YASSER HAMED

MASTER DEGREE IN INTERIOR ARCHITECT

Yasser Hamed

Address: Doha – Qatar m +974******** e adbeeu@r.postjobfree.com Dear Sir/Madam

Thank you for your time to read the following cover letter and my attached resume. I have gained significant work experience through several different roles either as an employee in Qatar with a strong character, I am motivated and driven however maintaining a core belief in honesty, integrity and respect of colleagues/acquaintances regardless of position. I demonstrate strong leadership skills to deliver the best performance. I am very capable of developing working/personal relationships with people of differing nationalities in varied environments. I am confident as my experience and abilities precisely match your requirements. I possess a strong desire to build a career within your industry, and to be involved in running a successfully operation. My core strengths include, but are not limited to any job description, qualification, area of responsibilities in management.

For additional information about my capabilities please view my attached resume. Right now, I want to work for a reputable and exciting company like yours where there will be a big stage for my talents. Therefore, I would welcome the chance of an interview, where we would be able to discuss in greater detail the value and strength I can bring to your already successful company. Again, thank you, I look forward to your positive response. Sincerely,

Yasser Hamed

YASSER HAMED

MASTER DEGREE IN INTERIOR ARCHITECT

Yasser Hamed

Address: Doha – Qatar m +974******** e adbeeu@r.postjobfree.com PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Efficient and motivated manager with 18 years of furniture sales, marketing, and advanced operational experience. Effective at exceeding company goals, creative analytical skills, extensive scenario knowledge, customer service prioritization, consumer market and media awareness, perseverance, dedication, persistent work ethics, and common sense. SKILLS:

• Proactive and strategic thinker.

• Ability to "think like an owner" and respond to the challenges and opportunities inherent in running a furniture business.

• Maximizing goals, tasks, plans, and opportunities.

• Extensive sales, marketing, vendor, product, and logistical knowledge.

• Merchandising, display, and flow expert.

• Consumer and market awareness. Team and consumer confidence building.

• Strong analytical, scenario and risk management skills.

• All department staff development, training, customer service, and management WORK HISTORY:

Experience ranges from mid to high end furniture establishments as well as participating in sales, recognized for delivering unparalleled customer service while creating high margin sales. Areas of expertise include:

• Exceptional Customer Service

• Interior Design

• Furniture - Mid-High End

• Upholstery - Mid-High End

• Lighting & Accessories - Mid-High End

• New Product Introduction

• Team Player

• Leadership Skills

• Computer Skills

• Problem Solving

Yasser Hamed

Address: Doha – Qatar m +974******** e adbeeu@r.postjobfree.com

• Managed the work of up to 40 employees, office, warehouse, sales, design, and logistic teams. Built strategic alliances with warehouse, sales, and office teams that resulted in efficient operations. Reduced employee turnover by hiring talented, genuine, motivated, and goal-oriented team players.

• Developed highly motivated, trained staff on sales, customer service communications, material handling processes, equipment uses, techniques, and proactive work ethics to reduce damages, delays, overhead, and other unforeseen problems or costs

• Spear-headed numerous warehouses & inventory expansion projects designed to increase sales volume, both significantly and efficiently.

• Outsourced delivery companies ultimately providing quality and needed services to the company and its customers, while reducing company overhead and risk.

• Reset showrooms weekly to maintain a fresh, exciting, and effective visual appeal of the showroom display thus gaining an increase in sales volume and positive feedback from customers and staff.

• Monitored and kept accurate inventories preventing loss, maximizing cash flow and sales opportunities.

• Implemented proven pricing strategies to reach financial targets of number and eliminate undesirable product consuming valuable showroom and warehouse space.

• Tagged all merchandise (hands-on), with sharp, accurate and visually appealing price tags. Utilizing an easy to read consistent tagging protocol.

• Organized due diligence in preparation for weekly/monthly sales and operational goals with an emphasis on teamwork, operational efficiency, product knowledge.

• Ensured superior customer experience by addressing customer concerns, demonstrating empathy, and resolving problems on the spot.

• Cultivated trust between showroom and customers, reassuring of their purchases, and providing knowledgeable, and efficient smooth transactions start to finish. TRANING:

Conducting Effective Interviews.

Coaching & Mentoring

Business Writing

Leadership & Teambuilding

Conducting Effective Appraisals

Planning & Organizing

Finance for Non-Finance Managers

Change Management

Conducting Effective Meeting

Strategy & Structure

Effective Time Management

Stress Management

Presentation & Negotiation Skills

Finance Management

Project Management

Putting Leadership into Action

Developing Business Plans

Yasser Hamed

Address: Doha – Qatar m +974******** e adbeeu@r.postjobfree.com PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

PROJECTS & SALES NANAGER / MARMI ENGINEERING - QATAR FEBRUARY 18

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2015 – To current

Main Duties:

Turnkey interior solutions, specializing in office, hospitality, contract, commercial and high-end residential projects.

Strong project experience, leader in Fit out, decoration works and providing Furniture, Furnishings and Equipment (FF&E), Operating supplies and Equipment (OS&E). Fully manage any size of Fit out and FF&E projects to any design concept and budget, offices, shops, villas and hotels and residential complexes projects. Review of operator requirements and interior designer specifications to ensure all information required is available.

Provide pragmatic advise on materials and finishing to ensure design and production co- ordination

Development of bill of quantity; establishment of conceptual budget for large projects with a range of product type and analyse / segregate these by commodity type and analyses best manufacture for the project.

Arrange presentation for client and operator and prepares any samples of items needed. Propose to client a range of alternative options for consideration to ensure final satisfaction and match with budget.

Value Engineer specifications for cost savings.

Generates, handles and takes full responsibility of all P&Os Planning & Design:

Manage and design all aspects of a project, however simple or complex, spend time with client to understand the needs of business, target market and the desires of client brief and then through creative and innovative designs ensure your expectations are met. Turn-key design solution including a complete space planning and design service, colour and finishes schemes.

Loose Furniture:

Working directly with a variety of leading manufactures from Europe, USA, Middle East, and the Far East enables me to deliver an independent balanced solution on the basis of aesthetics, life term/reconfiguration and importantly cost. Define client scheme using my extensive knowledge of contemporary and classically designed products.

Having worked in the hotel furniture and fit out market for over fifteen years. Yasser Hamed

Address: Doha – Qatar m +974******** e adbeeu@r.postjobfree.com Bespoke & Fixed Furniture:

Specialize in designing the customized furniture solutions whatever the scale or complexity of any project.

Helping many, hotels, bars and restaurants, meet the challenge of creating that one-off bespoke piece through to the manufacturing of multiple items, the expertise, techniques and creativity required to help.

Committed to maintaining a high level of product quality and customer service, from design and manufacture through to installation.

Fit out & Refurbishment:

Expertise in building maintenance, specialist joinery/Carpentry, specialist in doors & fire rated doors, kitchen, Industrial kitchen equipment supply and others.

• Experience in successfully completing projects for offices, refurbishing hotel rooms, public areas, meeting and conference rooms, reception areas, disabled bedrooms, restaurants and bars, gymnasiums and spas etc.….

Working in a design and build capacity, complete responsibility and accountability for all works on site, hiring the best people and site labors for fit-out and refurbishment projects. Refurbishment and fit out contracts to a high standard, often within challenging timescales.

• Operate a full turn-key service controlling all trades such as building, joinery, flooring and décor through to providing case goods, sanitary ware, furnishings and fixed and loose furniture.

Production & Procurement:

Quality control to consistently inspect the production to ensure quality of goods on time. Handling every detail of the process including:

1. Monitoring submittals of shop drawings, approval of material and finishes, and review of prototypes with Interior Designer and Client. 2. Coordinating submittal of samples for FF&E, OS&E and approval by client prior to production.

3. Attending factory inspection to review prototypes, monitor progress of production, and completion of goods prior to shipping. Ensure that all items down to the smallest of technical details will fit with each other and at the final point of placement.

4. Managing logistics and seek out the best provider for land, sea, and air freight. 5. Ensuring all packaging and customs documentation is taken care of. Yasser Hamed

Address: Doha – Qatar m +974******** e adbeeu@r.postjobfree.com MANAGER (PROJECTS & SALES) – JAIDAH PROFESSIONAL - QATAR July 1

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2009 – December 21

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2015

Main Duties:

Identify and create sales opportunities within A&D (Architects & Designers), Contractor market segments (including market research, trade leads, participation at trade seminars, site visits, internal sales, account management).

Create a lasting impression, increase product sales & market share of represented brands through: 1. Professional presentation of product.

2. High level of customer pre & post sales service. 3. Costing & pricing of products / packages /services to compete with identified/known competitors.

Strategic sales generation within A&D (Architects & Designers), Contractor, Healthcare, Corporate, government and Education market segments through GCC region.

Management of all project specifications to meet proposed design, functionality and budget.

Project Management from initial enquiry through planning proposal, quotation & presentations / securing sale to managing / organizing final delivery and installation (liaising with multi-cultural teams, end client / representative both offices bound and onsite).

Operational management from placing PO on vendor through production scheduling / materials, scheduling of freight/logistics to final delivery, inspection & project sign-off across the GCC region.

Financial Accounting: Sales Orders/Invoices & Receipts, PO’s, Expenses/Overheads, General Ledger, Profit & Loss.

Key Achievements:

Successful project delivery to major corporate/local companies such as Qatar Petroleum, RasGas, Qatar Foundation, Qatar Gas, Qatar University and more!

Obtained a good understanding of the Middle East & GCC market (contractors, architects & designers, end consumers, cultural differences/ethical business dealings, logistical requirements, sales/negotiation/delivery & dispute resolution, accountancy).

Completed several projects (Healthcare, Hospitality, Office and Commercial).

Providing an improved offering/experience to the contractor/end consumer respectively. Yasser Hamed

Address: Doha – Qatar m +974******** e adbeeu@r.postjobfree.com MANAGER (SHOWROOM – PROJECTS & SALES) – JAIDAH FURNITURE SHOWROOM- QATAR

July 1

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2000 - July 1

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2009

Main Duties:

Creation of company vision, mission statement & goals.

Conducting SWOT analysis.

Formulate industry analysis (market research).

Continual Strategic Planning (as an individual/team environment).

Creating & developing marketing & sales plans for select target markets (identifying new revenue streams, business opportunities, and sales channels).

Building relationships, account management, dispute resolution, identification & development of distribution channels in retail business.

Creation, communication and implementation of strategies (business plan, sales & marketing).

Managing day-to-day financial records (cash flow management, budgeting, sales forecasting, accountability for profitability).

INTERRIOR ARCHITECT / SALES – JAIDAH FURNITURE SHOWROOM - QATAR July 15

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1997 - July 1

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2000

Main Duties:

3-year period I dedicated my time within the organization, to create & develop a business that is was actively selling niche market, luxury exotic furniture & soft furnishing products from Europe and America & Middle East, Asia, Far East. Plan, design, and furnish interiors of residential, office, commercial. Formulate design which is practical, aesthetic, and conducive to intended purposes, such as raising productivity, selling merchandise, improving life style. Responsible for day-to-day commercial operations in the Showroom activities. Also, in charge of ensuring legal compliance in all activities, and for increasing turnover and profitability. Coordinate with other professionals, such as contractors, architects, engineers, to ensure job success. Confer with client to determine factors affecting planning interior environments, such as budget, architectural preferences, and purpose and function. Estimate material requirements and costs, and present design to client for approval.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Getting Information: Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.

Thinking Creatively: Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions. 1. Use creativity to art or design work

2. Create art from ideas

3. Decorate using hand or power tools

4. Use creativity in designing interior spaces

5. Design office layout sketch or draw subjects or items 6. Sketch or draw subjects or items

Communicating with Persons outside Organization: Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources.

1. make presentations

2. Confer with client or staff regarding theme

Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships: Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time. Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work: Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.

Making Decisions and Solving Problems: Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.

Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates: Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.

Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others: Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.

Selling or Influencing Others: Convincing others to buy merchandise/goods or to otherwise change their minds or actions.

Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events: Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.

Interacting with Computers: Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information. Use computer aided drafting or design software for design, drafting, modelling, or other engineering tasks

Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment: Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used. Draw prototypes, plans, or maps to scale. Yasser Hamed

Address: Doha – Qatar m +974******** e adbeeu@r.postjobfree.com

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