Christina
Lighting Specialist - 5 years of lighting design experience
An empty-nester, Christina is enjoying her dogs and traveling as much as humanly possible. With 15 years of interior design experience, she'd be delighted to help you update and rejuvenate your home with new lighting and décor.
Email Me | 608-661-1509
Advanced Knowledge:
- ALA Lighting Specialist
- BS in Business Marketing, University of Texas - San Antonio
- First Job: Waitress at Ponderosa Steakhouse
Design Advice:
The colors and design of a home should be a reflection of the people who live inside.
Danielle
Lighting Specialist - 25 years of lighting design experience
Danielle’s singular professional focus has been in lighting, but we can’t understand how she keeps her amateur status in all things fun.
Email Me | 608-661-1503
Advanced Knowledge:
- ALA Lighting Specialist
- First Job: Montello Foods
Design Advice:
Two rules for a successful lighting design:
- Don't tell people everything you know.
Connie
Lighting Specialist - 20 years of lighting design experience
Connie is both an accomplished artist and holds an interior design degree. We’re not sure she ever even uses her left brain.
Email Me | 608-661-1507
Advanced Knowledge:
- ALA Certified Lighting Specialist
- Madison College Interior Design degree
- First Job: fireworks sales, Uncle Sam’s
Design Advice:
Creativity is no substitute for knowing what you're doing.
Mary Ellen
Lighting Specialist - 24 years of lighting design experience
Mary Ellen has over 24 years of experience designing, building and selling model homes. She must have started when she was 10.
Email Me | 608-661-1512
Advanced Knowledge:
- ALA Certified Lighting Specialist
- First Job: ice cream scooper, Happy Joe’s
Design Advice:
A room without lighting is like, you know, night.
Lovisa
Lighting Specialist - 18 years of lighting design experience
Lovisa’s prior experience working for a home builder proves invaluable when the all too cryptic construction lingo starts flying. With her there’s never any confusion that blind nailing is nailing performed by the visually impaired or that a butt joint is…well you get the point.
Email Me | 608-661-1504
Advanced Knowledge:
- ALA Certified Lighting Specialist
- UW Stout, Interior Design
- First Job: cleaning specialist, Champion Cleaners
Design Advice:
Lighting design is not about the number of lights or the lumens they emit. It's about the story they tell." - Rogier van der Heide.
Linda
Lighting Specialist - 6 years of lighting design experience
An experienced interior designer and certified home staging expert, Linda has now focused her keen eye on lighting. Let her show you how to “stage” your home as you continue to live in it.
Email Me | 608-661-1510
Advanced Knowledge:
- Northern Illinois University, Interior Design
- Accredited, Staging Professional Master (ASPM)
- First Job: Housekeeping Facilitator, Marriot Hotels
Design Advice:
Spread some light and shine!
Tyler
Lighting Specialist - 8 years of lighting design experience
Tyler returned to Madison, joined the family business, and caught the lighting fever we all have. Tom’s really glad.
Email Me | 608-661-1506
Advanced Knowledge:
- ALA Certified Lighting Specialist
- University of Minnesota, BA
- First Job: Warehouse Activity Facilitator (grunt), Madison Lighting
Design Advice:
Accessorizing counts as exercise!
Dan
Lighting Specialist - 45 years of lighting design experience
Although Dan’s focus is on multi-family and senior living projects, he’s actually better suited for motorcycles, ribs, and country music.
Email Me | 608-661-1523
Advanced Knowledge:
- ALA Certified Lighting Specialist
- First Job: seafood chef, Nino’s Steakhouse
Design Advice:
Warning; only half of all lighting designers are good at math, and the other two-thirds don't care.
Missy
Lighting Specialist - 1 year of lighting design experience
While working as a Middle School art teacher in Salt Lake City, Utah, Missy developed a love of interior design. We’re lucky she decided to pursue it and continue her design journey at Madison Lighting while her spouse attends UW Madison completing his MFA.
Email Me | 608-661-1511
Advanced Knowledge:
- ALA Lighting Specialist
- Dixie State University – Secondary Art Education
- First Job: Wallace Stegner Academy – Art Teacher Grades 5-8
Design Advice:
“Nail the basics first, detail the details later.”
Emily
Lighting Specialist - 2 years of lighting design experience
Discovering design through her photography, Emily explored the properties of lighting as it could transform a space. She now helps others bring their space to light, creating living spaces that are picture perfect.
Email Me | 608-661-1514
Advanced Knowledge:
- Education: Bachelor's degree, UW-La Crosse, Business Management
- First Job: Server at an 80's themed breakfast club
Carolyn
Lighting Specialist - 15 years of residential and small business Interior Design experience
Carolyn’s skills bring interior design and lighting together. Working with clients and their spaces, finding their inspiration and their favorite room elements, adding color theory, then transforming it with light.
Email Me | 608-661-1508
Advanced Knowledge:
- ALA Lighting Specialist
- Associates Interior Design degree, MATC, Mequon
- First Job: TJ’s Balloons in Cedarburg, WI
Design Advice:
Determine your goal for the space, how do you want to feel here? Once you know this, the plan will come together.
Roberto
Technical Support and Service - 29 years of lighting related experience
It’s really hard to narrow what “Berto” does down to a singular job title or description, but we know when he’s done, whatever the problem was has been fixed.
Email Me | 608-661-1520
Advanced Knowledge:
- First Job: dance instructor
Design Advice:
When your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
Galen
Distribution & Support
A perpetual whirlwind of activity, we can’t focus Galen on any one job activity long enough to pick a favorite. Within the same hour you’re likely to find him working in the warehouse, working with customers on the showroom floor, delivering orders, repairing fixtures, and building displays. We’re actually delighted his photo isn’t just a blur.
Email Me | 608-661-1517
Advanced Knowledge:
- First Job: Paper route
Design Advice:
Less is more…more or less.