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Resume

A Priori Architectural Design Ltd. Summer Placement: 2008
Gardners Crescent Full-Time Job: June 2009 - Feb 2010
Edinburgh
www.apriori.co.uk
- Designed large Installations and created 3D visuals, animations and technical 2D drawings to illustrate the design to clients and contractors, using AutoCad, Microstations, Photoshop and PowerPoint.
- Worked individually and in a team to create inventive and original solutions for client’s design briefs, creating space layouts for commercial and domestic clients.
- Created Graphic Logo’s and promotional visuals for companies, using Photoshop.

ADSL - Antwerp Design Seminars and Lectures March - April 2009
Antwerp
Belgium
This international design week in Antwerp, Belgium focussed on Serendipity and its influence on the processes of designing - an accidental finding and solution to a brief.
- Attended workshop on Design Limitations directed by Professor Maarten WIJK – a specialist in ergonomics
- Worked in a multi-cultural team; created design solutions for existing building limitations and explored designing interactive spaces for users, both working within natural human limits and challenging them
- Presented our design myself to hundreds of fellow colleagues and design professionals from around Europe using visual aids to illustrate the brief and solution.

World Vision 24 hour famine Kookai Design
National T-Shirt Competition Runner-up
- This Design Competition was in aid of World Vision Famine, to raise money and awareness for this charity through t-shirts that would be sold in Kookai stores.
- My design aimed to provoke emotion from the public and generate awareness within starving, ill people in third world countries that World Vision aims to help.
- Focussed on human eyes as the basis for my design, the viewer can feel a universal connection to the many people affected by famine

Volunteer Experiences:
Royal Blind School, Edinburgh 2009
- Undertook a design project based on the working and leisure environment for both blind and deaf people to train and work in order to create a more inclusive working and learning environment
- Helped care for children in music and drama classes
- Aided school Principal and navigated school building to gain a further understanding how the visually impaired interact with their surroundings and area for improvement with the building’s design needs

Skills/Qualifications:
- Advanced presentation skills and public speaking ability.
- Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Office, Windows, AutoCad, Microstation, SketchUp, MS-Excel, Photoshop and Powerpoint.
- Extensive customer service experience and course certifications
- Experienced Designer who has successfully worked within professional design teams and individually to create inventive and original solutions to a variety of briefs.

Interests:
- Advanced Belly Dancer
- World Traveller: Australia, Europe and Asia
- Singing, painting, tennis, writing, basketball and reading.