Experience

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  Helderberg Eco-Rangers

  • Somerset West Area, South Africa

  • Owner / Manager

    • Jan 2014 - Present
    • Somerset West Area, South Africa

    Helderberg Eco-Rangers is an environmental awareness and education group where we aim to connect children and their families to natural environment around them.The group meets weekly to discuss and share interesting topics connected with nature and our environment, We aim to guide and educate children on the wonders of nature. We feel it is essential for children to be introduced to and spend time in nature. If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it. Today's generation of children is the first to grow up spending more indoor time than time in nature and the outdoors. Their plugged-in lives are largely devoid of exploring the natural world and we are just beginning to understand the ramifications of their virtual world.There are costs to the health of our children: attention difficulties, hyperactivity, childhood obesity, diminished use of senses, disconnect from things that are real. Additionally, if children are detached from nature, how will they learn about, understand, and value nature? How will the next generation care about the land and be stewards of its resources? We hope to plant seeds so as to connect the children with their natural environment. In turn we hope children who have been members with us will continue to visit places in nature and thus grow stronger in themselves and in time form a bond with the natural world around them so as to protect and care for all living things. It is our aim to guide children to become the future stewards for our planet and all life upon it.

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  Capata Consulting

  • Somerset West Area, South Africa

  • Owner

    • 2008 - Present
    • Somerset West Area, South Africa

    Creative mind

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  KPMG

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Graphic Design Consultant

    • 1998 - 2000
    • London, United Kingdom

    As Graphic design consultant I worked as a consultant as well as Graphic Designer and head presentationist. Main duties included communicating with business consultants as well as companies and organisations and carrying out the necessary graphic design and presentation work. I would work closely with the in-house consultants assisting them with Graphics projects as well as layout for briefs, presentations etc. On a day to day basis this role required work to be carried out effectively, efficiently and under pressure. Briefs and final documents required formatting and lying out. This meant working closely with the management consultants or heads of specific projects. In many cases it was part of my role to guide and teach business consultants how to use MS word and MS PowerPoint. Marketing, education and promotion are examples of the goals behind the visual communication and graphics documents created.

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  Management Graphics

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Graphic Designer and Presentationist

    • 1997 - 1998
    • London, United Kingdom

    The role of graphic designer and presentaitonist was a varied and exciting role with the typical day requiring a Graphic Design skills to be used in providing presentation support for executive staff in the banking and consulting business worlds.The work carried out was aimed at assisting executives in the development of templates and custom images for presentations -- particularly PowerPoint presentations. To add to this we often worked in print work supporting presentations and graphics. This could come in the form of collated reports, story boards etc etc. We would also have to develop and prepare Slides & Film Strips to be placed in slide mounts. Additional responsibilities included creating presentations that encompass new business development and financial reporting, as well as thought leadership presentations for conferences etc. Producing PowerPoint design templates aligned to brand standards and assisting with graphic design for multimedia educational products.Ocassionally there were projects including logo design, business card and business stationery design.The majority of work was Windows based, however we had one or two jobs per week where we would be required to work on Apple Mac.

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  Market Behaviour Ltd (London)

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Receptionist / Presentationist and Junior graphic designer

    • Jan 1996 - 1997
    • London, United Kingdom

    This role required a professional, experienced, well presented and confident Receptionist / Administrator with the advantage of having Graphic Design and presentations / DTP skills.I worked with a dynamic and fast paced market research team who required me to have the ability to demonstrate superior customer service and strong communication skills as the first point of contact for the business.My duties included but were not limited to:• Front of house reception duties• Answering phone calls, taking messaged and transferring calls via the switchboard• Coordinate meetings and meeting room set-up• Preparation of PowerPoint presentations (in the early days it was Word Perfect and Freelance Graphics)• Compilation of documents, reports - general ad-hoc administration• Strong MS Office suite in particular PowerPoint and Word (additionally publishing software and a flair for/marketing)• Booking couriers, filing documents, ordering stationery, purchasing refreshments and snacks for meetings