About me

Curriculum Vitae

Laura Alessandra Ricketts

1 Saunders Close,

Rawnsley,

Cannock,

Staffordshire,

W12 0JL

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Throughout the last seven years I have been focusing my time and interest to art and design, developing my skills, learning new techniques, combining influences, materials and ideas, researching what the public want, and what is needed to develop design, to be sold to the public.

I have adapted my skills to design to fit what is wanted or what the next step is in design, using innovation to create a modern design. Throughout the education I have received, I have designed for many different surfaces, including ceramics, textiles, canvas cards, wallpaper, and much more, product design, using combinations of CAD design and practical techniques.

Key skills

- A Masters degree in the functions of corporate social responsibility, including issues such as sustainability, health and safety, employees and the community. To consult companies of how to integrate this within the business practices.

- Innovation and new product development processes, including research, design, reviewing, manufacture and marketing, in relation to these processes in practice.

- Excellent computer skills, including windows and Mac systems. Including programs such as Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point, Photoshop, Access, Publisher, and photoshop also I am able to communicate via e-mail and have a good understanding of the internet.

- Marketing, including skills in advertising, branding, promotion, PR, design consultancy, corporate identity, silent designer and the marketing mix, including product knowledge, pricing strategy, promotional techniques, and product placement. A good understanding of marketing from and design and a commercial angle.

- The knowledge of Sustainability in business practices, with waste management, pollution and climate change. Relating to products and the processes in industry.

- The knowledge to adapt companies to be more social responsible, focusing on issues such as, budget, training, management, stress and marketing.

- Analysing and rectifying errors, good time management skills

- Project management, including budget control, time tables, network analysis, critical path analysis, work breakdown structure and Gantt charts.

- The ability of using extensive research, qualitative and quantitative methods, to audit in a social and visual form.

Education / Qualifications

Staffordshire University MA Design Management, Pass with merit

Student representative

Staffordshire University BA Hons Surface Pattern Design- 2.2

Cannock College, BTEC Art and Design.

Wolgarston High School

A levels Art, English lit, AS levels Graphics, Psychology, Art and English Literature

9 GCSEs A to C

Work Experience

Midland Weekly Media, Birmingham Post and Mail,

Newhall Street, High Green, Cannock, Staffs

Diane Gething, Tel:

09/09/07-present

Telesales Executive, Private sales in motors, property, pets, and births deaths and marriages, in the Birmingham post and mail. This position involves data entry, cold calling and taking orders, also payment of the adverts, also working towards a target. This role means keeping up good relations with the customers, management and other teams involved within the advertising process, working together with the team, taking messages and being flexible with your job role. This job involves using date base and order entry programs Miles and a Mac operating system; these systems file customer info, and place booking of the advertising, taking payment. This job also requires product knowledge of the Birmingham Titles, distribution and readership etc, also the deadlines of the papers to book in the system.

Proactive personnel,

Kelly McPeake, West Midlands Ltd, Anglia House, High Green, Cannock, Staffs, WS11 1DZ. Tel: , 16/08/07-25/08/07, Receptionist/Administrator. Duties included filing, organising, answering telephone, taking messages, customer services, data entry on RSB, own data base system for pro active personnel, sorting and sending post, advertise jobs on websites such as monster, reed and job centre.

Mastertrim Ltd,

Lesley Emery, Conduit Road, Norton Canes, Cannock, WS11 9TJ

02/07//07/07

Receptionist/Administrator. Duties included sending messages via fax machine and email, filing, organising, answering telephone, taking messages, customer services, data entry on Pegasus, dealing with invoices.

Staffordshire University, Helen Boote, Recruitment Center, Workbank, College Road, Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent. Worked 06//2006

Clerical Assistant. Duties include, checking and replying to emails regards recruitment, data entry(sage) sorting out the post and distributing it appropriately, filing, organising, typing letters, customer services, also using the telephone to answer any enquires or information on jobs.

Sycro Systems, Arsenal and Liverpool football club,

Basford, Newcastle-under-Lyme

Worked /2005

Duties included, opening and sorting post for Fulham and Arsenal's football club memberships, organising, data entry, letter typing, and handling cheques, sorting mail.

Interests

I enjoy reading books, such as Dan Brown and J.K Rowling. I also go to the gym three times a week to stay fit and healthy. As a hobby I create cards and do general patterns to keep up my skills in surface pattern.

Referees

Chris Bell, Workbank, Staffordshire University, College Road, Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent. Tel:

Dr David Hands, Design Management, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent.