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Ruby Hau Yin Lam

Tai Po

Summary

In my career path, I’d earn my valuable experience in both textiles and technical design. I can merge my knowledge of textile into Technical design expertise. Within the role of TD, expertise lies to communicate with designer and convert their design to a physical product. Communicate with business partners closely, evaluate the samples, make suggestions to correct fit issues, training and coaching, to accelerate business partners’s performance and approval rate.

Besides the technical designers, I have opportunities act as captain of some of projects, it’s great opportunity to develop my soft skills, including leadership, data management, analysis, communication, problem solving and more.

I love to enhance my technical knowledge and interact with business partners’s to have update about the industry, so I’m taking a short course of CLO which is a 3D software to compose virtual apparel samples. Beside, I often participated internal training and mentorship programs, to earn more soft skills to enhance my knowledge.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Manager Technical Designer

Target, (US)
09.2023 - 06.2025
  • Work closely with designer to evaluate samples
  • Ensure fit consistency using mannequins and refer to the basic blocks
  • To ensure all samples are meet standard requirements and safety, especially of kids products
  • Communicate business partners technical team and or pattern market closely to address fit and construction issues
  • Arrange training to business partners to ensure they're able to prescreen the samples before submission, to streamline the approval process and minimise the turnaround time
  • Market and trend research, keep the team informed and updated the latest technology of the industry

Senior Technical Designer

Target (US)
04.2016 - 09.2023
  • Sample evaluation and approval with designer together
  • Ensure the samples meet standard requirements and safety, especially of kids products
  • Collaborate with business partners's technical team and or pattern markers closely to evaluate samples, work out suggestions to correct fit issues and cost options
  • Ensure fit consistency across different business partners by using the mannequins and block pattern
  • Training and coaching to business partners to ensure they're able are understand our approval process and requirements, prescreen the samples before submission, to streamline the approval process and minimise the turnaround time

Technical Designer

Target (US)
04.2012 - 03.2016

- Sample evaluation and approval with designers

- Ensure the samples meet standard requirements and safety

- Collaborate with business partners’s technical team and or pattern maker closely about sample evaluation comments, work out suggestions to correct fit issue and cost options

- Ensure fit consistency across different business partners by using the mannequin and block patterns

- Training offer t business partners to ensure they are understand our sample submission process and requirements, educate then to pre screening the samples before submission, to accelerate their approval rate

Fabric Engineer

Target (US)
09.2006 - 06.2012
  • Fabric development in Woven and Knit Fabric
  • Ensure fabric quality meet standard requirements
  • Manage and negotiation of fabric costing and lead time
  • Support solving fabric quality issues problem in bulk production
  • Feedback and consolidation on mills performance, coaching to underperforming partners when necessary

Fabric developer

Levis Strauss, Hong Kong
09.2004 - 08.2006
  • Fabric develop in woven and knit fabrics
  • Qualify Assurance
  • Provide solutions to bulk fabric quality issue
  • Manage and negotiation of fabric cost and production lead time

Fabric developer

Liz Claiborne, Hong Kong
11.2002 - 05.2004
  • Fabric develop of woven items
  • Quality assurance
  • Manage and negotiation of cost and production lead time

Education

Bachelor's degree - Textile Technology

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong
07.1999

Skills

  • Ability to Work in a Team
  • Communication Skills
  • Coaching
  • Problem Solving Skills
  • Adaptability
  • Collaboration

Languages

English

References

References available upon request

Links

LinkedIn

Timeline

Senior Manager Technical Designer

Target, (US)
09.2023 - 06.2025

Senior Technical Designer

Target (US)
04.2016 - 09.2023

Technical Designer

Target (US)
04.2012 - 03.2016

Fabric Engineer

Target (US)
09.2006 - 06.2012

Fabric developer

Levis Strauss, Hong Kong
09.2004 - 08.2006

Fabric developer

Liz Claiborne, Hong Kong
11.2002 - 05.2004

Bachelor's degree - Textile Technology

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Ruby Hau Yin Lam