Objective Combine my architectural and business background, marketing skills and real estate experience, in a roll with a creative and thoughtful technology development team.
Alain Cohen B. Arch.
REALTOR®
503 Castlefield Avenue Toronto, Ontario M5N 1L7
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STRATEGY, SALES & MARKETING, ARCESTRA INC. — SEP. 2009-PRESENT
Responsible for bridging sales and marketing with product development and visualization production. Devising and implementing a business model and technology strategy to capitalize and monetize Arcestra’s on-line Platform currently focused in the commercial Real Estate market.
416-487-0011
EMAIL alaincohen@me.com
WEB www.arcestra.com www.alaincohen.com www.zolos.com
SALES REPRESENTATIVE, ROYAL LEPAGE REAL ESTATE SERVICES — 2003-PRESENT
With my underlying passion for Real Estate, I decided to immerse myself in the industry becoming a licensed representative in 2003. In 2007 I received the designation of “President Gold” from Royal LePage, which placed me inside the 10% most productive agents in residential sales in Ontario. FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR, ZOLOS INC, TORONTO, ON — 1998-PRESENT
Created my own visualization and consulting firm. Signed up the exclusive distribution in Canada of all autodessys inc. (Ohio), software products, namely “formZ” 3D software, developed channels sales as well as direct sales. Established one of the first online 3D design software sales websites in Canada. Visualization Productions included: Recreation of the History of the First Parliament of Upper Canada, intended to communicate and advocate during a public hearing in Toronto in 2005, The Niagara FallsView Casino Resort in 2004, the visualization intended to attract commercial tenants as well as being an instrument of marketing to the general public prior to opening. As a sub-contractor to large local firms, Zolos produced visualizations for projects in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, China, US and Canada.
Alain Cohen
alaincohen@me.com 416-487001
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SALES MANAGER, BAGH TECHNOLOGIES, TORONTO, ON — 1991-1998
After my immigration to Canada in 1989, I retrained myself to become a consultant in Computer Aided Design. I helped implement new production technologies in many Architectural and Industrial Design firms in Canada and the USA, becoming the local specialist for Alias Research, and Silicon Graphics during the years of 1994-1997, capitalizing on my experience as an Architect and my acquired knowledge of new visualization technologies applied to complex projects. PROJECT ARCHITECT, AREA - ALAIN SARFATI, PARIS, FRANCE — 1986-1989
During my internship at one of the top ten architectural firms in Paris, I was involved in all aspects -from design to tendering and completion- of several housing, condominium and commercial projects. Through that experience, I developed a keen interest in Real Estate development, which led me to immigrate to Canada to work for Olympia & York, the largest developer in the world at the time. PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA — 1984-1985
I was selected through a competition to teach design and morphology, to groups of 30 to 60 students attending second year of architecture. A very rewarding experience of my early career.
Education and degrees University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Graduate Architect - 1984
Skills Architectural background, solid business and marketing experience, fluent English, French and Spanish.
Alain Cohen
alaincohen@me.com 416-487001
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