Deborah Vieira
Principal Designer
Deborah has been passionate about architecture and interiors from childhood, when she started drafting in notebooks for pretend clients and subscribing to architectural magazines. After drafting and creating architectural models throughout high school, accumulating binders of tear sheets and inspiration, and a summer architecture program at Cal Poly SLO, she was discouraged from pursuing architecture as a profession (from other architects!), and chose an engineering path instead. She has a BS in Computer Engineering at UC San Diego, and her earliest engineering work was focused on understanding users, and designing and building interfaces. Within a year after graduation, she transitioned into consulting, focused around user experience and product design, and bridging the divide between business and technology teams. She had the opportunity to collaborate with extremely diverse companies, big and small, and over these years, extensively traveled and worked abroad and across the States. Her design inspiration and perspective is indebted to local architecture and landscapes explored across the Americas, Europe, Southeast Asia, Australia, and the South Pacific. After starting a family and ‘soup to nuts’ renovating and extending her ‘new’ dilapidated home in 2009, she finally seized the opportunity to pursue this field professionally, taking night classes for several years along the way to bridge blind spots in her technical knowledge. Her diverse consulting background trained her to see big picture opportunities and solutions, and translate across professional divides, and has ideally equipped her well for this field, where in a day’s work, she is creating and collaborating with diverse clients, engineers, vendors, fabricators, contractors, city officials, and artisans — each with their own talents and personality.
Deborah loves the endless diversity in design challenges & opportunities, the beauty gleaned and discovered along the way, the orchestration of many parts to form the space, the home, and the fantastic client and professional collaboration and trust that truly realizes each project.
Mary Hundertmark
Senior Designer
Mary has been with Deborah Vieira Design since January 2019. She has a Bachelors in Interior Design from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. In addition to her sharp eye and stylistic magic, she warms every project with her accommodating, patient style, while being attentive to every design detail. When not designing, she has three children, enjoys camping with her family, and trains guide dog puppies.
Darrell Biggs
Operations
Darrell has a degree in Industrial Engineering from Rutgers University, and has a personal affinity for style and design. In addition to managing IT, he focuses on business development, establishing new partnerships, and accounting/finance.