Veronica Beard

Technical Design Knitwear Assistant

• Employee duties elaborate on internship with further responsibilities such as communicating effectively with domestic and overseas factories, creating clear and concise fit comments based on garment fittings, re-draping ill-fitted garments, and ensuring all stages of production are accurately tracked.
• Maintains a positive and professional relationship with factories via Email by writing in a manner that can easily be translated for factory employees.​
• Evaluates all aspects of the garments to ensure they match company standard from fit to finishings.

Veronica Beard

Freelance Technical Designer

• Employee duties elaborate on internship with further responsibilities such as communicating effectively with domestic and overseas factories, creating clear and concise fit comments based on garment fittings, re-draping ill-fitted garments, and ensuring all stages of production are accurately tracked.
• Maintains a positive and professional relationship with factories via Email by writing in a manner that can easily be translated for factory employees.​
• Evaluates all aspects of the garments to ensure they match company standard from fit to finishings.

Veronica Beard

Technical Design Intern

• Intern duties involved steaming and prepping garments for fittings, standardizing construction and measurement guidelines for factories, creating flats and tech packs, using PLM software to track garment specs, secretary duties during fittings, and maintaining an organized environment in the office.
• Spec-ed garments to ensure accuracy of fit through all stages of garment production​.​
• Assisted team members of each different team simultaneously.

The Fresh Market

Cashier & Baker

• Cashier job involved scanning and price checking items, finding items for customers, memorizing PLU numbers, and bagging.
• Gained valuable customer service skills that fostered customer connection and retention​.​
• High-stress environments cultivated accuracy and speed as well as quick problem solving and organization.

• Major: Fashion
• Minor: Sustainability
• Skills: Draping, pattern making, zero-waste design, natural and synthetic dying, knitting and crocheting, embroidery
• Competencies: Climate justice, fair wages, dye treatments, water pollution, unsustainable fabrics, environmental racism

• Semester-long course focused on physical fashion drawing and mood developing.
• Developed skills in anatomical proportions and drawing fabric textures.
• Curated and honed dozens of pages of photos, fabrics, colors, and sketches to create a mood over the course of the semester.

Savannah College of Art and Design

Summer Program

• Created stylized mood boards based on 2021 Spring/Summer fashion forecasts.
• Honed fashion skills in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.

North Carolina State University

Summer Textile Exploration Program

• Designed pieces based on 2021 Spring/Summer fashion forecasts.
• Presented mood boards and two full designs.
• Learned beginner fashion skills in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.