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Diocely Galvan

Diocely Galvan

Miami, FL, US

 

About 

DIOCELY GALVAN

diocely.galvan@gmail.com ✭ (305) 746 8638

LUXURY SALES ARCHITECT
Dynamic and creative with significant experience managing work teams and responding to clients’ requests combining project design, planning, logistics and customer service with a pleasing personality. Fluent in Spanish, English & Italian.

SKILLS
Negotiation ▪︎ Team Management ▪︎ Sales ▪︎ Architecture ▪︎ Urban Planning ▪︎ Interior Design ▪︎ Relationship Building ▪︎ Customer Service ▪︎ Closing Skills ▪︎ Presentation Skills ▪︎ Motivator ▪︎ Self-Development ▪︎ Inventory Management ▪︎ Verbal Communication ▪︎ Polyglot

OTHER STUDIES
Theory and Tools of the Harvard Negotiation Project — Punta Arenas, Costa Rica
Design, Modeling and Architectural Image Course with Maxon Cinema 4D software Altos de Chavon School of Design affiliated with Parsons School of Design — Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

LANGUAGES
Spanish - Mother Tounge
English - Saint George School
Italian: Societá Dante Alighieri — Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
French: Alliance Française — Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

LITERATURE & PHOTOGRAPHY
Choate Rosemary Hall – Wallingford, CT, USA

TECHNICAL SKILLS
CRM (SalesForce) / Graphic design Adobe Creative Suite Photoshop, InDesign & Illustrator / CAD Modeling /VectorWorks / Sketchup 3D / 4D Cinema / MS Office Programs / Mac Os X / Model building / DigitalPresentations / Text Editing / Graphic Design / Book Layout / Photography

RESEARCH PROGRAMS AND PUBLICATIONS
A + D Architecture (2011)
Publication of photographs for the “Salone del Mobile” exhibition in Italy.

Thesis Research (2009)
Filament City [City Strand] Proposal urban social and commercial revitalization for the new headquarters of the university in Esch-Sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.

Thesis Research (2007)
Peripheral Urban settlement. Research on the satellite town of the Alcarrizos in Santo Domingo. Proposal urban upgrading, public transport movement and insertion of commercial areas in the area.

 

CONFERENCES, SEMINARS & TRADE SHOWS
2015 ICFF International Contemporary Furniture Fair – New York City, USA
2011 XIV SAL – Latin American Architecture Seminar – Campinas, Brazil
2008 XXIII UIA – World Congress of Architecture – Turin, Italy
2006 ICOMOS XXVII – Seminar on Monuments Restoration & Conservation – Santo Domingo, DR
2005 XXII UIA – World Congress of Architecture Istanbul, Turkey

Employment 

BOOM WHITE BOX, Santo Domingo, DO, Project Manager & Architect

▪︎ Organize project presentations, mood boards, quote estimates in order to meet clients’ needs and requests.
▪︎ Produce a set of detailed technical plans, using computer aided design software, including precise dimensions and materials.
▪︎ Work closely with project teams: contractors, engineers, and planning departments.
▪︎ Inspect regularly the construction work to check progress.
▪︎ Propose interior design solutions and refurbishing ideas to clients.
▪︎ Corporate image development: logo design, templates design, social media management.

Aug 2010 - current
 

INTEGRAL, Santo Domingo, DO, Personal Assistant

▪︎ Worked closely with managerial staff to provide administrative support on a one-to-one basis: scheduling appointments, screening phone calls, inquiries and requests, and handling them when appropriate.
▪︎ Devising and maintaining office systems, including account payables and receivables, data management and filing.
▪︎ Inventory management.

Jan 2015 - Sep 2015
 

BTICINO, Santo Domingo, DO, Luxury sales

▪︎ Surpass sales goals by 140% focusing efforts studying existing and potential volume of clients.
▪︎ Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
▪︎ Travel nation-wide in search of new hospitality, commercial and residential projects in the luxury market.
▪︎ Visit on site projects: specify and suggest products to clients, inventory the existing outlets and propose product line.
▪︎ Assess architects, engineers, project managers on the selection of home automation systems and wiring devices for residential and commercial use of the luxury product brands My Home and Axolute.
▪︎ Service existing accounts, obtain orders, and establish new accounts by planning and organizing daily work schedule to call on existing or potential sales outlets and other trade factors.
▪︎ Coordinate with logistics staff and stock manager to provide clients with solicited merchandize in a cost effective and reduced time frame.
▪︎ Prepare purchase orders to clients and distributors by referring to price lists and product literature.
▪︎ Implement the use of CRM Salesforce: submitting activity and results reports, such as daily call reports, weekly work plans, and monthly and annual sales and territory analyses.
▪︎ Resolve customer complaints by investigating problems; developing solutions; preparing reports; making
recommendations to management.
▪︎ Enhance customer service experience by selling products, meeting customer needs, and follow-ups.
▪︎ Monitor competition by gathering current marketplace information on pricing, products, new products, delivery schedules, and merchandising techniques.
▪︎ Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing
professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
▪︎ Instruct new personnel on luxury sales from different countries in Latin America (Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala & Dominican Republic: on-site training visiting clients nation-wide, presenting new products to distributors’ staff.
▪︎ Business plan programming with distributors: present product demos in showrooms to purposely establish a daily client flow, prepare presentations for clients.
▪︎ Carrying out background research and presenting findings on competition brands; producing documents, briefing papers, reports and presentations.
▪︎ Marketing: establishing commercial agreements with local magazines of architecture, design and home decor to publish product content; in collaboration with the marketing department in Costa Rica.
▪︎ Organize product certification courses, after detecting market niche and in order to open new local distributors.
▪︎ Public relations activities with clients: brand launch events, organize lunch meetings between clients and suppliers, promote the luxury brands.
▪︎ Present product in collaboration with faculty members on educational centers (Casa Chavon) of short-term courses such as: light design, architectural design and interior design.

Nov 2012 - Apr 2015
 

3ti progetti, Milan, IT, Architect & Urban Planner

▪︎ Develop projects contests in Europe and internationally.
▪︎ Conceptual project development.
▪︎ Architectural design
▪︎ Graphic design in 2D, 3D modeling and model building.
▪︎ Editing content and layout design of display panels.
▪︎ Prepare budget analysis and cost estimate.
▪︎ Write descriptive texts and reports for project proposals
▪︎ Presented 9 project proposals including: New headquarters for the offices of the municipality of Paratico, Italy; Arts center of the city of Tullamore, Ireland, new headquarters of the private textile company GREDA in Modena, Italy; Urban re-qualification of the sports center of the city of Cannobio, Italy. Among others.
▪︎ AutoCad draftsperson.
▪︎ Adobe InDesign, Illustrator & Photoshop editor and designer.
▪︎ Sketch-up3D modelling with V-Ray plug-ins image rendering.

Jan 2010 - Jun 2011
 

Gritti Architetti, Bergamo, IT, Intern Urban Planner

▪︎ Internship training which reinforced the urban and architectural studies.
▪︎ Worked on-going projects including the integration of University Studi della Calabria in the urban fabric and redefinition of the urban structure of the city of Cosenza, Italy.
▪︎ AutoCad draftsperson
▪︎ Presentation enhancement in Microsoft Office programs and digital office system softwares.

Jan 2010 - May 2010
 

SELMAN & ASOCIADOS, Santo Domingo, DO, Architect & CAD drawings

▪︎ AutoCad draftsperson working on architectural designs & projects in the private tourism sector.
▪︎ Collaborated in the on-going project of Costablanca Golf & Resort Clubhouse; Juan Dolio, Dominican
Republic
▪︎ Architectural design.
▪︎ Assist client meetings, revise and correct client requirements.
▪︎ Attend upon Senior Architect’s design approval

Jan 2008 - Aug 2008
 

Education 

Domus Academy, Milan, Italy, Milan, IT, MArch, Urban Management and Architectural Design

Nov 2008 - Dec 2009
 

Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE), Santo Domingo, DO, BArch, School of Architecture

Sep 2003 - Sep 2007
 

Saint George School, Santo Domingo, DO, BArch, International Baccalaureate

Sep 1990 - Aug 2003
 

Areas of Specialization 

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