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Berna Goksu Ince Ballanger

Senior Fashion Designer
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About

A talented and customer oriented designer with an eye for commercial fashion and detail in production styling and designing. 10+ years of experience in fashion brands environment . Resourceful, motivated, creative individual in textile industry(took part in outstanding projects and played active role while gaining extensive knowledge and expertise in design,implementation and multi-disciplinary coordination and increased her organizational ability, leadership and problem solving skills) would like to work in a challenging position as a Fashion Designer in a reputable and dynamic organization to expand her learnings, knowledge, and skills while making significant contribution to the success of the company.

Previous Brands
Actavis Pharmaceuticals
Adopen Pvc Window and Door Systems
Frow Desing House
Lacoste-Eren Holding
Lasalle College International
Setre Textile
Syk Textile
Work Experience
Senior Fashion Designer
Jan ‘13 - Jan ‘19
Lacoste-Eren Holding

+ Support Creative Director by creating a seasonal point of view for product strategy, + Collaborating with merchandising team, planning team, production tea, GM and Head Quarter in Paris / Paris, + Research and analyze current trends in fashion, + Leading team; designers and assistants (Team of 7 members), + Organazing meetings with suppliers for new styles, and follow up the sample production, + Communicate with Head Office in France to get validations, new collection briefs, to attend all meetings at Head Office in Paris, + Managing the operation between factory in Turkey and HQO during collection and production period, + Prepare presentations of new collections to management team, + Research for new fabrics, trims, printing techniques, + Attend weekly cross-functional meeting, + Travelling to Worldwide textile fairs and for shopping trips, + Managing collections of woman and man in woven, knit and jersey.

Pattern Making Instuctor & Consultant
Jan ‘12 - Jan ‘14
Lasalle College International

+ Instructing patternmaking classes in Canadian Fashion Design Academy, + Planning and preparing yearly curriculum, + To carry all facility about backpack design, production, marketing and selling process, + Managing and consulting students projects, + Organazing workshops and reviewing projects with fashion design students.

Head Designer
Jan ‘11 - Jan ‘13
Setre Textile

+ Responsible for managing design team and sample production department, + Responsible to follow the trend reports, researching and presenting the structure of new collection. + Coordinate sample production process to ensure that samples are produced and delivered timely basis, + Leading team; designers and assistants (Team of 7 members), + Organazing meetings with suppliers for new styles, and follow up the sample production, + Communicate with Head Office in France to get validations, new collection briefs, to attend all meetings at Head Office in Paris, + Managing the operation between factory in Turkey and HQO during collection and production period, + Prepare presentations of new collections to management team, + Research for new fabrics, trims, printing techniques, + Attend weekly cross-functional meeting, + Travelling to Worldwide textile fairs and for shopping trips, + Managing collections of woman and man in woven, knit and jersey.

Sales & Logistics Manager
Jan ‘06 - Jan ‘08
Actavis Pharmaceuticals

+ Managing all sales and logistics facilities between Middle East and production in five different countries, reporting to HQO in Iceland, + Arranging the relations between sales and production team (check schedules and transportation duration), + Keep the target monthly, quarterly and yearly basis, + Preparing and presenting monthly, quarterly and yearly sales reports to HQO management.

Sales & Logistics Coordinator
Jan ‘05 - Jan ‘06
Adopen Pvc Window and Door Systems

+ Sales and Logistics Coordinator in Middle East Regional Office of PVC profile producer, + Coordinate all sales and production period, + Preparing all documents for shipments, + Coordinating transportation timing, + Stock Maangement, + Managing exhibition procudures and all preparation periods, + Attanding to ezhibition and meet with the new customers to present products with all details.

Assistant of Export Manager
Jan ‘04 - Jan ‘05
Syk Textile

+ In the fabric producer compony assisting Export Manager, + Following the new fabric collection preparation process, + Making the desicions for design with fabric pattern designer, + Follow up the production, + Arranging Proforma invoices and documents of transports, + Follow up Quality control, + Follow up labaratory results for new colors of fabrics, + Preparing monthly sales report and presenting to the Export Manager

Sales & Creative Director, Founder
Frow Desing House

+ Full management jobs of the custom made compony, + Designing new models, controlling patterns and doing fitting, + To carry all facility about backpack design, production, marketing and selling process, + To improve relations with customers and to meet customee demands, + Preparing new collection in accordance with seasonal trends, + Research and collenct fabrics, accessories in market, + Calculating the cost and improve the price policy, + Financial facility management, + Preparing capsule collections for customers from Middle East and Europe as a custom design.

Languages
English - Work Proficiency
French - Fluent
Turkish - Native
Education & Training
LaSalle International Academy
‘09 - ‘11
Certification
Fashion Design
Uludag University
‘99 - ‘03
Bachelor's degree
Associate Degree in International Relations
Joinville-le-Pont, France