• Accustomed to performing in deadline-driven, fast-paced environments with an emphasis on ensuring project facilitation is on time, on/under-budget, and meets corporate’s brand standards.• Promote a positive and engaging environment while leading a team of 26 associates overseeing 3 new areas of business. Results include generating over 50 billion in new revenue. • Work on analytical phases of development including whiteboard sessions, case studies, test pilots, and cross-departmental collaborations. • Create innovative practical solutions and best practices in all phases of projects while focusing on profitability with scope, budget, schedule, and quality. • Oversee project initiatives to streamline and enhance operations while being responsive to changing business needs.• Created presentations and AutoCAD design documents for the Ashley HomeStores based on Company standards.• Led quarterly market and new store set-up.

• Oversaw a team of designers for foodservice, residential and commercial design. • Managed multiple accounts ensuring consistent drafting quality is kept per client design standards.• Ensured deadlines were kept while construction, engineering, and building regulations were met.• Maintained relationship with key accounts and prospects.• Develop internal marketing material and website design.

• Designed functional living space environments based on client’s individual needs, style, and budget. • Conducted and scheduled in-home consultations and presentations of customized room designs. • Maintained strong product knowledge including key features and benefits of all product. • Produced the most in-home design projects in district.

• Provided exceptional service to customers by demonstrating product knowledge and providing design solutions aligned with the customer’s preferences and budgetary limitations. • Scheduled in-home client appointments, developed floor plans based on surveyed dimension, created room schemes containing coordinating upholstery fabrics, window treatments and wall finishes.

• Worked on multiple projects from initial design concepts through budget approvals and completion for brands such as Bone Fish and Carabas. • Supported all aspects of design including but not limited to: schedule reporting, assisting in revisions of in-house design drawings, redlining revisions in AutoCAD, reviewing documents for accuracy and design intent, communicating with all external sources, and data collection and drawing distribution.

• Created lesson plans to introduce students to the basic principles of foodservice design. Course studies included functional usage and conceptual work flow of a commercial kitchen, as well as real world experiences.

• Created detail drawings, MEP drawings and assisted with designing overall floor plans and elevations for corresponding plans using Auto CAD. • Digitally recreated hand sketches and diagrams for presentation and construction documents for current and prospective clients.