Ryan G. Thornton

• Managed multiple design projects simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery within budget constraints.
• Developed innovative design concepts for the retail store for Christmas merchandise and store fixtures product. Helped with customer engagement by showing options and easy design changes
• Produced high-quality mockups for client approval during the design process, saving time on revisions later down the line.
• Purchased store fixtures and products to help customers merchandise their own businesses.
• Designed custom and commercial Christmas display and decor.

• Designed floor plans, elevations, and material boards for review and presentation.
• Selected and sourced materials, furniture, and accessories for aesthetically pleasing spaces.
• Managed budgets and timelines effectively to deliver projects on schedule and within budget constraints.
• Collaborated with architects and contractors to ensure seamless integration of design elements.
• Developed space planning concepts, color palette selections, and textile presentations.
• Coordinated installations of fixtures, furniture, artwork ensuring proper placement alignment within each space according to plan specifications.
• Designed custom cabinets, upholstery, draperies, art framing, and floral pieces.

Model Home Interior Design. Worked with builders to coordinate flooring, paint, cabinet selection, tile and stone options and lighting packages.

Made color and material boards to show interior concepts. Selected all aspects of the Interior... furniture, artwork, bedding, accessories, and draperies.

Coordinated delivery and installation of all product placed in the model homes.

Worked within budgets and certain design parameters/specifications needed by client/builder.

Christmas Design for commercial and residential, store sales for Christmas product and store fixtures business.

Model home Interior Design all aspects.

Flooring, paint, appliances, lighting, furniture, draperies, bedding, accessories, artwork, cabinet design, and floral design!

Meeting brides to develope floral design and site decor for the wedding. Organized delivery and installation of all wedding decor and floral concepts. Actually made the floral and supervised floral concepts. Worked within budgets to develope a beautiful wedding concept.

Christmas Display and Merchandising.

Floral arranging in fresh, dried, and silk arrangements.

Helped coordinate and design events, parties, conventions, and weddings. Helped with many events involved with the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympic games. Planning events and showrooms for NBC, Coca-Cola, and Samsung to name a few.

Floral Designer for fresh flowers and Gift basket arrangements for delivery.