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Owner, Designer at Tomasz Kaluba Design Studio
Tomasz Kaluba
Kilkenny, Ireland
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About
Furniture and Interior Designer, Project Manager with over 15 years of professional experience in residential and nonresidential sector. Extensive practice including creation, project management, customer service and sales. Strong practical background accompanied with free creativity. A reliable, well organized, open minded individual with very well developed social and interpersonal skills, able to work independently under pressure, presenting analytical, multi-task and can do attitude. Passionate about design. Does believe that good design delivers exceptional value to everybody's life.
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Experience
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Owner, DesignerTomasz Kaluba Design StudioApr 2009 - Present (17 years 2 months)The Studio has been involved in Interior, Furniture & Graphic Design projects.
I work on freelance basis for the clients based in Ireland, UK or elswhere in the field of:
- Furniture Design - concepts, renderings, detailed technical documentation for manufacturing, one-off pieces
- Interior Design/Architecture - space planning, layouts, renderings, interior makeovers
- Graphic Design - brand identity, logo design, publishing graphics -
Owner, Managing Director, Project Manager, Interior & Furniture DesignerVinci. House ImprovementsApr 2010 - Aug 2013 (3 years 4 months)- involved in several successful projects – interior makeovers, extensions, refurbishments - from initial agreements, business negotiations and sales through design, valuation, manufacturing to completion
- managed a team of 5-10 people -
Furniture DesignerManning Furniture LtdSep 2006 - Mar 2009 (2 years 6 months)- produced hundreds of detailed drawings, documentation for production and 3D visualisations in AutoCAD and TopSolid format in accordance with guidelines and approved by architects/clients, bearing in mind that the design can be produced efficiently and economically
- created tens of own, fresh furniture designs - e.g. counters, receptions, tables, cabinets, credenzas etc.
- supervised the manufacturing process at all time ensuring that the final product reaches a level of expected quality
- involved in projects with a budget of 200k – over 1 million euro -
Owner, Managing Director, Project Manager, Designert.line Interior Design StudioMay 1999 - Aug 2006 (7 years 3 months)- created over 100 interior designs and over 200 pieces of furniture for residential and nonresidential clients
- involved in studio works at every stage from customer service through design, valuation, ordering to realisation
- prepared CAD documentation and 3D visualizations
- supervised of implementation process
- cooperated with furniture manufacturers – preparing prototypes, new designs for production
- managed a team of 3-5 people -
Designer, Project Manager, Sales ManagerArchikram Ltd.Feb 2001 - Jun 2003 (2 years 4 months)- designed furniture and entire interiors for pharmacies all over Poland - over 80 interiors including the self-service pharmacies in Warsaw and Bydgoszcz with the largest commercial area in Poland
- introduced a lot of new solutions improving company work in terms of organization of work, document flow, liaising with customers
- responsible for customers’ service from initial arrangements to sale
- prepared technical (CAD) documentation for production and 3D visualizations
- production and assembly supervision
- involved in business negotiations
- managed a team of 7-10 people
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Elsewhere on the Web
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On Coroflot@Tomasz_Kaluba, member since 2012