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Career Highlights * Fifteen years of design experience encompassing: Textiles, Interiors, Products, Color & Feng Shui. * Proven team management and leadership skills. * Textile Design management and leadership: oversaw all design projects from concept to Completion. * Traveled throughout India and China to develop fabrics for specific end use in the fashion Market. * Outstanding merchandising skills gained as a designer and store proprietor. * As an Interior Designer & Color Consultant: worked with architects and clients incorporating the principals of Feng Shui into homes and offices. * Color selection and market analysis to resource products for clients. * Created new business and strategic relationships. * Opened a successful home furnishings store in Manhattan. Imported hand picked items from India, Morocco, Indonesia and Africa. * Negotiated with vendors locally and abroad. * Directed all aspects of retail business for five years including staffing, inventory, pricing and Sales. * Administrative: School of Visual Arts, maintained a flow of administrative activities including booking and scheduling appointments, answering phones, processing invoices and providing a full range of communications support. * Marketing and strategic planning for the Color marketing Department at Benjamin Moore & Co.: Created new products, sourced the market for references to develop new color lines and promotional brochures. Styled sets for still life photography and television commercials. * Compiled trend information and delivered seminars for site specific markets in the field of color. Delivered a retail training program throughout the United States. * Teaching skills: Taught college level textile program for Katherine Gibbs School in Manhattan.
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