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California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

Working on current planning and advance planning projects. Collaborate with project applicants, City personnel, and the public to align with Planning Division goals. Produce staff report packets, presentations, and visuals merging thorough research, field inspections, and analytical insights. Manage planning applications, support staff training, maintain.

Bay Area, California, United States

Working on diverse planning and development tasks, encompassing reviewing development proposals, building plans, and subdivision proposals for regulatory compliance.

College Station, Texas, United States

Assisted as a Research Assistant for the ENDEAVR (Envisioning the Neo-traditional Development by Embracing the Autonomous Vehicles Realm) Project with data collection, project management, grant writing, and leading the design team for COVID-19 Drive-Thru Testing Centre.

The Office Of University Architect, Division Of Finance & Operations

Worked with the Campus Planner and University Architect on a wide-ranging architecture, landscape, and campus planning projects to create and enhance a unified and sustainable campus-built environment.Projects worked on:✓ Campus Site Furnishings and Hardscape Standards, ✓ New Employee Manual for all Office Employees,✓ Campus-wide Wayfinding and Signage.

Bryan/College Station, Texas

✓ Long-range planning, strategic planning and community engagementDeveloped ArcGIS maps and topic-specific materials of comprehensive plan chapters for the city of Hitchcock and Rockport, TX, and state of the community report for Willacy County, TX.Revised and analyzed statistical data, reports and maps on census information, land use, roadway network.

Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

Collaborated and worked with the TxFCP team to map the freedmen’s towns or freedom colonies and their descendent communities on a web-based GIS tool - The Atlas 2.0; participated in public meetings to raise awareness about the project and introduction to the tool application; created social media posts for outreach and marketing of the project's mission.

Vadodara Area, India

Assisted the Principal Planner and Senior Architect in preparation of detailed site layouts and working drawings for an Ecological design project focused on reclamation and conservation of 11 lakes in the State of Odisha, India.

Dahod Area, India

Assisted the Principal Architect on a range of projects including residential townhouses, adaptive reuse of existing spaces, and retail complexes. Prepared, reviewed, and modified architectural plans, drawings, 3D visuals, specifications, contract documents, and construction reports for conformance to professional standards and client approved budgets.

Dahod, Gujarat, India

Designed drawings of floor plans, elevations, sections, working details, 3D model renderings, conceptualized interior drawing, furniture design, electric layouts, and other submittal packages in Autodesk Revit and AutoCAD for residential and commercial projects.

Master Of Urban Planning (Mup), Certifications In Transportation And Sustainable Urbanism, 4.0/4.0

Activities and Societies: Student member - American Planning Association; Internal Communications Chair - Association of Student Planners.

Bachelor Of Architecture (Barch), First Class With Distinction, Architecture

Thesis Project: Multimedia Film Training Institute, Chandigarh, India Relevant Courses: Basic Design Studios, Architectural Graphics (TRD.