Experience

Hatch Design Group - Costa Mesa, CA - Internship - May 2014 - August 2014

Specializes in hospitality design, fine dining restaurants, food courts,

Hotel lobbies, Universities, country clubs, casinos and retail spaces.

• Maintained Hatch Design Library

• Assisted Designers with fabric, furniture, and finish selections

• Researched image selections for Conceptual Image Boards

• Compiled FF&E Specification Books

• Attended Vendor Presentations

Heidi Sousa Event Planning - Ontario, CA - Principal - January 2008 - Present

Coordinate details of events such as weddings, birthdays, anniversaries and charity events.

• Design and implement client’s vision of event

• Plan event layout and time-line

• Ensure insurance, health and safety obligations are adhered

• Troubleshooting on the day of event to ensure that all runs smoothly

• Overseeing set up, dismantling and clean up of the event

O K Cattle LLC - Ontario, CA - Office Manager - September 2009 - Present

Cattle facility

• Maintain daily cattle inventory

Handle all general bookkeeping and correspondence

Sam Sousa Dairy - Ontario, CA - Principal/Office Manager - April 1987 - August 2009

Milk producing facility

• Managed all general bookkeeping for the Sam Sousa Dairy

Simple Elegance - Ontario, CA - Principal - January 2003 - December 2008

Retail home décor and furniture store

• Developed store concept

• Established relationships with vendors, clients and employees

• Ordered and maintained inventory

• Designed retail displays and special events

Bachelor of Arts Degree in Interior Architecture

Interior Designers Institute, Newport Beach, CA – CIDA Accredited – Completion March 2015

Certificate of Event Planning

Cal Poly, Pomona, CA

 

Expertise includes:                                                                        Experience with Software:

                        Branding               Construction Documents     Microsoft Office Suite          Auto CAD

                        Building codes     Design Concept                     QuickBooks                             Sketch-up

                        Ceiling Design      Space Planning                      Adobe Photoshop                  V-Ray

                        Renderings                                                              Adobe InDesign

 

• Hall of Fame – Certificate Program – Interior Designers Institute – 2010

• Hall of Fame – Perspective I – Interior Designers Institute – 2010

• Hall of Fame – Institutional (Healthcare) – Interior Designers Institute – 2012

• American Society of Interior Designer (ASID) – Student Member since 2010

Obtain an interior design position where my passion for design and past work experience along with the acquired new skills will be a contribution to a design firms’ success.