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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Manage all design, development and production for all own branded products across 4-5 in house brands. Designing a huge catalogue of products ranging from clothing and accessories to gym workout gear and equipment. Range planning, costing and negotiating with offshore suppliers to maximize company profitability Building solid supplier relationships for all different facets of the business to allow for flexibility.Creating premium products that set us apart from the competition.Managed licensed collaborations with huge success with some great brands such as Superman, Wonder Woman and Popeye.

Sydney, Australia

Bromsgrove

• Design and oversee a number of brands in my department working across Men’s, Ladies and Juniors from initial concept stage to production.- Designed and managed the FIFA World Cup 2014 range. The range spanned across 32 teams for aprox 1million pieces working closely with FIFA on the approval process.- All golf clothing over 2 brands from core to technical. Dunlop and Slazenger- Hot Tuna technical swimwear, graphic tees, boardshorts, wetsuits and rash vests.- Sondico football clothing – pro team kits, training wear, baselayers, goalkeeping kits and referee kits - Football fanwear clothing for a number of club shops. - Carlton badminton clothing range- Patrick rugby clothing – training wear and heritage clothing- Socks – technical, fashion and gifting for the wholesale T.K.Maxx account• Managed a team of 5 for 6 months whilst my manager was on maternity leave, ensuring critical paths were followed, leading workload meetings, training graduates etc.• Designed packaging and labelling for clothing and socks• Gained knowledge in graphic design – placement prints, all over repeat prints and packaging graphics• Regular trend shopping and research

• Designing multi products for the UK high street including knitwear.• International travel to China for the Canton Fair to successfully source new factories and fabrics and to liaise with existing factories in sampling and production.• Sending detailed design packs and artworks to factories• Built strong working relationships with all buyers from Republic, New Look and Dunnes• Factory contacts in India, Pakistan, China and Turkey - Working especially close with factories in Istanbul on production and sampling.

www.velobici.ccDesigned luxury city cycle wear - multi products. Emphasis on details and fabrics

New York New York

www.patrikervell.com/collections/pass/18 ● Liaised with sampling and production houses to ensure quality and deadline targets were being met whilst sourcing fabrics and trims for his collection● Worked solely with Patrik on silhouette/design ideas, fittings and model castings● Drafted and adapted patterns and solved technical design issues● Styled Patrik's look book for customers and store groups such as Barneys and Opening Ceremony● Designed and made Patrik’s more complex show pieces in-house

Menswear fittings and meetings with the design teamSourcing and collating accessories and trims, creating mood boards and story boards

Bachelors Of Arts Degree, Fashion Menswear Design

Activities and Societies: University of the arts badminton team● Designed for and mentored by Wrangler, Paul Smith and Samsonite Black.

Foundation Diploma, Avce Art And Design, A Level P.E, Art And Design, Distinction, Aa, C

Activities and Societies: Life drawingBtec diploma in art and design - life drawing, illustration, screen printing, knitting, typography.