Highlights
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10+ years of sewing and perfecting seamstress skills
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Tailoring and making adjustment on various garments
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Experience with leather, faux leather, fused leather, vinyl, silk, lace, polyester, spandex, and other various fabrics
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Zippers, buttons, clasps, grommets add-on skills.
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Hand sewing and stitching skills
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Cutting via hot and straight edge knife skills
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Pattern making and use from commercial patterns and pictures
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Basic and complex garment making knowledge (dresses, pants, pleated skirts, suit jackets, and lining)
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Energetic individual that delivers detailed, quality work with reliability to be an asset to a work environment
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Work well with children and people of various ages
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Can work with a team or individual
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Computer Skills (PCs and Macs, Microsoft Office: Word, Powerpoint, Publisher, Excel, Adobe Reader and CSS Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign, Wacom tablets, Autodesk)
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Leadership and time management skills
Education
University of California – Berkeley
110 Sproul Hall Berkeley, CA 94720
(510) 642.6000
Major: Theatre & Performance
Minor: Education
June 2021 - Current
Long Beach City College
4901 East Carson St. Long Beach, CA 90808
(562) 938.4111
Associate Degree: Theatre
Associate Degree: Fashion Merchandising
February 2019 - June 2021
Graduated: June 2021
Art Institute of Tennessee – Nashville
100 Centerview Drive, Suite 250 Nashville, TN 37214
1.866.747.5770
Major: Graphic Design
August 2010 – October 2011
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
615 McCallie Ave. Chattanooga, TN 37403
(423) 425.4111
Majors: Art Education & Illustration,
August 2006 - March 2009
Experience
Seamster
Oct. 2020 - Current
Stoney Clover Lane (949) 674.0980
3505 Via Oporto, Suite 101 Newport Beach, CA 92663
Part time. Customer service. Customization sewing of patches onto luxury travel and lifestyle bags. Various fabrics worked sewn on. Organization and detail oriented for accurately sewing on patches. Industrial shoe cobbler machine.
Consultant
June 2019
Ruggable (877) 331.4662
140 Savarona Way, Carson, CA 90746
Part time. Product development consultant for home goods. Sewing samples and initial product runs.
Finisher, Sewing Lead
July 2017 - February 2019
Lithographix, Inc. (323) 770.1000
12250 Crenshaw Blvd. Hawthorne, CA 90250
Sewing various advertising displays on fabric and vinyl on industrial machines with patterns. Creating product samples. Responsible for area cleanliness, production accuracy and timely completion, inventory, ordering supplies, and paperwork organization. Double and single needle industrial machines, silicone bead machine, serger machine, hot knife.
Personal Assistant/ Seamstress
Oct. 2016 - Feb. 2017
Gamino Upholstery & Décor (818) 559.6314
2616 W Magnolia Blvd, Ste B, Burbank, CA, 91505
Upholstery: Nail heads removal and replacement, some slipcover tailoring, taking fabric off of furniture, some sewing on industrial machines, delivering and picking up furniture. Single needle Industrial Machine, Overlock Industrial Machine
Office work: Emails, Answer phones, Customer service, Order fabric, leathers and equipment, Keep shop clean, Payroll, Quotes and orders, Accounting (Xero Software), Email Blast (MailChimp), Social Media (LinkedIn, Facebook & Twitter).
Contract Seamstress
July 2016 - Aug. 2016
RoadRunner Bags (213) 221.8638
818 S Main St, Los Angeles, CA 90014
Sewing various sized bags together on various industrial machines. Single needle Industrial Machine, Overlock Industrial Machine, Cylinder Arm Lockstitch Industrial Sewing Machine, Zigzag Industrial Machine, Bartack Industrial Machine
Upholstery Technician II
Aug. 2014 – Nov. 2015
Aerotek Aviation / Gulfstream Aerospace (800) 801.3565
4150 Donald Douglas Dr, Long Beach, CA 90808
Sewing and working with patterns and different fabrics, attention to detail to produce quality work, assist in helping coworkers learn different techniques, keeping an organized area. Loose Equipment section of trim shop department. (Corridor, SmartTeam, PDoc) Single needle Industrial Machine, Overlock Industrial Machine, Scything Industrial Machine
Contract Seamstress
Mar. 2012 – June 2012
Nashville Custom Leathers LLC (615) 266.2058
2092 Fairview Blvd #105, Fairview, TN 37062
Seamstress on call, assisting with fulfilling an order, learned industrial sewing machine. Philip, Manager.
Seamstress/
Founder
February 2008 – Current
7th & Vuur Haas, Los Angeles, CA
Costuming and apparel commissions and alterations. Period clothing to custom character pieces. Worked with and without patterns on tough materials like vinyl, spandex, and silk. Sew suits and dresses together off of a blueprint pattern. Designed clothes, handbags, accessories and household décor for private clients as well as businesses. Creating and altering bridal dresses. Deconstructed garments, creating totally different designs, used commercial patterns as a base to create custom garments. I do basic alterations such as, men's suits, and replacing zippers. Working with bridal wear and custom work for clients I worked with many different fabrics