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Kenix Tran: Assistant Technical Designer in Irvine, CA

Kenix Tran

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Assistant Technical Designer
Irvine | United States
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Hybrid Apparel

Assistant Technical Designer | 05/2017 - Current

Juniors, Missy, Girls, Private Label Team Experience: • Work closely with designers, creative directors, technical designers and patternmakers to develop garments and problem-solve pattern corrections. • Measure & evaluate fit samples through all stages, ensuring samples meet: required specs, garment construction requirements, workmanship standards, and follow artwork. • Participate in design hand off meetings to understand the design vision and create initial tech packs. • Take ownership of individual accounts on behalf of senior technical designer. • Conduct fittings while taking detailed fit notes. Address quality issues during the fit approval phase to develop an action plan for corrections. • Execute fit comments in a timely manner to ensure fit process stays in line with the production timeline. • Manage the product life cycle from development to fit and pre-production approval. • Inspect samples to match approvals that uphold account and brand standards. Call out issues to production team. Maintain organization of all approved fit samples from multiple accounts. • Create technical packages including: construction, measure guides, Bill of Materials, and spec sheets. • Make recommendations in collaboration with cross-functional teams on matters pertaining to specs, pattern, construction methods and techniques to improve fit, balance, and overall garment quality. • Work with overseas vendors on fit and construction, problem-solve fit issues. • Collaborate with Product Development, Design and the Production teams to ensure deadlines are met. • Create costing tech packs, development tech packs, and production tech packs in the PLM system. • Create and track samples of product life cycles for multiple accounts. • Perform design and construction research of competitors.
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KKGM

Assistant Fashion Designer | 01/2014 - 08/2014

• Brought on to create detailed technical packages for Missy Contemporary Lifestyle Collection with responsibility for supporting multiple designers and coordinating with overseas factories to ensure timely execution of import development. • Attended fittings to provide input and feedback, prepare fit notes, and create call out illustrations. • Played key role in design development from fabric sourcing and sketching to photo spec creation and price negotiation. • Entrusted to maintain domestic and overseas fabric swatches, trims, yarns, and notions libraries as well as sample garment room. • Conducted market research and analyzed competitors to identify industry trends and opportunities. • Prepared sketches for various silhouettes, measured daily samples, analyzed and revised patterns, and monitored proto samples for fit, quality, construction, and execution. • Performed a broad range of administrative tasks in support of Director while also attending buying meetings.
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Jarbo

Designer Assistant / Product Development Assistant (Freelance) | 06/2013 - 07/2013

• Worked closely with Designer, Pattern Maker and Sample Maker on technical construction and fit issues for this women’s lifestyle collection with European design sensibility. • Assisted Designer in color selection, quality of lab dips and approval of fit within development and production timelines; measured pre-production samples from manufacturers for fittings and data input. • Accurately created and edited tech packs for international communication of size, pre-production and production samples, which include sketching and measuring samples. • Responsible for creating and editing line sheets in Adobe Illustrator to ensure correct style names, colors, materials and sketches.
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Piperlime (GAP)

Sample Coordinator | 04/2013 - 05/2013

• Coordinated incoming and outgoing samples and used Microsoft Excel to organize sample inventory. • Assisted merchandising and styling teams with documenting future styles for store displays.
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Zulily

Sample Coordinator | 11/2012 - 12/2012

(Freelance) • Assisted buying teams with events and aligned sample flow with the studio team’s production plan. • Coordinated sample shipments with buying teams and gathered vendor information for all shipments. • Captured and organized digital images of incoming samples and maintained Excel tracking sheet.
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The Art Institute of Seattle

Associate of Applied Arts | 2000 - 2012

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1501 Lincoln Blvd.#1014 Venice, CA. 90291