Goldsmithing Teacher and Instructor
Vocational Training Corporation
Total years of experience :23 years, 4 months
Key Responsibilities:
• Involved in the continuous development and delivery of appropriate training programs for students who take up Goldsmithing as their preferred course at the Vocational Training Corporation.
• Sharing insights about the crafts of Goldsmithing and Silversmithing, and the way they are applied to create beautiful, worthy and precious jewelry.
• Developing a theoretical as well as practical teaching approach, creating a balanced mix of both, and delivering structured, self-paced lessons to the class.
• Initiating programs and activities to build interest in the art of jewelry making amongst all students, while also teaching them through practical life experience during previous assignments.
• Rendering an open platform for students to share their thoughts, discuss ideas, innovate concepts and inspire each other to pursue further in Goldsmithing.
• Training students in traditional as well as advanced methodologies, updating them on latest industrial revolutions and equipping them with thorough knowledge.
• Developing an ability to stay focused on results, maintain accuracy and deliver precision, amongst students, to make them ready for dynamic working environments.
Key Responsibilities:
• Functioned as the Technical Goldsmith with major involvement in conceptualizing designs, deploying appropriate technologies to create them and finalizing final outcomes.
• Shaped various metals to hold gemstones as per the design requirements, while making individual pieces for custom orders placed by customers.
• Handled the end-to-end process for thorough identification, examination, and grading of diamonds and other gems, in line with industry best practices.
• Prepared required models and structures using either carved wax or computer aided designing tools, and sought approvals to send it for casting.
• Designing, structuring, modeling, and developing jewelry, artifacts, and other objects using gold, silver and precious gemstones.
• Handled various other activities such as jewelry repairing, replacement of broker clasps, alteration in ring sizes, resetting of precious stones, re-polishing etc.
• Cleaned and polished jewelry using polishing wheels and chemical baths to ensure that the luster and freshness of the piece remains intact.
Additional Assignment
Month Year - Month Year: Instructor, Istablish
Conducted the following training sessions:
• HP Life Training for Trainers and Small Business Development, (Micro-Enterprise Acceleration Institute, Geneva, Switzerland)
• Soft Skills, (International Youth Foundation)
Trainings: • 2014: HP Life Training for Trainers, (Micro-Enterprise Acceleration Institute, Geneva, Switzerland) • 2008: Life Skills Course as a Trainer, (International Youth Foundation) Certifications: • 2005: European Certification of Excellence, (European Union)