Design Assistant

Bram Jungnitz 077********

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Profile

A highly enthusiastic & hard working individual with a wide range of experience within the fashion industry. Experience with well-respected brands in production, buying and design has given me a thorough understanding and a range of capabilities in these areas. Employment at a high street company, a bridge brand and a couture house creates a comprehensive range of knowledge of product. My passion for design & experience across multiple areas means I can make informed decisions and have an in-depth understanding, which allows me to channel my creativity.

Work Experience

Dobell

Junior Designer February 2019 – Present

Roles, Skills & Achievements

-Image sourcing and mood board creation

-Creating and editing tech packs

- Presenting collections to all areas of the business

-Liaising with factories to ensure garments are made in time to the correct standard through analysis of critical paths and attending approvals.

-Working on the entirety of the product lifecycle from mood board through to batch delivery and achieving this by following the critical path.

- Measuring garments to ensure that they are within tolerance whilst checking samples from all sample stages in order to identify issues.

- Quality controlling all deliveries to identify issues with the product to inform the production team.

- Working on photo-shoots to ensure the correct products are shot to the correct standard.

Burberry

Womenswear Runway Product Developer November 2018 – February 2019 (Temp)

Roles, Skills & Achievements

- Supporting the Product Developers and PD lead in delivering prototypes and samples on time to the required quality standard, and within target cost price range, to achieve target margin.

Maintaining effective working relationships with vendors, developing a strong working knowledge of vendor capability, inventory and availability to meet demands.

Providing information to the rest of the business via inputting into PLM and resolving problems that arise during and after the development of the collection

Collection overview documentation management/ PO management, sample /stock management.

- Left due to it being a temporary contract to only work during the busy period leading up to the runway show.

Amazon Fashion Studios (Temporary)

Colour Author August 2018 – November 2018

Roles, Skills & Achievements

- Pinning a photographing garments for the company website.

- Allocating garments to be shot on models or shot flat.

- Learning about limitations of garment photography and garment attributes that dictate this.

Ted Baker (Fixed Term Contract)

Production Support Womenswear January 2018 – July 2018

Roles, Skills & Achievements

-Attend fit sessions tracking the development of the product.

-Running the wearer trial process of womenswear garments for the brand in order to identify issues with the product before production.

-Running barcode files so that product can be tracked by the business

-Preparing fabrics and trims for approval.

-Creating Bills of Materials in order for factories to know the components of the garments and where to source them.

-Liaising with factories to ensure garments are made in time to the correct standard through analysis of critical paths and attending approvals.

-Working with PLM and Microsoft AX Software

- I left due to it being a temporary contract during a systems change and work dried up after the systems change had been completed.

Lee Paton

Design Assistant July – November 2017. Design Intern April – July 2016.

Roles, Skills & Achievements

-Creating mood boards in order to develop ideas and concepts for the new collections.

-Drafting patterns for garments.

-Creating the CADS for the business.

-Managing Interns workload to ensure that they are engaged and enjoying their workload whilst contributing to the business efficiently.

-Hand beading and embroidering garments developing an understanding of a wide range of couture techniques.

-My computer and graphic design skills were recognized through tasks such as designing and creating the brand logo.

-Fabric and trims sourcing for garments.

-Left due to issues with not being paid my agreed upon income

Urban Outfitters

Buying Admin Intern January – April 2016.

Gabriel Vielma

Design Intern. August – December 2015.

Roles, Skills & Achievements

-Creating mood boards in order to develop ideas and concepts for the new collections.

-Copying garment patterns.

-Producing graphic designs for products such as T-shirts.

-Measuring and cutting fabrics to increase efficiency of garment manufacture.

-Preservation of the studio

Other Experience

Portrait Artist, German Teacher at Greasby Junior School.

Education

University of Leeds

BA Hons Fashion Design Ind 2:1 Certification.

Calday Grange Grammar School

A Levels: A* Art & Design, A Religious Studies, C German.

AS Level: B Biology

11 GCSE’s: A*-C Including Mathematics & English

Key Skills

Computer Skills: Strong computer skills with Product Lifecycle Management, CIMS, IP as well as Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and Microsoft (AX, Excel, Word, Powerpoint) software.

Design: Ability in fashion design, drawing, painting and photography develop a strong grasp of colour and silhouette paired with an understanding of target markets shapes innovation in my work. Particularly skilled in fashion illustration (both computerized and hand drawn) which translates well to hand drawing and sketching in design.

Interests

American Football and Writing. Write articles for ESPN ran site lockedonbengals.com. Have coached University teams.

Sport. Keen cricketer, footballer and golfer.

Global Culture. Coming from a multicultural family has catalyzed an interest in the cultures of the World.

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