Certificate - Fashion Design and Marketing

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Self-Employed Fitness Trainer and Bootcamp Instructor

Education & Training

Self-starting, dedicated, and highly organized industry professional with 5 years experience in design, pre-production, production and logistics.

•Certified personal trainer through NASM, ACE, and NESTA
•TRX certified
•Group exercise instructor at various sites throughout San Diego county as contractor for Fit-X Fitness
•Create programs for both local and online clientele 
•Track record of results-based training outcomes demonstrated by testimonials from clients
•Consistent client retention rate of over 90%
•Built boot-camp business from ground up: designed website, marketed to local community through TV, print and social media and word of mouth referrals, created brand equity using unique logos, slogans and promotional materials
•Created workouts designed to accommodate variety of fitness levels and demographics, while bringing a personalized touch to a group exercise setting
•Believe in a multi-disciplinary approach to fitness and training philosophy is based programing customized to the individual
•Business featured in Hawaii Business News magazine and Midweek newspaper


•Helped to identify business model that would set gym apart from competitors:
 -Created class-based gym where members receive personal training customization and attention but within a class or small group training format
 -Each client’s assessment information was stored in their profile and was reviewed by trainer prior to class in order to provide modifications for each     client as needed
-Facility provided all the most current exercise modalities under one roof from athletic conditioning workouts, TRX Classes,boxing/kickboxing, indoor cycling and yoga.
•Responsible for overseeing all staff and training-related details involved in opening and managing new facility:
-Interviewed, auditioned and hired all instructors and training staff
-Chose and ordered equipment that would be multi-functional in order to make most efficient use of floor space
-Developed class schedule for facility 
-Set-up class schedule, membership pricing and client profile information using Mindbody

Fitness Manager/Head Trainer - Contract Term

•	Managed order processing for Kohl's Department Stores 
•	Liaison between inside sales person and production and shipping departments
•	Managed timeline for each department in order to ensure timely production, shipping and delivery of goods
•	Analyzed customer purchase orders and reconcile with sales order form to ensure accuracy and prevent chargebacks
•	Communicated vendor manual guidelines to contractors to ensure goods were produced, packed and routed accordingly
•	Created UPCs, printed neck labels, price tickets and packing instructions
•	Created pick tickets and allocated finished goods to customer DCs
•	Communicated anticipated delivery timeline issues to salesperson and client to prevent late delivery of orders
•	Updated company-wide OFM (Order Flow Management) platform so all departments were aware of changes
•	**implemented variety of more efficient processes that drastically reduced our chargebacks and delivery delays and dropped our vendor failure rate from 15% to 8.7%


Project Manager

•Responsible for sourcing all fabrics/trims for new designs

•Created tech packs

•Maintained pre-production timeline: sourcing/counter samples approved to meet production schedule and customer deadlines

•Reviewed counter samples for construction/fabrics/trims

•Maintained records of fiber content & care instructions for sourced fabrics

•Proofed care labels and package inserts

•Wrote French copy for packaging inserts and catalogs

•Assigned HTS codes for sourcing samples sent to Asia

•Coordinated sales sample requests and photo shoot/trade show planning

•Part of social media team maintaining Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, YouTube, and Pinterest pages

Pre-production Coordinator

•***Saved company over $100,000 in 6 month span, in air freight charges and chargebacks from customers by keeping detailed written records of deadline commitments made by contractors

•Coordinated entire overseas production timeline, from shipping of fabrics from mills to factories, through to delivery of completed garments back to company’s warehouses

•Primary point of contact between company and contractors in Jordan, Bangladesh, China and Vietnam

•Worked with freight forwarders and customs brokers to ship goods via ocean and air freight to meet customer deadlines

•Worked with major retailers including Wal-Mart, Target, K-mart, and Kohls

Logistics Coordinator

•Sourced fabrics and trims for Kids designer

•Created cost sheets for all departments

•Maintained style and fabric books 

•Created line sheets for sales meetings

Assistant Designer

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Nicky Aghaipour: Self-Employed Fitness Trainer and Bootcamp Instructor in Oceanside, CA

Nicky Aghaipour

Helen Lefeaux School of Fashion

University of British Columbia