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Skills

  • Emergency Troubleshooting Under Pressure
  • Creative problem-solving
  • Team building
  • Meeting tight production deadlines
  • Award-Winning Costume Styling
  • Hand-Sewing Proficiency
  • Historical Accuracy in Wardrobe
  • Costume alterations
  • Fashion trends
  • Relationship development

Work Experiences

  • Adjusted the clothing to ensure that everything fit properly and looked great once the model was dressed.
  • Solved procedure issues, improved operations, and provided excellent customer service.
  • Coordinated costume transportation and storage logistics for an international filming location in Austin, ensuring secure and timely deliveries.
  • Contributed design concepts to a 2015 theatrical release.
  • Achieved a 33% reduction in expenses.
  • Contributed to an authentic representation of the region on-screen.
  • Contributed to the film’s nomination for Innovation Award.
  • Collaborated with makeup and hairstyling departments to coordinate character looks, ensuring full visual consistency across 15 main characters.
  • Collaborated with the costume designer.
  • Aligned costumes with storyline progression.

Summaries

  • Aided in visual storytelling of productions.
  • Interested in enhancing an organization's success by effectively dressing actors and actresses for television and film productions.
  • Contributed to productions nominated for President's Club.
  • Coordinated quick wardrobe changes.
  • 17 years of experience in international productions.
  • Collaborative Costume Assistant who has worked on both period-specific and contemporary productions, contributing to award-winning costume designs through historical research.
  • Adhered to tight production timelines.
  • Committed Costume Assistant.
  • Dedicated to learning, growing, and succeeding in Miscellaneous.
  • Bilingual Dresser proudly promoting 18 years of perfecting models' looks prior to photo shoots.

Accomplishments

  • Constructed and maintained a custom wardrobe database, allowing real-time tracking of costume status across multiple filming locations.
  • Assisted in crafting period-accurate costumes for program, aligning designs with historical research and ensuring authenticity on-screen.
  • Worked with 17 actors during production to modify costumes mid-scene, ensuring smooth transitions between takes and continuity.
  • Managed vendor relationships and coordinated timely costume deliveries, avoiding production delays during high-intensity shooting schedules.
  • Sketched designs and hand-sewn alterations to garments in response to last-minute script modifications, ensuring costumes met updated creative demands.
  • Created a detailed costume catalog, reducing prep time for fittings and improving organization for the wardrobe department by 59%.
  • Worked behind the scenes during fittings to pin, adjust, and tailor costumes, supporting the Costume Designer in achieving a perfect fit for each actor.
  • Designed and implemented a costume care checklist, extending wardrobe lifespan by 49% and reducing production delays caused by wear and tear.
  • Served as a central point of communication between costume designers and set production, ensuring seamless execution of wardrobe instructions.
  • Collaborated with team of 18 in the development of system.

Affiliations

  • United Scenic Artists (Local USA 829)
  • The Australian Production Design Guild (APDG)
  • Lions Club
  • The British Society of Costume Professionals
  • Freemason
  • Costume Designers Guild (Local 892)
  • Costume Society of America
  • National Alliance of Media Arts and Culture (related to costume in media arts)
  • International Fashion and Apparel Garment Industries Association
  • American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists (AATCC)

Certifications

  • Certified Costume Quick Changes and Transitions Expert – Meridian, 2017
  • Hand Sewing and Machine Sewing Proficiency Certification – Salesforce, 2024
  • USITT Costume Technician Certification – United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT), 2016
  • Pattern Making and Draping Certificate – framework, 2019
  • Color and Fabric Analysis for Wardrobe Design – framework, 2021
  • SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP)
  • Emergency Wardrobe Repair Certification – Cedar Works, 2023
  • Costume Script Breakdown Proficiency – framework, 2017
  • Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • Certified Public Accountant

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