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AritziaSenior Technical Developer -TNA and Sunday Best
Feb. 2023 - Dec. 2024Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaResponsible for all Fully fashioned sweaters and cut and sew jersey multi product for TNA and Sunday Best and Aritzia Homestretch Cut and Sew Programme
AritziaSenior Technical Developer -TnAction/GOLDEN
Feb. 2023 - Feb. 2024Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaSP24 -SU24 - GOLDEN - Multi Product categories - product technologist for all cut and sew jersey leggings, Trousers, Jumpsuits, Rompers, golden tennis range including skirts and dresses across knit- cut and sew and woven. Experience with bonded fabrics and trims. WI23- TnAction Multi Product categories All cut and sew jersey leggings, Trousers, Jumpsuits, Rompers. Tennis range including skirts and dresses across knit- cut and sew and woven. Briefly worked on Outerwear and seamfree, Working with PLM centric and Gerber systems.
HealinghandsniReiki Practitioner
Oct. 2021Reiki Healing: Certified Reiki Master, providing energy healing and emotional support, including a focus on family care and recovery. Recently provided Reiki healing in ICU hospital for my father who had a burst Aorta, a miracle he is alive! Provided Reiki everyday to aid a quick recovery. I do in person and remote reiki healing. Instagram handle @healinghandsni
CONNECTED KIDS LIMITEDMindful & Meditation coach
Oct. 2021Holistic Coaching for Youth: Experienced meditation and mindfulness coach, specializing in guiding children and teens (from toddlers to university-bound students) on their journey toward self-awareness, resilience, and emotional well-being. Empowering Young Minds, I am passionate about creating a safe and nurturing environment for young individuals to explore mindfulness practices, build confidence, and
navigate life transitions with clarity and balance.
PrimarkProduct Technologist Women’s Knitwear, Swim, Beach,Socks, Outerwear
Mar. 2021 - Apr. 2022Dublin City, County Dublin, IrelandSourcing and Quality - Sole product technologist for all womenswear beach, swim, socks, knitwear and outerwear. Seeing all styles from development through to production. Ownership of the fitting and sealing process including test reports, grading, sharps, keylines, improving quality. New innovation includes infused socks, premium knitwear, modest swimwear, reconstructive surgery, period swimwear and adaptive fashion. Created a how to care for your swimwear and knitwear guide for online stores and customers on womenswear
PrimarkProduct Technologist for all Womenswear Leisure, Jersey, License, Performance
Oct. 2019 - Mar. 2021County Dublin, IrelandSole product technologist responsible for the fit, quality and production on womenswear products for jersey, performance, License and leisurewear. Managed an assistant who looked after sports tops, bottoms and license. Categories include Jersey Tables, Jersey hanging short and long lead, jersey fashion and basics, all jersey on the tables including tee shirts and all WW jersey basics, fashion tops, casual tops, casual bottoms. Ownership of all Primarks women’s performance wear including run, yoga and seam free. Ownership of my sections on fit, quality, development, testing, sharps, keylines, quality investigations, shipment. Responsible for setting up the Performance Claims process for Primark with a colleague in compliance. Set up and implemented a spelling clinic to catch any spelling issues on women’s jersey, performance and leisure and license. Great knowledge in dye, print, infusions and natural dyes, antibacterial fabric finishes.
Heidi KleinFreelance Product Technical Consultant -Womenswear RTW
Sep. 2018 - Apr. 2019London, England, United KingdomAdvising fit, quality, detail on all products include woven, jersey, knitwear, swimwear and sportswear. Finalising graded specs for spring summer 2020 collections on private collaborations, working on the development of the wovenswear products.
Ralph & RussoFreelance Womens RTW Technical Consultant
Jul. 2018 - Jan. 2019Chelsea, LondonOverseeing women's RTW and Runway. Pre Spring Summer 19 collections including knitwear, leather, woven and embellished garments. Fitting and measuring new season SS19 Mainline, liaising with factories, all CMT and grade houses, supplying care labels. QC production • Sole technologist overseeing approx 280 styles as sole technologist, this included measuring, fitting, sealing and grading 180 styles for Pre ss19 collection and 100 styles for Spring Summer 19 Mainline.
Product developing the styles for production from SMS stage to production and updating the BOMS.
• Confirm factory allocation for all styles.
• Managing all model castings for production and collection.
• Travel to factories to go over comments and grading. Fitting all RTW products including, woven, leather, knitwear and embroidered styles, couture beaded gowns. • Organizing fit model castings, production fit sessions with Tamara and the design team.
• Liaising with the pattern cutters, machinists on pattern amendments and patterns.
• Developed the product from SMS to production by adding extra trims or lining to zedonk.
• Finalizing SS18 and AW18 collections which were late. • Developing the patterns with the factories and working with grade house on patterns and embroidery patterns. Celebrity clients and custom made garments
RIXOFreelance Womenswear RTW Product/Sourcing Technical Consultant
May. 2018 - Mar. 2019WandsworthStandardizing Rixo‘s fit across the brand, changing the fit from alpha to numeric sizes and standardizing the fit from a size 8 to a size 10. Standardizing measurements, finishes and fit and quality for a much loved brand. Standardizing international sizing. Overseeing the fit of all womenswear including swimwear. I was brought in to standardized the fit, detail and quality across all products, including silk dresses, skirts, blouses, and swimwear. Creating and implementing minimum measurements, stitch details, quality details.
Managing and running the fit session, by taking images and drawing on the images and sending the comments as we go in a email. Fitting vintage samples and turning them into current new styles.
Sourced knitwear factories, yarns and set up graded specs for knitwear.
Consulting and standardizing the fit, block measurements, standardizing body lengths, creating model measurements, overhauling the fit, grading, trim details and product development process across all products.
Customer service returns - worked with the team on returns and liaised with the factory directly.
WHISTLESFreelance Senior Garment Technologist - Womenswear
May. 2018 - Jan. 2019London, United KingdomFitting and sealing AW18 and SS19 for woven dresses, blouses and jumpsuits, working across multiproduct. Working on excel adding in photos and comments to suppliers.
BurberryFreelance Senior Product Technologist - Childrenswear
May. 2018 - May. 2018London, United KingdomFitting SS19 on Kids, boys wear, girls wear, infant, teen, unisex newborn including woven, outerwear, denim, tailoring live fitting and fitting in the stand. Measuring, fitting, grading and writing comments on PLM. • Fitting children’s wear across SS19 on unisex new born, infant, kids, boys wear, girls wear and teen. Working across multi product: woven, denim, and outerwear. • Live fitting, as well as fitting on Avalon stands.
• Daily tasks include measuring, fitting, grading and writing comments on PLM. • Oversaw the testing including all components for japan, china, uk testing standards across all catagories.
COCOA CASHMERE LIMITEDFreelance Technical Product Consultant - Fully fashioned cashmere
Apr. 2018 - Apr. 2018West HampsteadFreelance technical consultant working across womenswear on woven, cashmere knitwear and jersey. Fitting, sealing, setting up grade rules and implementing grading and fit changes.
Re-fitting the collection due to returns and found this was due to the sleeve length and fit not being standardised.
MR PORTERFreelance Menswear Garment Technologist
Jan. 2018 - Feb. 2018London, United KingdomSole technologist Fitting and sealing Menswear AW18 from initial design concept through to production, grading, construction approx 300 styles
Elizabeth A McFarland LtdFounder & Director
Dec. 2017London, England, United KingdomClients include Douglas and Grahame Men's tailoring, Arcadia Group, Zaggora, Debenhams, Heidi Klein, Ralph & Russo Couture, Rixo, Debenhams, Design warehouse, Burberry, Whistles, Miss Selfridge, Wallis, Evans, Cocoa Cashmere, Caramel Clothing kids and womenswear, Emily and Fin, Kelly Love, Mr Porter, Cath Kidson, Cefinn, Celebrity client fitting for couture and luxury fashion, Freelance Creative Director For Design, Sourcing, Quality, Technical & Production for luxury fashion brands. Experience in Couture, CMT and FF vendors. Specializing in setting up mid to luxury fashion brands, introduction to vendors, development and lifestyle of multi product styles. My specialist area are knitwear, seamfree, sportswear and socks. Overseeing the technical process of the lifecycle of a garment including fabric specialist for base and bulk fabric specs, building fabric and technical spec sheets, fitting garments, finishing, dye and construction across jersey, performance, leisure, knitwear, socks, swim and outerwear. New innovation and new techniques. Quick wins on construction with my extensive fashion and design knowledge so quality is not compromised with an eye for detail and colour. I have strong communication and organization skills and factory audits worldwide
CEFINNFreelance Womenswear RTW Garment Technologist
Dec. 2017 - Dec. 2017London, United KingdomContemporary dresses, tops, blouses, suits and designer womenswear fashion by Samantha Cameron. View her label's first collection at Cefinn.com Womenswear Product developer and garment technologist. Fitting current and new season collections, liaising with factories, creating graded specs. Created tech packs for AW18 on illustrator.
Sweaty BettyHead of Technical Womenswear
Feb. 2016 - Dec. 2017FulhamResponsible for the fit & quality of Sweaty Betty products including brought in products. This includes knitwear, outerwear, jersey, woven, seamless, lingerie, swimwear/wetsuits, ski, leggings, accessories/bags, socks and kids wear. Ensuring the fit and quality is consistent to Sweaty Betty’s standard. Special Collaborations projects.
* Managed a team of 5 including all budgets for tech. •Strong understanding of testing standards, test reports, fabric knowledge, care labels, fabric and print procedures and manufacturing processes, including QA processes to supplier audits, packaging and compliance. •Implemented strategies to the business KPI’s to reduce the returns rate. •Implemented a QC process including faulty goods, supplier claims, ecommerce, store manager and customer care claims, AQLs at the warehouse or factories. Negotiate and settle claims on QC issues with suppliers. •Implemented the long-term strategy for the supply chain, including Audits and CAP reports, ethical code of practice, sustainability policy and create the business supplier manual.
•Implemented sustainability structure for the business including CSR.
•Implemented a new excel graded workbook including grading rules for each category, ensuring the initial vision of the design is maintained.
Mulberry EnglandSenior Product Technologist Womenswear RTW
Dec. 2012 - Feb. 2016High Street Kensington, LondonFor Ready to Wear and Catwalk across multi product womenswear and soft accessories. • Responsible for the fit of multi-product soft separates, blouses, dresses, trousers, shorts, skirts, beaded and embellished embroidery, leather, knitwear, jersey and soft accessories across Mainline and Catwalk. Working on 4 seasons a year from AW13 Mainline, developing a high-quality product from proto through to SMS and bulk production, to ensure accurate specifications including finishes, grading, fit and quality control are met.
• Sending comments to suppliers on based on the fit, with visual images to ensure a clear understanding from SMS through to bulk production shipment on Microsoft excel.
• Managed critical path for the whole team and managing the CP using the range grid adding in time line of shipment and seal by dates including care label raw material instructions for each style and colour this includes ordering all washcare for Mulberry RTW & Soft Accessories.
• Set up and ordered all wash care with byways for all collections. I set up a disclaimer critical path so each style has a disclaimer if needed for fabric and/or construction. Testing bulk fabric and full garments with SGS and dry-cleaning testing houses.
• Manage and book models for all fits from SMS through to production/shipment to ensure ex-factory dates are adhered to and chase production samples in house.
• QC check on all shipment samples/size sets for production to ensure a high standard is delivered to the customer. Chase all products in for stocktake this consists of salesman samples and resubmission samples adding a tab to the critical path.
• Maintain and build relationships with suppliers through travelling to the factories in Portugal, Italy and UK. Learning Italian to aid communication with suppliers in Italy. I demonstrate strong organisation and communication skills and hardworking individual with a great eye for colour and attention to detail.
Nicole FarhiRTW Senior Garment Technologist/QC Farhi by Nicole Farhi Menswear, Womenswear and Accessories.
Aug. 2011 - Dec. 2012Camden, LondonResponsible for managing fit and quality of the Farhi range which consisted of Womenswear, Menswear and Accessories and Footwear across all multi product categories including tailoring, knitwear, jersey, denim, woven, softs, outerwear, belts, soft accessories, handbags and footwear.
• Working closely with design to develop a range from 1st proto through to bulk shipment following a tight critical path including wash care/test report approval and ensuring garment specifications are met. Write and send all fit comments to the factory with photographs.
• Implementing and monitoring the size, fit and quality ensuring a high-quality product is developed and produced directly at source with manufacturers.
• Ensure collections are delivered in line with the critical path.
• Monitor work in progress with the manufacturing base involving seasonal travel to factories in Europe building strong relations.
• Demonstrate a strong knowledge of garment construction, pattern cutting and grading.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, PDM, implementing a new Excel workbook for Nicole Farhi.
• Manage and training a junior garment technologist.
IssaRTW QC Product Technical Manager Womenswear, Childrenswear and Accessories
Mar. 2011 - Aug. 2011Chelsea, LondonManaging all 4 season’s product ranges on RTW, Swimwear, Childrenswear, soft accessories.
• Review all fabrics, washcare, lab dips, trims, fabric and branding.
• Managing and support a team of 4 machinists and 4 pattern cutters.
• Set up the critical path and implementing technical sheets from scratch from initial pattern right through to bulk shipment.
• Manage all bookings for fit models.
• Producing initial graded size specifications and design technical drawings for factories and grading the patterns. Fitting all salesman samples to production, sending comments on style and fit and QC shipment.
• Ensuring bulk production is made according to the correct design spec and fit for each style and maintaining the fabric tracker and critical path.
• 100% Quality Control of all garments.
• Demonstrate a strong knowledge of garment construction and pattern cutting with attention to detail.
• Review supply base seasonally.
• Conduct factory and AQL audits
• Travel to Poland and Portugal to QC product and audit factories.
Matthew WilliamsonHead of Technical Mens & Womens Couture, RTW and Bridal
Oct. 2010 - Mar. 2011Mayfair, London, United KingdomManaged the entire range 4 seasons from RTW, Catwalk, Couture, Bridal, Escape beach wear, Menswear, Knitwear and Soft accessories, leather handbags. Risk-assess initial fabrics to ensure they are suitable for the collection and follow up with test reports. 100% QC all garments at the factory and distribution centre. Review supply base working with the supply chain manager to work out what product is best suited to which factory. Conduct factory and AQL audits. Ensure garments adhere to the MW standard size guide. Oversee fit and technical construction with attention to detail. Liaise with the Pattern Manager regarding pattern and BOM queries. Organise the critical path for sealing stage, grading, pre-production and approved sealed samples. Travel to Poland, Italy, Portugal, and India to QC product.
Fred PerrySenior Womenswear Multi Product Garment Technologist
Oct. 2007 - Oct. 2010Covent Garden, LondonWorking across multi-product woven, jersey, tailored jackets, beading, leather, knits, softs, denim, outerwear, tennis and blank collaborations include 10 Corso Como, Amy Winehouse, Richard Nichol, Jessica Ogden and Ann Sofie Back. Managed the fit/quality of all women’s wear products on laurel, main line and all collaborations on womenswear. Developed 1st proto from blocks or samples through to production/shipment/SGS. Conduct fit meetings at all stages of the development and production. Managing collaborations with designers, working to tight deadlines to turn around product. Managing the critical path from 1st proto through to shipment and all aspects of the sealing process, including fitting, graded specs, photos, excel drawing program, approval of bulk fabrics, trims and accessories and buttons. Issue wash care, test reports and SGS report. Built strong relationships with supplier, agents and internal departments on a day to day basis to ensure deliveries are made on time. Travel to Portugal, UK and Far East to QC production.
River IslandGarment Technologist casual cottons, loungewear, swim and lingerie
Aug. 2006 - Sep. 2007Hanger Lane, London• Measured and fit garments for casual cottons, jersey, woven, loungewear, swimwear, and lingerie, ensuring quality and design accuracy.
• Conducted fit sessions with in-house model, designer, and buyer, providing feedback to suppliers to meet tight deadlines.
• Analysed test reports, demonstrated fabric knowledge, and collaborated with suppliers in Europe, Hong Kong, Turkey, and Mauritius.
Memo FashionsJunior Garment Technologist Knitwear, Denim, Wovens
Jun. 2005 - Aug. 2006North Acton, London• Managed customer accounts for high street suppliers including Wallis, Miss Selfridge, and Primark.
• Oversaw garment fitting and production processes for women's and men's Knitwear, denim, and woven items.
• Coordinated with factories in the Far East and India to ensure quality and design standards were met.
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