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Greater Boston Area

Greater Boston Area

I've worked at Autodesk as an intern and contractor with the Dynamo team in various capacities. Working directly on the DynamoCore project, developing tutorial content, participating on side projects and integrations with other software as well as consulting with customers, community members, and other software engineers inside Autodesk.

Designed and accurately modeled new obstacle part to work with existing set of plastic parts in Rhinoceros3d for roto-molding using HDPE.New facility layouts and renderings using sketchup and Unity3d.Designed and modeled arcade game cabinet and accessories using Rhinoceros3d and Unity3d.Used Unity to create animations of construction sequence and scripts to test interaction with lighting patterns for arcade games.

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

Buffalo, Ny

Developed schematic proposals and initiated design development of Design Innovation Garage incubator project. Prepared renders and plans for proposals and constructed physical models.Modeling using rhino and grasshopper.

Worked with a team of students to introduce digital manufacturing techniques to the staffat Boston Valley TerraCotta, including: photogrametry, digital sculpting, 3dprinting of molds, and cnc routing of mold parts.These tools will speed up documentation, prototyping, and construction of terra cotta tiles,facades and sculptures.Worked to control an industrial turntable for photogrametric process using PLC and Arduino, filtering noise in a factory environment.

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

Buffalo

Built Custom 5 axis CNC machine for SUNY Buffalo school of Architecture, selected and installed all electronic components, helped to construct all portions of machine frame and linear movement systems. Worked to test and create instructions for custom 5 axis software developed by Edmund Harris (CAMel) grasshopper plugin for rhinoceros.

Performed Buffalo zoning code and agricultural research andcreated a visual index for existing zoning codes. Proposed insertion of urbanagricultural program into downtown Buffalo industrial districts. Renderings in Maya foraudubon society proposals and electronics setup/enclosure for thermal camera intended forwatching birds and bat habitats.

Conducted research on disabled population's access to publictransportation in Buffalo. Worked directly with participants, fitting motion capturemarkers and power supply systems. Recorded participant time trials using Phase Spacemotion capture system while participants boarded and used full-scale mockup of NFTA bus.Edited participant video time trials and created procedures for video conversion and backup.

Newcity, Ny

Performed site measurements and used VectorWorks to create as-built drawings. Communicated daily with local building departments and clients. Created hand renderings and presentation boards for ARB.

Master'S Degree, Design And Computation

Recent work at MIT has focused on: * Three dimensional visual programming language. * BIM modeling using visual programming tools, design.

M.Arch, Architecture

Bachelor Of Science, Architecture