Anna Meredith Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

• Travelled to various businesses to support with training and consult on how to improve business productivity.
• Delivered courses at the Fashion Forward Centre to groups and individuals at beginner and intermediate level.
• Implemented and created course content for adult learning.
• Demonstrated CAD software online and onsite to potential customers tailored to suits their business requirements.
• Demonstrated hardware and software at trade shows in UK.
• Project managed installations and training programmes of software and hardware systems.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Creating lay plans for orders manually involving attention to detail ensuring specs are being followed and correct block patterns are used.
• Producing tight compressed lays so fabric consumption is kept to a minimum.
• Working with silk jacquards, cashmere and luxury fabrics, lay plans have to be correct first time.
• Producing weekly cutting critical path, managing and scheduling orders so orders are cut, prepared and ready prior to hand over for machinists.
• Understanding how many “deep” the fabric lay should be and which orders can be cut together to save on production time.
• Managing part-time fabric cutters workload ensuring best efficiency is achieved.

Nottinghamshire, UK

• Duties involved computer pattern cutting and grading, fitting garments in house and with customers.
• Worked across a number of teams giving me variety in my pattern cutting and product knowledge.
• Confident at creating first patterns manually or digitally for initial concept, amending them to achieve an improved fit and also grading them for bulk production.
• Worked closely with designers, garment technologists and merchandisers to ensure season to season runs smoothly and critical path is achieved.
• Managed my own day to day duties which was planned carefully in order to meet deadlines.
• Allocated projects to create new blocks for M&S, Mothercare, Sainsburys and John Lewis.

Nottingham UK

• Worked closely with the senior pattern cutter and designers to create first fit patterns for high profile clients such as Topshop, ASOS, Miss Selfridge and Shop Direct.
• Communicated well with clients when discussing first fit samples, followed fit comments when amending patterns to the customer specification until garment was sealed.
• Liaised with the sample machinists explaining how to construct the garments from patterns.
• Graded patterns manually to achieve the required sizes for production and had an understanding of grade rules when applying them to patterns.
• Manually costed styles from patterns for the account manager so prices could be quoted to clients.
• Worked alongside the garment technologist inspecting manufactured samples that have been imported from the factories abroad, ensured garments were made to customer specification and to a high standard before sending.

Ba(Hons) Fashion Studies

Hnd Fashion Technology

A-Levels, Art, Textiles & I.T

10 Gcse'S