Working at Santander as a customer service adviser, the best part of myjob was the daily interaction with customers and coworkers. Having such acustomer-facing role helped improve my communication and problem-solvingskills as I frequently get to help resolve some interesting and sensitive issuesfor our customers. I am so grateful to Santander as they have allowed mesuch flexibility to work here in between time abroad and moving betweencities.

During my time at JuFangHeZong design, i was able to work with some amazingly talented colleagues, on incredible projects. I worked in a international team so sometimes we all found the easiest way to explain our ideas was to quickly sketch them out rather than talking them through, as a team we delivered small presentations to each other to present our initial proposals before deciding on which to further develop together. My role in this company was primarily concept design and development, which involved many different aspects of the design process. Such as, site analysis, model making, sketch iterations, 3d massing models, visuals, precedent analysis, orthographic production among other activities.

I worked on an Eco-hostel project in Indonesia, where i helped with design aspects both structural and aesthetic, whilst also working on the construction of the project. This Gave me a great chance to learn new skills at both the design and construction sides of the project. Due to the location, materials were occasionally difficult to source and therefore interesting solutions had to be thought of which led to a much richer design.

I worked in BCCI for 6 months on many varied projects all differing in size, difficulty and involvement. I found everyday enjoyable and challenging with the work with all the work being valuable learning experiences. I worked with a great team of people, which I had fantastic opportunity to work with and learn from. During this time I learned to work at a high pace and to balance different types of projects and i had the opportunity to go on site visits and client meetings which were so informative and helpful to fully understanding the scope of the project briefs. I had a great chance to have my first professional job in a country with such amazing architectural opportunity.