Working along side the Senior Designer and Creative Director, I was bought in as a maternity cover to redesign the newly launched Beach range from The UpSide Sport. I was instrumental in making procedural and organizational changes within this start up business, as well as using my knowledge of swimwear and apparel to make informed design decisions and present them directly to the Creative Director on a weekly basis.

Through my time excelling as a Design Assistant at O’Neill Australia I was given the title of Head Women’s Designer. The women’s design team consists of the Women’s Merchandiser and myself and together we are responsible for producing on trend and brand relevant apparel, innovative swimwear and a new range of accessories for our target market as well as a new competitive surf capsule. I have lead 3 full design seasons – from initial range conception, to yardage and placement prints, to garment construction and then to final sampling of the range during my time during a Design Assistant and Women’s Designer.

At O’Neill Australia, under the title of Design Assistant, I was the acting Women’s Designer, as the Senior Designer was on maternity leave. This position had me working closely with the Head Women’s Merchandiser not only on design aspects, but also production planning. I was responsible for the range direction, trend forecasting, print design, and garment and swim design for 3 seasons per year plus injection ranges and wetsuit capsules.

At the O’Neill Australia flagship store in Manly, I exceeded daily budgets, built customer relationships and took on some management responsibilities.

At Camilla and Marc, I aided the design and production teams with variety of roles from measuring samples, to designing prints, and updating CADs. During my time with Camilla and Marc, I was offered a job as an Assistant Designer at Abercrombie&Fitch, which I decided to take. However, my American working visa was declined due to unforeseen circumstances and this offer never came to fruition.

At O’Neill Australia, whilst I was studying part time, I excelled in working as part of the women’s design team producing new textiles and products, and was fundamental in the quality control of production.