Dawn Ratcliffe

• Designed and [project managed many individual interior design schemes for both domestic and commercial interiors
• Direct customer liaison from the start to completion of projects
• Working to agreed budgets
• Managing the various teams to create the designs often using varied trades and individuals
• Managing my own freelance business

Design Manager

Team leader for other staff

Works coordination & procurement

Direct client liaison

Organization of works and financial elements

• Designed bespoke spaces for customers
• Collaborated with team members for procurement of products
• Worked with brand materials for solutions
• Direct sales face to face with customers in semi retail position

Worked as the lead designer and project manager for numerous design and build projects for a customer with many barn and farm buildings to develop in different locations

Working with client to provide solutions to both aesthetic and practical elements of the design

Implementing and sourcing solutions to service new conversions

working with many trades to complete the build works

product sourcing and procurement of the works

• Worked as a design and technology teacher in secondary schools
• involved in all aspect of direct teaching and the administration of teaching in a classroom
• Developed engaging lesson plans by applying knowledge of educational theories and methods.
• Fostered a positive learning environment for student engagement through effective classroom management.

• Supplied high end accommodation to paying guests.
• Capacity of accommodation 12-16 guests
• Provided dinner bed & breakfast using predominantly farm produce from the small holding
• Directly working face to face with guests problem solving and some entertaining dues to serving dinners.
• Dealt with bookings by phone, e-mail or face-to-face
• Running farm to provide home grown meat produce dairy and poultry supplies- day to day farm running with partner