Maria Fisher

My role at Upright UK Ltd involved me creating technical drawings and support for national and international manufacture for the retail sector, ensuring all technical details are correct at first point of contact with suppliers and deal with any design/manufacture queries as prompt and sufficiently as possible. Managing projects and building relationships with clients and suppliers is key within my role, to ensure the best service for the company.
I have also dealt with project costing sheets, sending and retrieving quotes and keeping project documentation up to date.

During my volunteer work, I re-designed the companies logos and leaflets to give the organisation a new look to gain more attention from their target market. I also created posters for social events, to raise awareness and gain more clients for the charity based company.

Designing, costing yearbook and student presentation boards, organising social event to raise money, general management of students throughout.

Teaching college students Sketchbook pro for the day, by using soft modelling to aid their sketching techniques. Ensuring the day run smoothly with planned out presentations, and answering any questions the students had.

Summer placement
My time spent with Display By Design consisted of assisting Designers, contacting and ordering from suppliers as well as completing order forms, helping out with estimating for projects by filling out costing sheets on excel. I also created job sheets for the factory which involved using current 2D AutoCad drawings and producing 3D visuals, and filling out the manufacturing process for the parts. My project manager also allowed me to do a practise exercise of designing a counter top spinner for a brand, from concept through to costing and final visuals to a client. This was a great exercise of project management by keeping to deadlines and seeing what I was capable of creating in a short time frame.

At Brantano I learnt about about merchandising stock, warehouse stock checks and management of stock levels. I had the opportunity to gain some visual merchandising experience, as my manager knew I had a keen interest about learning this expertise. She gave me freedom to explore product layouts and placements within the back to school range. I was commented on my natural ability to know where the best place products should go, and visually look more engaging for customers. This also allowed me to demonstrate my skills in fitting out new displays, and changing existing ones.
As a customer sales assistant, I was responsible for greeting customers and generally helping out with any queries they may have. This was accompanied with fitting and measuring children's feet, to ensure they wore the correct shoe size and had a good experience whilst finding their 'new pair of school shoes' to be able to do this correctly and sufficiently I completed a approved Hush Puppy training course.

Customer service, cashier, stock handling and replenishment, Merchandising, Window displays.