Michaela Ortauf Email & Phone Number

New Zealand

Wellington Region, New Zealand

• Working with clients to design beautiful interior greenery. • Promoting and selling design and services. • Creating design proposals with the use of visuals• Job costing, quoting and sales presentations.• Work diligently to complete all tasks in a timely manner.• Manage client relationships. • Manage client complaints and resolve them quickly.• Strategic planning with an ability to think ahead and plan. • Liaise closely with our internal team to ensure sites are up to standard. • Effective handing over of new jobs to the installation team • Project Management• Work collaboratively in a close-knit team.

Auckland, New Zealand

Upper Moutere, Tasman, New Zealand

Nelson, Marlborough & Tasman, New Zealand

• Kitchen design and consultation with existing & potential clients • Meeting with clients on site and in showrooms• Drafting concepts for kitchens • Create custom designs-timely to meet customer satisfaction. • Provide relevance information about design process, materials, finishes and overall design. • Customer relations: directing calls, hosting clients at the showroom and answering any relevant inquiries. • Create functional & aesthetic custom designs to meet clients’ needs. • Create workable drawings and 3D renders to present to clients.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Designing custom made furniture pieces; my design input was included in the furniture pieces, gained from previous experience. • Creating 3D furniture models on Revit. • Developing working drawings on all furniture pieces, which the factory then used to manufacture the pieces.

Fourways, Johannesburg

• Customer relations; establishing design briefs and working closely with customers throughout the design process. • Handling the design process from start to finish;• Responsible for creating functional, aesthetic design solutions. • Performing design presentations to clients. • Produce 3D renders based on the clients brief. • To timeously create a set of working drawings in accordance with the design, to be sent to the Fabri factory in Portugal, for the production of cabinetry. • Site visits to confirm measurements of space to develop accurate technical drawings.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Working as part of a design team, developing a retail proposal. • Developing mood boards and putting together presentations. • Developing 3D renders of the retail environment, in accordance to the design brief given by Edcon.

Benoni Area, South Africa

• Assisted in completing shop fitting and construction drawings, for a variety of different projects.• Developed sample boards, mood boards and presentations. • 3D modeling of hotel suites in SketchUp.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Assisted and oversaw a residential interior decorating project.• Oversaw the specification of Fixtures, Furniture and Other Equipment. • Developed mood boards. • Assisted in the restoration of furniture to complete the residential project

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Interior Design

In 2018, I did my Bachelor’s Degree of Technology in Interior Design. To obtain my Degree, I looked at readapting an existing building.

Bachelor'S Degree, Interior Design

I graduated in April 2018 with a diploma is Interior Design, and have decided to further my studies by obtaining a Bachelor's Degree.

Short Course, Graphic Design

In 2014 I enrolled in a short course for graphic design. During the short course, I learnt the fundamental skills to use InDesign.