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California, United States

San Diego, Ca

- Project Management - Exercised responsible and successful oversight of projects ranging from $55 million construction budgets to $1 million construction budgets. Coordinated overall design team schedules and deadlines, project budgets, project contracts, and client/committee review meetings and presentations. - Architectural Design - Led and coordinated building designs for new structures, new campuses, renovation of existing structures and campuses, and general building maintenance projects for public bid sector design delivery methods. - Engineering Coordination - Led design efforts through design development, construction documents, and contract coordination with Subcontractors in Construction with efficient communication and coordination between all engineer and consultant teammates. - Construction Administration - Managed extensive construction coordination with Contractors and Clients, particularly with required oversight for public School, University, and City projects. - Contract Documents Production - Led design team and directly produced drawings and specifications through all phases of projects, from programming/planning documentation through Division of State Architect reviewed and approved construction documents and specifications. - Client Presentation and Marketing - Utilized software beyond Revit, including Unreal Engine, Blender, and Photoshop, to produce video fly-throughs and renderings for project designs, simplifying the process of design review, particularly with parties and committees less familiar with reading traditional architectural drawings. -BIM Standards Coordination - Further developed and pressed forward on all BIM standards working in Revit, both in house and with Consultant teams, to maximize efficiency and efficacy in design development, coordination, and communication.

Costa Mesa

- Contract Documents Production - Produced construction drawings on projects including new K-8 classroom campuses, classroom modernizations, campus wide accessibility improvements, theater and kitchen renovations. - Construction Administration - Led review and processing of Requests for Information, Submittals, Proposal Requests, Supplemental Instructions, Change Order Requests. - BIM Standards Coordination - Refined the use and standards of Revit with improved family modeling, data and parametric workflow implementation, a cleaned up base model library, and simplified central office architectural template. - Consultant Coordination - Coordinated BIM models for electrical, mechanical, plumbing and structural consultants between in-house architectural work and engineers’ scopes.

- Redefined engineering project management reporting process for the Port’s Major Maintenance and Capital Improvement programs. Actively reviewed and analyzed budgets, commitments, cash flows, and schedules on more than 70 active projects. Provided clarity, transparency, and consistency in reporting on project status. - Assisted project manager on the North Embarcadero Visionary Plan. Provided reporting and tracking oversight of the project’s $28.6 million construction budget. - Office Coordination - Led the effort to centralize job responsibilities for improved quality and efficiency in administrative processing. - Contract Management - Coordinated professional services contracts and oversaw payment compliance as a means of assisting in managing projects. - Software specialist - Applied enterprise software tools for efficient department-wide project budgets and commitments for program level analysis to drastically improve clarification and transparency in department obligations and create a system devoid of redundancies in data entry and human error.

Carlsbad, Ca

- Project Tracking - Performed project tracking on LEED Platinum building designs on school campuses in Phoenix, Arizona. Tasks included RFI documentation, tracking of construction meeting records and progress, review of sustainable materials and methods research, and processing of construction and materials LEED submittals.

- Worked on a residential rehabilitation project, preserving existing structure while replacing water damaged roofing, installing more efficient electrical wiring throughout the residence, fixing aged window casings, and patching and installing new drywall.

-Produced regional and international case studies in a collaborative effort to produce documentation to raise awareness of rising waters along the developed local coast. Compiled a public report for communicating to public officials the probability of oncoming infrastructural risks.

Master Of Architecture (M.Arch.), Architecture

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), History