Angela Benincasa

Co-owner and creative force behind a small photography and stationery studio. Successfully translate subject matter into unique design for weddings and event stationery, promotional materials and sales collateral using illustration, digital illustration, watercolor, hand-lettering and calligraphy while incorporating individual customer personality. Motivated self-starter, mastering scheduling, administrative duties and skill development. Interface directly with clients and suppliers to gain clients and complete orders.
• Designed business logo, brand profile and company website
• Mastered online marketing strategies, growing Instagram followers 150% in 6 months.
• Established lasting partnership with boutique videography production house
• Utilize Quickbooks software to manage business finances.

Provided essential design services from trend inspiration and line development, through graphic
development and final product. Created design themes for fashions and graphics samples for
use at marketing and sales presentations, international showrooms and purchasing catalogs.
Worked closely with cross-functional team, corresponding with partner factories and interfacing
with clients for product development.
• Consistently recognzied as Adobe Illustrator expert with fastest sketching abilities and
highly advanced, realistic and stylistically detailed sketches.
• Served as most valuable freelance professional, landing consistent work and offered
several full-time positions during 2-year freelancing period.

-G-III Apparel Group, LTD. | Women’s athletic and lifestyle apparel:
DKNY Sport, Calvin Klein Performance and Tommy Hilfiger Sport brands

-August Silk | Women’s Sweaters & Wovens

-Pearl Global, House of Pearl | Women’s & Junior’s Cut & Sew Knits & Wovens:
Macy’s brands; INC and Style & Co. Sport
Kohl’s Brands; Mudd, Candies, Rock & Republic and LC Lauren Conrad.

Managed seasonal collaborations with cross-functional team members to establish trend,
graphic direction and line development for over a dozen unique accounts. Satisfied luxury
and cost needs while offering competitive advantage. Introduced seasonal trend reports and
improved line presentations, capturing 5 new clients and transitioned 700 pc test orders to
200,000 pc orders with existing accounts.
• Trained staff on new software while developing libraries and seasonal collections.

Facilitated several unique fashion collections from concept to completion for monthly market
meetings. Effectively built, motivated and directed design team to ensure clear vision and
fluid design process, while orchestrating workflow strategies to meet deadlines. Coordinated
freelance designers, factory partners and vendors to maintain project requirements.
Cut sample turnaround by 50% and prevented production mistakes through improved
communication with overseas factories and domestic sample rooms. Conducted monthly
cross-funcitonal design meetings, to formulate growth opportunities and identify speedto-
market improvements. Participated in Eurpoean shopping trips and out-of-state buyer
meetings, co-designed company trend book and contributed to exploratory celebrity design
ventures with key accounts.
• Successfully managed 20+ client accounts, providing trend forecasting and design
proposals for $500,000 corporate contracts under extremely tight deadlines.
• Established trusting relationships with designers, directors, sales team, vendors and
key clients.

Associate Designer - November 2011 - February 2012

Developed product for private label accounts while overhauling the knits line. Sourced and
managed fabric library while building trusting relationships with domestic and overseas
vendors. Designed graphics for tops and loungewear under supervision of graphic designer.
• Ressurrected the lounge wear label and launched the company’s first-ever Yoga line.

Mastered the parameters of licensing for apparel products and while aiding in design
from concept through pre-production. Cultivated skills as a resourceful team player while
excelling at building trusting relationships with customers, colleagues, Licensees and League
representatives. Visited sports stadiums and universities across America to study target
customer and inspire bespoke products that consistently doubled revenues and contributed
to rapid division growth, from 30 clients to over 150 unique clients in three years. Managed
design assistant and interns in design tasks and skill development.
• Incentivized the Adobe Illustrator Sketch Proportion Initiative and spearheaded a
development system for all branded trims with a high degree of detail orientation.
• Consistently recognized as brand "Flex-pert" - an expert at the Flex PLM software.
• Awarded coveted spot on yearly trend research trip to Coachella Music Festival.
• Won VS Angel Award; company honor for passion, excellence and steadfast work ethic.

Constructed design sketches and established organizational systems for client orders.
Maintained dialogue with overseas factories to coordinate sample production and costing.