensure all designs were completed on time in a fast-paced and deadline driven environment.
Managed the selection of fabric, trims/label design, sourcing, and development of hundreds of unique styles while constructing and fitting garments for final production.
Men’s Clothing Catalog Designer | 2017 - 2019
Communicated creative requirements and technical specs to production team members to create multiple catalogs, on schedule, for any given year.
Built entire PDF catalogs with fully clickable index and table of contents.
Continuously operated with a mindset for professional self improvement through understanding campaign objectives and brand identities while quickly resolving creative and technical issues through collaboration and high-level decision-making.
Womenswear Designer | December 2011 - July 2012
Spearheaded the completion of two seasons of women’s clothing and accessories by leading the design and tech team from concept to end products.
Conceptualized and developed seasonal trends, color stories, and silhouettes.
Utilized strong time management skills to work seamlessly within a deadline-driven environment.
Associate Menswear Designer & Assistant Designer| December 2005 - December 2011
Created original illustrations and tech packs for unique men’s clothing and accessories line for the purpose of creating growth opportunities for myself within the company while accomplishing the goals and tasks assigned to assist the lead designer.
Created graphic tee metrics and communicated directly with print houses from metrics, to sampling, to final product.
Analyzed sales reports to anticipate trends and capitalize on seasonal influences and opportunities.
Self-managed design processes from the point of conception to finished product while meeting tight and increasingly overlapping seasonal deadlines.
Recipient of “Employee of the Year” award.
Core Competencies
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Garment Construction, Presentation Skills, Tech Packs, Draping Techniques, Fabric Sourcing, Illustration, Sketching, Menswear Design, Accessories Design, Jewelry Design, Bilingual (English/Mandarin).
Education/Certifications: Bachelor of Arts in Fashion Design, Woodbury University