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London, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom (Remote)

A 12-week immersive course learning fundamentals of web programming from front end to back end (focussed on JavaScript, React.js, HTML and CSS). The course consisted of daily stand-ups, online lessons, labs, pair-coding, group & individual projects where we learnt how to build Full-Stack applications.Please scroll down to my deployed projects to review.

Borehamwood, England, United Kingdom

• 2014 - Promoted to Design Manager/Head of Design - overseeing the design team anddesigning for multiple brands supplying to the UK high street.
• Brands include Next mens shirts, River Island mens & boys shirts/jersey, TK Maxx men & boysshirts/jersey, Slaters Menswear Shirts, M&S shirts, Asos shirts, Urban Outfitters etc.
• Involved on all new accounts strategy & product development, design and development,sourcing, sampling, costing.

Borehamwood, England, United Kingdom

• Promoted to Senior Designer, leading a small team of designers on my team.
• Recruiting and training Junior Designers
• In charge of product development for seasonal concepts ownbrand and customer brands.
• Account management & merchandising, trained to cost CMT product whilst designing to the customers need to meet required margins for both the customer and the company.
• In charge of Fabric sourcing and development - source and development latest fabric trends relevant to customer base.

Borehamwood, England, United Kingdom

• 1922 is a whole sale supplier to the UK High Street.
• Initially working with a small customer base specialising in short leadtime product.
• My role was to cad / design for all customers and liase with factories to ensure samples were made correctly.
• Product range from Casual and Formal Woven Shirts, Polo shirts, Sweaters, Tees, Nightwear).

St Albans, England, United Kingdom

• Original company name, Focus International - the company specialised in license sportswear brands (garments and footwear).
• I joined the fashion department as a Graphic/Fashion Designer assisting established Fashion Designers to help cad hand sketched product to be factory ready for sampling and development.
• Customer base was a mixture of ownbrand (UaRe) supplying to the UK independants, and supplying SMU (special make up) to UK highstreet brands.
• During this time, I was able to train and apply my learnings into understanding fashion garment construction.
• Brands that I designed for: Jack Purcell (Converse), UaReU, Next Mens, Stiff Records.

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

• Fresh out of University, I was headhunted to contract freelance for a High Street brand called "Pash" (Girlswear) - head office located in Droitwich Spa. (contract period approx 6 months)
• My main duties were to cad garments and graphics for both factory sampling and catalogue presentation.
• My next long term contract was designing at Scratch Distribution / The Krunch in Worcester.
• Here I was working inhouse as a Graphic designer doing all promotional instore Graphics.
• And worked on multiple ventures, from start-up fashion brands and product import graphics.
• other freelance jobs - company brand for local business clients focusing on traditional graphic design.- events flyers / banners graphics.

Software Engineering Immersive

A 12-week immersive course learning fundamentals of web programming from front end to back end (focussed on JavaScript, React.js, HTML and.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Design And Visual Communications, General, Merit