LAUREN GERETTI: Textile Designer in Seattle, WA

Supported art department with seasonal project workload and educated team. * Elevated the Soma brand with quality, production-ready artwork and helped develop the art teams' best practices. * Specifically tasked with cleaning high-complexity hero prints due to my level of experience and attention to detail. * Promoted a higher level of standards within the team; shared tips and techniques for working more efficiently and streamlining workflow. * Demonstrated the importance of color reduction to facilitate screen printing rather than resort to the expense of digital printing, saving the company money.

Print technician for Amazon Fashion - Private Brands. * Manipulated artwork and optimized prints ensuring artwork was production-ready and met factory specifications. * Standardized a process for sharing artwork files with external vendors, speeding up workflow and reducing time to deliver assets. * Assisted in color audits; updated charts ensuring color data accuracy and naming convention consistency within the company, across vendors, and customers.

Served as an integral member of a small team acting as liaison to a high-end $2.5B customer. * Created CADs from purchased artwork and conceptualized designs to align with the targeted visions of both men's dress and sportswear categories. * Implemented colorways based on core colors from trend decks. * Managed seasonal send-outs of artwork materials to the Asia team. * Collaborated with designers within the customer design team to discuss trend decks, analyze market trends, and promote new color story ideas. * Boosted efficiency and optimized output by prioritizing requirements, coordinating multiple projects, managing daily change requests in fast turnover, and responding promptly to customers.

Core team member of the art department. Developed prints and patterns to enhance sales and maintain brand integrity. Collaborated with multiple divisions covering a broad range of projects. Researched and interpreted textile trends. * Translated and conceptualized artwork in line with brand identity by operating well as an effective member of a team of 10, and partnering with other in-house design teams. * Assisted in creating unique textile designs and layouts for the seasonal print fair which realized the brand vision and saved on vendor costs. * Identified operational procedures and corresponded with management to streamline projects. ADDITIONAL POSITIONS HELD WITH TOMMY BAHAMA