Portfolio & C.V.

2018

2019

2020

2021-2022

2023-2024

 

qualifications

  • 13 years of experience in engineering consulting industry including drafting, BIM coordination, and contract administration.

  • Strong design skills and communication through technical drawings (AutoCAD and Revit), physical models, and digital models using Rhino3d.

  • Exceptional attention to details, maintained within the larger context of the entirety of the project scope.

  • Familiarity with OBC Part 3 (building safety, and accessibility), in the context of commercial and industrial projects, and Part 9 (building safety), SB-3, ULC.

  • Ability to negotiate and resolve disputes between consultants and contractor/client without unnecessary escalations.

  • Naturally can foster cordial relationships.

EXPERIENCES

2023 - Present Intern Architect Medina Architects (Toronto, Canada)

  • Project management and consultant/contractor/client coordination for commercial projects for Oxford Properties.

  • Improvement and establishment of office drawing standards, specifications, and contract administration and business practices, including company website.

  • Development of details based on code, product, and material research, including consultation with manufacturers and city authorities.

  • Responded to RFP and drafted proposals.

2023 Architectural Designer (Contract) Hariri Pontarini Architects (Toronto, Canada)

  • Fabrication shop technician and designer translating concepts, sketches, and working drawings into diagrammatic models for internal and external coordination, and for presentation purposes.

  • Developed floor plan (lobby and underground parking/amenities) options for SD and DD phases for SPA approval (CAD and Revit).

  • Explored facade options to suit program and proportional requirements for SPA approval (CAD and Revit).

  • Coordinated internal drawings with city comments.


2008 - Present Gold & Silversmith MiesMo art & design (Toronto, Canada)

  • A discursive practice based on the relationships between materials, ideas, and processes, with a secondary focus on intrinsic and market-based values of materials themselves.

  • Draws on digital and analog methods of production as a means for exploring new techniques and materials.

  • Collaborator-oriented over client-oriented practice serves to seek value(s) between material-process-concept-experience.


2019 - 2022 Teaching Assistant Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism (ASAU), Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada)

  • Advised Instructor on curriculum development for a pilot drawing-based course for non-architecture students.

  • Supported other Teaching Assistants and their tutorials and its students for first year level multimedia course.

  • Invited on several occasions, in various courses and studios, to present my own model-making practice and thesis research, and as a guest critic.

  • ARCN2106 (Introduction to Multimedia), ARCS1005 (An Introduction to Drawing: Seeing Through the Hand), ARCS1005 (An Introduction to Drawing: Seeing Through the Hand), ARCS4107 (Sacred Space, Sacred Place)


2013 - 2018 BIM Coordinator & CAD Technician Hammerschlag & Joffe Inc. (Toronto, Canada)

  • Updated drawings, and issued corresponding change notices and addenda based on revised consultant or architectural drawings, or as requested by client. Aided in the development of site plan lighting design for SPA approvals.

  • Coordinated between mechanical, architectural, and interior design disciplines with electrical, lighting, and life-safety design, taking on the responsibility for high-level designs (electrical room layouts, panel board schedules, and conduit/wire sizing).

  • Established in-house drawing prototypes for client-specific projects, including Shoppers Drug Mart, Winners, Homesense, Pusateri’s, and Lowes (Revit).

  • Notable Projects: Union Station, Rideau Centre, Square One (SW Expansion)


2005 - 2013 CAD Technician Mulvey & Banani International Inc. (Toronto, Canada)

  • Draftsperson initially for tenant and base building departments, eventually transitioning to the communications department.

  • Involved with larger and complex projects, including a new data centres for TD Bank and Royal Bank of Canada.

OTHER EXPERIENCES

2020 March Delegate for ASAU Canadian Architecture Forums on Education (CAFÉ) (Calgary, Canada)

  • Selected by the Director for ASAU to represent the school at CAFÉ-West

  • Presented with an undergraduate delegate on the research and pedagogy at ASAU.

  • Participated in round table discussions on the forums themes and questions: Place, People, Prosperity & Potential, with student and faculty delegates from Ryerson University, Université de Montréal, and the University of Calgary.

  • Subsequently invited to participate as a jury member for a manifesto competition in 2019 September.


2018 June Solo Art Exhibit (Toronto, Canada)

  • Organized a single-day retrospective exhibit at Artscape Youngplace documenting my work over the past decade.

  • Developed detailed layout and installation plans, coordinating the design and production of custom signage and millwork with third parties.

  • Coordinated three teams of volunteers for the set-up and strike-down of the exhibit.

EDUCATION

2018 - 2022 M. Arch Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada)

2014 Revit Architecture Fundamentals Seneca College (Toronto, Canada)

2008 - 2012 Undergraduate & Graduate Seminars Institute for Studies in Global Prosperity (Canada, United States)

2005 - 2012 Hon. B.Sc University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada)

  • Chemistry (minor), Biology (minor), Fine Art History (major)

AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS

Awards & Nominations

2022 May Carleton University Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement – Graduate (Nomination)
2022 May ASAU Faculty Choice Award “The Nine Valleys - Towards Embodied Experience” (Nomination)
2020 December 2020 Studio Prize Architect Magazine (Winner)
2019 February Design Competition: Water Feature for the Vimy Foundation Centennial Park, Vimy Ridge, France (Shortlisted)
2019 September Ottawa Urban Design Awards Park and Black Box Theater at Nepean Point (Winner: Student Category)

Publications & Mentions

2019-2022 ASAU Building 22 ed. 19-22 Various Projects
2021 Spiller, Neil. "Emerging Talents: Training Architects." AD no. 4 vol. 91, pp. 52-59. “Urban Dovecote” (Mention)

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