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Senior Design ConsultantStrong direct relations with hospitality interior designers,architects, production and sales. Excellent interpretation of design briefs from Concept,revisions,sampling presentation to manufacturing.Manage to work effectively on deadline estimations which result high creativity. Conduct site meetings,conference calls emails and online meetings to improve service and relationships. Create large contemporary Axminster designs called masterweave to inlay into floorplans for customer to relate to scale and volume.Good understanding of floorplans in relation with production process. Design on Nedgraphics Texcelle to cteate inspirational concepts,colour usage and able to adapt design style to suit corporate image.Obtain a sales roll to clients for quotes, sales contracts of orders and invoicing. Excellent documentation,communication between various stakehold. Experience on designing projects for AIDA / Carnival cruises, Hilton group, Radisson,Sun International, The Capital hotels and Southern Sun.

Design of custom Tufted carpets. Worked from Gouteng SA in conjunction with sales team in creating new relationship with hospitality groups. Established good communication skills with carpet installers and sales. Managed to create designs with limited colour selections. Attended Sales conference and regularly accompanied sales team to interior designers to be briefed on projects. Managed own time to design from concept to final product on timely manner.

Custom weave carpet designing. As per current job description.

Head of design team. Managed distribution of brief to designers. Report to CEO on new design and colour trends. Worked closely with sales team,wholesalers and retail customers. Create new ranges from design to manufacturing samples to present into the market. Managed all admin for department. Attended many meetings with sales and production team to established new products and relationships with new retail groups. Responsible for production files. Involved with setup of stand at trade show - Decorex Gouteng SA.

Interpretation of hospitality/ interior customers on design briefs to presented by clients, for the manufacturing of wall to wall carpeting, Infinity weave and specialize in the designing of Axminster carpet tiles. Maitane a good relationship with sales team and direct contact with Interiors. Good time management on deadlines and revisions.Excellent presentation of invative designs printouts according to scale, spec and accurate colour for presentation to client. Processing of production orders to factory and have good interpretation of floor plans. Traveling to Domatex for inspiration. Manage good correspondence and excellent documentation on ISO standards. Obtained skill with production managers on wilton range. Made use of Texcelle and Apso programs.

Only Blanket Designer on electronic jacquard machines. Proccecing designs from inception to weaving samples for customer presentations. Obtained new retail customers. Managed quality control from beginning of production to packageing final product.

Design from concept to final manufacturing of jacquard and dobby machines. Obtained good colour and design perception. Creation on Ned graphics Texcelle for blanket weaving. Visit Heimtex Frankfort for inspiration. Company closed-door.