Jeremy T. Roither | Interior Design Portfolio

JEREMY T. ROITHER |

IIDA, NCIDQ

Washington, DC

jroither@gmail.com

703.508.9740

www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-roither

https://issuu.com/jeremy_roither

PROFILE

A strategic leader with over 20 years experience creating attractive, award-winning spaces for a diverse array of clients. A passion for mentorship and encouragement of junior designers. Elevating firm-wide design and efficiency by facilitating discussion, critique, organization, standards, and processes. A believer that a firm succeeds only when all of its members succeed.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Wingate Hughes Architects, Washington, DC October 2021 - August 2023

• Directed design studio of 4-5 designers; acted as primary liaison between partners and staff

• Mentored designers in the design, documentation, and construction phases of projects

• Coached designers in their professional development with goal-setting and tracking of progress toward objectives

• Implemented new business model and design process with partners while simultaneously executing existing projects and studio output

• Distributed all staff assignments among designers, organizing studio output and optimizing efficiency

• Developed work plans and tracked progress of individual tasks, ensuring timely delivery of milestones

• Created and tracked project proposals and schedules

• Analyzed studio performance and compared with financial targets

Senior Designer, Group Leader

EYP, Washington, DC

January 2021 - October 2021

• Acted as group leader, mentoring junior designers and tracking the progress of their annual goals to foster their professional development

• Participated in the staffing, strategy, and logistical management of interiors studio, increasing studio efficiency and work quality

• Gathered data, programming, and visioning information, and client vision/goals from large government agency, creating foundation for design and layout of entire 700,000 SF facility

• Led large design team in conceiving spatial and organizational strategy for vast government client, establishing template of entire building

Senior Designer

FOX Architects, Washington, DC

March 2004 - September 2020

• Designed award-winning spaces for commercial office clients, leading to improved business efficiency, performance, and morale

• Led design teams on large interior design projects, from visioning and programming through construction close-out

• Participated in project interviews to obtain new work, resulting in new projects for firm

• Mentored junior designers, assisting them in developing their professional skills, and thereby elevating the design skills of the firm

• Authored Design QA/QC process for entire interiors studio to elevate firm-wide design quality

• Coordinated and led pinups and design charrettes of all interiors projects

• Curated and led design program for summer interns, acting as mentor and overseeing final design output

EDUCATION

University of Virginia

Charlottesville, VA 2002

BS, Architecture

Minor, Architectural History

SKILLS

• Design Leadership

• Project Strategy

• Peer Mentorship

• Design QA/QC

• Client Management

• Consultant Coordination

• Clear Communication

HONORS & AWARDS

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Revit

• AutoCAD

• Adobe InDesign

• Adobe Photoshop

• Google Sketchup

• Microsoft Office Suite

• Bluebeam

• IIDA MAC Premiere Awards, Special Mention, CQ Roll Call, 2018

• IDA Design Awards, Honorable Mention - CQ Roll Call, 2018

• SIIA Workplace Innovation Award - CQ Roll Call, 2017

• IIDA MAC Bronze Award - CQ Roll Call, 2013

• ABC Metro DC Excellence in Construction Award - SoundExchange, 2013

• NAIOP Award of Excellence - CQ Roll Call, 2012

• Solutia/Ultron’s The DOC Awards, Honorable Mention - Ruesch International, 2008

• NAIOP Award of Excellence - Portland Cement Association, 2007

CERTIFICATIONS

• International Interior Design Association Professional Member, 2017present

• National Council of Interior Design Qualifications Certified Designer, 2017 - present

CQ Roll Call was formed by the merger of three separate companies who report on government and Capitol Hill. The new organization desired an office that created a wholly new image and feel that did not harken back to any of the individual units. The result was a sophisticated, vibrant classic modern design that reflected CQ Roll Call’s forward-thinking culture.

Media is the link between the government and the people.

The media is represented by a metal strip in the floor and a color changing LED strip in the ceiling.

Dramatic punches of color enliven the pantry gathering space.

The library is a destination for the gallery corridor, as well as a place to display decades of bound volumes.

Photography © Ron Blunt

The floor plate is divided up into a series of horizontal fields, divided by vertical planes. The experience of the space is a procession through the various boundaries from field to another.

SoundExchange is non-profit performance rights organization chartered by Congress to collect royalties for musical artists from digital sources such as internet radio, satellite radio, and TV. They employ a young, dynamic workforce and wanted a space that reflected that demographic, while remaining professional. The resulting space acheives this goal and celebrates the “experience of music” - using sound, shape, color, and texture.

Cuts in the ceiling highlight the plane’s undulations and curves.

The curved shape of the ceiling reflects the soundwaves of music.

10th Floor Reflected Ceiling Plan

The display wall in the main cafe rolls away, opening the space for large gatherings and performances.

Photography © John Gallin & Son, Inc.

Spotify, platform, space quadruple space decades it contained off of a U.S. excitement

Spotify, the Sweden-based streaming music platform, was quickly outgrowing their current space in midtown Manhattan, expecting to quadruple in size in the next five years. The new space they occupied was built in stages over many decades and had a disjointed and motley feel. Yet contained many great individual volumes to work and accentuate. The challenge was to create U.S. headquarters space with the same vigor, excitement and energy as its young workforce.

The meter of music is used as the main organizing element of the space. Regularly placed elements create a spine, linking the varied and disparate spaces.

The marketplace is the space where staff come to share a meal and recharge during long workdays. The space features brightly colored furniture for an eclectic feel.

The town hall is a double-height space with a stage, theatrical lighting and congregation space. Artists visit regularly and give pop-up performances.

The east side of the space is divided into “squad rooms” - each containing 10 desks, an open huddle area and a small team room. They are centered around a large lounge for breakout and relaxation.

The space features the work of a New York graffiti artist, to link the the company to the city’s vibrant street art scene.

Photography © Erin Kelleher

America’s Essential Hospitals is a non-profit membership-based organization that represents public hospitals across the country. Their members serve underprivileged populations and are in many cases the only source of healthcare in their communities. They wanted a refined, minimal, and welcoming space that reflected their critical, important, and life-saving mission to both staff and members.

“Hospitals - Centers of the Community” is expressed with a double-L bracketing motif. Gathering spaces are in the center, with a main corridor that always leads back to the center.

Rendering © Joyce Huang

Like a hospital is the center of its community, the cafe is the central gathering space of the office.

Floor finishes and ceiling planes express the bracketing theme, encircling important spaces within the office.

Floor Finish Plan

Reflected Ceiling Plan

The government must be responsive to the people; the media sit at the nexus between them.

The recent history of the newspaper industry has been a turbulent one of mergers, downsizing, and shifting business model. As a result, CQ Roll Call drastically reduced its footprint and reoriented itself more as an online content and technology service provider. They were looking for a new space which was denser, more flexible, and much more collaborative. The result was a new, dynamic, highly-branded space which served this new paradigm.

The government and people are represented on graphic walls and by circulation paths; CQ Roll Call is represented in a branded cube at their intersection.

Open collaboration

areas serve as anchors of each neighborhood to tie the segmented and disjointed floor plate together. Images from CQ Roll Call’s award-winning archive serve as landmarks on the floor to make these spots destinations.

MUSIC

MODEL BUILDING VIRTUAL THEME PARK DESIGN

Song Composition and Synthesizer Software