EXPERIENCE

HELEN SHIN DESIGN

Clark / Barnes
Seattle, Washington

Kylee Shintaffer Design
Seattle, Washington

Nordstrom
Seattle, Washington

IA Interior Architects
Seattle, Washington

One Workplace
Santa Clara / San Francisco, California

SKILLS

Freelance Designer, Owner
x Providing Architectural & Design services, including but not limited to interiors consulting, FF&E presentations, drafting, permit documents, branding & styling, & exhibition graphics.

Senior Interior Designer, Team Lead
x Created immersive living concepts for multi-family residential properties for key partner developers culminating from ideation, interior finishing thru construction completion of trendsetting luxury amenities of 100 to 400+ unit complexes.

x Designed & presented highly impactful programmatic space planning & finishes schemes for residential common areas & unit variations with critical budget & time restraints.

x Mentored & managed junior designers within team’s projects in each phase including concept & program development, shop drawing reviews, & complete FF&E packages.

x Interfaced as the interiors project lead with clients, general contractors, & all consultants.

Senior Interior Designer, Lead Designer
x Led design vision & styled presentations to custom furnishings for hyper-personalized, high-end, single family residences through images, drawings, renderings, & finish palettes.

x Coordinated & consulted all design-impacting decisions with head contractors, & fabricators including, but not limited to millworkers, artisans, finishers, installers, & landscapers.

Senior Environmental Designer - Nordstrom Rack, US & International
x Conducted full season of new store openings’ design assets, & install of the customer journey, including prototyped custom fixtures, way-finding, & environmental graphics.

x Managed team of three designers & coordinated with key marketing & design partners to produce successful refreshes & store launches.

Intermediate Designer + Experiential Graphic Designer, Junior Designer
x Co-led the construction admin. of a 1-million sqft TI project & supported concept development through documentation to full occupancy for multiple large-scale projects.

x Facilitated design development for a variety of corporate clients with demanding parameters to produce environmentally stimulating interactive user experiences. 

Designer + Co-Founder of Studio1 Design Team
x Co-Founded Studio1 Design team to offer a full-service design package from concepting to install of all specified furnishings to clients & bolstered future business development.

x Designed tailored experiences in all scales from small, flex & cafe spaces to innovative, bespoke environments for large influential technology companies & organizations.

x Authored a 400-page guidebook for the team’s protocols & design standards.

Architectural Drafting Space Planning FF&E Specs + Palettes
Construction Documents Graphic Design Custom Furniture + Fixtures

Adobe CS: Illustrator InDesign Photoshop
Autodesk: AutoCAD Revit Sketchup with V-Ray
Microsof Office: Word Powerpoint Excel