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Portland, Oregon Area

Create interiors for some of the finest homes in the city of Portland, including the West Hills, the Pearl, TheAlameda and Irvington neighborhoods as well as Nevada. · Establish relationships with many fine craftsmen to implement designs such as wallpaper hangers, drapery makers, tile setters, lighting experts and carpet installers. · Understand sales contracts and scope of services to be provided to clients. · Create a vision for design clients that relate to their home, their lifestyle and their budget. · Innovative design concepts using color, light, texture and pattern. · Provide various selections for clients using extensive resource library. · Write an interior design blog to provide advice, educated and inform readers about interior design.

Supervise sales and display team in daily operations of business. Provide interior designers with quality service fortheir orders of textiles and furniture. Make sales calls with outside sales team and national vendors of products to thewholesale design trade. Mercer of fine textiles for interior designers. · Apply product knowledge to marketing of designer home furnishings and textiles. · Investigate and resolve customer problems. · Provide customer service and qualify selections made by designers. · Understand, use and communicate technical information of the interior design industry to employees, designers, their clients and the students of the design colleges. · Create dynamic sales team which led to increase in sales. · Analyze and monitor sales activity. · Sponsor and establish relationships with the design community and their organizations.

While in design school, I had the opportunity to work with the accomplished interior architect, Don Berger. · Drafted floor plans and established furniture layout. · Presented design concepts to clients. · Selected textiles for projects.