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New Orleans, La, Us

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

New Orleans

Directing chapter operations, leading meetings, providing design services, collaborating in reorganization. Fostering client and inter-chapter relationships.

Greater New Orleans Area

Designs and manages high-rise hotel projects.

Greater New Orleans Area

Practiced architecture: Managed multiple projects in various phases from conceptual design to construction. Met with clients, contractors, and code officials. Flew a drone as the office's licensed commercial remote pilot.

Practiced Architecture: Designed buildings, Produced Construction Documents, Coordinated with engineers, Calculated downspouts & gutters,Calculated acousticsIntegrated formulas for maximally efficient building layouts, Researched code compliance, Performed Construction Administration, Reviewed submittals and shop drawings, Held construction progress meetings, Documented existing conditions, Produced Renderings.Helped lead office revit implementation:Developed time-saving tools & techniques for design and documenting,Developed many families for use,Helped develop template for projects,Solved technical problems as they arose,Maintained office website:Developed innovative site coding infrastructure to encourage easy and continual updating,Managed search rankings,Transferred all projects to new system,Maintained and added new projects as they aroseRepeatedly updated/refreshed entire website layout & design,Started office blog,Started office Flickr page,Started office Youtube Channel,Kept blog, news page, and project pages continuously updated,Produced marketing materials,Fixed implementation problems as they arose,Created a revised office intranet.

New Orleans

In January of 2015, the national organization of Architecture for Humanity went bankrupt, much to the surprise of the local chapter directors. The New Orleans chapter, along with many others worldwide, elected to continue our work, and rebuild a new 'bottom-up' organization to provide resources and coordination to continue our local work, with the temporary name of the 'Chapter network,' and the eventual final name of the 'Open Architecture Collaborative.'Duties included continuing the operations of the local chapter, as well as meeting with other chapter representatives worldwide, both on regular conference calls, and a weekend conference in which we hashed out a future vision and structure for the network.

Greater New Orleans Area

Helped maintain and refine the newly-created chapter into its current, and hopefully future form. Set up and ran meetings, met with clients, forged strategic partnerships, started projects, delegated work, met with clients, managed projects, created deliverables, did code research, wrote analyses, did presentation drawings. This position overlapped with the project director and being project manager of a few projects.

Greater New Orleans Area

Kept track of all projects in the chapter. Worked with clients, and helped the various project managers for each project with their needs to get the projects done. Oversaw the first completed project for the chapter.

Produced construction documents,Produced renderings,Produced website to communicate with owner,Participated in design charrettes.

Aided in production of construction documents,Produced architectural models, both rough massing and detailed final versions,Produced renderings.

B.Arch With Honors, Architecture

Activities and Societies: LSU Tiger Band, Kappa Kappa Psi, AIAS, Honors College,

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Education record