Junior Interior Designer, FF&E Specification Writer

BERNADETTE ACUNA

Address: *** ******** ******, *** *********, CA 94110.

Telephone: 415-***-****

E-mail: ***************@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Three Course Restaurant Consultancy, San Francisco, California. 2009 - 2010.

Brand Strategy Consultant - Food and Beverage

• Identified core competencies within businesses in order to build brand identity and image

• Identified consumer characteristics and demographics to provide tangible methods for increasing brand

loyalty

• Streamlined back and front-of-house processes using observational studies and work-flow analyses

• Provided a bottoms-up analysis to restaurant owners for optimizing their businesses

• Responsible for mediating discussions and creating agendas for managerial and staff meetings, including

progress reviews on the implementation of recommendations within the scope

Sylvia Chiang Design, San Francisco, California. 2007 - 2009.

Junior Interior Designer, FF&E Specialist - Hospitality

Park Hyatt Resort, Ningbo, China

• Managed budget adjustment substitutions for the project to meet the client’s bottom-line

• Responsible for writing specifications of all furniture, finishes, equipment, and materials referenced

• Oversaw quality control of all incoming materials from manufacturers such as carpet strike-offs, fabric cuttings,

shop drawings, furniture/lighting prototypes

CL3 Architects, Hong Kong, China. May 2006 - August 2006.

Design Intern - Hospitality and Retail

Nishimura Restaurant, Shangri-La Hotel, Beijing, China

• Responsible for schematic design of furniture

• Project published. Interior Design June 2007 pg. 219-226. May 2009 pg. 158-160

Lauckgroup, Dallas, Texas. May 2005 - August 2005, December 2005 - January 2006.

Design Intern - Corporate

Tocquigny Company, Austin, TX

• Responsible for schematic design of lobby

• Project published. Interior Design July 2008 pg. 172

• Project awarded Honorable Mention IIDATX/OK Excellence in Design 2006

Manuel A. Roxas Museum, Capiz, Philippines. July 2004.

Design Intern - Exhibit

• Designed exhibits and museum layout and presented on the basics of museum concept design entitled

“Museum as a Bo ok: What stories ne ed to be told?”

• Implemented the design of new exhibits including signage, exhibit arrangement, meeting and retail spaces

• Due to the renovation, the government approved funding for air conditioning, repairs to leaks within the

ceiling, new paint for the interior and exterior and museum attendance increased by 80%

ACADEMIC HISTORY

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. 2003 - 2007.

Bachelor of Science, Design & Environmental Analysis

• Coursework - Design Graphics & Visualization; Digital Communications; Programming Methods in Design;

Human Factors: Ambient Environment; Leadership in the Non-Profit Sector; Ecological Literacy; Law, Science &

Public Values

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. June 2002 - August 2002.

Harvard Summer School - Secondary School Program

• Coursework - English and American Literature and Language; Expository Writing: Writing and the Essay

VOLUNTARY EXPERIENCE

La Cocina, San Francisco, California. 2010 - present.

Brand Strategy Consultant & Interior Designer

• Responsible for creating the budget for the build-out of new start-up restaurants (including creating the

preliminary design as well as identifying equipment and other materials needed)

COMPETENCIES

• Proficient in Adobe CS3 Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign/GoLive/Acrobat; MS Word/Excel/Powerpoint/Outlo ok;

AutoCAD (2D/3D); Architectural Studio (similar to SketchUp), Corel Painter

• Conversant in Spanish, Tagalog, Visaya

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