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Developing and maintaining a quality assurance program to support project teams by implementing client standards, providing design analysis, addressing constructability issues, providing in-house consultation and documenting lessons learned - from inception through warranty.

An emphasis on multidisciplinary education and cross-functional teams has become pervasive in education and the workplace. Worked with IIT to offer an innovative and comprehensive approach to providing students with a real-world project-based experience. Projects reflected a panorama of workplace challenges, encompassing research, design and process.

Developed and maintained a quality assurance program to support construction teams & Lean project delivery by performing constructability reviews, facilitating pre-installation meetings, overseeing mock-ups, providing in-house consultation and documenting lessons learned - from inception through warranty.

Managed a mutually beneficial Internship Program that brought talented prospective professionals to our team while providing a robust internship experience. Actively sought people with critical thinking skills that could be applied to the success of our teams while expanding their understanding of design and construction. Placed interns, based on.

Founded CREO to address the complexity of today's buildings with a cross-functional team approach by establishing project specific teams to - identify goals and objectives, react to current trends, take advantage of diverse talents, anticipate future needs, and leverage long-term relationships. All done to benefit our clients.

The Affordable Housing Workshop teamed architectural interns with DePaul's masters students to access the viability of an 11-acre site that formally housed the original Cabrini Green Townhomes. Teams were challenged to understand the affordable housing options, access the market, determine financial viability, and define appropriate aesthetics.

Exclusive architect of an award-winning Chicago Northshore design | build firm - overseeing the architecture and construction management aspects for a company specializing in residential projects. Ultimately involved in roughly 50 separate new construction, additions and renovation projects.

Committed to preparing future architects to evaluate materials for their innate qualities of aesthetic, structural capacity, constructability, and appropriateness through research, hands-on proto-typing and drawing. The drawings were hand done, graphite on strathmore board, to provide a tactile connection to the work being completed much like the students.

Contributed to the development/construction of unique urban residential projects, most notably - the adaptive reuse of two separate abandoned churches into residential condominiums.

Established and implemented a buyer change procedure into a speculative design | build company for nearly 500-units. This required interaction and coordination with buyers, sales staff, office staff, consultants, building officials, site staff, suppliers and subcontractors.

Involved in multiple phases, from viability through construction, on varying building types including: a DEA laboratory​, Cook County Jail, 1-million square foot postal facility, and award winning toll facility.

Bachelor, Architecture, Valedictorian

Summer Studies, Architecture