CV
My name is Christopher Amoretti, I am 27 years old and live in Johannesburg.
I started off my design career in 2001 studying Architecture at WITS, moving on to UJ in 2003 to study 3D design.
After I left University in 2005 I traveled the world snowboarding and worked on developing the snowboarding scene back in South Africa.
For the last two years I have been with Amoretti Designs designing products and managing projects.
CURRICULUM VITAE
CHRISTOPHER PAUL AMORETTI
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Date of Birth: 1982/08/08
Place: Johannesburg
Marital Status: Single
Citizenship: South African/Italian
Sex: Male
Contact number: 083 629 23 20
Email address: christopheramo@gmail.com
Address: 83 East Ave Athol 2196
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
May 2008 – Present
Amoretti designs
Johannesburg
Furniture and kitchenware
- Project Manager
- Designer
- Brand developer
- Draftsman
- Sales
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Design
- Conception
- Branding
- Quoting
- Sales
Project management of Popla Kitchen Boards for large retailers (Shoprite Checkers) and private clients:
Doors and windows
- Design of promotional material (catalogues and flyers)
- Design
- Drafting
Feb 2008 – May 2008
Descent International: Chauffer
Meribel and Val D’isere – France
Chalet Braams
Chalet Montana (voted best Chalet in the Alps)
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Coordinated guest transport services.
- Daily supply runs.
- Basic maintenance of vehicles.
- Basic maintenance of chalet
Nov 2007 – Feb 2007
Iglu.com: Ski holiday specialist
Wimbledon, London
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Sourcing; Flights, transfers and accommodation at various ski resorts in Scandinavia, Europe and America for the British market.
- Austrian and American ski resort expert.
May 2006 – October 2007
Amoretti Designs: Designer and Draftsman, Website manager
Johannesburg
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Designed and rendered doors and windows for high profile clients.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Maintained company website http://www.amoretti.co.za.
- Uploaded photographs and information of latest products
- Updated general website design and construction
December 2005 – April 2006
Hotel Jerome: Guest Services: Driver, Bellman, Doorman, and Ski Concierge
Aspen, Colorado, USA
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Dealt with high profile guests on a day to day basis.
- Handled complaints and requests
- Co-ordinated guest transport services
- Was responsible for the care of guest’s vehicles
- Organised and managed guest’s ski equipment
April – December 2005 (part-time)
Remax Property: Sales assistant
Johannesburg
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Showed prospective buyers various flats and houses.
- Handled queries.
- Reported to Senior Estate Agents.
- Did general administration needed for the agency.
2003- 2005 (part-time)
Functions Par Excellence: Barman and Waiter
Johannesburg
Duties and Responsibilities:
- I worked in different corporate, government and private events. I dealt with clients and was often solely responsible for the running of the hospitality services at certain events.
November 2003 – April 2004
Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory: Sales clerk and Confectionary Chef
Aspen, Colorado, USA
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Worked front of house, welcoming customers and handling sales.
- Worked in the kitchen, preparing the various products.
Café Suzanne: Food Server and Line Chef
Slope restaurant
Aspen, Colorado, USA
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Cooked, prepared and served food.
SNOWSPORTS IN SOUTH AFRICA
2006-2009
I created South Africa’s first ever snowboarding website. It feeds a new and rapidly growing local snow sports market. It has now been transferred to Snow Sports South Africa and converted to the Snowboarder Club of Southern Africa.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Feature and news writing
- Photography
- Video
- Graphic design
- Layouts
- Web management
- Admin of new club members
The website features:
- coverage of local snowboarding tours
- competitions and events
- Photography and video
- Profiles of local snowboarders
- Links to local resorts, and sport publications
Snow Sports South Africa (FIS): Snowboarding executive
2007
Aces Up Snowboard tour
2007
- I was instrumental in conceiving, launching and running the first ever snowboard tour in South Africa. The 2008 tour consisted of eight events held at SnowScape and Monte Casino in Johannesburg, South Africa; Afriski in Lesotho and Tiffindell in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
- I was responsible for branding the events, advertising for the events, coordinating the events.
- I designed the layout of the freestyle snowboarding parks.
Club Maluti ski and snowboard club: Committee member.
2007-2008
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lesotho club house maintenance
Team South Africa: Snowboarding
2006-2007
The first ever team South Africa International snowboard tour, Austria and Italy
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Competitor
- International Tour coordinator
- Sponsorship
- PR Officer
WITS University Student Ski and Snowboard Club: Chairman
2005-2006
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Stock management,
- Bar management,
- Event management,
- Club maintenance,
- Administration and club finances,
- Trip coordination.
SKILLS
- Basic wood work
Computer Skills:
- Corel Draw
- Corel Photo paint
- Corel R.A.V.E
- Adobe Photoshop
- Auto CAD
- Solid Edge
- Rhinoceros
- Adobe Premiere
- MS PowerPoint
- MS Word
- Plone web systems
EDUCATION
Tertiary
2003-2005
University of Johannesburg
Johannesburg, South Africa
Three Dimensional Design
2001-2002
Witwatersrand University
Johannesburg, South Africa
Architecture
Secondary
1996-2000
St John’s College
Johannesburg
Matriculated with a merit exemption
Achievements
Art half colours
Primary
1990 -1995
Fairways primary
Johannesburg
INTERESTS AND HOBBIES
- Snowboarding, Mountain biking, Skiing, Wake skating, Swimming
- Photography, Graphic design, Animation, Arts, Architecture, Product design, Carpentry.
REFERENCES
Amoretti Designs
Matthew Amoretti
011 885 1330
Snowsports South Africa
Peter Peyper
084 2208 508
Hotel Jerome
Steve Shotsburger
(090911) 970 920 1000
Functions par Excellence
Francis Sherwell
083 2502 525
Design Portfolio 