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Victoria Hughes
Senior 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
Senior Interior Designer
Jan 2021 - now
- As workstream lead, assessed departmental workflows, equipment, furniture, accessibility, and future capacity before developing space plans; connected layout decisions to observed work and patient needs.
- With responsibility for the review standard, coordinated materials, finishes, furniture, infection-control criteria, maintenance needs, and lead times; resolved design and procurement conflicts before purchase orders were released.
- As workstream lead, 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
Mar 2016 - Dec 2020
- Reviewed submittals and site observations against approved selections, dimensions, and accessibility clearances; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams. Working with partner teams, 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
Cross-functional project lead
Mar 2023 - Jul 2023
- Produced plans, elevations, finish schedules, furniture specifications, and revision notes for coordinated review; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams
- 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 2008 - Jun 2012
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
Nov 2023
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.

