Specializing in technical drafting and design for furniture, interiors and fabrication projects with construction and carpentry management experience.Wide knowledge of fabrication methods and materials with hands on experience in fabrication, commercial and residential construction and fine woodworking and restoration. An understanding of different disciplines allows me to speak in the vernacular of many different industries to seamlessly communicate ordering material, outsourcing services, and procuring parts and hardware.

Freelance design consulting, fabrication, and residential carpentry projects in and around the San Francisco Bay Area. I was open to any and all creative and fabrication work where all of my skills could lend to the project at hand.- Residential carpentry work ranging from 1,500 square foot concrete footing supported decks on a hillside, to the full gut and remodel of a 800 square foot garage transforming it into a carriage house with plumbing and wood burning stove. - Project, budget and schedule management for small projects under $20,000- Mixed material production fabrication projects (foam sculptures, photoshoot sets, store decorations and displays)

Responsible for leading architect and designer driven new construction custom homes and large scale remodel projects through a feasibility, and planning phase, and executed through a scheduled construction phase. Projects ranged from $100,000 - $1.2 million.- Building accurate budgets by estimating, soft quoting, and generating FRP’s for hard quoting from subcontractors. Regularly held meetings with clients for a collaborative project building process.- Generating and reviewing scopes of work to generate contracts to be reviewed with subcontractors.- Holding regular meetings to keep progress of the project in front of the client and reviewing the status of the budget including changes and overages.- Mitigating risk through contracts, permitting, insurance, and clear and accurate scopes of work.- Building and maintaining a schedule throughout the building process and supervising the subcontractors on and off the jobsite. - Managing invoicing, reimbursement, and the payment of all subcontractors and vendors.

Lead Carpenter for a residential interior and exterior restoration company in the historic district of Savannah, GA.- Working closely with clients and managing expectations and changes during building process.- Accurately interpreting architectural plans to build from when projects were architecturally driven.- Decision making based on client and project, where outcome or budget is being factored.- Autonomous project execution with minimal project manager involvement.

Fabricating high end mixed material production fabrication projects for the film, photo, and movie industries and large scale experiential design.- Multidisciplinary fabricator for projects (welding, carpentry, painting & finishing etc.)- Working in a fast paced work environment with very tight deadlines and schedules.- Autonomous work flow where creativity and adaptability was essential in completing projects where outcome was more important than process.- Leading teams of other builders to complete projects safely, correctly, and on time.- Quickly estimating fabrication time and materials needed for projects for quoting and scheduling.

Performing the role of a “Pro”, sharing knowledge and performing general shop maintenance in a shared educational makerspace. Organizing work areas, tool space, and fixing and maintaining equipment in a full machine shop, wood shop, metal shop, including CNC equipment (lazers, waterjet, milling machines).- Sharing personal knowledge of fabrication, techniques, material and equipment to members to help assist members in thinking through the feasibility of their projects.- Teaching classes: woodworking, welding, laser cutting, screen printing, cnc vinyl cutting, cnc water jet, Adobe Illustrator, Autocad & powder coating.- Organizing and running education workshops and large educational events to help create a strong creative and collaborative environment.

Working under the head of the Construction department of Arcosanti, I was managing interns and working on various construction projects all around Arcosanti. I also worked part time in the bronze foundry.- Managed large teams of interns and other employees daily, on architecturally driven projects around the city. Projects include: large cast concrete stair sets, tall decorative cast concrete retaining walls, building formwork for large precast wall sections to be used in buildings, and more.- Studied the numerous experimental concrete casting techniques used by paolo soleri.- Self driven autonomous work flow, submitting requests for projects, and the labor and the materials to complete certain tasks.- Worked part time as a foundry worker designing and casting brass bells for the Cosanti Foundation.- Implemented procedural changes for budget allocation for workshops and events by running for office and joining the city council of Arcosanti.- Had many lunches with Paolo Soleri where we discussed the philosophy between the relationship of humans, buildings and design in general.

Managing a team of designers and estimators and In charge of initial client meetings, for a custom cabinetry and interior design company in the city of Accra in Ghana. Work consisting of small kitchen remodels, custom solid surface countertops, raised panel and flat panel solid wood cabinetry- Team building and management.- Implementing company wide standardized strategies for site measuring, estimation, design & installation.- Hired and trained a managing assistant to oversee work as a second set of eyes.- Personally handled design and client management for large high end jobs.- Worked directly with the cabinet factory manager for product quality control.- Helped design new standard offered cabinets and furniture pieces.