Employment History

Finland

December 2018 - November 2023

Entrepreneur/ Business Owner: Echo Dek

Store, Turku, Finland. Owner / Founder of Echo

Dek, a concept store, Turku. This includes all

aspects of opening and running a small

independent store, from Store build, stock

selection and purchasing, branding, marketing,

website creation, budgeting and administration.

January & February 2020

Crew Member [Freelance] Booth Group Oy,

Vakiotie 4, 21420 Lieto. Working as part of a team

producing exhibition stands across Finland. Duties

included, installing LED screens, building Aluvision

exhibition stands, vinyl graphics application. AV

set up. - * This work would have continued if it

wasn’t for the Covid pandemic; the events

industry, like many others, was hit very badly and

Booth Group never re-opened.

UK

July 2011 - Ongoing Self Employed /

Freelancer

Events Manager Working closely with producers,

technical teams and venues delivering corporate

events. Duties included: Client & venue meetings,

steward hiring and training, event logistics, safely

managing large groups of the public. One ongoing

project was music curation for London’s King

Cross weekly canopy market; this involved

sourcing, booking, and contracting bands and

artists. Events managed: Greenwich and

Docklands Festival, Green Man Festival, Stella

McCartney Sports Collection Launch, BBC

Question Time, Fiat 500 UK Launch, and Vauxhall

One Film Screenings, London.

Events / Theatre Crew Member Working with a

number of producers and venues across the UK

delivering theatre and world-class events. Duties

included: working as part of a team constructing

event & theatre sets, building escape rooms &

exhibition stands also rigging lighting and sound

equipment. Some events worked on: 2014

Paralympic Torch Relay, Camden Brewery

Container build, Coke Cola Zero Park Lives

Events.

Print Designer Working as a designer for printed

material such as exhibition brochures, leaflets,

theatre performance promotional material,

posters, business cards, stationary, and flyers.

Commissions have included work for: The Old Vic,

Lizzi Kew Ross & Co., Unfinished Histories, Trinity Laban.

Southwark Playhouse.

July 2011 – July 2013 Customer Services

Manager Southwark Playhouse, London.

Responsible for the daily delivery of all front-of-house

services in a busy two-theatre space

receiving house. Including overseeing reception/

box office, bar, and stewards. Duties included: line

managing duty managers and FoH staff, co-

ordinating a team of 50+ volunteers, bar budget

management, stock selection, and control,

timesheet management and box office sales.

January 2003 – May 2011 Front of House & Bar

Manager Trinity Laban, London. Responsible for

setting up bar and front-of-house systems, writing

box office, bar and usher job descriptions, hiring

and training of all front of house staff and liaising

with incoming companies/artists and hires. Also

running high-profile VIP events and evening

performances. I was the venue’s licensee for the

retail of alcohol and covered all health and safety

elements of front-of-house management, including

risk assessments, fire drills, and evacuation

training.

December 1999 – January 2003 Front of House

Assistant [on to] Front of House Manager The

Drill Hall Theatre, London. Responsible for the

hiring and training of the bar and ushering staff,

stock ordering and the day-to-day running of a

busy arts venue.

June 1993 – December 1999 Sales Assistant [on

to] senior Sales Assistant London Graphic

Centre, London - Duties included customer

service, telephone, and mail order inquiries,

handling cash, ordering art and graphic supplies,

key holding as well as duty managing.