EARLE JAY GOODMAN
33 Years Professional Design Experience

 CURRICULUM VITAE

• Born March 28, 1950. Raised in Idaho and Utah.

• Graduated High School 1968. 

• Lived and studied in Argentina, and studied at University of Utah. While no longer fluent, enjoy reading, writing and conversing in Spanish.

• 1971, hired as administrative assistant to owner of Spa Health Clubs International chain and Villa Nova restaurant chain, headquartered in Manhattan. 

• 1972, As chains grew, became manager of head office, responsible for multiple site staffing, accounting, payrolls, banking, and coordinated promotions between publicists, ad agencies and local managers. 

• 1974, legal secretary for aggressive Fifth Avenue law firm specializing in real estate. Obtained real estate salesperson license.

• 1976, office manager and personal assistant to W. Barnes Hunt, then a practicing financial and investment advisor handling his Pratt and Hunt family portfolios and co-executor with U.S. Trust of the trust funds set up by his families. He bankrolled the start-up of our business in 1979: 

• Began new company with partner, James John Goodman, creating a 10,000 square foot production/design studio/showroom facility serving the retail, hotel, restaurant, and amusement park industries. 

• Provided merchandising, store planning and attraction design and production. Photographs of installations can be seen in our on-line Portfolio, and a list of projects and customers can be reviewed in "Clients". 

• During this phase of career, was published extensively in books e.g. World’s Best Store Design, newspapers, trade and general interest magazines, from Orlando Sentinel to Playboy Magazine, and was interviewed on radio and television. Was honored with the cover feature article in Interior Design. Selections and reprints can be read at "Press".

• In 1985, design emphasis changed to Real Estate when professionally introduced to several prominent Manhattan real estate developers who contracted for model apartments, sales offices, building standards, corridors and lobbies. 

• In all, produced nearly two-hundred Model Homes in Manhattan. This lead to doing developers private residences, and to private apartments and homes for people who saw the models and other customer's homes. The Residential customer list rather says it all. 

• By 1995, had branched into another area of specialization: Catering, with some important projects. 

• In 1997, was brought to South Florida by customers, and decided to relocate. While still producing projects in New York such as the Akwesasne Mohawk Casino in 1999, currently enjoys living and working in sunny Florida. 

• Writes HTML (hyper text markup language) documents for publishing pages on the world wide web. Created this website.