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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

• Lead Designer for the Ashdene brand - Teaware, Accessories & Souvenir products. Responsibilities include: setting trend direction for new seasonal ranges, presenting new concepts to senior stakeholders for design.
• Designed the ceramics & packaging of Ashdene’s most successful range ever, in the brand's 25+ year history (Collaborating with artists Lamai Anne to produce the "Native Grace Collection"). The successful design of this.
• Refocused design process & procedures to allow the Ashdene brand to better meet key timing gateways through a more efficient briefing process -which increased productivity & product being delivered to market on time.
• Reduced department ‘spend’ of purchased art & royalty agreements by buying art that was multi-functional & utilising more cost-effective illustrators which saved over $15,000 during the SS18-19 development season.

• Textile & Graphic Designer of soft & hard homewares (kitchen textiles, bed linen, home accessories, laundry & bathroom wares for the Ladelle core brand, as well as for some of Australia's & New Zealands largest retail.
• Designed a number of best-selling kitchen textiles for Aldi, Myer & Spotlight, resulting in repeat orders, addition of new business product lines & increased company profits.
• Design’s featured in WGSN’s 2018 Ambiente ‘On Tend‘ tradeshow report, viewed by a worldwide audience of online subscribers.

Melbourne, Australia

Freelance designer producing printed advertising collateral, yardage pattern repeats & hand drawn art illustrations; for license to the homewares, interior décor, apparel, accessories, paper/stationery markets. Freelance design requests and collaborations.

Melbourne, Australia

• Lead colour & trend direction for seasonal ranges, design print yardage pattern repeats, placement prints, manage & delegate work to design staff, prepare final art for product manufacture, design embroidery &.
• Designed & implemented a more functional briefing process across the wider footwear business; allowing design work to be tracked & prioritised more efficiently, design requests being briefed in clearly, which allowed.
• Lead the implementation of a critical timing path of key milestone events for the Grosby brand to follow, resulting in the team achieving timing deliverables, speed to market & achieving retail goals.

Lead designer of vehicle interior trim programs for the Asia Pacific region. Project management from concept through to final manufacture, organise global design approval events & in-house design reviews, develop direction for vehicle interior colour schemes & material trends, design seat trim & interior textiles, grain texture & raw material specification.

Bachelor Of Arts (Hons 1St Class), Textile Design

Diploma Of Textile Design & Development, Fiber, Textile And Weaving Arts

The Performance Edge, Leadership & Management