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Jessie Schlaudt

Lufkin,Texas

Summary

Skilled jewelry professional with focus on precision, creativity, and integrity in craftsmanship and repair. Strong expertise in detailed repair, stone setting, and metalworking with extensive troubleshooting abilities. Known for dependable team collaboration, organization, manual dexterity, and adaptability to changing needs. Consistently delivers high-quality results that meet rigorous standards in a timely manner.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Assistant Bench Jeweler

Tommy's Watch and Jewelry
11.2018 - 08.2025
  • Trained extensively in the proper handling and use of most standard trade tools and equipment.
  • Above-average expertise and extensive experience in torch work: resizing, retipping, half & quarter shank replacement, head replacement, chain repair, hollow item repair, various solder repairs, and custom fabrication in silver, yellow gold, and white gold.
  • Extensive experience with saw work: custom name plates, logos, intricate designs, image-to-3D-design conversion, matching earring pairs, and other similar projects from plate silver and gold.
  • Extensive experience in refurbishing, cleaning, and restoring damaged and well-worn jewelry to a factory-standard state.
  • Extensive experience polishing, both with flex-shaft wheels and on a lathe buff, and in rhodium-plating white gold.
  • Moderate experience in basic prong stone setting and tightening.
  • Moderate experience in wax carving and the lost-wax casting process.
  • Moderate experience in custom, original design work and fabrication.
  • Moderate experience setting out displays, determining genuineness of pieces, estimating pieces' value, and talking through work to be done with customers.
  • Moderate skill at identifying gemstones and estimating diamond grade from years of exposure, on-the-job instruction, and personal research/self-teaching.
  • Created multiple original pieces of varying complexity for store inventory, all of which sold in a maximum of two months.
  • Given hands-on, monitored training by senior jewelers.
  • Trained to inspect work by rigorous quality standards at every stage of completion.
  • Honed problem-solving and troubleshooting skills by completely fixing mistakes made both personally and by other jewelers.
  • Provided timely results to customers, often completing jobs multiple days in advance of deadlines and never missing a deadline.
  • Completed all jobs with integrity, honesty, and intense effort.

Education

Certified Jeweler - Graduate Bench Jeweler Program

New Approach School For Jewelers
Arrington
11-2025

Bachelor of Science - Interdisciplinary Studies

Pensacola Christian College
Pensacola, FL
05-2025

Skills

  • Creative and teachable mindset

  • Precise and perfectionistic

  • Cleaning, polishing, restoring, re-plating

  • Design experience

  • Gemstone identification and preliminary diamond grading

  • Pearl restringing

  • Bezel, flush, channel, Pavé, and prong setting, repair, retipping, and tightening

  • Drawplate, rolling mill, flex shaft, and vacuum casting usage

  • Silver, gold, and platinum repair and fabrication

  • Comprehensive solder-related repairs on chains and rings

Certification

  • Certified Jeweler pending graduation from New Approach School for Jewelers in November 2025

Timeline

Assistant Bench Jeweler

Tommy's Watch and Jewelry
11.2018 - 08.2025

Certified Jeweler - Graduate Bench Jeweler Program

New Approach School For Jewelers

Bachelor of Science - Interdisciplinary Studies

Pensacola Christian College

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