My Curriculum Vitae
Highly Qualified Creative Senior Perfumer with over twenty years experience in the fragrance industry with a valuable mixture of experiences creating winning fragrances, international presentations, building customer relationships, and new product development from concept to commercialization.
Summary of Qualifications
- Proven global success in home, personal care, and fine fragrance creation
- Effective team management, mentoring, and interpersonal skills
- Organized internal and external customer-focused project management
- Extensive knowledge of fragrance development process, perfumery ingredients and
- formulations, and regulatory guidelines
- Persuasive marketing, sales, and presentation skills
- Native English speaker with fluent conversational German
- Diploma chemistry
Senior Perfumer & Laboratory Manager
Duellberg Konzentra GmbH, Hamburg, Germany, 07.16 – Present
- Create, modify, and match fabric, surface, air, personal care, and fine fragrances.
- Manage fragrance compounding & customer sampling lab [12 employees].
- Initiated and coordinated fragrance micro-encapsulation development project.
- Authored and presented emotional fragrance branding marketing concept [Germany, Russia, Iran].
Senior Perfumer
CPL Aromas, Bielefeld, Germany, 01.15 – 06.16
- Created, modified, and matched fabric, surface, air, personal care, and fine fragrances.
- Revitalized and managed multi-million Euro key account [Russia].
Senior Perfumer
Duellberg Konzentra GmbH, Hamburg, Germany, 06.13 – 12.04
- Created, modified, and matched fabric, surface, air, personal care, and fine fragrances.
- Supported sales staff with customer presentations, expo support, and technical know-how.
Perfumer & Project Manager
Duellberg Konzentra GmbH, Hamburg, Germany, 09.06 – 05.13
- Created, modified, and matched fabric, surface, air, personal care, and fine fragrances.
- Created and implemented new project management system.
- Managed fragrance development projects [2 evaluators & 4 perfumers / 6000+ inquiries in seven years].
- Prepared and presented marketing and sales presentations [Germany, UAE, Russia, Turkey].
- Managed fragrance library collection.
- Trained fragrance evaluator.
Evaluator & Marketing Manager
Mercia International Aromatics Ltd., Elmswell, England, 06.05 – 07.06
- Created, modified, and matched fabric, surface, air, personal care, and fine fragrances.
- Initiated, developed, and saved key customer accounts. Prepared and presented marketing & sales presentations [England, UAE, Egypt].
Perfumer & Managing Director
Liberty Perfumery Ltd., Marlow, England, 06.01 – 09.02
- Founded a start-up fragrance company. Developed the ‘Invent Your Scent” fragrance concept for the Body Shop Plc..
- Designed fragrance branding products. Created bespoke perfume creations [London, UAE].
Fragrance Specialist
Reckitt & Benckiser Plc., Hull, England, 09.00 – 05.01
- Provided technical perfumery expertise to new product development teams [air care, surface care, personal care [depilatories]], global marketing team, and sensory analysis group.
- Gained valuable insight into how core supplier companies [Firmenich, Givaudan, Robertet], marketers, and chemists work together to develop innovative home care fragrances.
Freelance Perfumer
Self-Empowered, Marlow, England, 01.99 – 09.00
- Designed bespoke perfume creations for individual clients [London, UAE].
Junior Perfumer
Haarmann & Reimer GmbH, Holzminden, Germany, 10.97 – 12.98
- Created and modified fragrance bases.
- Proactively developed an internal perfumers’ marketing study to facilitate targeted new aroma chemical development.
- Prepared and presented aroma chemical sales presentations [Europe & North America].
- Played a key role in establishing a call list relationship with Proctor & Gamble by authoring an informative and persuasive sales presentation on the subject of the Role of Molecular Modeling in Aroma Chemical Development.
Trainee Perfumer
Haarmann & Reimer GmbH, Holzminden, Germany, 03.95 – 10.97
- Completed a comprehensive perfumery apprenticeship covering all aspects of fragrance chemistry and modern perfumery principles.
Analytical Chemist
Analytical Chemist
- Developed a practical knowledge of wet chemistry, extractions, chromatography and spectrometry techniques.
Educational Qualifications
Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry
Radford University, Radford, Virginia, United States, 05.90
- Developed a fundamental understanding and appreciation of the life sciences, chemistry, and the humanities.
Bachelor of Science Degree in Exercise & Sport Science
University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, England, 06.04
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Conducted independent original research in the subject of muscle discomfort, fatigue and conscious perception in muscular endurance tasks.
A personal comment on my own life and career
Not even in my wildest dreams did I ever expect that my career and life would turn out the way they have.
If you would have told me twenty-five years ago, that one day I would be a perfumer working and living in Germany.
I would’ve probably have laughed and said to you that you were crazy.
I have to admit that my current life is the result of a bizarre mix of silly dreams, calculated risks, hard work, luck, and some terrible decisions.
Fortunately…
I don’t have any regrets.
I’m happy with my life the ways it is!