Amanda Evans Email & Phone Number

New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

With a background in Architecture and Interior Design, you will find me working from the Remuera office located in the Old Post Office building on the corner of Victoria Avenue and Remuera Road; Auckland.

Auckland, New Zealand

Originally trained in interior design and then architecture, I have a unique ability to see the potential of a property and explore what a difference a few subtle upgrades or changes can make in terms of return on investment.

Workplace, and design consultancy.

Auckland, New Zealand

Mike Greer Commercial provides services tailored to suit both the clients and their projects throughout New Zealand, Building New Zealand's Future.New Zealand’s largest privately-owned building company, with annual revenues over $450m.

Auckland, New Zealand

PLN Group is a design research firm focused on people and interiors. We believe in supporting an enhanced life through original thought and design. PLN Group is a vertically-integrated group; meaning we have full capacity from research, design, engineering, and procurement, through to prototype development and manufacturing execution and delivery.PLN Group exports to 15 countries around the world, with an award winning portfolio of product; recent awards being for Keystone winning the Silver Best Design Award 2017, and the Westpac West Innovation Award 2017.www.plngroup.co.nz

Auckland, New Zealand

Modern Office is a small furniture company based in Tauranga, I worked for 3 months to review the Auckland market to establish a presence. Modern Office subsequently moved to focus more on the education sector in Auckland.

Auckland, New Zealand

Eclectic Furniture has been in the Commercial Furniture Industry for over 30 years. I worked with small to medium organisations, helping clients to understand how furniture systems enabled different ways of working.

Auckland, New Zealand

Unaffected, open, young, active and fresh. These are the words that best describe the expression of New Zealand creativity that essenze constantly searches for. My role was to build awareness around this brand, and identify new opportunities to celebrate original design.

Auckland, New Zealand

PLN Group is a family of brands focused on people, believing in supporting an enhanced life through original thought and design. Research based, the award winning capabilities of PLN Group offers a world-class portfolio exporting to fourteen different countries.

Auckland, New Zealand

Employed to showcase the Steelcase brand, I coordinated the fitout of the new Steelcase showroom at the Strand building, Parnell. I worked closely with Steelcase to build brand awareness in New Zealand.

Auckland

CONSULTANCY & CONTRACTING SERVICESCommercial workplaces are changing, understanding what the business is trying to achieve is more important than implementing the latest trends. My role was to facilitate organisations to have their future business strategy clearly linked to the workplace objectives.PRE- DESIGN SERVICESI offerred independent pre-design services to strategically set the framework for commercial workplace projects. I am experienced in preparing building feasibility studies; investigating tenancy options, preparing spatial analyses and coordinate high level budget estimates and programmes.WORKPLACE STRATEGY & ENGAGEMENT SERVICESIn order to capture the aspirations of the business and understand the parameters of a project I developed a detailed engagement process that supported the scale and needs of the organisation. • Project Orientation Workshop• Strategic Executive Thinking Workshop• Business/Staff Communication Workshop• Strategic Interview Process• Functional SurveyDESIGN SERVICESI provided high level design investigations, mapped adjacency relationships, prepared stacking diagrams and preliminary floor layout plans.

Auckland

Gaze specializes in commercial property advisory services, supporting organisations to understand their current and future property needs. I looked to strategically connect with people in order to explore new business and identify opportunities to enhance workplaces that can look to change and shape enhanced performance within organisations.While working at Gaze I have learnt the commercial reality of working on fast paced projects; delivering to extremely short milestones. Responsible for sales and marketing, I worked autonomously and independently, accountable for building business and identifying new opportunities for commercial interiors work. I liaised directly with commercial leasing agents to prepare building feasibility studies and investigate tenancy options, preparing spatial analyses, coordinating directly with a costing provider to prepare high level budget estimates and programmes for the client. While my role has been the Strategic Business Development Manager for Gaze, I have also been the lead account manager on a number of projects working closely with CEO’s and Executive Teams. In order to capture the aspirations of the business and understand the parameters of a project I have lead the engagement process, prepared and facilitated the workshops and undertaken deeper business unit engagement, analyzing key information, and collating the findings into a comprehensive final Accommodation Report.At Gaze, I was part of the management team, developing the strategic marketing plan for the business. I also worked closely with Management to identify ways to improve the design team’s internal project management process; which included refining resource planning and identifying ways to improve their operational programme management systems and refine project income received to time spent reporting.

Auckland

As the Workplace Specialist within the Strategic Facilitation Team, I worked with organisations to ascertain and refine the thinking for the project; by relating the business's strategy to the accommodation architectural principles in order to provide a robust design brief.I looked to bridge the gap to the design team, testing the design ideas through the translation process to ensure the business objectives were being achieved and the design outcomes provided for engaging solutions; improving the workplace experience and ensuring the final outcome captures the strategic vision of the organisation.Strategic work place thinking is essential in today’s market, shifting the dynamics of the workplace to improve communication and performance of staff. It is about empowering performance through place, enabling staff to feel enabled to do what they do, best. By engaging with the client at the very beginning to understand the business objectives and aspirations for the workplace and how these relate to the final property outcome is where I found the greatest satisfaction. By linking the strategy to the design means the client is able to clearly see the return on their investment; a rewarding workplace should be looking to leverage the outcomes of space utilisation and facilitate high staff productivity. I worked with the Westpac consultancy team, and as the NZGSAP partner with Beca compiled and delivered the 5 NZGBC Green Star submission. I was also responsible for workplace design presentations and writing RFP responses and proposals.

I was employed to initiate new business, provide feasibilities and support the design team to develop design concept for clients. As one of my key responsibilities, I was targeted to ensure our client base was supported end to end through the entire design process, providing project updates as well as developing company newsletters for marketing initiatives.

Auckland

Employed to establish the Auckland Office and develop a sales pipeline to deliver new home design/build projects. Responsible for the initiation of conceptual designs for clients and the management and coordinating of the documentation delivery for each project. Management of 4-5 design and documentation staff with this role reporting to the head office in Christchurch.Staxus Steel Frame Systems was a specifically engineered design solution, a modular steel frame building system enabling clients to build a pre-fabricated design in a condensed time frame. I was responsible for sales and working alongside clients developing their conceptual designs.

Auckland, New Zealand

Lecturer in a number of programmes for the Certificate and Design Diploma Programmes; including Design History, Cultures of Invention, Interior Design, Product Design & Design Studio over a period of 3 years. Significantly I worked alongside other design lecturers on design crits and consequently have been invited back over the years as a 'guest critique' for the Interior Design Diploma.

Part-time tele-sales and lead qualifcation call-centre position.

Interior Designer; worked on a number of key Corporate and National Clients, responsible for design of office enviroments and retail banking roll-outs.

Commerical Interior Designer, short term contract working on a cross-section of commercial and hospitality projects.

New Zealand Certificate In Real Estate (Level 5), Real Estate

Effective Directors Course, Board Membership

Te Kākano – Level 1 Māori Language

B.Architecture & B.Architectural Studies, Architecture

Certificate, Interior Design

Education record

Auckland

Education record

Auckland