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Experience

• Interior Design SpecialistIKEA·Full-timeJul 2012 – Aug 20208 yrs 1 mosConshohocken,PA, USAPart of a team that designed room setting and homes for IKEA stores across the US. Staying hungry for interior design and on trend was key to this role.
  Using a combination of programs (Autocad, SketchUP, Power Point, and Excel), details of our designed and curated rooms are specified to ensure that a team of contractors, carpenters, seamstresses and interior stagers can completely put a room together--even when I wasn't present.
• Interior DesignerIKEA·Full-timeJun 2005 – Jun 20127 yrsundefined, United StatesIn both College Park, MD, and Brooklyn, NY, I was part of a team of designers that implemented and maintained the room settings in the IKEA stores. Rooms needed to be updated depending on product changes and trends, or redesigned during certain times of year like holidays, etc. Autocad was used to create contractor level detail drawings of installation packages for rooms and homes.
• Guest Interior DesignerHGTV·Jun 2007 – Dec 20076 mosWashington D.C., DC, USAI was a guest designer for 6 episodes of a children's design show called Kidspace on HGTV. Met with families and took their plain-Jane children's rooms and gave them their dream rooms or play spaces. Creating these spaces had to be playful, functional, under $1000.00, and enticing for television viewers.
  Created layouts and elevations using Autocad and collages. Staying in contact with a design assistant, a model builder, a show director, and a carpenter to ensure that we were on time and on budget was imperative to the job.
  No family was ever left disappointed!
• Home Furnishing ConsultantIKEA·Apr 2004 – Jun 20051 yrs 2 mosCollege Park, MD, USAWorking directly with IKEA customers to assist with product choices for their homes. Similar to being a personal shopper for customers. On occasion I would do layouts, using customer photographs and measurements to assist with updating their space.
• Design AssistantVega·Feb 2003 – Apr 20041 yrs 2 mosWashington D.C., DC, USAInterior design assistant and store associate for a company in DC. Assisted designer in layouts and product selection. In charge of turning layouts into Autocad drawings, as well as placing and tracking orders from Europe of specialty furniture or accessories for clients.