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Experience

• Interior Design Specialist IKEA · Full-time Jul 2012 – Aug 2020 8 yrs 1 mos Conshohocken, PA, USA Part 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 Designer IKEA · Full-time Jun 2005 – Jun 2012 7 yrs undefined, United States In 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 Designer HGTV · Jun 2007 – Dec 2007 6 mos Washington D.C., DC, USA I 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 Consultant IKEA · Apr 2004 – Jun 2005 1 yrs 2 mos College Park, MD, USA Working 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 Assistant Vega · Feb 2003 – Apr 2004 1 yrs 2 mos Washington D.C., DC, USA Interior 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.