Claremont Graduate University

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Owner/Designer, Red Line Design, LLC
Registered Interior Designer

Responsible for primary business functions including staff development, hiring  and client billing. 
Oversaw design presentations, monitored design development and design direction, provided studio support to ensure consistent and high quality design with architectural design principal and architectural project studio director. 
Professional development and mentorship of design staff. 
Hired staff in collaboration with project director and design principal. 
Assisted design principal and development director in acquiring new business and requests for proposal. 
Executive level view of projects, staffing and strategic planning of the studio with project director and design principal.
Project management, construction coordination and administration.
Development of furniture, finish and equipment estimates, procurement, delivery and installation.
Responsible for initiating new project management software for office during  COVID which allowed all employees to work from home. Coordination of schedules, zoom calls and general work flow throughout work from home.

AARON NEUBERT ARCHITECTS, INC.

Managing Director and Interiors Collaborator

Registered Interior Designer
Fine Art Photographer
Artist

Red Line Design, LLC

Principal and Creative Director

Sarah Stevenson is the Principal and Creative Director of Red Line Design a full service interior design studio in the Silverlake neighborhood of Los Angeles. Sarah holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Interior Design. She is an NCIDQ (National Council of Interior Design Qualification) certificate holder and has proven expertise in understanding and applying current building codes established to protect public health, safety, and welfare for interior design.
Interior Design was introduced to her by her aunt, who was a lead graphic designer at the Australian National Gallery. A deep love of architecture, design and creativity formed through this introduction and remains a huge source of inspiration in her work today. Sarah was born and raised in Australia, moved to the US at age 10 and maintains strong family ties to her homeland but identifies Chicago as her US home.
Most of Sarah’s career was spent in Chicago working for some of the industries largest interior design and architectural firms. With a background in corporate fortune 500 interior design and architecture Sarah brings a strategic, collaborative, respectful approach to all her design projects. She is most concerned with marrying both the client and architectural vision in her projects and strives to maintain a strong balance to the surrounding natural landscape. 
When she is not working you can find her creating black and white photography, painting mixed media art, trying out new restaurants in her neighborhood and escaping to Malibu for a restful, quiet moment at the beach with her labradoodle Louie and her two daughters.

Principal

Graduate Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Black and White Photography with Ken Gonzales Day. Responsible for co-teaching, grading and assisting students with dark room technique for printing black and white silver gelatin prints.

Scripps College

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Strategic planning, project management, workplace strategy, occupancy strategy and project coordination both on site and in design studio for fortune 500 clients
Managed staff of up to 20 designers working on complex, award winning, office reorganization for over one million square feet of space including assisting facilities managers with reorganization, strategic planning, workplace strategy, occupancy planning, construction, move coordination and post occupancy evaluation
Gained client trust and confidence, thus expanding additional services during and after reorganization.
Assisted design principal and marketing team in acquiring new business and requests for proposal. 
Executive level view of projects, staffing and strategic planning of the studio with project director and design principal.
Responsible for monthly client billing, maintaining project budgets and client relationships with project design principal.
Project management, construction coordination and administration on site and with project team.
Development of furniture, finish and equipment estimates, procurement, delivery and installation.
Senior Interior Designer on large corporate interiors projects including programming, client presentations, materials and finish selection, furniture selection, schematic design, design development, construction documents and field observation.

The Environments Group

Project Manager and Senior Interior Designer

Interior design services for GSA - Government Services Administration Great Lakes Region including  preliminary design surveys and interior standards developments for various regional government offices.
Responsible for monthly client billing, maintaining project budgets and client relationships with project design director.
Project management, construction coordination and administration for interior design projects.
Furniture, Finish and Equipment Selection for interior design clients

Horn + Associates

Interior Designer and Project Manager

Tenant development services for several prestigious, downtown Chicago property management companies and Class A office space; Including space planning, preparation of square footage calculations and lease book updates, construction documents, construction administration
Project management, interior design, construction documents and construction administration 
Responsible for monthly client billing, maintaining project budgets and client relationships with project design director.
Project management, construction coordination and administration for interior design projects.
Development of furniture, finish and equipment estimates, procurement, delivery and installation for furniture dealership partner
Furniture, Finish and Equipment Selection for interior design clients
Design Team Member and Committee Leader for TQM (Total Quality Management) Program

Interprise

Facilities management for large corporate client, including space planning, move coordination, furniture standards development and support for facilities management department
Project management, interior design, construction documents and construction administration 
Interior Standards development for nationwide software company. Interior design and design development documents that were then passed along to local architect for construction. 
Art program development for nationwide software development company. Worked with local art dealer to develop individual program for each office; Developed art plan and documentation for each location with implementation and hanging plan for office managers
Interior Standards programs for several local and regional hospital clients; developed color palettes, standard furniture and equipment, and full architectural finish palettes. Provided finish plans and specifications for construction and monitored implementation with senior design staff.
Architectural and interior finish boards, specification books and presentation materials for all architectural and interiors clients