Interior Designer

• Feb 2023 - Present

Interior Stylist

• Oct 2020 - Oct 2021

Styling room sets to provide beautiful high quality photography for use across all media platforms. Working alongside Art Directors to co-ordinate photographers, set builders, and floorwalkers to produce high quality photography. Liaising with in-house design team to ensure all trends and customer profiles are adhered to at all times. Styling room sets to provide beautiful high quality photography for use across all media platforms. Working alongside Art Directors to co-ordinate photographers, set builders, and floorwalkers to produce high quality photography. Liaising with in-house design team to ensure all trends and customer profiles are adhered to at all times.

Interior Designer IKEA for Business

• Sep 2018 - Mar 2020

Liaising with businesses of various calibers to understand their individual brand identities, needs and desires, and translate this information into Interior Design solutions that inspire and enable a better functioning business and life at work. Using the IKEA product range and Interior Design competence to create solutions for private and public business clients, aiming to exceed their expectations of what IKEA for Business has to offer .

Interior Designer

• Oct 2016 - Dec 2019

Using home furnishing expertise to create effective and inspiring solutions in room settings, homes, vignettes and sales support areas that reflect the IKEA identity. Actively contributing to the gathering of insights from home visit interviews and translating this knowledge into locally relevant, functional, aesthetic and commercial home furnishing solutions that exceed customer expectations and reflect home furnishing the IKEA way. Contributing to the creation of a Showroom that reflects a wide variety of styles, living situations and price levels to create a good tempo with distinct visual impressions. Stay up to date and knowledgeable about home furnishing, retailing and trends in order to contribute in workshops to generate creative ideas. Create relevant, functional, aesthetic commercial home furnishing solutions that contribute to positioning the IKEA brand in the local market as the leader in life at home. Inspire and surprise visitors by presenting and communicating the IKEA home furnishing offer with strong visual impressions that exceed visitors expectations, converting visitors into customers.

Visual Merchandiser

• Oct 2015 - Oct 2016

Designing, creating and installing unique window and store displays across two stores and two external location display cabinets. Creating design schemes to given theme for each month of the year. Sourcing all goods and supplies, and handcrafting props etc for installations and displays. Create full design schemes to present for approval by MD and all company managers. Liaising with high end brands for installing their window displays. Designing, creating and installing unique window and store displays across two stores and two external location display cabinets. Creating design schemes to given theme for each month of the year. Sourcing all goods and supplies, and handcrafting props etc for installations and displays. Create full design schemes to present for approval by MD and all company managers. Liaising with high end brands for installing their window displays.

Creative Assistant

• Jul 2015 - Sep 2015

(flagship level) – Creating an amazing experience for customers by ensuring an aesthetically appealing store to the highest level; inspirational outfit builds and placement of product ‘must haves’, visual standards and mannequin styling suits the market place and maintaining the balance between commercial and visual. Working with the Visual Team to support the overall brand visual proposition, review the store performance and plan layout changes. Ensuring all current promotions are launched to the highest standard and guidelines, and feeding back to manager on creative solutions in store. Installing and maintaining of all displays, props, visual aids, etc in store and windows, and maintaining standards throughout all.

Visual Merchandiser, Creative Assistant, Studio Manager

• Sep 2013 - Jul 2015

Liaisons with three concession brands, translating sales figures, best seller and new lines into effective Visual Merchandising. Deployment of aesthetic and effective displays, placement of goods in order to effectively attract and engage customers. Creative dressing of mannequins, high levels and window displays. Placing and arrangement of trend and promotional graphics.

Freelance Designer

• Jan 2014 - Jan 2014

Creating a design concept and developing spatial ideas for an independent vintage clothing store. Holly’s Rack, Middlesbrough. Creating a design concept and developing spatial ideas for an independent vintage clothing store. Holly’s Rack, Middlesbrough.

Freelance Designer

• Jul 2013 - Sep 2013

Redesigning of previous recreational room of Stockton Social Services into a youth friendly and versatile space. Included providing an imaginative and user-appropriate design scheme, sourcing of goods and equipment, on hand decoration, and training of young adults to gain qualifications for further education, employment, etc. Redesigning of previous recreational room of Stockton Social Services into a youth friendly and versatile space. Included providing an imaginative and user-appropriate design scheme, sourcing of goods and equipment, on hand decoration, and training of young adults to gain qualifications for further education, employment, etc.

Accounts Assistant

• Jan 2007 - Oct 2010

Working through three separate employment agencies on temporary positions for various small and multinational companies based around the Teesside area. Working predominantly within the Accountancy, Finance and Customer Services departments. Working through three separate employment agencies on temporary positions for various small and multinational companies based around the Teesside area. Working predominantly within the Accountancy, Finance and Customer Services departments.