Artistic and creative Senior Interior Designer who brings vision to life. Offers fourteen years of professional experience and hundreds of happy clients and successful projects.
To work as a Director or Senior Interior Designer with growth-oriented teams of dedicated design professionals in creative planning, design, and the maximization of space and environments; facility planning, project management, renovation, residential, hospitality, and construction design.
NHI DESIGN, HOUSTON, CFO/DESIGN DIRECTOR
2014-Present: President/CFO NHI DESIGN
• Executes all daily operations of the company.
• Supervise, manage, and mentor creative team and staff.
• Manage, develop, and maintain the relationships with clients.
• Promote and maintain the highest level of professionalism.
• Formulate environmental plans to be practical, esthetic, and
conducive to intended purposes such as raising productivity and
selling merchandise.
• Confer with clients to determine factors affecting the planning of both interior and exterior
environments, such as budget, architectural preferences,
purpose and function.
• Select, design, and purchase furnishings, art works, and
accessories.
• Subcontract fabrication, installation, and arrangement of carpeting,
fixtures, accessories, draperies, paint, wall coverings, artwork,
furniture, and related items.
• Interface regularly with clients during the design process and preparation of presentations, to ensure the design is executed and developed throughout the process of the design phase.
• Estimate material requirements and costs, put together elaborate budget analysis and breakdowns, and present the scope of design to all clients for approval.
• Render design ideas in form of paste-ups and drawings.
• Advise clients on interior design factors such as space planning,
layout and utilization of furnishings and equipment, and color
coordination.
• Supervision and scheduling of work hours,
resolve conflicts, and determine salaries.
• Conducted job site visits, and worked closely with architects and construction teams.
• Plan and design interior environments for commercial spaces, show homes, as well as high-end residential projects
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ELIZABETH COLE DESIGN, Houston, TX, US, DIRECTOR OF DESIGN
2011-2014: Director of Design Elizabeth Cole Design
• Supervised, managed, and mentored the creative and technical team for a design firm.
• Led the design team on each project from concept to completion.
• Motivated and influenced creative team.
• Executed daily operations of creating, training and overseeing all projects and designers within our department.
• Assigned creative leads and developed accounts and project leads.
• Formulated environmental plan to be practical, esthetic, and conducive to intended purposes, such as raising productivity and selling merchandise.
• Interface regularly with clients during the design process and preparation of presentations, to ensure the design is executed and developed throughout the process of the design phase.
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Conferred with client to determine factors affecting planning interior environments, such as budget, architectural preferences, and purpose and function.
• Train and manage all full time designers and contract employees
and since have achieved significant improvements in their productivity.
• Selected, designed, and purchased furnishings, art works, and accessories.
• My position was instrumental in continuing our relationships with our clients.
• Subcontracted fabrication, installation, and arrangement of carpeting, fixtures, accessories, draperies, paint, wall coverings, artwork, furniture, and related items.
• Trained and managed all Interior Design staff and achieved significant improvements in their productivity, organization, and growth in their confidence and design skills.
• Rendered design ideas in form of paste-ups and drawings.
• Trained both design staff and installation crews in the processes and procedures needed to ensure the department ran smoothly and effectively.
• Estimated material requirements and costs, put together elaborate budget analysis and breakdowns, and presented the scope of design to all clients for approval.
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Advised client on interior design factors, such as space planning, layout and utilization of furnishings and equipment, and color coordination.
• Supervised all design department employees, scheduled work hours, resolved conflicts, determined salaries, conducted all interviews and quarterly reviews.
• Planned and designed interior environments for commercial office spaces, show homes, as well as high-end residential projects
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• Successfully managed and maintained a twelve year relationship with the second largest builder in the nation.
• Structured and maintained the relationship with this client, so that our relationship continues to this day.
• I strived to go above and beyond the client’s expectations, by continually developing new and unique design ideas and strategies to keep each project fresh and unique.
• Keeping the clients educated on the design trends and colors that are current and upcoming.
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Attended all furniture and accessory markets as a buyer for the company in Las Vegas, High Point, Chicago, and Dallas.
• Host educational breakfast and lunches for our corporate clients.
NICKI HARDEE INTERIORS, HOUSTON, CFO/DESIGN DIRECTOR
SCOTT-RANDALL DESIGN, Houston, TX, US, DIRECTOR OF DESIGN
NORWALK, Houston, TX, US, INTERIOR DESIGNER
Sheffield School of Interior Design, New York, NY, US, INTERIOR DESIGN
ASSOCIATES DEGREE-INTERIOR DESIGN
BLINN @ TEXAS A&M, College Station, TX, US, Bachelors, BUSINESS MARKETING
BEST IN INTERIOR DESIGN, 1st Place
