Alice Dyer Email & Phone Number

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Allen, Texas

Handle all communication to factories from prototype through production grading.Collaborate with Design and Product Development Team to develop tech packs.Manage Fit and Technical aspects of private label brands.Communicate fit, balance, and design detail corrections to manufacturers.Correct patterns for fit.Maintain consistency of fit within brand segments.Maintain compliance with vendor requirements for labeling, packaging, and tags.Review Pre-production samples to ensure compliance.Review final production before shipping.Monitor domestic production from first pattern through production.Maintain Time and Action Calendar to ensure Delivery Plan stays on target

Advertising, window and store displays, in-store events, scheduling, managing volunteer staff.

Data collection

*Develop fit and proportion of product using live model, dress forms and standardized specs and market research *Communicate all needed changes to vendors through Microsoft Office Suite-Outlook email, Excel templates, embedding objects, photos and scanned drawings into excel and outlook *Meet monthly deadlines using Time and Action calendar*Update Master Fit list on Excel weekly*Research marketplace for new contstruction trends*Research competitor's fit, document, and present report to Vice-President of Merchandising

Freelance Patternmaker/Technical Designer

*Designed 75 piece collection of coordinated sportswear twice a year for the missy market *Produced Novelty sweaters and tee shirts-embroidered, beaded, novelty stitch patterns, Pierced and Stitched suedes, Embroidered linens all made in Asia. Designed and sketched by hand.*Produced dyed to match pants, skirts and jackets manufactured in Dallas*Merchandised line and presented to specialty boutique buyers in Dallas and Atlanta showrooms.

*Duties as listed above for Rebecca Thomas label under previous owner, Ed Thomas*Developed supeior pant fit for Rebecca Thomas, increasing sales from $300,000 to $800,000 annually*Projects for various catalog sales accounts: First through Stock patterns. Worked from sketch or garment. Fit garments on live fit model, assessed needed corrections, implemented changes to flat pattern. *Worked with various manufacturers in Dallas area-J.Suzette, Gotcha Covered, Lucia Lukken, Cest la Vie, FL Malik, Bentley Arbuckly, Sharon Young, Tribute, Ann Tobias, Victoria Pappus, Fashion Works

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

*Continued Designing for Life Styles of Dallas label*Head of Dress Division for Catalog and Road sales*Responsibilities included: Design and color conception, patternmaking, market research*#1 selling Dress in J C Penney catalog for winter of 1988

Aas, Fashion Design

Was awarded a monetary scholarship based on design competition by the Women's Junior League of Barrington.

Education record

This is an adult continuing education class where we learn basics of working with silver, brass, and copper metals, techniques.

Business

Activities and Societies: Sigma Kappa

Aas, Marketing/Business

Bsb/Acc, Accounting, 3.95

Activities and Societies: Delta Mu Delta Honor Society