Michelle Sharpe Email & Phone Number

Remote

Southern California

Los Angeles, Greater Chicago Area, Seattle

• Residential Design Consultation & Staging: Space planning, FF+E, Purchasing, Budgeting, Palette + Furniture Coordination, Organization, Installation, Presentations, 2-D Drawings, and 3-D Renderings.

Santa Barbara, California Area

• Managed project documentation, deadlines, and schedules.
• Created budgets, proposals, and purchase orders in Studio Designer.
• Reviewed submittals, RFI’s, plans and specifications.
• Managed and assisted Principal with project coordination, installations and art packages.
• Edited drawing sets in CAD and client presentations in Power Point.
• Researched and coordinated selections through RFQ’s and PO’s.

Los Angeles, CA

• Created and presented luxury design solutions for high-end residential clients, celebrities, Interior Designers + Architects through site visits to create 20/20 3-D renderings, hand sketches, and CAD 2-D plans.
• Selected palette and furniture for cohesive on-brand solutions.
• Produced quotes for clients and orders with vendors overseas.
• Managed on site installations and 100k+ memo try outs.
• Closed 1.3 million in sales during first year.

Los Angeles, California

• Generated vitural solutions for residential clients using proprietary software.
• Selected furnishings, lighting, paint, + accessories within project budget.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• (Contract Position)
• Created comprehensive hospitality textile packages (25-150 patterns) for Worldwide Design firms based on renderings/presentations/palettes of restaurants/hotels/cruise ships that meet design intent/budgets. As the.
• Worked with Opuzen Digital Textile Design team to create project specific patterns.
• Textile Reselections at Design & Construction phase for all textile applications.
• Trained student intern in hospitality design & textiles applications.

Oak Park, IL

• Selected FF&E for domestic and international restaurant projects.
• Created schedules in Excel, CAD, and InDesign.
• Rendered Elevations, Floor Plans, and RCP’s in Photoshop and SketchUp.
• Constructed 3-D models of exteriors, interiors and lighting in SketchUp.
• Produced digital and physical material boards in Photoshop and InDesign.
• Edited Construction Sets: red lines, tags, schedules, and furniture blocks.

Greater Chicago Area

• Coordinated print and electronic marketing projects with outside vendors and internal team members for the Classified Sales team.
• Updated graphics and copy for email marketing efforts using DreamWeaver & Photoshop.
• Created Marketing Tracking Reports with Google Analytics & InDesign.
• Created Sales Presentations.
• Designed employer profiles, and online display ads using HTML, Photoshop & site administration software.
• Managed graphics database for online ads, employer profiles, and site updates.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Interior Design With A Focus In Sustainability, 3.94 Graduated With Highest Honors. Candidate For Best Thesis May 2012.

Master's Thesis: http://bit.ly/1Dr195v Graduate Portfolio: http://bit.ly/1HPCRsB

Html, Internet Marketing

Continuing Education Courses: HTML and Internet Marketing (SEO & SEM)

Art, Web

Continuing Education Courses: Web Design and Abstract Figure Drawing.

Art Teacher Education

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (Bfa), Drawing, Painting, Printmaking. Minor Spanish.

Activities and Societies: Semester Abroad - Cuernavaca, Mexico

Master Art Therapy

1 year of Graduate Art Therapy course work Semester long internship with mother's with mental illness and their children