VICTOR ARA

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Katy Texas 77450

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Visual Merchandiser. Strong operator with a superior talent for planning, designing, constructing, and installing visual material. Innovative abilities for window display, rigging, floor fixturing, and merchandising. A well-developed sense of store planning and design, selecting new alternatives to implement ever more creative and powerful seasonal and promotional installations.

Creative with a flair for style and balance, to highlight company and store directives; a great eye for fine detail, and a superior talent for follow-up, ensuring their completion in a timely and accurate manner.

I use my extensive visual merchandising experience to provide continuous feedback on projects. I interview, hire, and ensure that new visual hires complete a proper orientation, take visual staff to a high standard, and achieve consistency with merchandise presentation.

Experience in floral arrangement and sculpture, Art exhibit mounting for art galleries and institutions; strong sense of fashion and current trends, extensive travel, Fluent in English, Spanish, Italian, and conversational German.

Experience:

2022 -2023 Rooms To Go

30701 West Miller Road

Brookshire, TX 77423

Visual Merchandising Lead: Responsabile for the implementation of visually appealing displays and layouts for two stores, including the warehouse biggest showroom,collaborating with store manager and sales teams to understand product goals and objectives. Understanding of interior design principles to create harmonious layouts following brand guidelines, maintaining the highest standards for home furniture, wall art, and home accessories. Responsible for daily refurbishment, store transfers and orders.

2013 – 2022 Hickes & Associates

303 West 29th Street

New York 10001 646-***-****

Illustrator: Produced architectural renderings and created exterior and interior perspectives according to clients' specifications. Clients included: Revlon, Lancome, Disney, and Bergdorf Goodman.

2005-2012 Saks Fifth Avenue

Boca Raton, Florida

Visual Merchandiser Lead: Played a leading role, ensuring and coordinating an on-brand client journey in all creative aspects covered in specialty fashion retail.

Inspired innovation through storytelling floor and window displays with the goal being to enhance the client’s experience. Worked well with a diverse set of teams and individuals, reporting to the head of visual merchandising to ensure Saks image standards by using and implementing seasonal merchandising and styling guidelines.

1998 - 2005 Federated Department Stores, MACY’S

Aventura Mall – Miami, Florida

Visual Merchandising Executive. Assisted visual senior director, with the planning creation, installation, and execution of all visual tasks, in all areas of one of the largest stores in the company, taking visuals to a new and better standard of presentation, by a timely execution and going beyond directorial expectations.

Implemented new ideas, and was able to win annual visual company awards almost every year, and these ideas were used as visual company prototypes for most of the region.

Hired, trained, and developed new staff members to achieve a sense of pride and ownership in their assigned areas, maximizing creativity through communication and strong operational skills.

1993 - 1998 R P McCoy LABELS FOR LESS

619 West 54 Street, New York, N Y 10019

Director of Visual Merchandising. Directly responsible for the visual presentation of 19 Manhattan stores, in conjunction with general administrative and sales directors.

Conceived, designed, created, and installed promotional and seasonal props for store windows and interior displays. Specialized in mannequin and bust-form dressing and rigging.

1989 -1993 The Irish Secret

155 Spring Street

New York, N Y 10011

Creative Director. For a SOHO high specialty retailer. Responsible for the development and implementation of the storewide concept. Window and floor display, merchandising, promotional and seasonal visual presentation, photo styling, and fashion illustration, for advertisement material.

Freelance Experience:

2015 MODEHAUS GANZBECK

Neuotting – Germany

Prepared Visual Merchandising prototype set-up, floor/ window display.

1992 -2005 Italian American Multimedia Corporation Spazio ITALIA art Gallery -Soho NYC

Italy Italy Magazine

138 Wooster Street, New York

Developed visual concepts, windows, and interiors, to accompany exhibits on Italian culture, art, and folklore presented at their Soho Art Gallery. Created installations and props, highlighting the exhibits. Assisted the company president in formulating concepts to present Italian Regional Folklore at the Morgan Library NYC, and Italy Italy Magazine in Rome, working closely with the publisher.

199*-****-**** ALITALIA Airlines

665 Fifth Avenue, New York

Planning and installation of Christmas windows.

1994 -1995 Instituto Italiano di Cultura

Department of Film and Theatre

686 Park Avenue New York 10021

Mounted exhibit Portraits Through The Times by Federico Fellini

Developed presentation for the opening of the Tutto Fellini Festival at the Film Forum NYC

Mounted Sicilia terra d’arte, an exhibit by fourteen Sicilian artists

1993 -1994 New York University

House of Italian Studies

24 West 12 Street, New York- N Y

Mounted “The Kings Table” an art exhibit by artist Tulio Pericolli.

Education :

Elementary and High School

1967-1977 Liceo Franciscano

Mataro - Spain

Pre-college general studies, literature, history, science, and arts

1978 -1980 Dupree Academy

Barcelona - Spain

BA Liberal Arts with a major in Fine Arts.

1981 -1985 Complutense University of Madrid

Madrid – Spain

Completed Shop Courses in Architectural Perspective, Fashion Illustration, Theatrical Costume, and Design and Airbrush illustration

1987 – 1989 Parsons’s School of Design

New York

Victor Ara

VISUAL MERCHANDISING

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