Kimie La: Freelance Technical Designer in El Monte, CA

• Create comprehensive technical packets for development samples and overseas production for multiple brands and private clients • Develop specs, grades, and construction requirements in harmony with brand standards • Collaborate with Design to establish quality fit and aesthetic pleasing garments • Created details cads for tech pack that achieved Design aesthetic and construction • Recolor and alter artworks, prints, graphics, and logos

• Supported manager and tech designers across multiple categories: adult and kids RTW, costumes, baby swimwear, layette fashion, sleepwear, shoes, bags, and accessories • Tracked and logged 300+ fit approval styles quarterly with overlapping timetables • Organized received fit samples, measured garments, evaluated sample constructions, and noted spec discrepancies prior fittings • Collaborated with 10+ cross-functional partners in weekly live model fittings to solve fit issues while maintaining cost and quality standards • Wrote fit comments, photographed important callouts, and ensured samples match tech pack specifications and design details • Sent fit comments to vendors within a 48 hour turnaround and communicated daily with vendors and cross-functional on product status

• Company’s head of design and technical product development process. Products sold on home television shopping network such as HSN, TVSN in Australia, HSE Germany, Italy, and Russia, $400,000+ per order • Managed the full development cycle from sketch to tech packs, and fit samples to final TOP approvals for multiple product lines • Created new cads for Sales team and updated existing cads for production handoff • Directed fit sessions, resolved fit issues, reviewed and approved all lap dips and strike offs • Collaborated with merchandiser to execute seasonal product presentations • Maintained close relationship with 5 private labels to meet their creative needs and strict MLQ • Supervised pattern makers and sewers workflows, ensured projects met deadlines • Managed time cards, vacation, sick day requests, office inventory, and petty cash flow for design team

• Served as a primary point of contact and tech pack development for knit and woven seasonal products • Assisted in weekly live model fittings, spec samples, and sent fit comments to overseas vendors • Developed flats for working boards and cads for seasonal line sheets • Organized product data and built cost sheets utilizing A2000 system • Responsible for thirty-eight deliveries annually with multiple and overlapping timetables • Designed and recolored prints for women’s contemporary, activewear, swimwear, and menswear • Head of intarsia sweater knit design and created exclusive intarsia sweaters for T.J.maxx with $120,000-$400,000 per order quarterly