Maria Joni Casia, Designer

Maria Joni Casia

Designer

Costra Group

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Architecture
Experience
17 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 9 Months

Designer at Costra Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since May 2011

• Doing shop/production drawings, mock ups and detailing in 2D and isometric detailed sections through Autocad
• Designs, plans, and administers building projects by using V-ray, 3D max, Sketchup, Photoshop, Movie Making software for presentation, AutoCAD, Architectural Desktop/ Autodesk building system and manual skills like sketching If necessary for the project handled
• Handles and manages production and site supervision up to installation
• Negotiate with business entrepreneurs for project dealings with Paris Gallery (Kanebo, La Prairie, Guerlain, Botega Vanetta etc.), Procter & Gamble (D&G, Faces, Gucci-sun glasses, perfumes-watches, Boss the Collection, Hugo Boss, Lacoste, Escada etc.), PUIG (Nina Ricci, Paco Rabanne, Caroline Herrera, Prada), Safilo, EsteeLauder and Al Futtaim projects (Beats, Monster, Marks & Spencer, all Plug-ins shops within GCC) and other prestige clients Boost, Virgin, Bose, Palmolive, SKII, Costa Coffee, Ferrero, Kinder, Entertainer, Max Factor and Axiom.
• Doing port folio presentation through movie making and adobe software and preparing mood boards for material specification.

Owner at Owned Business
  • Philippines
  • February 2009 to March 2011

Interior Designer
• Coordinating with clients and prepares scaled and detailed drawings for designs.
• Presents and lay outs project through sketching to computer aided software like Autocad, 3D max, v-ray, sketchup and CS 1-4 or Adobe Photoshop

Graphic Artist
• Coordinate with client in different business fields like food industry, fashion, and tourism
Thus, prepares designs for brochures, billboards, signage and other advertisement.
• Designs logos for different clients in business industry.

Designer in other related fields
• Designs event settings like wedding, birthdays and designs, invitation cards, banners, tokens, etc.
• Designs fashion wear through hand sketching and photoshop.
• Works as make-up artists for photo shoots and does modeling for photo shoots.
• Henna artist and fashion consultant

Junior Architect at ITD Design LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • July 2007 to January 2009

• Prepares scaled and detailed architectural drawings for preliminary designs to municipality requirements
• Prepares operating and maintenance manuals, studies, mood boards and reports
• Handled computer-assisted design software and equipment to prepare project designs and plans including brochure layouts for project presentation
• Presents and lay outs project through sketching to computer aided software like Autocad, 3D max, v-ray, sketchup and CS 1-4 or Adobe Photoshop
• Projects handled, Shiekh Hamdan Awards Complex (Interiors), Dubai Sports City Towers (Interiors-Cricket & Golf Tower), Jumeirah Beach Residences (Villas), Arabian Ranches (Villas)

interior designer cum visual merchandiser at Kamal Osman Jamjoom Establishment
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • July 2006 to June 2007

• Handled site surveys in different Emirates sites and applied photography exclusively
for: Nayomi, Early Learning Center, Mikyajy and Body Shop (Company-owned Retail Shops)
• Prepares interior design concepts in sketches up to production/ technical drawings and product arrangements on the designed units allocated for each designed interior.
• Prepares visual for in-store permanent and promotional merchandising projects
• Facilitate Store Unit dressing i.e. wall units, gondolas and product shelf testers
• Fittings / stand allocations
• Prepares M.E.P. (Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing)
• Coordination with allied profession
• Data and files management including administration tasks

Education

Bachelor's degree, Architecture
  • at Far Eastern University
  • April 2006

Bachelors Degree in Architecture Major in Interior Design Top 2 finalist for best in Thesis: First Semester. Artist of the year-yr 1999-2000

Bachelor's degree, Architecture
  • at Far Eastern University

Bachelor of Science in Architecture, major in Interior Design Far Eastern University, Manila, Philippines

Specialties & Skills

SketchUp
3D Studio Max
AutoCAD
autocad
photoshop
sketchup
photography
movie editor
sketching

Languages

English
Expert
Filipino
Expert
Arabic
Beginner
French
Beginner

Hobbies

  • sketching, painting, photography, fashion designing, disc jockey, playing piano