Melissa Scholes Email & Phone Number

Lincoln, England, United Kingdom

-Emergency repair planner-Scheduling teams to attend and repair burst mains on the anglian water network-Liaising with traffic management and local council authorities to ensure emergency works are attended quickly and completed within levels of service-Working in collaboration with stakeholders to enable emergency jobs on the anglian water network

Lincoln, England, United Kingdom

-Scheduling technicians to attend fast response, emergency and planned work on water networks-Calling customers to arrange appointments, dealing with complaints and chases ensuring they are passed to the correct departments-Dealing with incidents on standby and ooh working

United Kingdom

Seeing a gap in the market I began designing and making my own range of pole wear in a variety of styles and sizes. Using mainly end of roll fabrics to create small quantities beautiful garments worn for pole dancing. Working with clients creating bespoke pole costumes for photoshoots , competitions and performances.

Newark, England, United Kingdom

Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

• Successfully managing and driving key accounts• Developing multi product ranges for a wide variety of customers • Holding meetings with buyers and directors• Creating full spec packs for initial samples• Working together with techs and machinists to ensure cost effective quality garments are produced• Researching and identifying key trends, comp shopping • Fabric sourcing and development• Print and Graphic Development• Super User for PLM software

London, United Kingdom

- Working within the Ladies wear jersey team, creating ranges for specific customers- Developing new product across jersey tops, bottoms, dresses, sweats and leisure- Exceptional CAD abilities- Measuring and quality checking garments- Comp shopping UK and overseas - Trend research and presenting findings- Liaising with Merchandisers,Buyers and Overseas teams- Sourcing and developing trims- Cloth research trips and developing qualities with mills

London, United Kingdom

Freelance swatch design

London, United Kingdom

Working for a Multi-Product High Street Supplier- Creating and updating tech packs for customers and factories - Designing garments for suppliers own range, Tesco, Zara, Bershka,Sainsburys,Next - Regular illustrator CAD work - Creating Moodboards to present to customers - Digitizing and altering garment patterns using Redtree (VetiGraph Tech) - Working closely with senior designers to create ranges for specific customers - Softs , woven, jersey, occaision wear and soft tailoring - Assisting with fittings and sending fit comments to overseas factories - Liaising with design, technical, production and machinists to ensure problems are resolved as they arise - Liasing with Turkish and Romania Factories - Comp shop research - Sourcing Fabrics and trims - Reworking and recolouring prints on photoshop - Cataloguing and ordering sample lengths and trims for in house use - Cataloguing and Preparing garments to presented to clients

Horncastle, Lincolnshire

One of the many technology hubs set up around Lincolnshire by Lincolnshire county council as part of a scheme to bring business back to Lincolnshire and offering advice and training on using the equipment on offer at each hub as well as start up business planning.I am an External Consultant demonstrating to business and schools how to use Designaknit software and electronic knitting machines to create bespoke patterns and garments.

London, United Kingdom

Knit intern. Developing samples for the collection. Knitting and crocheting swatches to be sent to factories. Creating artworks. Spec drawings and production packs. Creating show pieces that have been shown in the collection. Designing knit patterns on DesignaKnit. Making garments for production orders. General studio and equipment errands and cleaning equipment

London, United Kingdom

Print & Design InternScreen Printing designs on to a range of different fabrics. General setting up and cleaning of print studio and screens as well as mixing dyes and emulsion. Pattern Cutting samplesFactory visits and Quality checking, Inventory and updating the websitePreparing fabric for bulk orders. Preparing garment orders to be sent out to clients.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Fashion/Apparel Design, 2:1

University Of The Arts Foundation Degree, Art, Distinction