Creating men’s and women’s clothing and accessories in a personal exploration of design and production. Involving techniques such as hand knitting, pattern making and draping in crafting garments.

Providing a vast assortment of skills relevant to a retail and independent crafting environment. Overseeing customer rental time on sewing machines and sergers to ensure proper usage and aid them with whatever their project entails. Maintaining clean studio spaces and providing upkeep of all in store machines. Completing automated quilting services on a longarm quilting machine. Answering customer inquiries about products for sale in the store. Teaching classes from basic sewing to commercial pattern apparel construction.

Producing men's and women's knit garments for a slow fashion company. Operating several industrial sewing machines, including straight stitch, sergers, cover stitch, button and buttonhole machines. Training new stitchers on how to complete various stitches and garment styles, while overseeing and maintaining work quality. Cutting entire size runs of garment pieces to begin production.

Maintaining day to day operations of a home accessories company which includes assisting in the cutting, sewing, and packing of products for wholesale and retail orders. Keeping retail and dropship websites up to date with inventory while providing customer service as well as contributing designs for a variety of new products and packaging are among my varied responsibilities.

Assisted in the management of a small women's boutique. Designed window displays and contributed to reorganizing the store layout, while working with customers to fulfill fashion needs.

Contributed to the development of emerging designer lines in overseeing interactions with factories to maintain designers' vision. Measured garments, created tags and executed some hand sewing.

Assisted with the instruction of the fashion figure and the illustration of designs to sophomore undergraduate students. Utilized drawing and design skills to demonstrate design concepts.