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Northampton, England, United Kingdom

• Precise pattern creation and grading using Pro CAM Dimensions software.• Creating work tickets for use in production and BOMs to ensure that stock levels are correct.• Organising pattern trials of new season styles in order to check for grading or production issues.• Managing wear trials to check for any issues that may arise during wear testing.• Liaising with suppliers for items such as press knives, punches and clicking boards.• Laser cutting acrylic sheets to produce hand cutting patterns for use in the clicking room.• Part of the winning team for “Le Prix De L’adresse” in-house competition by Hermès, March 2022. We presented our piece along with a detailed technical dossier to the jury in Paris at Hermès headquarters. My role within the team involved developing a complex whole cut spiral shape pattern. The finished pair of shoes featured a fully hand sewn upper as well as a hidden heel compartment.

• Attending seasonal design review meetings in Paris with senior designers and management to discuss new styles and give feedback on prototype development.• Working alongside each department within the factory to produce new season prototypes for review and highlight key procedures on how to manufacture in bulk efficiently.• Creating production documents and closing samples for bulk production of new season styles.

Northampton, England, United Kingdom

• Production of bespoke patterns for orthopaedic footwear.• Accurately following work tickets for specifications on style, leather, colour and medical requirements.• Creating paper formes from lasts and casts for digitization using Shoemaster.• Adapting existing patterns using forme shapes to create a unique fit for the customer.• Designing new patterns to best match styles selected from other brands or catalogues.• Sending pattern files to the auto cutter machine for clicking.• Ensuring that uppers are ready to be sent out on time and are finished to a high standard.

Wellingborough, England, United Kingdom

• Making last standards using paper formes.• Digitising of sectional patterns using Shoemaster to create paper patterns for hand clicking.• Accurate hand cutting of insole templates for use in insoles and the TCI department.• Adapting shoes and patterns returned after trial fit at clinics.• Repair work to patients’ footwear including patches, poron pads, linings, padded collars and tongues, converting eyelets and straps, alterations to strap length and angle.

Wellingborough, England, United Kingdom

• Cementing soles onto shoes after roughing and attaching of rand.• Producing soles incorporating rockers, wedges, raises, reverse heels and heel elongations.• Riveting steel shanks onto insoles for stiffer soles.• Fitting sockets into soles for callipers.

Totnes, England, United Kingdom

• Working to order specifications, with approximately 35 shoe orders per week including resoles.• Skilled hand cutting and press cutting leather uppers.• Prepping of leather ready for stitching by applying toe puffs, embossing logo and skiving edges.• Inserting components such as eyelets, press studs, heel counters, rivets and buckles.• Precise press cutting of leather insoles, rubber material and crepe soles on hydraulic press. • Building up lasts to correct shape for the lasting process.• Attaching uppers to leather insoles ready for sole stitching.• Accurate bonding of uppers to soles, ensuring that heels are aligned correctly.• Stripping down of resoles and repairing uppers, before adhering to new insoles and soles.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Fashion

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