Salema West

Provide executive administrative support including calendar and travel management, drafting correspondence, handling confidential information, and assisting with project tracking and meeting coordination.

Perform rigging, focusing, programming and operation of lighting systems using GrandMA consoles, and maintain and repair lighting equipment to support productions since 2018.

Designed sets for fashion and theatre productions including Brooklyn Fashion Week (William McIntosh) and multiple local productions, creating functional scenic designs and overseeing implementation.

Designed and executed lighting for concerts and festivals (e.g., Machel Montano event, Big Two Comedy & Bacchanal), delivering creative lighting concepts and cues for live performances between 2023–2025.

Assisted styling and wardrobe management for music video shoots and commercial productions, ensuring garments were fitted, secured, and camera-ready during shoots (Jul–Aug 2018).

Supported festival administration by filing, mail handling, document retrieval, and assisting with event planning and logistics during an undergraduate placement in 2017.

Activities and societies: Topics: project selection & portfolio management; project charter; scope management; WBS; risk management; cost estimation & budgeting; scheduling, networks and critical path; resource management; monitoring, control, evaluation and closeout.

Undertook an undergraduate Project Management course covering project planning, scheduling, risk and resource management, stakeholder engagement, monitoring and control, and project closeout.

Activities and societies: Covered Introduction to Operations Management; Role of Operations Manager; Types of Production Systems; Plant Location; Inventory Management; Economic Order Quantity; Occupational Safety and Health Act (Trinidad and Tobago).

Completed a 5-week Operations Management course covering production systems, plant location, inventory management, EOQ, and occupational safety topics.

Activities and societies: Covered Introduction to Supply Chain Management; Value Chain Management; Operations Management; Logistics Management; Optimization of Transportation; Quality Improvement; Economics of Scale in Procurement.

Completed a 5-week Supply Chain Management course covering value chain, logistics, operations, procurement and quality improvement.

Activities and societies: Covered Introduction to Project Management; Project Planning; Effective Meeting Management; Project Charter; Occupational Safety and Health Act (Trinidad and Tobago).

Completed a 5-week Project Management course covering project planning, charters, meeting management, and occupational safety topics.

Activities and societies: Courses included Strategic Markets in a Global Economy; Business Planning; Design as a Strategic Business Tool; Research Methodology for Design Entrepreneurship; Critical Perspectives in Design Management; Creative Design Project; Nature of Creativity.

Completed a Master of Arts in Creative Design and Entrepreneurship with coursework in strategic markets, business planning, design management, research methodology, and a creative design project.

Received Certified Guest Service Professional credential focused on tourism guest service standards.

Grade: Honours

Activities and societies: Related coursework: Stage Management; Communication Skills in Performing Arts; Front of House Management; Theatre History 1–3; Theatre Technology 1–3; Period Style – Architecture and Decor; Independent Study in Multimedia Documentation; Computer Aided Drafting and Design.

Earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Performing Arts with honours, specializing in Theatre Design and Production (costume, scenic and lighting design).

Awarded a Certificate of Excellence in Fashion Management.

Completed a Certificate in Film Technology.

Grade: Math: 2; English: 1; Biology: 3; Social Studies: 2; Literature: 2; Theatre Arts: 2

Secondary school CXC exam results including grades in Mathematics, English, Biology, Social Studies, Literature, and Theatre Arts.