Name: Marie E. Fitzgerald, IIDA
Title: Senior Vice President, Director of Interior Design
Company: SMMA/Symmes Maini & McKee Associates
Location: Cambridge, Mass.
Place of birth: Westfield, Mass.
Family: Husband - Brendan Barnwell, son - Madison
College: UMass - Amherst
First job unrelated to your current field: farmhand (I did grow up in western Mass.)
First job in current field: Interior designer/space planner, Springfield, Mass.
What your firm does now and its plans for the future? The simplest definition of our practice - SMMA is a design firm. We plan to grow, make our clients happy, take over the planet, launch a new website, and have fun.
Hobbies: Painting and watching my son at athletic events
Favorite novel: anything by Kurt Vonnegut, most recently Lamb: the Gospel According to Biff by Christopher Moore
Favorite film: Blade Runner
Keys to success: do something you love with people you like
Person you most admire (outside of family): Karen Kaplan (president, Hill Holliday)
If you had to choose a different profession, what would it be? Lead singer in a band