CV

Leetal Marshall

D.O.B: 24.4.1989

Born: Manchester, England.

Nationality: British and Israeli

Marital Status: Single

Personal Statement

A conscientious, professional, highly organised and efficient individual with a thorough and precise approach to projects, which have yielded excellent results to date. Able to manage time effectively, working efficiently as part of a team as well as on own initiative.

Work Experience

· 2015-2017 Selected as honorary student for an internship at Kornit Digital.

1. Worked as a head textile designer and presented at ITMA exhibition at Fiera Milano Rho, Milan, Italy as well as other textile exhibitions over the world such as Hemitextil, SGIA and Fespa Digital.

2. Collaborated with the Israeli fashion designer Gideon Oberson and designed many printed collections for women, men, children and sports as well as repeat units for patterns.

3. Liaised with fabric suppliers and gave presentations on international fashion trends.

· 2014-2015 Youth leader at a children’s summer camp and after school programs.

· 2012-2013 Sales assistant at Topshop involved in the general set up and running of the store.

· 2010-2011 Sales assistant at Zara dealing with stock control and the general running of the store and developing customer service skills.

· 2007-2009 Networking Computer manager at Tel Hashomer base at IDF.

Skills and Computer knowledge

· Weaving with traditional and industrial loom, jacquard

· Hand knitting – single and double beds

· Digital and screen printing, dyeing techniques

· Basic sewing skills including embroidery, fabric development and pattern design

· Drawing, sketching and illustrating by hand as well as computer

· Fabric contents analysis, styling and matching colours

· Concept development, trend analysis, research and social media

· MS Office, Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)

· Optitex – 3D virtual prototyping and 2D CAD/CAM pattern and fashion design software

· Point Carré (weaving textile software)

· 123D Catch – 3D printing software, 123D Make – Laser cutting software

Education

· 2012-2016 Bachelor of Textile Design at Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, Israel.

· 2010-2012 Studied preparatory program at 6B Studio Design School, Israel.

Special projects

As part of a paper textural design course I took during my 3rd year at Shenkar, taught by the international origami artist Paul Jackson, my personal projects appeared in his second book, Cut and Fold Paper Textures (2017), which is distributed worldwide.

Languages

· Hebrew (native language); English (fluent second language); Spanish and Arabic (intermediate, partly speaking and reading)

References

Supplied on request.

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