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CURRICULUM VITAE
Smiljan Škarica
Ulica gorkega 8, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
Mob: +386 41 952 905 / Skype: smiljan.ski
smiljan@smiljanskarica.si / si.linkedin.com/pub/smiljan-skarica/45/2/969/
Nationality: Slovenian (EU citizen) Residence: Maribor
Experience of living/working in EU • Experience in international Mobility project 2011 • Winner Start Up
(Slovenia 2013) • Published in Finance magazine and National News TV interview
SUMMARY
Exceptional talent to get multiple things done with the ability to create strategies to implement new fresh ideas in
order to achieve and exceed the expected results. Enthusiastic about the latest technology and innovations.
Open-minded individual with excellent ability to adapt to changing environments. Successful team-player, able to
work in cross-cultural teams.
KEY SKILLS
Professional educator in hairdressing • Excellent presentation skills • Building deeper, strategic customer
relationships • Outstanding team player • Good communication and organisation skills • Open-minded
and hard-working individual
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Smiljan Škarica hair salon – Maribor, Slovenia 2003–
2014 http://smiljanskarica.si/about-us/brand-2/
Hairdressing business, business owner and creative director (http://smiljanskarica.si/about-us/creative-team/) I
was employing two people, who I worked with for 7 years. I am the owner and creative director of my company
Smiljan Skarica Hairdressing studios. Marketing: Word Press Pages, Pay-Per-Click, Facebook Pages
/Events/Ads, Twitter.
My main task was educating people and setting up my own company brand: mastering fashion trends, knowledge
of hair and their characteristics. The brand communicates the following values: exclusive service, confidence in

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talent and knowledge, professionalism and quality, youthfulness and dynamism, connecting and networking with
business partners, marketing strategies on the market.
ColorMiks innovation project 2013
Team member
Development of patent hardware for mixing professional hair colours at optimal cost using a mobile app. Winner
of first prize at the Start up competition at Technological park in Ljubljana on the 20th of May 2013 (http://www.tp-
lj.si/zmagovalec-ljubljana-startupa-2013-je-ekipa-colormix.html)
Create-IN project (http://create.nuimo.si/Default.aspx)
Project partner
Project partner in charge of dissemination. The project focuses on helping and teaching young people how to
create their own portfolio with pictures and a video presentation of themselves. Another partner of the project
was http://myhairdressers.com/, one of the world’s leading Internet training portals.
Keune cosmetics company 2003–2010
Country Manager
Educating people; Promotion: Organized training sessions, presentations for field agents, information meetings
for customers and C-level partners for sustainable growth and stronger relationships.
Bernie Models 2003–2009
I worked in Egypt, Greece, Turkey and Tunisia for the largest video production company in Slovenia for the
project Bernie Models (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOGt7yXiLyw)
Training sessions and workshops 2001–2001
I have been educating people in Croatia and Slovenia.
Micstyling hair salon – Ljubljana, Slovenia (June 2001–April 2003) 2001–2003
High-profile hairdressing business with 120 employees where I first started working and teaching young people
from high school.
EDUCATION
Hairdressing Master Course – London, UK (14–21 October 2001) 2001
Hairdressing Master Course – Zagreb, Croatia (1–16 October 2001) 2000
Master in Hairdressing – National Chamber of Commerce, Slovenia – to be completed in May 2014
Secondary School for Design – hairdresser training 1996–2000

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Languages: Native Slovenian, Croatian, Fluent in English, Intermediate German, Beginner in French, Italian and
Portuguese.
Volunteer work: In July 2013, I was a volunteer in the Shaping future (Nelson Mandela) project that focused
on teaching disadvantaged young people from families that cannot afford education. (http://www.schwarzkopf-
professional.com/skp/com/en/home/shaping-futures/where-we-train/maribor-slovenia.html), Rotary club / Maribor
Park http://www.rcmb-park.org/rcmb-park.html, Start Up Community.
Certification:
English Language Course Reading (1998), Comprehensive rhetoric seminar (20–26 June 2013)
Vidal Sassoon seminar in London (UK 2002) (http://www.sassoon.com/salons/introduction-to-sassoon.php)
Festivals/Workshops:
Salon International attendance 2003–2013
(http://www.salonexhibitions.co.uk/)
I have been working with some of the best known names in the hairdressing industry from the Vidal Sassoon
team, Stacey Broughton and Tracey Hayes. Work as assistant and as a translator.
In process: Successfully accepted by the National Chamber of Commerce to finish Master in Hairdressing so I
can be a teacher at the Design school (four exams successfully passed, course to be completed in May 2014),
French Language course.
Technologies: Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat Pro, Pages, Word Press, LinkedIn, FB, APP Creation, Twitter.