Jessica Giden

• Create illustrations and textile designs for licensed and in-house brands, Baxter Mill Archives and general collections. Tackle any creative projects thrown my way.

• Lead textile designer over twelve licensed brands. Worked closely with licensors to develop on-brand and in-trend designs, either using licensor assets and style guides or creating original art.
• Lead designer for licensed finished product and designer for licensed craft items. Engaged through the entire process from building product assortment to design development to ensuring end products are approved in production. Collaborated with licensors and factories to meet creative solutions when manufacturing processes impeded the desired design.
• Designer for Baxter Mill Archives. Revitalized centuries old patterns and motifs by re-illustrating, recoloring and/or recreating. These designs were used for a variety of product categories: tabletop, paper goods, home décor, apparel and accessories.
• Delegated projects and gave design direction to freelance designers. Collaborated with other in-house departments on new projects and business ideas. Confidently presented designs and design reasoning to sales team.

• Designed and built enclosures for 70” touchscreen TVs for use at the UO Global Expo during the 2014 IAAF World Junior Championships.
• Styled to highlight Oregon’s timber industry.
• Completed the project 25% under budget.

• Assisted and advised a community of up to 70 residents, providing personal and academic
support and advice.
• Developed individual relationships with each resident through one to one meetings.
• Participated in on-call duty rotation for a building of approximately 500 students, responded
to emergency situations and routine tasks (e.g. Incident reports, duty logs, lock-outs).
• Collaborated with and operated as part of a 12 person staff, mentored new staff members.

• Opened and closed the store, assisted customers and answered their technical questions.
• Checked in repairs, ran maintenance on customer machines and maintained the repair queue
for technicians.
• Received and requested inventory, orchestrated outsourcing of logic board repairs and sent
out monthly customer invoices.