Victoria Mitrani
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Summary: Motivated team player, professional, organized, detail oriented
with practical experience in high end retail/wholesale jewelry business as
well as education and practical experience in the creative industries.
Experience ranges from management and operations to sales, diamond grading,
client services and design. Strong, bilingual communication skills
(Spanish/native speaker).
Professional Experience
Miami New York Diamonds and Jewelry Miami, Florida (2001present)
Operations Manager
. Facilitated all duties relative to management and sales. Responsibilities
include overseeing sales associates, merchandising the store, interacting
with and servicing customers, maintaining relationships with suppliers,
purchasing and marketing new merchandise. Proficient at diamond buying and
grading, written appraisals, and designing custom pieces. Extended duties
include banking and payroll.
Mount Sinai Hospital Miami Beach, Florida (20052006)
ER Volunteer
. Assisted nurses and doctors in aiding patients, prepared ER rooms for
incoming patients, transferred blood work to hospital Lab., comforted and
counseled patients and family members.
American Management Association New York, New York (20002001)
Graphic Designer
. Organized, oversaw and implemented procedures, requirements and processes
for work flow and job submissions between sales, graphics, editing and
printing departments. Provided design support to high level custom learning
solutions, working in a collaborative environment with members of a
learning development team, which included project managers, instructional
designers, editors and graphic artists. Designed layouts for corporate
seminar training material including notebooks, power point presentations,
and handouts concentrating on the appearance of the courseware.
Conceptualized and designed visually effective marketing brochures to
promote custom learning. Worked closely with client to get the full sense
of their corporate identity in order to ensure the proper look projected on
the material.
The Center for Desktop Publishing Garden City, New York (19952000)
Art Director/Instructor
. Created lesson plans and instructed intensive monthly courses in Adobe
Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop and QuarkXPress. Designed brochures, catalogs
and newsletters including 1800 Flower.com BloomNet and FreshTalk editions.
Art Director for LIBridal.com magazine.
Doubleday Direct Garden City, New York (19982000)
Graphic Designer
. Graphic production of direct mail catalogs. Print ads and enclosures for
book clubs such as The Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, Outdoorsman's
Edge, Black Expressions, The Military Book Club and many more. Interacted
with creative supervisors, art directors and copy editors. Extensive use of
Illustrator, Photoshop, QuarkXPress, Microsoft Word and Excel.
Education
BA, Fine Arts Universidad Del Atlantico, Barranquilla, Colombia SA
Certificate in Commercial Art Nassau Community College