Jones-Keena & Co., Birmingham, MI, US, Interior Design Assistant

• Assisted multiple designers working on numerous simultaneous projects, planning, and delivering over 40 residential jobs from a scale of a few thousand dollars to a few hundred-thousand dollars transforming single rooms or entire houses
• Worked with clients to interpret their needs and ideas to create designs using CAD, floor plans, space planning, elevations, tile drawings, and hand drawings
• Created Furniture, Fixture, and Equipment schedules, selected and sourced material from high-end vendors and other sources, and managed installations and sub-contractors
• Part of a team designing a resort rental home in the British Virgin Islands
• Assisted on renovation projects and new custom built homes collaborating with architects
and builders from initial drawing stage through completion while keeping track of budget
• Sourced furniture, fabrics, lighting, floor coverings, and window treatments
• Worked with custom furniture vendors, upholstery workshops, drapery workrooms, and
builders to create unique touches to clientsʼ projects
• Exhibited excellent detail and organizational skills through handling operational and
administrative aspects of the jobs from creating proposals, maintaining design and
project documentation, installation schedules, purchase orders, and invoices
• Helped maintain design studio library by organizing fabric books, picking up after
meetings, and general light cleaning