Eva Palazzetti
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- Editor and TranslatorPublic Relations and Communications | London, United Kingdom, GBSummaryOutgoing events professional with over 9 years experience in the sector. Proven record in organising and co-ordinating small to large-scale projects and associated promotional materials. Interested in creative yet challenging opportunity in which to build on my current knowledge.
Major Achievements:
* Lead manager on Diesel Wall Project responsible for developing promotional materials, artist portfolio selection/communication and jury arrangements. Overall budget supervision and cost control.
* Transformed previously under-performing Yates’s night into regularly outperforming headline event, Sunday Sessions. Oversaw promotional strategy including creation of flyers, posters and online exposure through Facebook.
* Successfully developed Yates’s Leicester Square as venue for Corporate, Seasonal and Special functions. Regularly booked and oversaw hospitality arrangements for venue capacity events [770 people] including HSBC "Joining Up" conference in 2008.
* Direct responsibility for over 25 staff, supervising shifts, holding team meeting to improve performance and review Mystery Customer reports – achieved 3 consecutive 100% scores.Specialties: Event Production and Management, Hospitality and Travel Arrangement, Proofreading and Translations, Recruitment and TrainingExperience- Jul 2011 - PresentEditor and Translator / PreciseMedia intelligence services market leader with over 5,000 clients, working with organisations of every size and across all sectors, including: public relations, corporate & financial, consumer, government and not for profit. *Processing and producing bespoke summaries from Italian, Spanish and French into English. *Making judgements on relevance of articles, sorting and editing press packages according to clients needs. *Summarising articles or news items according to client-specific editorial requirement in a fast and accurate manner.
- May 2011 - Jul 2011Production Assistant / Ebiquity plcMonitoring and analysis of press, internet and broadcast media. * Reading of various content sources to identify relevant news items to client specification. * Summarising and evaluating news items to assess editorial sentiment for a range of clients. * Editing layout of print publications and broadcast streams. - The PR Intelligence division was transferred from Ebiquity to Precise in July 2011 -
- Jul 2009 - May 2011Refocus career priorities, investigate areas of attitude and travel. / Career Break* Improved Spanish and French language skills. * Developed technique in manual & digital photography and built up online Flickr portfolio. * Investigated different forms of social communication platforms such as Twitter, Tumblr & Vimeo.
- Dec 2006 - Jul 2009Assistant Manager / Town&City Pub CoYates‘s Leicester Sq. – London Flagship Yates’s bar/restaurant located in the heart of London's West End. 770 people capacity venue with a weekly turnover of ~£100,000 and 45 staff. * Served as HR officer responsible for staff recruitment, training, payroll and retention complying with UK Employment Legislation. * Identified and implemented sales strategies including company promotions, service improvement ideas and incentivising staff. * Profit & Loss accountability through regularly beating sale targets and reducing stock/labour expenses. * Stock/consumable management and purchasing control of £20,000 weekly budget. * Employing various computer programmes to complete and streamline various stock taking and accounting processes. * Daily Administration tasks including sales and cash/credit card reconciliation ensuring clean balance at shift change. * Supervising shifts by allocating staff duties, monitoring pub security, handling complaints and ensuring customer satisfaction.
- Mar 2006 - Dec 2006Bar Supervisor / Town&City Pub CoMinories - London Historic pub/restaurant located opposite Tower Bridge. 350 people capacity venue with a weekly turnover of ~£50,000 and 15 staff. * Supervised the transition from beverage trade dependence to a food driven strategy. * Oversaw function room booking arrangements for private clients and Town & City Pub Co. senior management meetings. * Day-to-day responsibilities for achieving consistent operational standards. * Supervision of customer care and responsible for training new members of staff and allocation of duties.
- Jan 2001 - Jan 2006Project Manager / Pry SrlInnovative Italian events company delivering short and long-term project fulfillment. Major campaigns fusing fashion, music and culture for clients including Diesel, MTV and Ray Ban. [www.pry.it] * Assisted in management of high profile accounts from pitch creation through to project completion. * Liaised with suppliers and supporting agencies across Europe to ensure project fulfillment to client specification. * Dealt with booking/travel arrangements for international artists, musicians and VIPs. * Accounts Payable responsibility for payment of suppliers, staff and security as well as assisting in credit control.
Education-
1998 - 2002Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
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1993 - 1998ITC F. Zappa – IGEA Experimental Course
Additional Information-
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Honors:BIIAB Level 2 National Certificate for Personal Licence Holder – London [May ‘o8] Advanced English For Business and Media In Lingua Institute – Berlin [Sep. ‘o5]
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Interests:Photography and the use of manual cameras, music [several genres], European and Asiatic cinema [Almodovar movies and Ghibli Studio animation over all], discovering new cities and cultures, reading Haruki Murakami novels and art in general.
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"Most Interesting"
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Tweets
- Another earthquake, stay strong #Italy!
- @Isokuu Thank you Amore! Already feeling much better! <3
- @RichardGale1982 Thank God, I am still fierce! #givesattitudetoTuesday
- @TomoTwinkleToes I am good, I have a temperamental stomach and a temperamental boiler! Have a good day! :)
- Cold shower and vomit, f•€% you #Tuesday!
- That awesome moment in which you try something you weren't able to wear anymore and it fits, comfortably! #confidenceboost
- @bethsquires @samunsted Ahaha! Always good to have a Plan B! Not the sort that sings though! ;)
- @GrassAintGreen Oh, I have missed a personal loo roll! #girlbestfriend
- @samunsted @bethsquires Looks yummy! Microwave or not! ;)
- @GrassAintGreen Not enough to make me dislike you! Actually, I probably would have done one myself!
- Lenny Kravitz wearing heels on #ToTP2! Boom!
- Why are teens so loud? Why do they not grow up into quiet human beings? Why?
- It's official my sister is insane!
- @Fun_Flower No! Lavoro ed ho altro da fare. Sorry...
- Awesome race! Well Done Mark Webber, very deserving! @AussieGrit #BBCF1
- @dandouglas Kentucky Fried Colonel!
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Posts
- Dear Meat,
I used to being busy all the time, and now that I’m not I feel like I’m forgetting something. -M
i-D April 1999 - “So She Sat, With Closed Eyes, … In Wonderland” - Jen Dawson by Juergen teller
