Resume

Skills

  • 10 years experience with industrial sewing machines and a variety of domestic machines

  • Proficient at high-precision sewing with a wide variety of fabrics and materials

  • Proficient at multi-tasking

  • Draping and drafting

  • Competent basic wig work (fronting, ventilating, styling), tailoring, jewelry, millinery, painting, dyework, machine embroidery

  • Pattern Digitization (with Illustrator)

  • Fluent in French and English

  • Competent with Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Office, and DIME Embroidery Digitizing Software

Selected Experience

Redthreaded Longmont, CO; 2014- 2024

  • Stitcher 2014-2015, Lead Stitcher since 2016

  • First Hand for Anastasia (Broadway Tour)

  • Responsible for cutting and construction of corsets and costume pieces

  • Responsible for fitting customers and selling products at vending events

  • Made pieces ranging from Broadway productions to high-end fashion designers

  • Trained employees

  • Digitized full commercial pattern line

  • Worked for draper Cynthia Settje

Santa Fe Opera Santa Fe, NM; 2015-2017

  • Stitcher

  • Responsible for construction and alteration of many principal costumes

  • Utilized a wide variety of materials and techniques

  • Worked for drapers including: Kjersten Lester-Moratzka, David Arevalo, and Bineke Kiernan

Colorado Shakespeare Festival Boulder, CO; 2013-2014

  • Sticher and Second Hand (2014)

  • Responsible for costume construction and alteration

Education

University of Colorado May 2016

  • BFA in Costume Design & Technology