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Donna Moriarty

Gary Gearhart

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Donna Moriarty, CKD, CBD

Donna assists in the development of StartBuild hiring programs, training programs, and support programs for the design needs of the company.

Donna is currently a chapter executive representative of the National Kitchen and Bath Association (NKBA) operating at the national level, with ten years experience as a Certified Kitchen and Bath (CKB) professional. During this period of tenure Donna was elected President for two years and has occupied various other Board positions with California Chapters of the NKBA. She enjoys personal and professional involvement participating actively on various panels in both local and national forums supporting the Kitchen and Bath industry at large.

Credited with 29 years of hosting and presenting training seminars to future Kitchen and Bath Designers, Donna is on the leading edge of teaching sales techniques and Computer Aided Design technology to Designers on various computer oriented design platforms.

Having direct participation in the development and production of 12 video tapes used commercially to support Kitchen and Bath Design applications, Donna has also enjoyed a ten year history as a Dealer/Distributor and National Sales Representative for various cabinet manufacturers. Her sales experience includes two years managing a multi-location retail chain, as well as spending a full year establishing retail kitchen sales facilities for an eleven store retail chain and five years developing sales venues for kitchen appliances.

Donna Moriarty is proud to join StartBuild bringing a depth, breadth and wealth of background, training and sales expertise to a company committed to fulfilling the personal dreams of StartBuild clients in pursuit of realizing their personal ambition to achieve design concept for life.


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Gary K. Gearhart II

Gary K. Gearhart II is the Chief Kitchen and Bath Designer for the premier design studios of Trumbull Industries based in Warren, Ohio. Gary's studio is a functional 15,000 square foot showroom located in Youngstown, Ohio which entertains both professional designers and private clients by exclusive appointment and is utilized to assemble design ideas in real life settings as both a sales tool and design workshop. The showroom is Gary's "Model Store" featuring a hundred vignettes of various functional kitchen and bath design combinations utilizing the vast array of products available from his company resources.

Gary enjoys the passion to create the look, feel and style from the client's vision and dreams by incorporating blueprint, budget and a construction schedule to realize a design for life through a series of progressive and focused interviews. With a design portfolio including thousands of product combinations and the ability to listen to a client's ideas, Gary will render a resulting lifestyle design picture using the most sophisticated 3D visual image software which permits the client a very real private view from the comfort of their own home.

With availability to the exclusive private-label brand of Omega Cabinets offered by his company or other nationally known alternatives, Gary will render a completely functional kitchen cabinet design to suit the most demanding needs of personal lifestyle and meet the family requirements for pattern, placement, function and appearance. Major brand appliances can be selected and provided to accommodate a complete delivered kitchen or specified into the design criteria to ensure proper fit and appeal.

Bath design styles can range from the most functional to the most elaborate and visually pleasing. Gary has immediate access to Jacuzzi, American Standard, Delta, and Moen products which are typically in stock, or availability to hundreds of other brands such as Bach, Grohe, Hansgrohe and Porcher, just to name a few to meet the client's specific functional or aesthetic requirement.

StartBuild is pleased to offer the specialized design services of Gary Gearhart and confident that the personal attention to your lifestyle details will prevail in his designs to realize your dreams.


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