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Design > Architect, Interior Designer
Development > Consultant
MRD Vice President of Design Privately-held |
 In addition to being a Senior Retail Designer at MRD, I am also a Co-Founder of UPworld, the first cross-industry networking site for design, construction & real estate professionals who want to connect to each other and share project opportunities worldwide.
I am a firm believer in the new medium of social media and speak regularly to professionals about using social media to grow their small businesses and enhance their online brand reputation. |
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| Title: | Vice President of Design |
| Company Name: | MRD |
| Start Date: | Sep 2010 |
| End Date: | Currently working |
| Company Size: | 0-5 |
| Company Type: | Privately-held |
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MRD is an award-winning team of retail consultants, architects, interior designers, and graphic designers whose unique expertise in both the science and the art of retailing has placed them at the forefront of the retail design industry.
Established in 2010, the company has worked for many of the best known brands across a wide range of retailing categories.
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| Title: | Co-Founder + CEO |
| Company Name: | UPworld |
| Start Date: | Oct 2006 |
| End Date: | Currently working |
| Company Size: | 6-10 |
| Company Type: | Privately-held |
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UPworld's mission is simple: unify the greater real estate and building industry on a single platform, facilitate networking online, create quality project teams, and make real building projects happen.
UPworld is a catalyst to uniting the fragmented design-construction-real estate industry and will lead businesses and individuals towards more sustainable building practices, more efficient and transparent work processes, greater innovation from the sharing of unique expertise, and new collaborative opportunities for all.
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| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Company Name: | University of Tennessee |
| Start Date: | Sep 1998 |
| End Date: | Jun 2000 |
| Company Size: | 21-50 |
| Company Type: | Academic |
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| Founded in 1965, the College of Architecture and Design houses the only accredited School of Architecture in Tennessee, the top-ranked Interior Design program in the state, as well as a newly established Landscape Architecture program. |
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| Title: | Principal |
| Company Name: | UP-market[ing] |
| Start Date: | Jan 2007 |
| End Date: | Aug 2010 |
| Company Size: | 0-5 |
| Company Type: | Privately-held |
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UP-market your brand.
We design and brand companies and buildings.
UP-market[ing] is a design and branding consultancy practice that assists developers, owners, and companies in positioning themselves and their buildings in the marketplace through strategic design.
We can:
- take an existing brand and reposition it in the marketplace
- create a brand for a new product line or company
- design a marketing plan and brand concept for a residential development project
- create an exciting new shopping experience for a retail store
- design a prototype store and rollout plan for retail store expansion
And more!
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| Title: | Designer |
| Company Name: | Lacina-Heitler Architects |
| Start Date: | Aug 2001 |
| End Date: | Sep 2003 |
| Company Size: | 6-10 |
| Company Type: | Privately-held |
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| Lacina-Heitler is a full service design firm offering expertise in architecture, interior design, space planning, and project management to a wide spectrum of clients ranging from corporate to residential and to retail. |
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| Title: | Design Director |
| Company Name: | Grid2 |
| Start Date: | Apr 2007 |
| End Date: | May 2009 |
| Company Size: | 11-20 |
| Company Type: | Privately-held |
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| GRID2 is an award-winning team of retail consultants, architects, interior designers, and graphic designers whose unique expertise in both the science and the art of retailing has placed them at the forefront of the retail design industry. |
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Expertise: I am an award-winning design architect and a social media consultant, speaker, blogger, writer, and entrepreneur.
My design expertise is in retail, residential, and commercial work. I have designed for clients such as JP Morgan Chase, W Hotel, Searle, Saks Off Fifth, Barnes & Noble and more.
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| Skills: My primary skill set lies in creating and branding new companies - and in building and managing quality project teams. |
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| CREDENTIALS |
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| Awards |
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| Title: | Executive of the Month |
| Awarded By: | New York Real Estate Journal (NYREJ) |
| Date: | Nov 2007 |
| Description: | Awarded Executive of the Month as the Co-Founder & Creator of UPworld, taking an innovative approach to networking on the web |
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| Title: | Design(ing) Network(ing) Installation |
| Awarded By: | Garanti Gallery, Instanbul |
| Date: | Aug 2004 |
| Description: | Special invitation to be a featured exhibitor in a show on networks and networking as a founder of UPworld |
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| Title: | Deborah Norden Fund Research Grant |
| Awarded By: | Architectural League of New York |
| Date: | May 2004 |
| Description: | Research and Travel Grant Entitled: "Interfacing Architecture in the Fragile Ecosystems of Australia" |
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| Title: | Michael Kalil Endowment for Smart Design Research Grant |
| Awarded By: | Parsons School of Design |
| Date: | Apr 2004 |
| Description: | Research Grant Entitled: "Cities, Ecology & Technology: Overlapping Systems on the Great Barrier Reef"
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| Title: | Exhibition Winner |
| Awarded By: | Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art in Photography |
| Date: | Jan 2003 |
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| Title: | Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies Workshop Grant |
| Awarded By: | University of Tennessee Office of Research |
| Date: | Jun 1999 |
| Description: | Travel Grant to Barcelona, Spain
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| EDUCATION |
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| School: | Texas A & M University |
| Date Graduated: | Jan 2012 |
| Degree: | B ENDS |
| Study Field: | Environmental Design and Architecture |
| Description: | The College of Architecture at Texas A&M University belongs to and serves the professional communities of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, construction science, and visualization science. It is dedicated to generating significant knowledge and insight producing leaders in planning, design and construction of the built environment. |
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| School: | University of Cincinnati |
| Date Graduated: | Jan 2012 |
| Degree: | MS ARCH |
| Study Field: | Architecture and Interior Design |
| Description: | The School of Architecture and Interior Design at the University of Cincinnati prepares students for critical engagement with practice. This critical engagement presupposes sustained evaluation of principles, traditions, and requirements of building in all its aspects, interior and exterior. |
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| School: | Columbia University |
| Date Graduated: | Oct 2005 |
| Degree: | MS RED |
| Study Field: | Real Estate Development |
| Description: | Columbia's MSRED program believes the Next Generation of real estate professionals must balance multiple objectives and command a broad skill spectrum. Their accelerated 1 year program curriculum offers special emphasis on core competencies in real estate development, finance, enterprise management and product implementation, combined with frameworks for public policy partnerships and market research methodologies. |
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| GOALS AND INTERESTS |
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Career Goals: I am a firm believer in the adage "You can't do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow."
I love helping companies create new brands and grow their business. |
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| Personal Interests: dance, sustainability, start-up companies, collaboration, travel, networking |
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