Society Design Administration (SDA)

TFOR OVER 50 YEARS the Society for Design Administration (SDA) has been providing accredited education, best management practices, and training on professional standards to help design firm personnel grow professionally. Our membership stretches across the United States and Canada and is composed of personnel in the architecture, engineering, construction, landscape, and interior design professions.

 
SDA Houston Board members 2020 - LEFT TO riGHT | mELINDA WOOD - pRESIDENT, BRENDA jIMENEZ - pAST pRESIDENT & dIRECTOR, mAURINA MCCLEAN - SECRETARY, iRMA TAYLOR - VICE PRESIDENT, KRISTEN EGAN - TREASURER

SDA Houston Board members 2022 - LEFT TO riGHT | mELINDA WOOD - Treasurer & Past President, BRENDA jIMENEZ - SecreTARY, pAST DiRECTOR, mAURINA MCCLEAN - PRESIDENT, iRMA TAYLOR - Past MEMBER, KRISTEN EGAN - PAST MEMBER

HOUSTON BUSINESS JOURNAL 2020 - JAN 24TH.

Melinda Wood

Office Manager at Steinberg Dickey Collaborative LLP

Melinda Wood has been elected President by Society for Design Administration (SDA) – Houston Chapter. SDA advances management and administrative professionals in the AEC industry through education, networking, and resources for IT, HR, Finance, Office Administration, Marketing, and Project Management. Wood brings over 19 years of experience with her professional expertise and excellent leadership skills managing the Houston and Austin Steinberg Dickey Collaborative offices.

Melinda Broderhausen wood - sda Houston president

Melinda Broderhausen wood - sda Houston president

Melinda & Sato Wood. She has carried the chapter’s financial weight under her belt for 15 years, and counting. her influence and contributions to the local level is significant and has added tremendous value to SDA.  Melinda brings morale, value for members through her advocacy, mentorship, recruitment and she is always highly motivated about SDA by making sure we keep on desk, keep up with modern changes to our chapter, example; she had her husband help design the new sdahouston chapter Square space website we launched last year. I have been fortunate enough to have worked with several excellent administrative assistants in the a/e/c industry in my 9 year career. None of them were as dedicated as Melinda, she makes sure we work as a team, going above and beyond just doing excellent work on assigned tasks and she keeps us balances as far as our accounting books and she encourages us all in doing charity work and donations towards any cause through SDA. She is a true leader with great, profound value. Melinda has been my mentor, always making sure I attended the SDA social events and guiding me through each and everyone of them and making sure, I always had someone there for me at all times day and night. Steinberg Dickey Collaborative, LLP CPA, HR & Office Manager. SDA Star Award 2019. Sato has design the SDA Houston website, again supporting his wife 110 %.

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