nonzero \ architecture, Santa Monica, CA, US, Project Architect
Thoroughly involved in multiple projects, from conceptual design through construction. Design responsibilities include design sketching, BIM/3D modeling, developing details, stakeholder meetings and presentations. Project management responsibilities include budgeting, contracts, assembling drawing sets for city approval, obtaining permits through a city’s jurisdictional agencies, integrating the work of multi-disciplinary consultants, solving construction problems in the field, and helping to develop younger staff members. General office responsibilities include managing the studio’s portfolio website, composing and retouching photographs for publication or presentation, and continuing the development of office-wide BIM / drawing standards.
Milestones include: Permitting and completing historic theatre renovation of the American Legion, Hollywood Post 43. Designing and developing the studio’s new website.
Forever 21 - Corporate HQ, Los Angeles, CA, US, Project Manager
Conducted feasibility studies on potential properties. Managed and coordinated design and construction of domestic and international (Asia) retail projects, ensuring on schedule and on budget openings and/or completions that adhere to the Company’s highly specific spatial identity design. Responsibilities include coordinating and facilitating aspects of the Company’s Asia region construction portfolio – from feasibility, property acquisition, design, vendor selection, procurement, construction document development, construction administration, and financial management. Provided support and maintenance of company owned/leased properties.
Milestones include: Providing schematic store layouts and feasibility for properties in India and China at the pace of one every other week. Procuring vendors in areas of local construction to eliminate shipping costs from the United States.
Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA, US, Adjunct Faculty
Mentored and instructed students in two courses - The first in Architectural Portfolio Preparation, and the second in Materials and Construction Methods. The Portfolio Preparation course instructed students in a combination of skills including personal branding, graphic layout and communication design, and physical book production. The Materials and Construction course asked students to design a unit of construction and a system of assembly, with projects that increased in complexity and scale.
Milestones include: Feeling immensely proud that I helped students gain acceptance into the Architecture Schools they applied to.
Letter Four, Inc, Culver City, CA, US, Project Manager
Managed the design and construction of custom residential and tenant improvement retail projects as the design/build company’s sole Project Manager through overseeing a small team of designers. Involved in each project phase from initial due diligence and conceptual sketching to material selection and construction administration, while maintaining constant communication with client and design team.
Milestones include: Obtaining permits for a variety of projects, coordinating presentations to neighborhood design review boards
Paul Davis Architects, Los Angeles, CA, US, Project Manager
Designed and managed the construction of architectural renovations and new building construction. Design responsibilities include design sketching, rapid prototyping, 3D modeling, developing details, client presentation and creating presentation graphics. Project management responsibilities include assembling drawing sets for city approval, obtaining permits through a city’s building department, integrating the work of consulting agencies, and solving construction problems in the field. General office responsibilities include managing the studio’s portfolio website and social media, creating marketing materials, composing and retouching photographs for publication, establishing drawing standards, and managing the studio’s computer network.
Milestones include: Performing duties as Project Architect on the award winning A’maree’s adaptive reuse and renovation project along Newport Beach harbor.
Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Los Angeles, CA, US, MArch, M. Arch
Co-founded a popular architectural tour/bicycle ride/social activism group called RIDE-Arc to make architecture more accessible to the public and to advocate bicycling in Los Angeles. Coursework included architectural design studios, year-long thesis work on accessibility of design, design competitions, 3D modeling and animation, furniture design, material design, graphic design, darkroom photography, poetry, and digital rapid prototyping technologies. Frequently contributed writing and art to the school’s unofficial newspaper and was published for architectural design work in Beijing, China.
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, US, Bachelors, Geography/Environmental Studies
Main coursework included research, analysis, and design of environmental policy for urban areas, supplemented with Chinese language, theatre, psychology, computer science, film studies, and studio art. Taught myself HTML and web design, led the UCLA snowboarding club team in 1999 as team captain, and volunteered at UCLA radio and Unicamp as a DJ and camp counselor, respectively. Member of a team responsible for the deployment of network-wide Y2K compliance procedures while working as an IT associate for the UCLA Student Union.
California Preservation Foundation - Preservation Design Award, 1st Place
Award received for the "A'maree's" project while working at Paul Davis Architects.
