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Allison Brooks
Interior Designer with experience in space planning, materials and furniture, healthcare standards, and project documentation. Practical work includes Space planning, Materials and finishes, Furniture specifications, Construction documentation.
Experience
Cleveland Clinic
Weston · United States
Interior Designer
Mar 2022 - now
- Assessed departmental workflows, equipment, furniture, accessibility, and future capacity before developing space plans; connected layout decisions to observed work and patient needs.
- Coordinated materials, finishes, furniture, infection-control criteria, maintenance needs, and lead times; resolved design and procurement conflicts before purchase orders were released.
- Produced plans, elevations, finish schedules, furniture specifications, and revision notes for coordinated review; gave consultants and contractors one current, reviewable design record.
- Compared furniture and finish selections with room use, cleaning needs and accessibility clearances; reconciled sample approvals with the procurement schedule before installation.
- Owned a furniture and materials review using Revit room layouts, resolved an accessibility clearance issue and completed the interior-design package for clinical stakeholder review.
- Published AutoCAD construction details using building-code checks, reduced material-substitution queries by 19% and retained maintenance and cleaning requirements.
Gensler
San Francisco · United States
Interior Designer
Jan 2019 - Feb 2022
- Reviewed submittals and site observations against approved selections, dimensions, and accessibility clearances. Documented deviations and verified corrections before closeout.
- Reconciled consultant comments across plans, sections and schedules, checked the drawing revision against the approved scope, and recorded the outstanding site question before issue.
- Compared a site query with the issued drawing set, checked the affected dimensions with the relevant discipline, and issued a marked-up clarification through the project’s document-control process before work resumed.
Selected project
Interior Designer — independent case study
Project owner
Feb 2024 - Jun 2024
- Produced plans, elevations, finish schedules, furniture specifications, and revision notes for coordinated review
- Used a clearly hypothetical site brief to coordinate a plan, section and schedule; documented dimensions, access constraints and assumed services so another reviewer could trace the same design decision across drawings.
- Prepared a coordination issue register linking the conflict to its drawing reference, proposed resolution and reviewer; distinguished a portfolio study from permit-ready or construction-approved documents.
- Owned the independent drawing coordination using a fixed site brief, resolved a dimensional conflict and completed an annotated revision set for professional review.
Education
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio · United States
B.S. Interior Design
Sep 2013 - Jun 2017
Relevant coursework: Interior design studio, materials, lighting, furniture, accessibility
Skills
Role expertise
Space planning · Materials and finishes · Furniture specifications · Construction documentation · Healthcare design
Certifications
Autodesk Certified User: AutoCAD
Autodesk / Certiport
Jun 2024
Publications
- Published a personal design-coordination note using the study drawings, explaining code assumptions, material choices and decisions that remain subject to licensed professional approval.

