I am a Senior Garment Technologist & have worked in the Fashion & Textile industry for many years. During my career I have worked at senior level, I am a team player and I have good management skills, and am able to prioritise & be self- motivated, working equally well on my own initiative. I am a good communicator with the ability to work well with people at all levels, & have strong mathematical & analytical skills. Key Skills • Wide Experience in both Garment & Fabric Technology: Men’s, Ladies, and Childrenswear • Jerseywear, • True knitwear • Denim • Outerwear • Occasionwear • Soft separates • Tailoring • Underwear • Swimwear • Accessories • Plus size • Good technical fabric knowledge of many fabrics including cashmere, silk, wool and blends, cotton, performance sports fabrics such as Gore-Tex • Working well in a team with Technology, Production & Design including development and pre- production. • Leadership skills- previous roles include Technical Manager. • Pattern cutting and grading. • Sourcing fabric, trims, factories, suppliers and trade show visits. • Knowledgeable on Garment and Fabric Performance Standards, Risk Assessment and Care Labeling. • Childrenswear safety requirements and standards • Responsibility of garments from development to production. • Supplier, Fabric Mill & Factory Visits – working on the product & improving standards. Quality monitoring & management. • AQL and Inspection. • Ethical Sourcing, Auditing- Health & Safety, Employment Standards, Health and Safety, Technical and SEDEX • CAD for Technical and Design including Photoshop, Paintshop, and Illustrator. • Graded size charts and patterns including development & creating from a design sketch. • Managing & leading fit meetings with Buying, Design and Production Departments. • Good Commercial Awareness and Design Knowledge. • Comparative projects and reports. • Managing Critical Path. • Risk Analysis • Prioritisation of workload. • Product Management system • Size UK project. • Manual writing and management. •Block Development
Fitting garments & advising customers on products, sourcing leads for sales, researching companies, pricing quotes, product knowledge, corresponding with customers and potential customers, following up sales quotes, advising on quality and care instructions, reporting any issues back to the manufacturers, advising on sourcing products to the team.
Duties at the Dogs Trust have included greeting and welcoming customers and their pets and advising on the products. I also sort through donations and price them to ensure that all goods sold in the shop are of a good quality and standard. I promote gift aid, which brings in extra money to the trust, and also steam clothes to ensure that they are well presented and look good on the shop floor. I especially enjoy being involved with creating visual displays for the shop windows as it enables me to use my creative skills.
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My role at the Countryside Management Service was working with the Health Walks Team and included working on walk risk assessments which cover all walk routes across Hertfordshire. I also dealt with registering new walkers and kept health walk registers up to date, creating promotional materials and displays for various events across the county and leading health walks in my area, which covered all walking routes / public footpaths across Hertfordshire. I also dealt with registering new walkers and kept health walk registers up to date, creating promotional materials and displays for various events across the county and leading health walks in Welwyn Garden City
The Cat Survival Trust holds a small private collection of wild cats including snow leopards and pumas but its primary role is to educate people about the threats that face them and the animal kingdom in general. My role was essentially taking notes from DVDs on a wide variety of programmes and subjects from channels such as the BBC, RT News and Al-Jazeera News which are then used for talks given at the Trust to promote awareness of how different political and social issue
Working on rainwear woven tops, tunics, blouses, and trousers. Working closely with other technical team members, as well as the Design, Buying and Merchandising Teams. Working with suppliers in the UK, Europe & the Far East, including overseas trips and visits from them to our UK office. Product analysis & review. Fabric technology & testing standards, pattern development and risk analysis, Responding to store feedback, including any returned garments, following up with the suppliers. Leading the fitting meetings with the design & buying teams. Performance standards, reviewing AQL & inspection reports, from overseas suppliers, and our own warehouse QC team. Responding to feedback from stores & customer services, including any returned garments, following up any issues with the suppliers. Comparative projects with other retailers. Tech packs, critical paths, risk assessments.
Working on several product areas, including jerseywear, swimwear and trousers on The Script and Main ranges My role also incorporated the aforementioned skills from my most recent technical role at Seasalt. Also taught colleagues on the PLM system as a Super User
Working on occasionwear, dresses, separates, jerseywear, and denim, and with a variety of fabrics including silks, leather, knitwear, cotton and denim
Working on the Ladieswear team -Catwalk and Ready to Wear collections, & accessories. Working on multi -product categories and fabrics including silks, cashmere and leather My role also incorporated the aforementioned skills in my profile
Working within Ladieswear on multi products- Jerseywear, knitwear and wovens Including dresses and denim plus soft separates. Mentoring & trained the placement year students, which I found very rewarding. My role also incorporated the aforementioned skills from my most recent role at Seasalt.
Working on John Lewis Own Brand Menswear. Tailoring/ formalwear, casualwear, sportswear, loungewear, underwear, outerwear, and accessories. I worked on the Paul Costello & Joe Casely- Hayford designer collaboration ranges Monitoring suppliers’ ethical policy and compliance. My role also incorporated the aforementioned skills from my profile.