Junior Footwear Designer at Hunter boots UK (2025-02 – Present)
Outdoor footwear company. Responsibilities include technical drawing, prototype development, trend research, collection planning, and sustainable material innovation.
- Provide detailed technical drawings and specifications for prototype development. Weekly updates with the development team and/or factories on current projects. Review prototypes, amendments, fittings.
- Research trends, colours, materials, trims with a strong sense of the footwear market. Produce initial sketches, both hand-drawn and digital, of footwear concepts. Contribute with innovative and original designs to the collection.
- Create range plans, collection overviews and colour CADs. Prepare collection presentations for design reviews and keeping them up-to-date with design changes throughout the season.
- Research into innovative and sustainable materials, footwear constructions, production methods.
- Responsible for assisting in the design and development of trend and market-driven footwear collections each season.
- Work closely with senior designers, development team and other product categories to align brand design strategy.
- Assist with footwear catalogue photoshoots and collection launches
- Handle the development of eyewear lens and frame SS/AW seasonal colour updates.
- Check 2D&3D CADs for footwear BU and Trims.
- Solidworks 3D surface modelling for new eyewear frame concepts and physical proto of custom trims.
- Host regular cross-functional meetings with design, merchandise and production team members to keep track of on going projects and mitigating delivery risks.
- Keyshot rendering new eyewear and accessories concepts.
Hardgoods Design Developer at Rapha Racing Ltd. (2022-01 – 2022-06)
Cycling Footwear, Eyewear & Accessories company.
- Create 3D (Solidworks) CAD drawings referencing product design briefs.
- Double checking factory technical drawings.
- Approve samples for production.
- Communicate with sponsored athletes about existing product issues and new product concepts.
Hardgoods Developer at Rapha Racing Ltd. (2021-01 – 2021-12)
Cycling Footwear, Eyewear & Accessories company.
- Create 3D (Solidworks) CAD drawings referencing product design briefs.
- Double checking factory technical drawings.
- Approve samples for production.
- Communicate with sponsored athletes about existing product issues and new product concepts.
Assistant Hardgoods Developer at Rapha Racing Ltd. (2019-10 – 2020-12)
Cycling Footwear, Eyewear & Accessories company.
- Create 3D (Solidworks) CAD drawings referencing product design briefs.
- Double checking factory technical drawings.
- Approve samples for production.
- Communicate with sponsored athletes about existing product issues and new product concepts.
Footwear Designer at Quoc (2024-06 – 2024-10)
Performance footwear company.
- Create designs for cycling footwear that align with market trends, sales feedback and in-the-field customer testing.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as product development, marketing, and sales to ensure designs meet business objectives
- Develop and maintain line plans and technical packs for products
- Create sketches and prototypes of designs
- Work with manufacturers to ensure designs are created to specifications
- Conduct research to stay up-to-date on market trends, materials, and production techniques
- Revise designs based on feedback from cross-functional teams and customers
Junior Product Developer at Gymshark (2023-02 – 2024-06)
Accessories company.
- Support and collaborate with senior designers, colour team and trim team.
- Building bill of materials and tracking sample status using Centric PLM system.
- Compare concept samples against target FOB.
- Work with customer service team to ensure correct product information is communicated.
- Handling development from design handover to pre-production sign off. (bags and luggages)
- To communicate and build a good relationship with overseas offices and vendors.
- Checking pre-production samples against design specification.
Freelance Industrial Designer at Freelance Industrial Designer (2022-06 – Present)
Componentry & Accessories
- Provide partners with concept sketches according to brief
- Concept visualisation using 3D CAD program such as Fusion360
- 3D Printing prove of concept prototypes
- Model making
3D CAD Design Technician at United Bike Co. (2017-05 – 2018-05)
Componentry company.
- Provide partners with concept sketches according to brief
- Concept visualisation using 3D CAD program such as Fusion360
- 3D Printing prove of concept prototypes
- Model making
