Radana Lancman

Full-time senior garment tech and product developer expert:

• Overviewing tech/style packs across all ranges of products, leading the development of styles from pre-production to seal and handing over to production
• Leading fits, making comments, ensuring that those comments are applied by oversees factories correctly
• Ensuring clear communication and coordination between the UK and overseas manufacturing tech teams, by creating a set of standard rules to follow when constructing styles. Traveled and trained staff in abroad factories, thus ensuring consistency.
• Setting the critical path for product development stages, Identifying priorities for styles taking longer to make sure enough time is allocated for development
• Liaising with the fabric and merchandising team, ensuring the correct fabrics and trims are ordered in time for pre-production needs as well as for orders for bulk, and ensuring that a set budget for each style is followed. Collaborating where necessary to achieve the budget limit (if we don't style might get cancelled)
• Working with in-house pattern cutting studio and Gerber team, to ensure the correct and suitable construction methodologies are applied to all styles
• Liaising with the design & tech teams to develop the style as close as possible to the designer's vision and to the brand's requirements
• Working with the PR department to manage photoshoots and e-com samples within the critical path
• Overviewing construction methods and driving innovation of products

- Setting company's QC standards for garment seasonal development and pre-production

- Generally driving improvement and the quality of the product, identifying high-risk products, and setting additional QC checks at the production stage.

• Leading weekly QC meetings with overseas factories, creating weekly QC updates and reports
• Strong knowledge of fabrics and fabric behavior as well as trims

• Freelance contract to help develop the pre-production department
• Led fit sessions, working closely with design, sales, and PD teams to ensure the pre-production process ran smoothly and to set timelines.
• Following an allocated budget per style.
• Overviewing Tech Packs created by the internal tech team. Establishing Size Charts and Grading Rules for each brand separately.
• Overseeing Quality control, ensuring appropriate construction methods are used to achieve quality and production within critical path timelines.
• Identified manufacturing issues quickly to minimize lost time and resources.
• Managed the critical path for pre-production, highlighting potential issues for effective and efficient resolution.
• Training junior garment technologists and other duties as required

• Watford/London (Womens/Mens streetwear)
• Consulting on the creation of an efficient supply chain of products for Fyre London brand
• Designed a simple system for Fyre's operations and processes, supply chain, product delivery, QC, and customer service
• Took ownership of pre-production, including managing design, tech and PD teams.
• Translated CAD designs into Tech Packs with comprehensive specifications, suggesting modifications in the process, and setting them as standard for future use.
• Lead fit sessions, ensuring correct methods of construction are used
• Decreased expenditures by 40% by finding and cultivating strong supplier relationships internationally
• Negotiating PO's
• Set and managed the product's critical path and budgets highlighting potential issues for effective and efficient resolution.

• London (Womens luxury technical activewear)
• Developed and managed operations and supply chain for Catalyst Activewear
• Managed an in-house team and external subcontractors and stakeholders
• Designed and developed all products in ranges, following a strong trend direction
• Produced patterns, and overviewed technical packs for products
• Communicated with international and UK manufactories and factories, ensuring clear communication and error-free innovative processes were being used throughout the whole supply chain, creating company standards to follow.
• Created and developed accurate product specifications, size charts, and grading rules
• Managed critical path, quality control, and sealing process,
• Set and managed budgets and critical paths for each product.
• Conducted and led on-site and remote fit sessions with the design and sales teams, providing detailed diagrams in CAD and comments for manufacturer's instructions
• Visited national and international trade shows and events to source highly technical fabrics and build relationships with new suppliers and customers
• Improved manufacturing processes and controls,(introducing new machinery) increasing manufacturing efficiencies and quality by 35%
• Introduced new technologies, design fixtures, and tooling, which resulted in the company being nominated for "BEST USE OF INNOVATION" by the DRAPERS AWARDS
• Catalyst brand was given an award by "INNOVATE UK" to support further development of the given technology
• Won place and completed Texinnova program: Accelerator of innovative start-up companies in the fashion sector.

• Transformed uninspiring areas into warm and inviting living spaces using unconventional approach to design ideas (can-do attitude) exceeding client expectations of results, and ultimately maximizing clients' profit on sale of properties by 37.5%
• Project managed number of different teams, developed key stakeholders relationships by providing design solutions that met needs and budgets while exceeding quality and design intent.

• Created and fitted exclusive collection of bespoke garments (suits, blazers, waistcoats shirts trousers) and accessories (cufflinks, braces, belts, scarfs) for specific Alexander Amosu project
• ( Luxury Womenswear/Menswear)
• Collaborated with Arts director/Master Tailor to design collection of luxury bespoke suits., shirts, dresses and accessories.
• Overviewed patterns and specifications for garments and overseen process until production
• Fit, altered and repaired suit garments including suit jackets, shirts and trousers.

• ASTF was the first company to deliver bespoke, perfectly tailored suits directly to customers through e-commerce
• (Womenswear/Menswear)
• Achieved exceptional levels of customer satisfaction through technical sewing, fitting skills, and delivering bespoke products for fraction of the price
• Collaborated with customers to meet specific alteration requirements
• Created and developed an accurate product specifications chart to serve as a template, managing the process from concept to end production
• Worked with local and international factories/suppliers to ensure clear communication and error-free manufacturing processes
• Thoroughly quality-inspected designs before dispatch, quickly identifying and correcting faults to maintain high-quality standards.