Omar Ureta Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles

Freelance consulting, developing analog / digital tools and visualizations for Civic Engagement, Planning, Land Use Development and Public Policy. •Advise clients on developing a framework of collaboration and design thinking to communicate their work effectively to the public.•Conduct data analysis and modeling, geospatial analysis and transformation.•Propose digital and analog tools to best inform possible narrative communication.•Sketch, arrange data, code, iterate and deploy user-driven visualizations, digital tools or mockups.•Lead workshops and presentations on client work and hold training on tools and data.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Teaching Design Communications and co-developing the High School Architecture Program for the Los Angeles Community College District's Pathways Initiative.

Los Angeles

Urban Design Work:Manage multiple mixed use and commercial/retail developments undergoing public review and entitlements which include:•Research land use regulations and incentives to conduct site capacity studies based on project goals and requirements.•Conduct site analysis with available and requested data, maps and imagery for preliminary environmental impact studies surrounding project site.•Oversee and model contextual 3D digital environments to design, test, and evaluate in collaboration with partners conceptual architectural solutions.•Advise in the stakeholder engagement process of projects undergoing public review.•Compose and present project exhibits and documentation to inform community stakeholders.•Direct consultants along project scope and documentation for municipal approval.Urban Policy Work:Use design as a tool for conducting policy analysis addressing issues in land use and planning in the City of Los Angeles•Research government processes and identify data and related documents.•Compile and perform data analysis to evaluate patterns of implemented policies.•Advise firm partners in designing alternative approaches which convey policy development.•Sketch, design, code and deploy visual tools and interactive maps.

Burbank,Ca

• Coordinated with Directors Bill Roschen, FAIA, and Christi Van Cleve, AIA in the development of the upcoming graduate program being offered at Woodbury.• Conducted an outreach event highlighting the innovative policies in place for the Cornfield Arroyo Seco Specific Plan (CASP) which brought together stakeholders in parking, and affordable housing with Los Angeles City Planning Commissioners for a conversation in the specific plan’s outcomes. • Coordinated with graduate students to research, analyze and prepare visual interpretations of the plan’s incentives for urban development centered around transit oriented development. The event enabled students of architecture to observe the conversations that shape the built environment.• Conducted a design charrette highlighting the process and implementation of the Los Angeles Department of Transportation’s Pedestrian Plaza initiative know as “Streets for People.”• Coordinated with graduate students and with support from LADOT Pedestrian staff, in analyzing the processes that facilitate partnerships between the community and the city to transform under-used areas of street into public spaces.• Assisted teams of students in developing design concepts for sites identified by the City and coordinated with community stakeholders in presentation of the designs.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Windshield Perspectives Exhibition• Provided historical research on the architecture and the stories of the people who lived in them along Beverly Blvd. • Produced an animation short of the development of Los Angeles through its annexation of land from its founding to today.NeverBuilt: Los Angeles•Coordinated and built a scaled model of John Lautner's Griffith Park Nature Center using the services and facilities of the Model Shop in Torrance.

Los Angeles

Coordinated and managed retail / commercial projects in multiple phases of development. • Determined and developed recommendations on the feasibility of a project based on client requirements, building and zoning regulations.• Coordinated design schematics with consultants in developing construction documents for approval by regulatory agencies.• Administrated construction performing on-site meetings with contractors, clients and building officials.

Master Of Science In Architecture

Bachelor Of Architecture (Barch)

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Coursework