BRAND + MARKETING

• Help define Brand Team requirements as it relates to Retail and Merchandise, processes, and operations, including project intake, company systems integration, vendor engagements, procurement. Schedules kick off meeting to brief creatives, cross functional team and external partners.

• Schedules kick off meeting to brief creatives, cross functional team and external partners.

• Creates and maintains project timeline, communicate daily actions items via smart sheet and maintains status report for team meetings and between all departments.

• Communicates directly with individual team members to reiterate the scheduled deliverables, relay vision requests, records the job’s progress, and addresses obstacles as they arise.

• Retains overviews of the project; tracks milestones (as well as details of project deliverables..

• Identifies scope creep (re-brief, additional rounds for deliverables added after kick off). Ensures that team , members are completing the appropriate check points throughout the process.

• Obtains the required internal approvals for the copy, scripts, layouts, proofs, etc.

• Works closely and interactively with Senior and Junior designers, illustrators, copy editors, graphic artists, to achieve the finished product.

RETAIL + residential design

• Development of project from concept to completion.

• Budget and proposal creation.

• Lead and managed project teams during onsite installation: Merchandising, Contractors, Architectural, Operations and Business Development.

• Worked closely with Global and Local leadership developing systems and processes that support project management activities.

• Local and International Furniture Development: throughout research design, material selection, and production.

• Customs compliance, shipping and logistics documentation.

• Developed and maintained deliverable documents for projects (schedules, budgets, proposals, RFI’s, RFD’s, material and research archive libraries).

• Directed local floral installation and ordering.

• Leaded and planned local and international shopping trips, material and product research for all decorative products.

• Provided styling and creative direction for on site installation for global store openings, along with direction of professional/marketing photo shoots.

• Development and purchasing of merchandising tools packages for retail stores: Mannequins, Bustforms, Risers, Hangers,

• Assisting in the design and development of retail fixtures with local millworkers.

• Worked with Procurement on development of new products and bid request from international vendors.

• Created Mood Boards for Visual Presentations.

commercial + exhibition design

• Design and trend research.

• Client board and design presentation graphics.

• Concept research and material development.

• Site survey.

• Custom furniture and lighting design fabrication and prototyping.

• 2D and 3D Floor Plans.

• Installation and production of custom made pieces.

• Graphic design: Wallcovering, Floor Covering, Brochures, Pamphlets, Booklets and Catalogues for Salone del Mobile 2010.

• Created Mood Boards for Visual Presentations.

LANGUAGES

English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and German.