Assistant Designer

**************@*****.***

** ******* ***** ***. *** New York, NY 10280 Telephone 646-***-****

Professional Profile:

• Talented, versatile jewelry designer whose skills range from fashion to fine jewelry

• Superb technical renderings

• Ability to forecast fashion appropriate styles

• Jewelry making skills include working in gold, silver, enamel, precious and semi- precious stones

• Launched the Kate Spade brand

• Worked on a lot of private label as well as branded collections FREELANCE/CONSULTING PROJECTS 2011/present

CLIENTS INCLUDE: Homme By Thomas Cho, Mackenzie Childs SEQUIN: Worked on BADGLEY MISHKA for HSN, MACY’S METALS, ANN TAYLOR & TALBOTS MACY’S: Designed CHARTER CLUB

PUNCH FASHIONS: Worked on SONOMA for KOHL’S, contributed to EXPRESS, ANA for JC PENNEY Color Street

Senior Director Jewelry

• Responsible for Current Launch/Integrating Jewelry with nailstrips Aug/2018 present SHOWROOM35 2017

Senior Jewelry Designer

Jessica Simpson/Nicole Miller

• Responsible for design development of both brands

• Building seasonal concept and trend development

• Sketching concepts by hand and computer

• Traveling domestically to meet with Licensees

• Overseeing Associate Designers

MELA ASRTISANS 2015/2016

Senior Jewelry Designer

• Responsible for Design and Product Development of Jewelry

• Built seasonal concepts, including trend research

• Sketching concepts by hand and renderings by computer

• Handing off technical packages to the India team

• Overseeing Product Development including weekly calls with India

• Maintaining database through Asana tracking progress of target dates STELLA & DOT

Senior Designer 2010/2011

• Responsible for current line of jewelry for this startup company

• In charge of designing, forecasting and trend development, creation of boards all inspirational materials

• Leading a team of designers, as well as working productively and collaboratively with merchandising and product development

• Sketching, working with sample makers, model makers

• Creating all technical sketches and specs, passing off to product development

• Traveling to China twice annually to pass of collections as well as correct samples KATE SPADE

Senior Designer 2008/2010

• Responsible for current launch to Kate Spade stores as well as wholesale accounts

• Designing, forecasting and trend development, working jointly with product development

• Creating inspiration boards, and buying all inspiration, shopping for vintage

• Creating technical packages for product development

• In charge of associate and assistant designers

CYNTHIA MEYER Jewelry Design 1997/2007

Owner

• Creator of 18k gold/ enamel gemstone collections that sold to as many as 10 Neiman Marcus locations and widely distributed in the United States TEMPLE ST CLAIR

Design assistant/Product Development 1994/1997

• Responsible for designing lower priced collections for this fine jewelry collection Computer

Microsoft office/Photoshop /Illustrator

Education

BFA, Jewelry Design; Parsons school of Design 1990

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