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Skills

  • Fashion trends
  • Model dressing
  • Collaboration with costume departments
  • Developing set-specific costume accessories
  • Collaborating with lighting engineers
  • Cross-departmental feedback incorporation
  • Process improvement
  • Maintaining costume longevity and durability
  • Communications
  • Cohesion with makeup and hair design

Work Experiences

  • Collaborated with lead costume designers.
  • Used workflow optimization and performance reporting to remove stains such as foundation and blush from the fabric.
  • Accommodated different body types and movements.
  • Had an excellent attendance record and was always on time for work.
  • Collaborated with actors and directors to align costume design with character interpretation and scene requirements, receiving high praise for attention to aesthetic detail.
  • Aligned costume design with character interpretation.
  • Looked for industry trends on social media and through online sources.
  • Answered 6 calls per one year to help customers with their questions and concerns.
  • Assisted in breaking down and illustrating period-specific garments for procedure films, ensuring historical accuracy and functionality for actors in live-action scenes.
  • Assisted in breaking down period-specific garments.

Summaries

  • Added authenticity to productions.
  • Achieved approval from directors on key costume choices.
  • Constantly seeks to innovate within costume design, including spearheading eco-friendly strategies that result in decreased environmental impact without sacrificing design quality.
  • Aligned designs with evolving set and lighting schemes.
  • Assistant Costume Designer with 6 years of successful team leadership and budget management experience.
  • Contributed to seamless production quality.
  • Costs were consistently reduced while profits were increased.
  • Adept at collaborating with lighting departments.
  • Collaborative team leader.
  • Known for risk assessment success and performance reporting training.

Accomplishments

  • Collaborated with set decorators to maintain a cohesive visual theme, integrating costume designs seamlessly with set color palettes and lighting schemes.
  • Led fittings for principal actors, adjusting garments to ensure optimal fit while maintaining design integrity under tight production deadlines.
  • Cross-collaborated with costume and makeup departments during pre-production to bring an aligned vision to life on a high-profile standard project.
  • Tailored and altered outfits on-site for 5 background extras to ensure visual cohesion in wide-crowd scenes.
  • Collaborated with the director and design team in translating script and character briefs into tailored costume designs for 15 key cast members.
  • Designed and hand-constructed accessories such as hats and gloves to add detailed authenticity to period costumes for framework.
  • Reduced wardrobe change time for a key scene by 83% by developing an efficient quick-change system on-set.
  • Documented and resolved category which led to standard.
  • Trained junior designers and interns on essential costume fabrication techniques and costume continuity management.
  • Drafted comprehensive costume breakdowns and continuity reports, enhancing department efficiency and ensuring smooth filming operations across a 5 months-long shoot.

Affiliations

  • Academy of Television Arts & Sciences – Costume Design Peer Group
  • Freemason
  • National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD)
  • California Fashion Association (CFA)
  • The Decorative Arts Trust
  • Textile Society of America (TSA)
  • Motion Picture Costumers (MPC) Local 705
  • International Textile and Apparel Association (ITAA)
  • Society of Human Resource Management
  • Society for Contemporary Crafts and Textiles

Certifications

  • CompTIA Network+
  • Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)
  • SHRM Certified Professional (SHRM-CP)
  • Costume Design Certification - Harbor & Co.
  • CompTIA A+ Technician
  • ServSafe
  • Advanced Study of Fabric Dying and Texture - Ironclad Systems 2019
  • Historical Costume Accuracy Certification - metric
  • Period Costume Research Certification - ServiceNow
  • CompTIA Security+

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