• Head of costume departments: Organizing and managing costume productions, budgeting, administration, supervising staff at various European opera companies
• Costume design for Opera and Ballet
• Cutting and making costumes from all periods for film, opera und ballet, a.o. for Kate Blanchett, Iris Berben, H. Bonham Carter, Glenn Close, Heike Makatsch, Helen Mirren, Franka Potente, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Schwarz (film), Barbara Hendricks, Daniela Dessi, Vladimir Chernov, Neil Shicoff, Leo Nucci (opera)
• Working on opera productions a.o. with Bob Wilson, Willy Decker, Achim Freyer, Luc Bondy, Herbert Wernicke, Francesca Zambello; Film productions of Merchant and Ivory, Bertolucci, Zeffirelli; the BBC; with designers as James Achenson, John Bright, Jenny Beavan, John Mac Farlan, Barbara Baum, Monika Jacobs a.o.
• More than 30 years professional experience in Europe (Germany, England, Belgium, Suisse, France), Canada and Cambodia
• Languages: German, English, French, fluent

Management of the department in a team of 2 directors, reporting directly to the CEO, responsible for

• Organizing and managing the costume productions, budgeting, administration, supervising staff, mainly opera and ballet
• Personal management of 55 staff
• Coordination of cross-departmental tasks

„La Clemenza di Tito“, Opera by W.A. Mozart, Conductor: Thomas Netopil, Director: Frederik Buhr

„Fétes des Plaisirs“- a Midsummernight's Dream, Ballet, Choreography und Stage design: Michel Béjar

• „Hanna“, a Film by Joe Wright, costumes by Lucy Bates, making costumes for Kate Blanchett, Soarise Rohan, Eric Bana
• „Esmeralda“, Ballet, Deutsche Oper Berlin, supervising the production of all costumes made in Poland by order of the “Bühnenservices Berlin“

Responsible for

• Assistence a.o. of the productions: Buddenbrooks, Romy, Hilde, Inglorious Basterds, The Last Station
• The costume workroom
• The manufacturing of costumes, accessoires, shoes at the company and at varions national and international firms
• Research

In both companies responsible for

• The costumes, staff and budget of all production of opera and ballet throughout the season
• Supervising the workrooms
• Collaboration with subcontractors in France, Germany, Italy and India
• Organization of co productions with the Gran Teatro del Liceu Barcelona, Houston Opera, Dallas Opera and San Diego Opera, Théâtre du Capitol de Toulouse and Théâtre Antique d’Orange

Responsible for the cutting and making of the costumes of all opera & ballet productions throughout the year

Vice-Head of Ladies Costume Workroom

Cutting and making of principal’s costumes a.o. for

• Film: Howard’s End, Little Buddha, Zeffirelli’s Hamlet, The House of Spirit, The Young Indiana Jones, Far and Away, Colette u.a.
• TV (BBC): The House of Elliot, Middlemarch u.a.

Production of costumes, hats and accsessoires, responsible for Ladie's wardrobe

Internship

Mainly working on productions with Jürgen Rose

Seminar: „2000 years of European costume history and it’s influence on contemporay fashion designers“

• Import, sales and distribution of organic food
• Administration, costums clearance and distribution

• Founding board member of the Canadian branch of the international humanitarian organization Lotus Outreach (main emphasis: prevention of child Prostitution in Cambodia)
• Fundraising
• Aquiring the charity Status, dealing with the Canadian Tax Office
• Consultant and trainer for AFFESIP Fair Fashion in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Interior Design, fitness, Asian culture (fabrics, crafts and arts), philosophy