Senior Interior Designer with 15 years experience in planning and construction management. I’m a Bachelor graduate of interior architecture dept. of Palazzo Spinelli in Florence and owner of a Master's degree in design by Domus Academy in Milan. I had the opportunity to collaborate with many retail companies in Athens working not only in the interiors sector, but also as a consultant in visual communication and empowerment of brand name matters. My skills include:
Organisational skills
- Experienced in leading teams, assigning tasks and implementing projects in a smooth and efficient manner.
- Excellent in meeting deadlines, able to work proactively and to allocate tasks.
- Staffing plans development, work schedules and time lines for the projects.
- Experienced in all the phases of a project, from conception to planning to implementation.
- Up-to-date with current trends in merchandising, new products and materials in the design field.
- 2D & 3D drawings of existing and conceptual spaces for presentations, as well as concept development.
- Architectural floor plans, reflected ceiling plans, specialty lighting plans, floor finish plans and interior wall elevations, interior and exterior architectural details, together with the necessary specifications .
- Able to work successfully with managers to complete development projects.
- Experienced at working in an international environment.
- Working collaboratively with internal contacts to clearly communicate the essence of a brand through strong design/architectural details throughout completed designs and visual elements.
Previously and due to the situation in Greece, also worked as a Development Officer for the Communication and Fund-raising Department of the NGO “Child’s Heart”, a Pan-Hellenic Association for Children with Congenital Heart Disease - based in Athens Greece - running the NGO on day to day basis. My NGO experiences achievements include:
Press Office
- Press Releases & Newsletters, Notes to Ministers and Deputies.
- Handling the daily incoming and out coming mail.
- Detailed registration of patients (date of birth, health condition, medical history, caretakers, patients financial state).
- Detailed registration of rehabilitation centers & doctors, volunteers, media, fundraisers and companies.
- Membership fees and financial aids.
- Daily tasks calendar, health congresses calendar.
- Daily telephone calls monitoring.
- Press monitoring and daily publication of health and medicine news.
- Posts regarding invitations to charity events, sponsorship acts, volunteering calls.
- Volunteer’s interview and enrollment.
- Basic principles of volunteering and training.
- President’s speechwriting and power point presentations.
- Agenda and Minutes of the Board writing.
- Amendments to the NGO’s statute.
- Proposals to enrich the Strategic Plan of the Association.
- Organised the supplies, sales, press releases and volunteers team of various Charity Fairs. View facebook event of «Love Day» Bazaar, November 2012.
- Organised in collaboration with marathon athletes of Telmissos team, Charity Runs near the cost of Marathonas in the region of Attica. Velerefontia Charity Run 2012.
- E-cards sales and design for Companies. View Easter e-card 2014.
- Congenital Heart Disease Awareness Day poster design. View Awareness Day poster.
- New Year’s Lucky Charm concept and sales.
View Lucky charm 2013.
Classic Marathon 2013.
View Xmas e-card 2014.
Networking
- Represented the Association at the Fifth European Patients Forum Regional Advocacy two day seminar, held in Lisbon in 2012. There, we exchanged problems/solutions between Patient’s Organisations Representatives from Greece and Europe. Thereafter attended a series of informal meetings in Athens. The purpose was to empower the NGOs we represented through capacity building, in order to get familiar with the European Community Funding Programs.
View Child’s Heart’s seminar presentation. - Participated at the European Congenital Heart Disease Organisation Annual Meeting 2012 in Istanbul.
View ECHDO’s Annual Meeting photos. - Built contacts and memberships with EURORDIS and Global Sustain and Quality Net Foundation.
- Collaborated with AKTO Art & Design Institute for the design of the Associations’ new logo.
View AKTO’s publication.
View Child’s Heart event publication.
- Organised the Associations relocation and new space renovation with the help of the volunteers’ team.
- Established contacts with companies and foundations inviting them to offer funding support.
- Managed to supply the Association with free office furniture offered by Philips. View Child’s Heart publication.
- Managed to supply the Association with free IT equipment by Bodossakis Foundation.
- Managed to source free CRM software from Singular Logic and MS Office from Microsoft.
- Built strong contact with the main Telephone Greek Company so the Association becomes a member of their yearly funding program. View Child’s Heart publication.
- Applied to the "We are all Citizens" Funding Programme under the EEA Grants for Greece.