• Selected (peer selection) to present at international Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) conference. Austin, TX. March 2007. Construction Through Design: A Three-Dimensional Project Experience
• American Architectural Foundation grant proposal (Submitted) $3,000. Careers in Design: A Two-Year High School Curriculum for Career and Technical Education in Mississippi
• MSU College of Architecture, Art and Design Symposium. Mississippi State University. 2006. Attended and presented (peer selected) Space Standards and Corporate Culture: Five Case Studies
• Architecture+ Design Education National Conference 2006, Chicago, IL. Attended and presented (peer selected) Design Technology for Fashion and Interiors Curriculum
• Gear Up Mississippi Grant (received). $48,000. 2006. Building Bridges: Exposure, Exploration, and Empowerment through Design. Summer camp for 28 high school students, part of a team of three researchers.
• Part of team of consultants for the Mississippi State University Research and Curriculum Unit and the Mississippi Department of Education to design a high school Career and Technology Program interior design Curriculum for 15 schools throughout Mississippi.
• Mississippi State University Schillig Grant. $3,000. 2006. Funding for teaching equipment.
• American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences National Conference. 2006. Charlotte, NC. Attended and presented (peer selected) Space Standards and Corporate Culture: Five Case Studies
• Richmond International Facility Management Association (IFMA) Chapter, 2003. Presented (Invited) Conferencing Services at Capital One
• IFMA International Conference. Toronto, Canada, 2002. Attended and presented (peer selected), Where are your Standards?
• Facility Forum National Conference. Dallas, TX. 2001. Attended and presented (peer selected) Where are your Standards?
  

Master of Science in Interior Design
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (1995)
Emphasis on Facilities Management, Organizational Behavior and Corporate Culture.  Thesis Topic: Facilities Planning for Group Work

Bachelor of Science in Home Economics (Interior Design Option) Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS (1992)

Visiting Assistant Professor in Interior Design
College of Architecture, Art, and Design, Mississippi State University, MS (August 2005-Present)
Responsibilities include: teaching between  nine and eleven credit hours a semester, university service, research and community outreach projects. 

Courses Taught: 
ID 1683. Interior Design Graphics. (3) One hour lecture. Four hours laboratory. Introduction to basic manual drafting and tools/techniques used by interior designers in executing and reading graphic language in two dimensional form.
ID 1694. Interior Design Studio I. (4) Two hours lecture. Four hours laboratory. Introduction to the basic principles and element of design using practical and abstract applications in creative problem solving analyzing spatial form and function.
ID 3363. 3/D CAD/Modeling in Interior Design. (3) Two hours lecture. Two hours laboratory. Advanced computer graphic communication in interior design for the development of technical and perspective drawings created in presentation formats using 3D imaging.
ID 4663/6663. Professional Procedures and Practices for Interior Designers. (3) Three hours lecture. Professional opportunities as they relate to individual competencies. Study of studio procedures, ethics, business and legal aspects. Preparation of resume and portfolio presentation.
ID 4990. Computer-Aided Design for Inteiror Design Sciences. (3) Two hours lecture. Two hours laboratory. Applications of computer-aided design for interior design.

Freelance Programming Specialist
July 2006 to present, various employers
Provide programming and space planning analysis and support for interior design firms.

Corporate Real Estate Workplace Strategist and Service Line Manager
Capital One Financial, Richmond, VA (April 2001-March 2005)
Workplace Strategist. Responsibilities included: Developing strategies for the workplace including leadership of a cross functional team to select a new furniture vendor and redesign workstations to save over $10MM on one project alone (project won the Capital One Circle of Excellence Award). Also responsible for design and publication of a design guidelines manual for facility standardization. During this time I also designed a line of fabrics with Deepa Textiles to showcase our brand on the workstations.
Service Line Manager. Responsibilities included: American conferencing portfolio (1600+ rooms) including reservation system (1700+ reservations a day). Management of staff of 20 and outsourced associates. Six different operational initiatives with the conferencing portfolio: general conferencing, TeleSuite (executive video conferencing offering), video conferencing, video conference training, ReserveOne (reservations system)

Associate, Sr. Project Manager, Corporate Studio
Hnedak Bobo Group, Inc., Memphis, TN (January 1995 – April 2001)
Responsibilities included: Project management, corporate studio organizational development, strategic facilities planning, client management, programming, interior design, management of staff of 10. Developed a database application to manage programming data in access.
Representative Projects/Clients: FedEx World Headquarters (1,100,000 SF), Union Planters Administrative Center (600,000 SF), and International Paper Planning (500,000 SF).

Facility Management Graduate Assistant
Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge, TN (1993-1994)
Developed a database for facilities tracking
Helped in programming/planning new and leased office space and training facilities