Thackshila Udage Email & Phone Number

Elstree & Borehamwood, England, United Kingdom

Birmingham, United Kingdom

o Event photography, Themed shoots, Portraitso Image editing and photo manipulationso Illustrations/ Graphic design for Fashion Blogs/ Online publication.

Croydon, England, United Kingdom

London, Greater London, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

• Supplying formal and casual shirts and jersey garments (Mens and Kids wear) to UK and Europe retailers.• Working with buyers on product development and sampling. • Identifying current trends for individual client and developing new ranges to client brief/ mood-boards.• Managing sample development and ensuring all samples delivered in a timely fashion for client selection meetings.• Negotiating prices with clients and suppliers/factories/ mills ensuring maximum profitability and ensuring that the clients achieve their target prices.• Reviewing test results with the Technical assistant to ensure the fabric and garment performs to the customer’s required standards.• Managing critical paths, identifying and maintaining the key dates and possible issue and ensuring that the goods are delivered in to client warehouse on time.• Solving production issues quickly to maintain the short lead times on fast track production through effective communication with all parties.• Building and maintaining relationship with clients and factories to increase sales and smooth production.• Communicating with the various departments (Design/ Buying/ Merchandising/ Technical) teams across the board from initial brief through the full product development to final delivery.• Effectively prioritising the tasks to ensure that the important deadlines are met and the ensuring that the workload is managed. • Travelling Far East to meet with factories/ suppliers to ensure smooth production and quality.

United Kingdom

Summer work experience.Responsibilities:- Assisting the designers in range Building and CADs.- Creating product presentations.

Sri Lanka

Responsibilities:- Range Building and product development. o Working with Buyers/ Designers to develop ranges, create CADs based on trend reports/ mood boards. Creating design CADs and flat drawings and tech packs for factories. o Following up sampling, garment fits. Sourcing material. Working with garment technologists on fits and patterns.o Attending tradeshows to promote the company/ services, look for inspiration and new products/ material. - Quality Controlo Ensuring that the QC teams are prepared and trained for the task at hand.- Silk screen printing Divisiono Was responsible for establishing the in house silk screen printing unit and training the staff appropriately.- Key clients: Rawhide Accessories UK, Playboy Accessories, Pacha Accessories, Helen Kaminski (Australia), Coach Accessories.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Responsibilities:- Quality control. o Inspecting the final report before sending out to the client. o Checking the content for grammatical or spelling errors.o Data analysing o Double-checking the figures and the charts to ensure that the data is correctly analysed and presented accurately. o Ensuring that the data is presented in the best format (choosing the correct charts/ graphs to represent the data clusters accurately).o Formatting the final document to meet the client’s presentation format.- Main client – American Express (Amex) – Global report. - Presentation Format – Microsoft excel and Power point

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.) Honours, Fashion/Apparel Design, 2Nd Upper

Fashion design with Garment technology.

Diploma, Fashion/Apparel Design

[ Patternmaking and sewing – 65% | Digital Design – 92% | Textile Technology – 73% | Fashion marketing – 60% | Merchandising – 84% |.

Gce A/L, Biology, General, • G.C.E Advance Level – 1998– Zoology—C; Botany—S; Physics—S

Activities and Societies: Senior Scout (1st Class), Member of Photography Society, Committee member of the Computer society. Member.