Gareth Wang Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Perform comprehensive architectural building plan reviews for multiple city governments across the SF Bay Area
• Create rigorous feedback comment letters for clients based on building plan analysis to ensure fire and life safety and building code compliance
• Provide expert analysis and interpretation of state building codes directly to clients to assist with the project submittal process

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Produced a variety of geospatial data across multiple platforms for a major public utilities company
• Modeled utility pole networks in PLS-CADD with wire clearance and sag data output for longspan analysis
• Performed manual LiDAR point cloud classification, utility pole network modeling, and encroachment modeling in Pointerra for vegetation encroachment analysis
• Created accurate and updated maps of utility pole locations with matched aerial photographs

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Provided continuous high-level services to 15+ Office of Diversion and Reentry clients on at least a weekly basis
• Coordinated clients’ release from jail and built service plans with clients to assist clients in locating and maintaining mainstream benefits and permanent housing
• Assisted clients with navigating the county criminal justice system
• Established rapid-response mental health and substance use crisis management skills to address the needs of a sensitive and hyper-marginalized population
• Built strong relationships with clients and service professionals across Los Angeles county from a wide variety of backgrounds
• Trained in-depth on Los Angeles County homelessness case management best practices and service provision

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Fostered a positive living and learning environment for students to promote a sense of belonging for 92 residents
• Assessed resident needs to design 60+ community engagements with an annual budget of $650
• Served on a duty rotation from 8 pm to 7 am to enforce housing rules and regulations to ensure student safety
• Counseled and referred residents to resources to meet their educational, physical, emotional, and mental needs

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Coached 3-4 students in individual hour-long sessions weekly focusing on mindfulness and stress management, fostering positive social connections, goal setting, academic skills enrichment, navigating campus resources.
• Provided an empathetic and active listening space for coachees
• Identified priority areas in coachees’ lives and provided strategies for well-being based on those areas
• Trained in-depth to be sensitive to coaching needs of diverse populations like LGBTQ+, undocumented, transfer, etc. students

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Directed executive board of 4-5 board members
• Scheduled and ran over 20 general body meetings including presentations, dialogues, socials, etc.
• Planned, organized, and facilitated annual Mixed Heritage Conference at UCLA, attended by 100+ mixed advocates and folks from mixed student unions around California
• Responsible for club logistics including booking rooms, communicating/networking with other student organizations, and marketing and outreach via email, social media, etc.
• Managed and applied for club budget of over $2,000 annually utilizing school funding sources

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Authored a research paper about historical development of Los Angeles’ Chinatown
• Digitized archival collection of newsletters dating from organization’s founding in 1979 to present-day
• Photographed and researched 19th-century archive of Chinese grave markers discovered by the Metropolitan Transit Authority
• Sorted an archival collection belonging to a past board member and implemented a finding key

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Trained in setting community guidelines and facilitating safe and brave dialogue spaces for diverse groups
• Co-facilitated over 10 dialogues on diverse social justice issues for 20+ students, faculty, and administration
• Organized speakers and logistics for Intergenerational Activism Summit Los Angeles-based activist panel
• Coordinated logistics and multiple dialogue workshops for UCLA Disability Conference centered on experiences of students with disabilities

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Performed data entry for Negin Ghavami, Ph.D. on a study aiming to identify risk and resilience factors for health and academic achievement among LGBTQ+ urban middle school students