In an attempt to make the company more dynamic, we are putting employee profiles on our website, as well as an email blast. It's strange writing about yourself, but here is mine!
Employee name:Catie
Nickname: Boss
lady
Theme song:
“Green Onions” – Booker T and the MGs
Favorite pattern:
Maharam Small Dot
Favorite bad movie:
Army of Darkness
Catie grew up in the retail world, and caught the sales-bug
early. In grade school, she worked in her Mother’s shop, Magpie, in Arlington
and Alexandria VA. Realizing sales was in her blood, she absorbed all that she
could from time on the sales floor, filing purchase orders, or pretending to be
18 so she could be snuck into trade shows.
After high school, Catie moved to Richmond in 2005 to get
her BS in Marketing from Virginia Commonwealth University. After a semester in
Richmond, she accepted a position at EQ3, a contemporary furniture store in
Carytown. There she met Will (U-Fab RVA) and Travis (U-Fab owner). After the
heartbreaking close of EQ3, she started a three year run working for the ALDO
Groupe, a shoes and accessories chain. There she was promoted from key-holder
to store manager in a matter of months, and was ranked one of the top 5 Store Managers
in the Mid-Atlantic Region. Then the opportunity came to work with the old team
again, and put all she had learned to good use on a new challenge. So now she
is off the sales floor and at U-Fab R&D helping overseeing the sales team,
applying her corporate knowledge, and helping Travis remember where he put
stuff. Catie aspires to one day own her own business and be a nationally recognized bowling champion (although she needs to start
bowling first).
Catie is living the single life in a pink house in the
Manchester district with her cat, The General.
