English CV

PERSONAL PROFILE

Very enthusiastic fashion designer with experience in dressmaking, catwalk fashion assistance and fashion collections. Responsible person eager to learn and gain experience in any field of the plastic arts.

A solid background and education in fashion and graphic design and an interest in art and culture, as well as being a very creative and eager person who likes to keep busy.

EDUCATION

2008      Two-years course studying Plastic Arts and Fashion Design at Art School, Cádiz (Spain).     

WORK EXPERIENCE

AU PAIR

Present      Au Pair in Essex (United Kingdom)

Working with children aged 20 months and 3 years old. I am responsible for assisting in the activities of daily living. Plus I organise craft activities and learning games in the children's free time to assist in their development. Thus illustrating my ability to work on my own initiative and that I am a trust working person, plus this experience has provided me to re familiarise myself the English language and culture.

PROMOTION HOSTESS

2010      Tobacco hostess for Japanese Tobacco International (Gibraltar).

Promotions Hostess in Gibraltar for the company JTI. The position was to promote and improve sales and work to targets which illustrated my success. Tasked with direct customer contact work which showed great people skills such as polite behavior  kindness, enthusiasm, patience and ability to work independence as well as being team player. 

FASHION COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT 

2008-10      Teresa Torres and Malcor (Spain).

Responsible for the graphic design of the mannequins for the collection, contributing and initating new ideas. I also contributed to the designing vector dresses using Corel Draw, indicating the measures , plus working to a budget and supplying them direct to Malcor Company from Madrid.

CATWALK FASHION ASSISTANT

2009      Volantes 2009, Cádiz (Spain).

Catwalk flamenco fashion parade organized by Teresa Torres & Javier Cosano. Assigned to wardrobe helping the models to try on dresses,  and then making any alterations that were required.

BUSINNES PRACTICES

2008      Next Level Café – Charnwood Arts, Loughborough (United Kingdom)

Three months in United Kingdom thanks to a Leonardo Da Vinci scholarship. My work was offering individual Art and Media based programmes to young vulnerable people aged between 12-16, who were young offenders or on the verge of exclusion/permanent exclusion from mainstream school.  Thus illustrating my good people skills and where I had a CRB check which naturally came back clear.

CATWALK FASHION ASSISTANT

2008      Air Series 2008, Cádiz (Spain).

Catwalk fashion parade organised by Cádiz Art School. My role was aiding Senior Course students in preparation and complete fashion collections for their first catwalk. Also tasked with checking dresses and individualising them for each models.

BUSINNES PRACTICES

2008      Teresa Torres & Javier Cosano, Cádiz (Spain).

One month attending to a sewing workshop. Helping the sewers in cutting and basting the patterns before applying to the sewing machine.

AWARDS AND EXHIBITIONS

2011. Group exhibition "8 Visiones de Federico García Lorca", Café de Zorrilla (Cádiz, Spain).

2010. Selected and exhibited work for "V Concurso de Arte Joven", Consejería de Obras Públicas y Transportes (Sevilla, Spain).

SKILLS

Spanish native speaker. English upper intermediate speaker. Dressmaking. Patterns. Sewing machine. Mannequin drawing. Graphic design. Illustration. Computer programmes (Photoshop CS6, Corel Draw, Internet, Microsoft Word). HTML. Responsible. Creative. Hard-working. Organized. 200 WPM.