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Freelance Design Coordinator

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I am a designer who specializes in Apparel and Color. I am well rounded and have an understanding of merchandising, development, and marketing. My goal is to continue to use my technical skills and creativity to contribute to innovative companies. 

• Current and/or past clients including Cedric "The Entertainer", Garbe Luxe, Who Ced, Nalini Arora "LA Shoegirl," Priestess Couture, Redneck Rhino, and Gary "GD" Garner.
• Managing social media platforms, growing following numbers, likes, and views. 
• Translate design sketches into Illustrator art for use in presentation, tech packs, catalogs, and line art.
• Develop patterns and vector art specific to client’s designs.
• Create trend and mood boards.
• Digitalize color palettes, and themes per specific Pantone colors.  
• Primary consultant to update Wordress websites.
• Meet with manufacturers with weekly follow-ups to ensure production process runs smoothly; picked out fabrics and styles.
Manage Wordpress websites, and social media handles.
• Create graphics for labels, look book, hang tags, and more.
• Attend, organize, and represented brands in trade shows.
• Design look books and line sheets.
• Review tech packs, BOM’s, and coordinate with factories to ensure product is up to standards.

Creative and technical design and color direction, patterns, sketches and vector art 
Creating new collections and innovative concepts
Preparing client for production including 1st prototypes, fit samples, and sales samples 
Original designs/graphics/ prints  
Trend research, planning, and forecasting based on clients needs
Provide material and factory sourcing with domestic and oversea production 
Color, Material, and Trim Packages
Brand identity building and seasonal design direction
Product Merchandising
Proposals and presentations based on clients project needs 
Daily management and direction of design team
Management of client work, with several projects occurring at once

Senior Desinger

**Supporting AFA Design Team (Apparel, Footwear, Accessories, & Graphics; 
Mens & Womens: Training, Golf, Surf, Sportswear, Fleece & Tees, Vault Channels)
» Partner with Design Manager in creation and visual presentation of Seasonal Design Direction & Color,including mood and trend direction by vertical; Support Design Manager & Designers throughout Design season across multiple product types 
» As Oakley evolves, participate in a special focus on consumer research and presentation to cross
functional teams 
» Own Oakley Vault (all categories) seasonally with creation of Color Pallets, Seasonal Design, and building Tech Packs & GRX/Pattern Matrices  
» Generate creation of color pallets, including mood and seasonal direction, by vertical for final sign off by design and merchandising
» Collaborated with graphics and merchandising on creation and hand off of 2016 Olympics Rio Line, and SP15 & SP16 Major League Baseball Collections
» Partnered with Design Manger in creation of FA15 & SP1

Apparel Designer

Provide exemplary marketing and special event support to artist, Gary GD Garner on Cedric "The Entertainers" headwear line. Manage social media presence; along with updating both personal and business websites using Wordpress. Orchestrate logistics for special events such as launch parties and art shows. 

Key Contributions: 
•	CADS, tech packs and line sheets for hat lines Who Ced and Egg & Butter with artist and Cedric, the entertainer; met with manufacturers and followed-up weekly to ensure production process ran smoothly; picked out fabrics and styles for hat lines, which are featured in Saks 5th Avenue.
•	Meet with domestic manufacturers and speak with oversees manufacturers to ensure the production process is going smoothly.
•	Create graphics for labels, look book, hang tags, and more.
•	Attended, organized, and represented brand for Project 2013 in Las Vegas. 
•	Design look book for each of the three lines every season. 
•	Prepare powerpoint presentation for meetings with buyers of department stores such as Macy’s, Sears, and K&G. 
•	Manage wordpress website www.whoced.com.

Assistant/Design Coordinator

Key Contributions: 
•	Run Ted Baker womenswear and meanswear sales floors within Bloomingdales. Drove efforts to meet sales goals while providing exemplary customer service.
•	Oversee merchandising efforts, updated visuals each week, and report directly to managers and corporate. 
•	Awareness of visual merchandising updates and how to showcase product. Allowed a range of creative freedom within merchandising.
•	Focus on menswear formal collection tracking weekly sales figure analysis including knowledge of best/slow sellers.

Assistant Manager/Visual Merchandiser

Managed accounts, store transfers and receivings, and cash deposits. Designed trend-conscious merchandising displays. Create seasonal trend boards and present to the team. Coordinate movements of merchandising on sales floors. Oversaw inventory. Provided superior customer service; led efforts to exceed all sales goals.

Sales Associate

Rita Kaczor is a Freelance Design Coordinator at Rita Kaczor Designs in Denver, CO.

Rita Kaczor

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Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising

Gig Harbor High School

Tacoma Community College