Sophie Mc Cartney

E D U C AT I O N PRATT INSTITUTE Brooklyn, NY Bachelors of Art in Interior Design with High Honors - Minor in Sustainability SOPHIE MCCARTNEY Portland, OR Email:-Phone: - Website: sophie-mccartney.com Junior Interior Designer with a background in the Hospitality, Senior Living, and Multi Family sectors. I am passionate about enhancing user experience through meaningful design with strong skills in purposeful conceptual design research. I believe that playful, empathetic, and clear communication in design is important in order to achieve a successful and thriving environment for any community. DESIGN SKILLS: • Client Presentation • Physical Design Boards • Revit Family Modeling • Construction Drawing Scheduling • Project Documentation • Client Communication • Shop Drawings • Vendor Relationships • Specification Writing • PIP/ Scope RFP Pricing FF&E • Pricing Proposals • Material Selection • Schematic Design • Site Analysis • Color Forecasting S O F T WA R E : • BIM: Revit, AutoCad, Bluebeam • 3D: Sketch-Up, Rhino • Adobe Suite, Adobe Premiere Pro • Studio Webware • Render: Enscape, VRAY, Lumion AWARDS Brooklyn, NY Selected by Pratt’s Board of Trustee’s, Pratt Show May 2023 Nominee for Social Justice Design Competition, Pratt 2023 Commencement Award: Memory at Home: a Residential Communal Senior Living System for Older Adults with Dementia EXPERIENCE JUNIOR INTERIOR DESIGNER Reporting to the Design Director, responsibilities include Project Documentation, Client Communication, and Completed Drawing Sets. Furniture Industries Inc. Minneapolis, MN Sept. 2023- Present • Prepared Drawing Sets for FF&E in scope, Value Engineering with Fabric/ Finish Selections • Established Relationships with Vendors when working on RFP pricing • Technical Shop Drawings for Custom Millwork and Custom Soft Goods • Space Planning for Demos and FF&E Layouts • Created Custom Revit Families/ Sheets : firm moved from CAD to REVIT • Specification Writing using Studio Webware Software • Digital/ Physical Board Client Presentations, Many Schemes/ Selections INTERIOR DESIGN WORKSHOP LEAD Led Creative Design Workshops twice a month for High School students in LES, NYC. Forsyth Satellite Academy New York, NY Sept. 2022- March 2023 • Creative workshops sponsored by Pratt, the Level Up Project (a nonprofit organization), along with a collaboration of local artists. - Manipulation of Materials with an Emphasis on Origami - Understanding Space Planning an Introduction to AutoCad ART AND DESIGN WORKSHOP LEAD Led Creative Design Workshops after school during the summer for children in Oakland Doodle After School San Francisco, CA June 2022- August 2022 • Lesson Planning for Project Based Workshop for ages 7-16yrs - Experimented with CNC Cut Plywood to Build Student Designed Forts - Manipulated Seismic Design using different materials to Mimic Loads