Peter Naessens

Completed 20+ painting commissions, meeting clients to establish their requirements and negotiating sales. Designed and typeset an autobiography for a client that led to 1000+ book sales, both physical and on Amazon Kindle.

Delivering positive customer experience in busy café, maintaining food safety standards. Ensuring the smooth daily operation of the café and the 5-person team.

Led a 12-week beginners painting class for 15 adults, starting with drawing fundamentals and finishing with advanced concepts including colour theory.

Conducted Bicycle repairs, bicycle and accessory sales and stock management, ensuring that repairs were delivered on time and completed to a high standard. Led long-distance corporate cycling events, whilst maintaining the safety of the group and navigating.

Cleaning, repairing and daily running of the yacht, crewing during races. Ensuring the safety of the 8-person crew, maintaining the high standards of safety equipment and provision of nutrition. Competed in several high-profile long-distance offshore events, including the Rolex Fastnet Race 2019.

Advised customers on specialist marine hardware, including installation. Handled large sales both online and in the shop. Customer service organising stock and processing online orders.

Communicating with parents and children, coordinating leading and teaching groups of 20+ adults and children on and off the water, using powerboats and VHF to manage the dinghy fleet including maintenance. Obtained a commercial powerboat license, RYA First Aid Certificate, Instructor RYA dinghy with racing qualification and Ship’s station Radio License.

Designed an e-commerce site using JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, and Figma. Built 3 mobile games in C# and Unity, conducting ongoing usability testing. Developed a college management app with Angular, Firebase, Ionic, Typescript, and MySQL. Researched, designed, and built a social media app for cultural events in Ireland using React Native, JavaScript, and Firebase. Conducted extensive testing with 50+ users and completed the university's entrepreneur accelerator program with the app.

Worked on many creative projects, both in teams and individually. Organised and took part in group exhibitions. Developed a high level of critical thinking, creativity, and visual literacy. My thesis was selected among the top 10% and was added to the library’s collection.