Week 1: Organizational Structure of Lauderdale Design Group

Week one of my internship finally arrived! On Monday I drove out to Lauderdale Design group not really knowing what all I would be doing.  When I arrived the company's IT guy set up my laptop with LDG's outlook email, gave me access to the server, and set me up to print on the printers in the office.  Then I helped Danni and Joy, one of the Principals, pick out options for lounge furniture to be placed in the new UT residence hall.  All of the design has to be done in three weeks, so we can only choose furniture " on contract".  On contract means that the furniture can be ordered and brought in more quickly since UT already has a contract with them.  Once several furniture options were chosen, I sketched up some space planning options for the main lounge areas, large study rooms, and smaller study rooms and passed them off to Danni to check and make suggestions.  I also helped to update file locations and made new files on the server to help make it a more efficient system.  Then I had Revit class Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.  This week, I also had another first, I broke my collar bone playing Ultimate Frisbee Summer League.  This has made things a bit difficult, but I'm getting pretty fast at typing with my left hand, and I'm determined to not let it slow me down too much.  On Friday, I went back to my internship.  Most of the day was spent ordering about 100 different samples from several different companies.  We also had about 50 carpet tile samples delivered. 

Lauderdale Design Group is a small interiors firm that is a partnership between Joy and Deborah.  Then there are two designers, Danni and Jess, and me, the intern. 

Meeting new people:

Several Reps came into the office while I was there, but I didn't get to take picture because I was doing other things.  A very nice UPS man came in both days too.  I will get names this week though!

Comments

[MBR]

Sorry to hear about your accident and breaking your collar bone! Hope you are not disabled all summer -- not good! I have a question: Who is Danni and Jess? Are you referring to Dani Collins and Jess King? Are they working full-time with Lauderdale this summer, or hired on permanently? Please change the illustration of the company's structure from a pie chart to a graphic that shows the positions and the relationship of the positions to each other. A pie chart is more about showing percentages and does not accurately show organizational structure. I look forward to an introduction to someone. You can introduce Dani and/or Jess, and one or both of the owners would be be great! Please give more detail about the company. When were they established, their practice focus, their previous history, etc.? Until your bone heals, I guess you will be giving Ultimate Frisbee a rest! Look forward to more details in the next post.

[MBR]

New org chart looks great! Thanks for reposting the new image.