Resume

1. Caritza Aguilar
EMAIL: canela117@gmail.com 6129 Leesburg Pike #1024
PHONE: 301-760-6968 Falls Church VA 22041
Profile Statement
Diligent and highly motivated professional with vast experience managing enterprise implementations of standout
strategies that ensures satisfactory customer service and loyalty. Excelling at researching competitive markets,
Media production and networking, analyzing opportunities, and defining operational requirements and process
executing tools, resulting to efficient planning, work flows, and incresased revenues. A proactive leader of teams,
capable of organizing trainings for capacity building and initiating high-level solutions to improve revenues and
margins. Self-driven with excellent organizational and communication skills and can easily establish rapport with
strategic partners towards achieving a set goal.
• OBJECTIVE : To obtain a challenging position, where my enhanced skills and experience can be utilized
thus promoting the image and goals of the organization.
Experience
Canela, LLC January 2006 – Present
Educator/Makeup Artist/Stylist (Sub Contractor)
• Communicate with clients to clarify visual requirements.
• Read scripts to ascertain materials/look required/budget implications, known as production study, which may
require further research.
• Produce and sketch design ideas for make-up.
• Ensure continuity in fashion styling and make-up, and essential interchange with other members of the design
team to ensure the overall look/effect is consistent and coherent.
• Create and preserve a rapport with make-up subjects, to include members of the public who are being
interviewed for television as well as professional actors or presenters.
• Demonstrate and implement a practical understanding of lighting, the photographic process, colors and the
impact of make-up processes on the skin and ensure that appropriate action is taken to minimize/eradicate any
unpleasant side effects from the use of specialist make-up/hairdressing techniques.
• Take detailed notes and photographs of work, maintaining an up-to-date portfolio of work undertaken.
• Maintain awareness of health and safety issues and legislation.
• Initiate and support sales of makeup/fashion services to local News anchors for broadcasting networks such as
the Middle Eastern Network.
Modeling Camp Instructor June 2007 - Present (Summer Camp only)
• Prepare lesson plan to ensure student satisfaction and understanding of makeup and skin care
• Lessons include the importance of Skin care, Nutrition, and Hygiene.
• Teach a variety of makeup techniques and skin care regimens
• Coordinate with the Education Director on lessons for the summer
• Teach on the Culturally Diverse methods and looks of makeup, and time Era’s i.e.

2. • (20’s, 30’s, 40’s).
• Make all lessons entertaining and exciting to develop creative thinking
Change for Life Wellness and Aesthetics March 2009-Jan 2012
Office Manager/Aesthetic Coordinator
• Office Management
• Vendor management
• Greet Patients and Vendors entering organization
• Deal with queries from the public and customers
• General administrative and clerical support
• Maintain office supplies and ordering
• Prepare letters and documents
• Create monthly marketing specials to increase revenue
• Organize meetings using calendars in Outlook and schedule use of conference rooms.
• Facials, Waxing, Microderm abrasions, Chemical peels, Makeup
• Managing all money coming into practice, accounts receivable
Sephora/Winston February 2012- June 2013 (Sub Contractor)
Regional Educator for the DC Metro area MD and VA.
Trained for Carol’s Daughter, Josie Maran, First Aid Beauty, and Ouidad
• Provided clients with state-of-the art skin care treatment knowledge, current make-up looks and techniques.
• Customer service and sales goals met for week, month, and quarter.
• Excellent time management skills- knowing how long a subject will take to be made-up and working quickly and
accurately in time-pressured conditions
• Profound ability to address customer concerns, demonstrating empathy while consistently moving the customer
towards commitment
• Coordinate with the Education Director in each store on lessons and special events.
• Weekly reports were sent to corporate on the revenue increase for each brands progress.
• Take detailed notes and photographs of work, maintaining an up-to-date portfolio of work undertaken.
M.A.C Cosmetics Makeup Artist Feb. 2003- March 2006
Awards: Number one sales associate for six consecutive months in Washington D.C
• Customer service and sales goals met for week, month, and quarter.
• Consistently won several contests for outstanding customer service and exceptional relationship building
with customers.
• Planned and executed multiple in-store events for company morale building and customer promotions.
• Maintained top-notch low loss prevention stats for inventory as manager.
• Evaluated production requirements, such as character, period, setting, and situation, and applied makeup to
performers to alter their appearance to accord with their roles.
• Created sketch drawings for customers makeup applications.
Pure Beauty Store Manager May 2001-Jan 2003

3. • Number one in sales for the region out of the other sixty-five stores, for over five months straight.
• Won multiple in-store and company contests for the top selling store
• Innovative, creative and pleasant environment was created for the employees under my direction.
• Executed all tasks of hiring and training of new employees
• Lead event planning activities for company employees and for team building
• Generated payroll and assembled bank deposits for cashiers and store close outs
• Low loss prevention levels and RTV’s in the region
• Company product lines.
RELEVANT SKILLS :
• Good knowledge and experience of cosmetics and skin care. Excellent customer service skills, communication skills
(Written and Spoken) . Team capacity building , organizational skills (Innovative and Proactive). Leadership/
management skills, confident and creative. Stays updated with industry trend. Ability to encourage others, high
initiative and positive attitude. Self-motivated , ability to comprehend and follow written and verbal instructions with
limited supervision. Ability to multi-task and prioritize daily work responsibilities. Strong attention to detail.
PROFESSIONAL TALENT EXPERIENCE:
Press conferences for Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chelsea Clinton Condoleezza Rice, and Former secretary of press
Tony Snow, Head of the Library of Congress, James H. Billington, Secretary of Education, Arnie Duncan. Jada Pinkett
Smith, Monica Lewinsky, Caroline Kennedy.
Fashion Shows: Rock and Republic, Fashion Shows for Patricia Field, Fashion Fights Poverty with Seth Aaron, and
Luis Valenzuela.
EDUCATION:
Graham Webb international school of Cosmetology 1993-94
NOVA Community College 1997-1998
Montgomery College Rockville Maryland 1998-2000
Med Tech School of medicine 1999-2000
The French institute school of Esthetics 2009