KARI NASH-MARTINEZ.
C: 702-***-****
E:ad463u@r.postjobfree.com
SUMMARY
lnterior Designer / Business Development who has 8 years' experience. I also have 13 years accounting experience from London, United Kingdom. am a very passionate and a highly motivated individual, who can achieve peak performance and deliver aggressive professional objectives to team members and clients. The delivery of my work is executed with a high level of detail. I can deliver site verifications on large scale buildings on my own with minimal to no errors. I have been recognized for the high level of detail and communication that I provide to designers and clients from conceptual design through to the final punch walks. SKILLS
3D MODELING - CET DESIGNER
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
FF&E SELECTION
ELEVATION
VIRTUAL AND IN-PERSON
3D MODELING - SKETCH-UP ADOBE IN-DESIGN - LAYOUT
BLUEBEAM REVU SPACE PLANNING
SPECIFICATION WRITING CONCEPTUAL INTERIOR DESIGN
SITE VERIFYING PROPOSING ELECTRICAL & DATA
GMPHIC DESIGN WEBSITE DESIGN PRESENTATIONS
AWARDS
NEVV{{ CHAIR COMPETION -2012 Winner for most sustainable STEELCASE NATIONAI WINNER - 2O1g 1 of 20 National winner for the STEELCASE / Design porrfolios Marketplace tool
EXPERIENCE
DesignCave, Las Vegas, NV and stay at home father
Lead Designer
August 2021 - Current
o FF&E selection - Highly skilled at constructing physical presentation boards
. 3D Rendering for Residential buildings for a developer seeking investments o ln-person presentations and demonstrations on products to promote sales
. o Website Graphic Design, Design lnvitations, business cards, digital and printed for mixed use of activities Machabee Office Environments, Las Vegas, NV
Architectural & Design Account Manager/ New Business July 2018 - June 2020
o Produced virtual presentations post COVID-i9 Working for Steelcase. o o Trained Devised lnterior strategies Designers for future remotely planning on based Steelcase on research work tools. on COVID-19 for designers and end users. KARL NASH-MARTINEZ E
. Produced professional articles for Linked-lN to aid clients with coVlD-l9. o Producing sales forecasts.
o Delivered new business to account managers through relationships. o ln-person presentations and demonstrations on products to promote sales. o Skilled at delivering and assisting customers select products for different applications. o Skilled at site verifying for accuracy, for CAD plans, critical dimensions, existing data and electrical locations with minimal error.
o Researching, specifying, logistics on projects in Asia. o Trained on steelcase architectural solutions and products in design layout. r Skilled at delivery 3D renderings in CET Designer and Sketch up. Westfall Commercial Furniture, Las Vegas, NV
Technical Designer
February 2017 - July2018
o Managed the design work for the Las Vegas Studio. o Trained on Allsteel furniture for design and specifying. o Skilled at designing and re-configuring - layout for the MGM lnternational account. This consisted of back of house on all properties, including T-Mobile arena. Also all of MGM corporate offices consist of about 1 0,000 workstations.
o Delivery accurate AS-BUILT plans for MGM lnternational. KGA Architecture, Las Vegas, NV
lnterior Designer
February 201 5 - February 2017
o Space planning in sketch and the use of Autocad. o Delivering professional specifications on furniture and finishes. o Assisted with delivering construction documents. o FF&E selection - Highly skilled at constructing physical presentation boards. o Conceptual design.
Threshold Interiors USA, Las Vegas, NV
lnterior Designer
October 2013 - December 2014
o Skilled at in person professional meetings with clients. KARL NASH-MARTINEZ
. Able to delivery conceptual designs through meetings and research . o Able to work to set budgets.
o Constructiondocuments.
r lnstructing and overseeing contractors and troubleshooting onsite construction issues. o Punch Walks.
Tandem, Las Vegas, NV
lnterior Designer
2013-2014 (6 Months)
o skilled at delivering a conceptual package for a nightclub in Las Vegas. o Delivered an outstanding FF&E package for the nightclub. o Professional at delivery clear information to the client. YWS Design, Las Vegas, NV
lnterior Designer
201 3-201 3(6 Month contract)
o Delivered an outstanding carpet design that was approved by Roger Thomas for use in Wynn Cotai. o Researched and delivered conceptual designs based on lndian tribal traditions for use in Hospitality. o Skilled at physical and digital FF&E board.
INTERNSHIP
BRINTONS AXMINSTER CARPET, USA
2012 (10 months)
o o Site Learning Verifying. to select color for creating hospitality carpets & hand woven rugs Creating designs for carpet. o Creating Flooded floor plans for carpet installation. CAREER 1996-2008 (BUS NESS & FTNANCE) LONDON, UNTTED KTNGDOM CAMELOT PROPERTY MANAGER, London UK
FINANCE MANAGER
MID DEC 07- JUNE 08
(Temporary Assignment)
. Responsible for preparing 2007 year end accounts, reviewing the profit & Loss, and reconciling the balance sheet and financial commentary.
o Responsible for setting up the Profit & Loss for 2008, for the UK as consolidated accounts and as separate regional offices.
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Reviewing an existing budget and phasing in through a 12 month cycle to illustrate sensible net figures. Reporting monthly actuals versus budget.
lntroduction and set-up of the company stakeholders pension scheme. Negotiating fees and rebates with suppliers.
Managing the reduction over the companys overall debt from lover 90 days by 5Oo/oin 4 weeks. Producing adhoc financial reports for the UK director and Europe as required. Preparation and deliverables of the companys payroll for 25 staff. September 2007- December 2007
CAREER BREAK- TRAVELING
OUTSIDE LINE tlMlTED, London UK
BOOK KEEPER
APRIL 2OO7-SEPTEMBER 2OO7
(Temporary Assignment)
r Responsible for processing payroll for40 employees, including the NIC/PAYE monthly calculation payment and associated admin.
. Responsible for monitoring, updating and reconciling the fixed asset register. o Reconciling the VAT account and producing the VAT return. o Responsible for producing a weekly billing forecast sheet and insuring all sales invoices are raised correctly, allocating associated costs and monitoring margins, measuring and reporting revenue against month of sales,
o Responsible for the purchase ledger, coding analysis, entering and reconciling and payment of suppliers.
. Responsible for handling year end audit and delivering revised financial procedures as requested. o Preparation of monthly management accounts, financial commentary, more emphasis on accruals and prepayment journals.
o Training non financial account managers how to correctly raise invoices and understand key monthly figures.
AKA PRODUCTIONS LIMITED, London UK
NOVEMBER 2OO5-APRIL 2OO7
CLIENT ACCOUNTANT
o Responsible for all monthly client and media billings covering 40 clients. Billing figures range from i million GBP to i.6 million GBP a month.
o Responsible for each invoice's cost allocation to ensure that the companies gross profit margin maintained at3oo/o.
o To manage and maintain the job costing ledger.
o Responsible for all coding issues and to ensure that all departments margins are accurate. KARL NASH-MARTINEZ E
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Supervising the accounts receivable and accounts payable to ensure that discounts were correctly taken and increase in cash flow to minimize bad debts.
To carry out a vast range of monthly reports to show billing forecasts, income forecasts, deffered income, department coding and WIP reconciliation, Purchase order variances and specific media type reporting of sales and COS by media type and by publication. Also reporting on monthly WIP movements.
Liaising with all members of Client Services to carry out job bag reviews and to report on their budgets versa actual for the month.
To maintain a high standard of system training throughout the company and to implement a system upgrade and to test all departments and financial ledgers before going live. To structure and build client budgets and forecasts. THE MARKETING MACHINE LIMITED, London UK
JANUARY 2OO3-2005
ASSISTANT ACCOUNTANT
o To manage a team of four people within Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Credit Control and Purchase Ledger Processing. To improve each section of the finance department, strategically looking at improve each section of finance department, strategically looking at improved cash, lowering costs, through each role, and creating flexibility within the roles to cater for absence and busy periods. o Produce the monthly group and accounts pack for head office, which includes analysis of sales by client and by global region, margin region, margin analysis, detailed analysis of cost of employees by department gross, NIC and commission and commentary. Filtering in the trial balance to reflect on monthly movements.
. Analysis monthly gross profit, by client, Department and account handler to report on. o To report and analyze WIP and to carry out exercises within the company to evaluate true WIP figures and trio write controlled procedures on how to write off finished jobs and transfer jobs to be billed. To monitor monthly WIP movements and explain variances for the commentary. o Perform the weekly cash flow forecast reports for senior management and head office on am rolling 5- week period.
. Prepare budget modules for Head Office by department and phasing by nominal code for 6-month forecast and 12-month budget.
r Produce a rolling monthly order book, detailing future commitments. o To prepare, run reports and complete the quarterly VAT returns to Head Office and then to C&E.
. Update and maintain the fixed asset register, depreciation of assets, to enter relevant journals to the nominal ledger and reconciling within the balance sheet.
. Responsible for planning and implementing financial procedures and policies in the acquisition of another company.
o Reconciling bank account and month end journals. o Providing SWOT analysis towards business strategy meetings. a
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BUPA (Transport & Engineering), London UK
ASSISTANT ACCOUNTANT
MARCH 1999 - JANUARY 2OO3
. Preparing half-yearly budget figures, profiling and analping monthly figures, based on yTD, actual and forecast.
o Producing daily trial balance and reconciling with the in-house system. r Analyzing and reporting variances on cost centers.
. Preparing monthly accruals and pre-payments.
o Producing Profit & Loss A/c's 18 branches.
o Producing month end balance sheet.
o . Responsible Reporting and for analping debtor days trends calculation on stock and market recovering FTSE100. 1.2mof arrears in 5 weeks (debtor days 84 to 55). o Responsible for leading an internal audit.
r Analfzing and reconciling multi-currency bank accounts.
. Hiring and training staff on Microsoft Applications. o Providing SWOT analysis for business strategy meetings. o Producing inter-company account reconciliations to the Financial controller. o Creating computerized payment runs.
. Producing statistical information to managements on overall company progress. o Producing daily stock, profit and efficiency reports. NASHLUCK LTD HOUSING (Permanent)London, UK
ACCOUNTS ASSTSTANT (J U N OR)
JANUARY 1 996-MARCH 1 999
EDUCATION
The Art lnstitute of las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
BA ln lnterior Design - Graduated with a 4.0gpa
June 2010 - December 2012
The Art lnstitute of California - Los Angeles, LA
BA ln lnterior Design - Transferred to Las Vegas
June 2008- June 2010
Davenant Foundation School, Loughton, Essex
September 1988-1994
KARL NASH-MARTINEZ
PROJECTS
Projects I have designed or been involved in:
o Drais Nightclub, Las Vegas
o Sandia Resort & Casino
o Kickapoo Resort & Casino
r Wynn Resort & Casino - EDR - COTAI
o o MGM UFC Headquarters, Resorts lnternational Las Vegas - BOH of all resorts & Corporate Buildings with Workstation & Private office o o CCSD P3 Health - Ronzone, Headquarters Wynn, - Culley Las Vegas & Dearing Elementary Schools, Las Vegas
. Opportunity Village - Betty's Village, Las Vegas o Plaza Office (Allied Offices), Las Vegas
o The Drew Corporate Offices
o Telus lnternational, Las Vegas
OTHERACTIVITIES
Volunteering. I have volunteered for 29 charities over the last 12 years. Both my husband and I made CDC guideline approved masks for COVTD-19 for over 100 people within our community.
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