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West Hollywood, California, United States

•Responsible for welcoming guests in a warm and professional manner, assisting with the check-in and check-out process, booking room and restaurant reservations, promoting hotel services and handling billing. •Communicating and collaborating with all departments via Teams and Outlook to ensure in-house and future guests inquiries are prioritized daily. •Operating multiple hospitality reliant systems and tools simultaneously (Opera, Outlook, Sevenrooms, Book4Time, Expedia and Bookings Extranet, and Sertifi) for daily operational success.

South Korea

•Responsible for lesson planning and teaching over 400 middle school students conversational English as a second language.•Piloted "500 Word Challenge" initiative and saw an increase in students' speaking and writing proficiencies.•Collaborated with native Korean co-teachers in the classroom, developed unique English summer and winter camp themes, and evaluated students' classroom assignments, homework, and assessments.

Greater Los Angeles Area

•Analyzed private dining sale leads and followed up with clients via email or phone to market private event packages.•Coordinated over 50 private dinners and receptions that ranged between 10-30 guests resulting in an increase in restaurants’ monthly revenue.•Built relationships with past and new clients, communicated between Noe managers, chef's, banquet and audio/visual teams to ensure successful events.•Responsible for creating clients restaurant agreements, contracts, and pre-set menus in addition to performing hostess duties. Past clients included Go West Tours, Nintendo, Kaiser Permanente and NBC Universal.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

•Responsible for driving sales, supporting management, creating interpersonal and engaging relationships with guests in order to offer satisfying experiences. •Processed cash and card payments and merchandised inventory.•Additional tasks included merchandising the sales floor and unpacking new shipments.

Remote

•Managed and updated buyers list, assisted in product development, content creation, and email marketing. Liaised with stylists and presented collection to sales team in New York City.

•Developed and implemented the ongoing engagement/retention plan for the international student population at Philadelphia University including activities & events and saw an increase in student participation. Administrative work: Answering phone calls, filing, planning, photo copying, and answering international students questions and concerns.

Greater Philadelphia Area

•Drafted, prototyped, and graded production of collection.• Prepared fabric for production and cut nearly 60 designs for manufacturing.•Communicated with factory to solve construction issues, discussedalterations, as well as merchandised collections before and after appointments.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Greater Philadelphia Area

•Greeted customers in a welcoming manner and being attentive to their needs.•Drove sales by engaging with customers and sharing product knowledge.

United Arab Emirates

•Worked closely with designer Aiisha Ramadan in the development of the Spring/Summer 2014 collection. Various tasks included overseeing operations, assisting in model fittings by documenting adjustments and communicating alterations to seamstresses, copywriting for look book, Wikipedia page and brand profile.

•Organized and filed fabric swatches and samples, created mood boards, conducted online and in store market research for collection, photographed samples for company reference and production and worked backstage for the "I HEART RONSON" presentation at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week.

Ux/Ui Design

10 month, 600+ hour intensive UX|UI certification course.

M.S Global Fashion Enterprise

Activities and Societies: International Student Association (ISA)

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (B.F.A), Fashion Design