Meet the Team.
Transforming your home into a beautiful space that reflects your personality is an exciting and fun process, but one that requires mastery of details and industry knowledge to execute successfully. Partnering with Design Studio Interior Solutions ensures you’ll benefit from the professional experience and expertise of our team and be rewarded with a home you love.
JUDY
CEO | Owner
Combining 4 decades of banking and finance on both coasts, a Cordon-Bleu chef and entrepreneur, Judy governs the firm laser-focused on the client experience, balancing design, buildability, livability, and budget. She provides strategic oversight to projects and strongly supports the decision rights of her team to run projects proactively and with the clients’ best interest at the forefront.
Having lived in Los Angeles, the Bay Area, New York City, Boston, and 12 years in Boulder, she leads the team to implement best practices from her career from each city.
If you see a small plane fly by, look up, it might be her co-piloting in the sky with her husband when she is not running the business or working on philanthropic efforts to support her community.
JAMIE
Director of Design | Allied ASID
As an NKBA and ASID award winning designer, Jamie oversees and manages the design direction of every project. She led a client’s 18-month project rebranding and updating their offices nationwide to whole home builds, kitchen, bath, and basement remodels. Jamie is an expert in guiding clients through their projects from concept to completion.
After graduating with a BA in Interior Design, Jamie joined a boutique residential firm in Chicago where she worked on everything from 15,000 square-foot homes to urban penthouses and lakefront vacation homes.
After returning to her home state of Colorado, she developed her practice by becoming the lead designer for a Boulder residential firm where she worked on homes from Denver to Vail.
In Jamie’s spare time, she actively cheers on her son’s top traveling soccer team and brings humorous stories to the office from her two teen age boys.
STEVE
Chief Operations Officer
Steve, a native of Chicago, started his career as a cashier at Home Depot. By the end of his first year, recognized for his organizational, financial and project management skills, he was tasked with managing the build-out of new big box stores across the country, which he continued to do for the next decade for both Home Depot and Lowe’s.
When Home Depot ownership changed, Steve was recruited to join a prominent retail marketing firm in Illinois as Director of Operations. Here, Steve ran the rebranding and build-out of new and remodeled stores, including Ace Hardware and Rite-Aid stores across the country.
After 15 years of constant travel, tight timelines and budgets, Steve decided to make a change as he had a young family. He moved to Colorado with his family and put his efforts into a marketing and printing company he purchased. He grew the business, and with large regional university and city accounts, became the preferred vendor for wrapping buses, branding auto fleets and producing branded apparel and promotional products.
With a calling to move back into project, budget and onsite management, he has joined the team here as Chief Operations Officer. Steve brings those exceptional skills to the implementation of each and every project the team designs.
CANDACE
SVP | Senior Designer | ASID, NCIDQ
As a past design teacher from California’s prestigious Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, a professional with the highest professional NCIDQ certification and membership and past board member of ASID, Candace delivers exceptional design to her clients and plays a critical leadership role at the company. Her experience and BA in Interior Design has taken her to California, Hawaii, France, Shanghai as well as a more than a decade of work in the Front Range and Mountain Towns of Colorado.
Candace had a new project this year, designing the baby’s room for her new grandson.
RACHEL
Design Associate
A graduate of CU Denver, with a degree in Architecture and certificate of Interior Design, Rachel brings extensive proficiency in computer design programs including Adobe suites, Revit, Rhino, CAD, and Sketch-up. She plays a key role in design development and schematic drawings including floorplans, elevations, and renderings. Rachel assists with product selection and final client delivarables.From Minnesota, and now a resident of Colorado, she loves being outside gardening or in the kitchen trying something new.
RÓMULO
Architectural Affiliate
Originally from Venezuela, Rómulo has a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Architecture from Universidad Central de Venezuela FAU-UCV and a Master’s Degree in Construction Management from Universidad Metropolitano CENDECO. He worked in Venezuela for over 15 years developing and building commercial projects and custom homes. When he moved to the US in 2015, he reconnected to his Architecture practice through local construction companies. In the past few years, he has been working with a variety of Architectural and Design firms on residential and commercial projects. Rómulo is the Architectural Affiliate on all projects at Design Studio Interior Solutions.
Rómulo is a practiced adventurer and competitive mountain bike rider and is the father of two very active young boys.
RACQUEL
Design Associate
A graduate of Purdue University in the Interior Design Professional Program, Racquel joined our team as our newest Design Associate. With internships in Florida and Indiana, Racquel brings a fresh look at Colorado design. She has exceptional computer design skills and rounds out our strong design team.
KATEY
Design Associate Intern
With a BS in Ecological and Environmental Biology and a MS in Biomedical Sciences, as well as 4 year teaching biology, physics and chemistry to high school student, Katey brings tremendous discipline and critical thinking to the creative side of our design team. After a covid-driven career change, she is in her last year at CSU Interior Architectural and Design/Construction Management, obtaining her BS this next year. Upon her completion, we will be excited to have her join as a full-time Design Associate.
JOAN
Assistant
Joan Branson, a Florida native, joined the team in 2021. With her extensive history in hospitality and her exceptional organizational skills, she keeps the design and logistic teams working efficiently. Joan plays a critical role in the showroom, ensuring the design team is ready for client meetings, controlling the inventory management system, and fulfilling general office needs. Joan is our resident cheerleader!
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