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  • Office Manager--The Real Estate Group 2000 to the present

Provide marketing and training support to individual agents and the company by creating and revising materials from concept to completion.  Create and maintain website. Review transactions for compliance with state laws.  Maintain trust accounts.  Manage office staff.  www.integratedagent.com

  • Real Estate Agent/Loan Officer--Edmonds Home and Loan 1998-1999

Find homes and financing for clients, negotiate the price and terms and handle all aspects of the purchase and sale transaction and the purchase loan.  Market real estate and mortgage services to prospects.

  • Owner, L. Anne Hensley Custom Bridal Alterations 1994-1999

In support of various bridal salons, perform bridal alterations, sell, design and create custom bridal gowns. Establish workshop, contract with stitchers and hire employees. Coordinate with vendors, designers and customers for timely solutions to near deadline problems. Handle phone contact, customer fittings, consultation and scheduling. Set and revise pricing, create forms, offer project bids and estimates. Sell and complete high end custom wedding gowns. Manage quality control, payroll, bookkeeping. Owner of successful small business employing six contractor/employees and serving 300+ brides per year.

  • Costume designer, Freelance 1983- 2001

Design, purchase, create, or hire and supervise crew in creation of costumes in concert with director/design team, for various regional ballet and theatre productions. Atlanta, GA, Richmond, VA, Pittsburgh, PA, Princeton, NJ. Complete list of Theatre companies and projects.

  • Design Developer, Animals, Atlanta 1995

Research and develop fall and spring lines of knit and woven children’s clothing. Assist designer in determining color ways, size charts, fabrications and shrinkage windows. Develop patterns, created samples, determine pieceworkers pricing based on time studies.

  • Intern, Valentine Museum 1991- 1992

Re-house and assist in dating 19th century costume collection.  Collect and identify fashion images of the 19th Century.

  • Instructor, Bauder College, Phipps Plaza, Atlanta 1992- 1993

Teach costume history to 250 fashion design/merchandising students.

  • Costume Shop Assistant—Theatre VCU 1988-1992

Teach costume construction to Freshman Theatre Students.

  • Education 

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Summa cum Laude, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1992.
Photoshop Certificate 2000

  • Interests and Activities

Antique shopping, Camping/hiking, Folk Music, Book Arts, Altered Books, Collage, Assemblage, Painting.

  • Awards Received

Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s best of 1992-93 Atlanta Theatre season--costume design.

Undergraduate research grant VCU 1992. 19th century fashion plates.

First place costume design 1991 Virginia Theatre Association.

 

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