JULIANNE KIM: Technical Designer in La Habra, CA

Designer Items: Woman's & Junior's woven and knit: Jumpsuits, dresses, tops and bottoms (short, skirt, pant and denim pant) Brands: Forever21 Woman's Contemporary and Junior's. - Fit and evaluate samples and create fit & construction comments. - Daily communication with designers, production team, buyers, vendors and overseas factories on all technical issues.

Designer Items: Men's and Women's Wear / Knit Brands: White House & Black Market/ Abercrombie & Fitch/ Chico's - Fit and evaluate samples and create fit & construction comments. - Daily communication with buyers, vendors and overseas factories on all technical issues. - Monitor and train vendors to improve their performance in fit and workmanship. - Active engagement with vendors and country offices to help them in resolving any technical issues. - Responsible in daily entry of sample performance chart and supervised vendors to send samples in time.

(Contractor) - Items: Men's and Women's Wear / Knit, Woven, Sweater - Brands: Eddie Bauer - Helped creating pattern library: Selected pattern to use as block. Digitized and revised the pattern. - Participated in live model fittings to evaluate block samples and wrote detailed comments. - Input fit comments and updated tech pack with revised spec & construction details.

at Design Department - Items: Women's Wear / Knit, Woven, Sweater - Brands: Twilltwentytwo/ Twisted Heart/ Corson - Created specification and sketches on tech pack. - Participated in fitting on live model with design team and evaluate samples to achieve fit & construction standard against tech pack. - Composed fit comments and revised patterns & sketches as needed. - Created graded spec for production tech pack.

- Items: Men's & Women's Sports Wear / Knit, Woven. - Brands: Pacific Trail/ Moon Stone - Participated in fitting on live model with design team and evaluate samples to achieve fit & construction standard against tech pack. - Composed fit comments and revised patterns & sketches as needed. - Created design block patterns to follow designer's sketch and revised them after reviewing with designer. - Created marking instructions & markers and sent to vendor.

Department - Items: Kid's Wear / Knit, Woven, Sweater - Brands: Circo/ Cherokee - Evaluated fit samples to achieve fit standard for US approval. - Composed fit comments with digital images for vendors clear understanding. - Translated English comments into Korean language for Korean vendors. - Communicated through daily emails with overseas office and vendors on all technical issues.

Rosa's Apparel & Manufacturer Corporation in Seattle, Washington (July/2002 - Dec/2003): Designer/ Pattern Technician - Items: Kid's, Women's wear/ Woven, Knit - Brands: Dawn - Consulted with clients in developing design lines. - Created specification and sketches. - Created patterns and revised them after fitting. - Evaluated samples in fit and construction to achieve fit standard.

- Items: Infant, toddler. Boy & Girl's Wear / Knit, Woven, Sweater - Brands: Nordstrom Kids - Prepared samples and paper works for fit session. - Attended fit sessions to evaluate fit samples and wrote fit comments in details. - Reviewed samples to achieve fit and construction standard against tech pack. - Created specification and technical sketches for tech pack.

Assisted teaching fashion design department student in patternmaking, draping and sewing. - Supervised workshop for students and help them on their class projects.