Katariina Fast

KUDE Design Oy was founded in January 2013. It is a Finnish clothing company making clothes that will become corner stone of your wardrobe. Good quality basic clothes that last. My duties are to: - Organize marketing projects for new business and products - Find new marketing and distribution channels - Help the owner to harmonize the Kude marketing material - Monitor competitor My employment was temporary.

Assistant tasks in the Accessories project. Administrative tasks as well. Before I started working there full time (March 2013), I had worked there part time on sewing prototypes from November 2012. My employment was temporary.

As Office Manager my tasks included making offers for water bus cruises, receiving and confirming orders, organizing charter cruises, billing and managing accounts receivables, salary payment, seamen’s register announcements, fair representation, customer service, public relations with domestic and foreign tour operators as well as other office routines, except bookkeeping. After one year there I changed the office routines from paper based operations to electronic ones. The change was my idea.

Contact center sales working in various B-to-B sales projects for various clients.

I worked in a clothing store Vero Moda which is owned by Pukumies Oy As a salesperson my responsibilities included customer service and store common store functions. For part of the working time I was responsible for the availability of jeans in the shop. Sometimes I assisted our department manager in weekly reporting.

Major in Marketing, minor in Media Communications and International Design Business Management Program (IDBM). During IDBM I was a member of a small group which did a cross-disciplinary enterprise project for Microsoft. The subject of my thesis was Finnish Fashion Marketing Abroad.

Major in Marketing, minor in Business Law and Management & Organization. Activities and Societies: In the second year of my degree course I was a mentor for first year students.