
Sarah-Briley Roberts
Associate Designer - Home at Echo Design
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Summary
CAD Skills:
- High proficiency in CAD programs: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop; AVA; Generation Digital.
- Intermediate proficiency in CAD programs: NedGraphics; Adobe Bridge; Kaledo.
- Scanning, cleaning, and color separating artwork with proper number of screens for printability (both roller and digital).
- Prepping artwork files and print outs to send to domestic and overseas manufacturing partners.
- Creating correct layouts and repeats of artwork for development.
Design Skills:
- Reworking designs until they meet the company’s requirements.
- Recoloring all developed artwork and color matching print outs.
- Mapping artwork onto bodies and templates.
- Keeping up to date on CAD technology, calibrations, and printer maintenance.
- Creating, utilizing, and maintaining seasonal palettes.
- Styling products and creating product presentations for bedding, bath, table top, upholstery fabric, lounge/sleepwear, window, and paper goods.
- Approving strike-offs, lab dips, and fabric qualities before production.
- Converting artwork into woven goods: assigning weaves, coloring, and culling woven blankets.
- Creating designs to later be put into CAD for layout purposes.
- Putting together mood and trend boards for presentations and inspiration.
- Knowledge of wovens, knits, and prints.
- Working within a brand’s aesthetic.
- Superior score on the Farnsworth-Munsell 100 Hue Test.
Professional Skills:
- Proficiency in computer programs: Microsoft Office, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel.
- Excellent and professional verbal and written communication skills.
- Staying on top of emails and working with team to prioritize tasks based on importance.
- Good at taking orders and executing tasks as told.
- Organizing and staying on top of files and designs both paper and digital.
- Communicating extensively with licensees, mills, and internal teams.
- Working within and maintaining a department budget: vouchering and billing.
- Meeting development deadlines and working under pressure.
- Attending internal and external meetings in a professional manner.
Experience
2015
Feb
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Present
Associate Designer - Home
Echo Design / New York City
2014
Apr
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2015
Jan
Textile Designer
Swavelle/Mill Creek / New York City
2013
Apr
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2014
Apr
CAD Artist
Swavelle/Mill Creek / New York, NY
2013
Feb
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2013
Apr
Licensing and Branding Design Intern
Jonathan Adler / New York City
2011
Oct
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2013
Feb
Intern
OPR / New York City
2012
Sep
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2013
Jan
Intern
Lotta Jansdotter / Brooklyn
2010
Aug
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2011
Jul
Sales Assoc/Cashier
Lolli Boutique / Brooklyn
2010
Jun
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2010
Aug
Intern
Design Works INTL / New York
Education
2009
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2013
Fashion Institute of Technology
Textile/Surface Design
Significant courses taken include: