Sandy Hapoienu 914-***-**** cell EMAIL- adkgfr@r.postjobfree.com

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Personal Shopper, Style and Set Director, Event Coordinator, Fashion Show Host and Speaker, Photo and Wardrobe Stylist, Fashion and Home Editor, Buyer, Adjunct Professor of Visual Merchandising

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Traits and Strengths:

Outgoing, courteous, helpful, and professional demeanor: innovative “can do" problem solving skills.

Proven success developing trust and maintaining positive relationships with a luxury clientele.

Sales and Marketing:

Meet and confer with clients, negotiations, post event follow up to ensure customer satisfaction and close accounts.

Planning and hands-on supervision of project budgets, all financial reports, ensure timely billing and collections.

Assist customers with selections, motivating purchases of promotional and "add on" items to boost sales.

Maintain good relationships for ongoing customer retention.

Communication and People Skills:

Attentive and responsive listening skills, articulate with good vocabulary and grammar.

Good verbal, phone, written and non-verbal communication skills.

Designed instruction to understand performance objectives, goal analysis and formative evaluation.

Visual Merchandising and Styling:

Merchandising, design and set up attractive displays of goods to promote increased interest and sales.

Photo stylist creatively devising several approaches to achieve company vision.

An eye for detail, with good organizational skills to gather props for shoot/styling and methodic placement.

Proven track record with students at the college level, an ability to bring out the best in them.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Style Director/Owner www.sandyhapoienu.com

Styling Session One stop styling resource, from professional presence, to editorial shoots and personal shopping for high profile customers. Personal communication, with customers at every phase, ensuring their happiness through professionalism and meticulous attention to detail. Corporate accounts- Bloomingdales, Westchester Magazine, Wag Magazine, Marc Cain, Neiman Marcus, Simon Malls, Macerich Malls, various advertising agencies, photographers, brands, TV Show and designers

Personal Shopping - Executive/Manager

Bloomingdales February 2012-December 2014

Sales in Fashion, Beauty and Home Goods for high profile clients with the latest fashion trends by appointment. Exemplary customer service to drive customer satisfaction and loyalty by assisting the customer and monitoring their satisfaction before, during and after their shopping experience. Day today leadership and coaching to maximize sales associate potential. Prioritize, plan and adjust schedules and daily agendas to meet business goals.

Fellow Adjunct PROFESSOR and Curriculum Author SUNY Westchester Community College January 2009-2016

Marist College Fall Semester 2015

Adjunct Professor: Visual Merchandising

Taught students how to be successful visual merchandisers by understanding aesthetics and how to turn a customer into a consumer. The course prepared students to use diverse layout options, lighting and various display methods to attract the eye and purchases of the consumer.

The visual displays created by my visual merchandising classes was quoted by the college as “the best they ever seen, an astounding example of how Professor Hapoienu can motivate, excite, and share her love of style with the students.”

Spearheaded numerous projects with such leading retailers like Bloomingdales, that bought a whole source of imagination and energy to the campus leading to an award for “Innovation in Teaching”

Curriculum Development: Developed two fashion curriculums for a new Fashion Degree program at Westchester Community College approved and adopted by SUNY/State Universities of New York.

Awards- Julius B. Ford Fellowship recipient, Westchester Community College - Innovation in Teaching Award

Personal Shopper -Fifth Avenue Club

SAKS Fifth Avenue

Business development with Private VIP clients of Saks.

Implements the brand's service strategy and applicable brand initiatives in all aspects of the sales process and focuses on building long-term, value-based customer relationships that enable achievement of the sales goal.

MARKET EDITOR/PHOTO STYLIST:

Freelance

Research trends via market visits, trade shows, fashion shows, trade publications and organizations; creating concepts and selecting merchandise for editorials and implementing those ideas. Positions include fashion and prop styling, all aspects of photo shoots including scouting locations, hiring models, photographers and hair/makeup artists, as well as relationship-building with PR firms, retail merchants in the fashion and home design industries, and vendors.

Education -Lehman College: Bachelor of Arts, Merchandising/Consumer Studies

AWARDS:

Forbes Coaches Business Council

The Conquer Club- Creative Conqueror of the Year 2016

Ford Fellowship -In recognition of Outstanding Commitment To Higher Education 2011

Innovation in Teaching 2010

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