Name: Barbara Budar
Age: 46
Position: Project manager, Ferraro Choi and Assoc. Ltd.
First job: Motel maid, Anaheim, Calif.
Favorite pastimes: Hiking, time with daughter
After four years away, Barbara Budar returns to Ferraro Choi and Associates Ltd. as a project manager supervising a staff of four persons. She currently is involved in several design projects. Taking an inside view
"We're starting on the Hawaiian Airlines VIP lounge on Maui, doing some space planning for Bishop Estate and relocating the education department at the Honolulu Academy of Arts," Budar said.
She was a company founder and worked at Ferraro Choi from 1988 to 1994, specializing in interior architecture and space planning. For the past four years she has been with the design firm of Luersen, Lowrey Tsushima Inc. She also worked one year for CJS Group Architects Ltd. Budar has an associate of arts degree in interior design from Chaminade University.
Ferraro Choi, with a staff of 23, does architectural work for corporate and institutional clients in the Pacific.
By Jerry Tune, Star-Bulletin