Senior Assistant Manager

Personal information

Address: Dutrystraat, ** zw; 2024 DV Haarlem, (NL)

Mobile: +31-061*******

E-mail / Website: *********.******@*****.*** / www.fotovik.com Born in / Date of birth: Leiden (The Netherlans) / 16.06.1985 Nationality: Dutch and Italian

relevant working exPerience

10/2015 - NOW

Assistant Product Planning at the R&D Department, Permanent contract, Kawasaki Motors Europe N.V., Jacobus Spijkerdreef 1-3, 2132 PZ Hoofddorp. Supporting the Manager of Product Planning in miscellaneous area being responsible for systematic collection and organization of European Market information and data.

• Assisting in:

– preparing market researches activities and concept/styling clinics;

– invoicing the expenses;

– collecting and organizing all information and data;

– purchasing and sending competitive models and parts for references of development and invoicing;

– keeping confidentiality of any information about under-development products outside of R&D dept.;

– keeping all information, data files and magazines structural in R&D share drive and cabinet.

• Arranging any practical part of research activities under regular supervision.

07/2015 - 08/2015

Receptionist / Administrator, Temporary contract Patagonia, Jollemanhof 11, 1019GW Amsterdam.

• Working to ease the team daily activities as holiday replacement of the permanent receptionist.

06/2015 - 07/2015

IT Project Consultant, Temporary contract PVH Europe B.V. (Tommy Hilfiger), Stadhuiskade 6, 1054ES Amsterdam. IT Department.

• Assisting in the project development of the internal software.

• Working in a team to test the new corporate website for final EU-wide roll out.

• Writing extensive scenarios based on the user input, the administrator approval and the shipper feedbacks. Checking and modifying the scenarios with use of SAP and Excel for optimal tests.

• Mimicking user, administrator and supplier usage to optimize functionality and enhance for ultimate user friendliness.

08/2007 - 06/2015

Customer Service Responsible and Marketing Specialist, Baraka ldt, Via F. D’Antiochia, 14; 50126 Florence, Italy - Online sales and production of customizable editorial products for companies and private, also publisher of paper and digital books. www.barakanet.it, www.barakanet.com, www.lorenzoandhisparents.com

02/2007 - 08/2012

Personal Assistent of the editorial Director and second secretary of the CEOs and Team Secretary Giunti Scuola inc., Florence, Italy; www.giuntiscuola.it - Production and commercialization of editorial materials for the school. In the different roles, I had different duties, carried out with an increasing level of responsibility and autonomy.

09/2003 - 04/2007

Call center Manager / Business and secretarial consultant, Giunti Progetti Educativi inc., Florence, Italy; www.giuntiprogettieducativi.it – I worked with various tasks both of secretariat and promotion of the editorial products (at a national level). Besides, within the project “Che gusto c’è” (“What’s the taste”) I archived all incoming material, managed the call center and sort out the best production, as a juror of the Project.

Curriculum vitae of Valentina Irene Klasen updated to September 2020 education

From 2007-Now I made several courses of different subjects and I also won a Scholarship sponsored by the European funds for Education. At the moment I’m following a language course to complete level B1 of Dutch.

June 2003: Guido Castelnuovo, Liceo scientifico sperimentale in fisica e informatica, Florence, Italy. Scientific High School Diploma / Science, Computer Science & Physics. language comPetence

Italian - Mother language

English - B2 with international validation

Spanish - B2 with international validation

Dutch - B1 almost complete

comPuter skills

• Excellent ability of administrating email, (Outlook, Microsoft Entourage, Zimbra, Lotus Notes) social networks like Facebook, Twitter.

• Excellent knowledge and use of PC and Mac, with their main programs: Windows XP, Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SAP, File Maker, Filezilla Cilent, Filezilla Server, Google Analytics, SEO, Lightroom, Picasa.

• Excellent knowledge and use of Indesign to produce short documents, book projects and their application to produce ebook.

• Very good knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator and Wacom Tablet.

• Good knowledge of CMS of Wordpress with excellent ability of administrating the contents.

• Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, Quark Xpress.

social skills and comPetences

Perfect ability:

• to work in an independent way, and to coordinate a group;

• to work in a team, dealing both with the managership and with the different sectors of the production, of the marketing and of the sales;

• to adapt myself and to have an interpersonal communication, with marked psychological abilities being able to anticipate the needs;

• to solve problems in a dynamic and creative way;

• to learn new things and to keep the concentration high even working under stress;

• to maintain confidentiality with tact and attention to details;

• to organize a work program and to respect it, making also other respect all the deadlines. artistic skills

• Recognised photographic abilities in different fields (publishing, advertising, events, naturalistic, artistic); see more on www.fotovik.com

• Excellent skills of direction, creative composition and graphic design. other skills and comPetences

Excellent abilities of:

• economical management of activities, with a strong interest in the research for optimal income solution;

• administration and accountancy, also applied to tax issues;

• planning and organizing journeys.

further informations

Driving license: car and motorcycle

Voluntary activities

• 2002/2003 I followed some children in the departments of oncology and dialysis of the Meyer Pediatric Hospital of Florence.

• 2010/ 2011 For Scioglilibro Non Profit Organization, Florence, Italy www.scioglilibrio.it Production of educational activities and animation projects to be carried out in schools or libraries, in partnership with private sponsors. In a completely independent way, I reorganized the administrative records of this non-profit organisation for the period 2007 - 2009 and I prepared the management accounting for the year 2010. Besides, I also trained the person that replaced me in 2011. Sports

• Volleyball (8 years, as setter and line striker at a competitive level in the Tuscany regional team)

• Swimming (2 years) • Horse riding (3 years) • Gym. Personal characteristics

Great adaptability to the most different situations with strong sense of orientation, extremely social, frank and idealistic, dynamic and determined, enterprising, energetic, optimistic, creative, curious, loyal, cooperative and fair, expert and reliable.

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