Person: nada koreish

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

Professional Resume

Nada Koreish

Address: 10 Craig-Yr-Haul, Castleton, Cardiff, CF3 2SA

Home phone: 01633 817 992

Mobile phone: 07970395784 or 07525719687

Email: nadasami333@googlemail.com

DOB : 13/10/1984

Occupational Goal: Designer, Creative Director / Art Director, Marketing / PR

Education: University of Wales Institute Cardiff, School of art and design, Cardiff, Wales

BA-illustration (2007-2010)

Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt –

BA – Business Administration and Economics (2004-present)

Katharine Gibbs, New York, NY –

AAS in Fashion Design and Merchandising (2004)

Internships:

Sept – Dec 2004 Reference Point, New York, NY

• Organized sample layouts for seasonal collection

• Sourced market for trim and fabric

• Created spec sheets

June – Aug 2004 Angel Rox, New York, NY

• Visual merchandiser

• Designed catwalks for fashion shows

• Organized product – creating tech pack

Work Experience:

Aug06-Jan 09 Assistant manager, Mezzaluna restaurant, Cardiff, Wales

• Meet, greet and entertain customers, I increased sales and customer satisfaction.

• Take and manage bookings. Dealt with complaints and problems. Explained menu contents.

• Designed menu and flyers as well as posters

• Trained belly dancers and provided them with suitable music

• Bartended and waitressed

• Trained new staff

• Travelled to Egypt and compiled renovation designs and uniform makeover designs as well as samples.

Sept 07- present First campus student Ambassador, Cardiff, Wales

• Worked as a workshop facilitator, helped deliver a variety of art workshops and activity days.

• Led workshop in partnership with the BBC orchestra, in order to promote art and music; and to facilitate the students to created their own work and display it during a concert.

• Took care of large groups of youths for 3 days and 2 nights, in order to promote university courses and life for 14 to 15 yr olds. This included helping teach them, supervising them over nights and during activities.

April 2006-August 2006 Misr Language Schools, American diploma, KG2, grade 5 school teacher

• I was a class teacher for a great Kg2 class.

• I taught them everything from maths to p.e.

• I was also in charge of grade 5 and grade twelve .I was their support teacher,

• I was there for them if they needed to talk, or had any psychological problems.

June 2005 – Mar 2006 Block Corporation (Men’s Sportswear) – Designer

• Created presentations for local and national events incl: Las Vegas Magic trade show, National Outdoors show.

• Responsible for making complete technical packs

• Dealt with all technical procedures abroad. I.e. handled all dealings with Indian and Egyptian factories, ensuring samples were accurate

• Designed Magazine layouts as well as Marketing Catalogues.

• Researched trends from Europe and Asia, evaluated them in order to come up with the new seasons trend concepts.

• Grasping concepts and transforming them into a sellable line of garments.

• Head of Freelance Designers

• Designed T-shirt graphics for brands like National Geographic, Penguin,

Est.

• Designed a new, younger line for National Geographic and Hobie surf wear. Including an extremely successful I-pod pocket, reversible jacket.

Jan 2004 – Mar 2006 The Funky Pirate Parties – PR and Promoter

• Promotion of events in NYC

• Ensure audience satisfaction and customer loyalty

• Designed promotional leaflets

• Assisted creative and logistic organization of events

Feb 2003 – Dec 2004 8th Street Lab – Sales Manager and Head Buyer

• Merchandized fashion and accessories

• Analyzed stability of stock and researched buying trends

• Represented, promoted and sold store brand in Magic trade show

• Designed best selling zip jacket for the store

Summers 2000-2004 Fun yard – Teacher

• Taught children from nursery to 12 year olds, everything ranging from: camping, art, dance, drama and many other subjects

Freelance work P-sling – Head designer

• Was in charge of designing, researching and finalizing an entire maternity wear line for trendy, upper class Mothers.

• Also designed baby slings; fabrication, color

• Concepts and presentation layouts (catalogues).

Computer Skills: Proficient in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Plaids and Stripes, Word, Excel

Languages: Fluent in English and Arabic, learning Tamazight and French

Portfolio and References upon request