Nathalie Fuchs

“Always do more than is required of you.” INFO NATHALIE FUCHS Creative and driven person with excellent communication skills and a high level of customer commitment. Having a design and advertising background, I have enjoyed the fields of client service, sales, promotion, design and marketing. Results driven, hard working and well presented in everything I do. CONTACT NUMBER:- SKILLS EMAIL:- ID NUMBER:- DRIVERS LICENSE: Yes and own vehicle • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Creative Computer literate - Powerpoint, Word, Excel Programs - Photoshop, Indesign, Illustartor, Acrobat Interpersonal Persuasive Positive Strong presentation skills, presentations for clients, emails, proposals Outgoing personality Detail orientated Confident Strong communication skills Follow up with clients in a professional and timely manner Great writing skills Great team player and more than capable of working on my own Self starter/self motivated Persistent Attentive Great negotiation skills Problem solver Great time management Great decision maker Client relations Creative thinker Well presented Identifying target markets Expand sales Innovative Able to delicate work in a well explained manner Able to overlook any design work EMPLOYMENT HISTORY FREELANCE/CONTRACT JOBS Sales Representative, Client Service, Promoting and Marketing (January 2016 – Present) Wicked Warrior (Selling of new products and online shopping and advertising) Stone Age Pictures and Media Candyland Franchise of Nursery Schools Camplify (Australian travelling service company) As well as other freelance work With the expansion of all these comapnies, and some being completley new, I was employed to promote/market the brand, bring in new clients and sales, deal with all clients requests as well as all administrative work. Duties: • Design • Sales and marketing • Event planning (marketing events or party events) • Bring in potential clients • Administrative work • Client service • Meeting with potential clients, leaving design work I have done with these clients • Responsible for keeping in touch with customers, telephonically and via email • Marketing products through print and digital design • Provide customer service by informing clients of all services provided • Researching potential leads • Cold calling • Promote new services offered • Handle and resolve customer complaints • Product knowledge • Identifying customers needs SAUCE ADVERTISING Account Executive Assistant/DTP and Graphic Design (2014 – 2015) At Sauce Advertising, I was employed to help with operations work for the project manager, assist with clients and briefs for the account executive and DTP and design work. Brands included Steers, Wimpy, Milkylane, Fishaways, Mugg & Bean and other major brands Duties: • Client Service • Emailing and contacting clients • Presentations • • • • DTP, layout, repro, design Meeting and sitting with clients Operations work - Making up and editing training manuals for staff memebers as well as manuals for Famous Brands employees Using imagery, tables and infographics for heavy text documents to be more readable and understandable OAKFILEDS COLLEGE Graphics Design Lecturer (Practical and Theory) (2013 - 2014) Duties: • Having creative reign over the syllabus of both years • To inspire all students in the field of design • To teach the design process, from brief to final approval • The roles of the people you will be working with e.g. art directors, • marketing managers, printers etc. • To teach all graphic design students (First and Second year) • Make up briefs that are both creative and educational • Teach all design theory as well as practical • Teach DTP, graphic design, design theory and principles as well as repro • Assist all students in their creative ideas • To see potential in an idea and make it become a reality • To mark artwork according to creativity, effort and presentation of work • To explain the industry outside of college and to work along those • principles • To study new material, and make up presentations for all students • To teach students how to present their work to clients, as well as • communication with clients and suppliers • File and distribute course notes, worksheets and summaries according to policies and procedures. • Setting up examination papers • Course research and development • Preparation, teaching, examining, administrative and other duties as required by the Head of Department • Obey and comply with all lawful and reasonable instructions given by the Head of Department TORQUE CREATIVE Midweight designer and DTP operator (2009 - 2014) Duties: • In charge of Castle Lite • Making up corporate guidleines • I was groomed and trained for design, DTP and Repro at this small Repro/Design House that dealt mainly with SAB (South African Breweries) brands. • Design and DTP of all brands according to each brands corporate identity • • • • • • • • Communication with brand managers, merchandise specialists and the marketing team on a daily basis Making up unique di-lines and POS elements Time managing of massive campaigns, following through from make up, through to repro and sending off to printers once print ready Assisting fellow colleagues and clients and advising on layout and print production Costing all jobs in progress, and recording time management for each Ensuring all artwork was 100% correct, and all artwork was accessible to clients Managing traffic flow EDUCATION DESIGN CENTRE BA Degree Course Study: Design and Communication (2006 - 2009) Software Knowlede: Adobe - Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat Theory ST MARTINS HIGH SCHOOL Grade 12 IEB (2001 - 2005) REFERENCES JACQUI HANCOX Torque Creative - Studio Manager- CORDELIA SCOTT Promotions Specialist - SAB- DELAMAINE DUTOIT Marketing Manager - SAB- RYAN ZIMBLER Head of Department - Oakfileds-SILIBAZISO NDLOVU Account Executive - Sauce Advertising-