Rachel Nevarez

The Derby Dolls are committed to achieving the highest level of competition, integrity and production quality, while enriching the lives of its members and community through sport.

• Formulated training schedules and curriculum that advanced the athletic skills of a dominantly female yet ethnically diverse community ranging in age from 8 to 40 years old.
  
• Taught classes 1-2x a week to a variety of skill levels and helped students advance to higher levels of competition.
  
• Assisted with administrative duties to help organize, promote, and enrich the sport.
  
• Consulted with training committee on lesson plans and overall goals of the organization.
  

Americana vintage-inspired men's and women's apparel designed and manufactured in the USA.

• Responsible for design, development, and sampling of 15-20 women’s and men’s collections per calendar year.
• Source fabrics and trims that fall in line with the season’s trends while targeting the unique customer.

• Interview, hire, and execute fittings on standard and plus size range models.

• Produce up to 15 lifestyle and product photography shoots per year.

• Oversee pattern making, revisions, and delivering final patterns to production.

• Assign style numbers, build materials, labor, and fabrics for up to 200 SKUs per year.

• Work closely with buyers from Modcloth, Bowling Concepts, and Top Vintage to design and develop apparel specific to their target customer.

• Coordinate with licencors Graceland/Elvis Presley, Rat Fink, Bettie Page, and Sun Records to design and develop licensed and private label apparel.

• Provide apparel industry consulting services including design, development, branding, e-commerce, and production management.

A handmade modern smock girls clothing company sold online and in person at local pop up shops and markets.

• Built all brand assets including target customer research, logo, colors, fonts, and aesthetics.
  
• Executed all design, product development, fittings, and sampling of 4 annual collections of 10 SKUs each.
  
• Organized and served customer base through small pop-up shops and markets all over Los Angeles and Orange County.
  
• Designed and created pop up booth adjustable in size from 4x6 to 10x10 and housing up to 250 pieces of inventory at once.
• Increased sales by 200% within one year by catering designs and display to customers needs.
• Managed Instagram account generating 1000 followers in 6 month time frame with average of 13% engagement. 
• Generated weekly and monthly e-mail campaigns averaging 20% opens and 6% clicks.

An international women’s performance apparel and uniform company catering to the athletic, curvy, roller derby market.

• Grew a domestic and international customer base from 1 to over 500 accounts in 8 countries within 2 years.
  
• Increased sales 500% from $80,000 to $400,000 within one year through custom designs.
  
• Designed and created mobile event booth and traveled to 3-5 domestic and international events a year.
  
• Develop and maintain all details of e-commerce store including product photos, descriptions, and inventory up to 40 SKUs.
  
• Recruited, hired, and supervised as many as 7 employees simultaneously.
• Successfully developed and managed 3 full package private label programs for the market.
  
• Built all brand assets including target customer research, logo, colors, fonts, and aesthetics.
  

Hot Rod, Motorcycle, Punk Rock, Rockabilly, and Tattoo Inspired Vintage Americana clothing and accessories.

• Expanded overseas production to six vendors and domestic production to five vendors in one year.
• Increased margins by 12% while maintaining wholesale buyers price points.
  
• Managed sampling, development, pre-production, and production of four lines as well as private label for companies like Hustler and Hot Topic.
  
• Daily overseas and domestic production management, scheduling, and communication.
  
• Built and issued comprehensive technical packages to overseas and domestic vendors.
  
• Inventory forecasting and management.