Portfolio & C.V.

2018

2019

2020

2021-2022

2023-2024

 

qualifications

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

  • Strong design skills and communication through analog and digital mediums.

  • Diligent attentention to details and awareness of overall contexts.

  • Familiarity with OBC Part 3 (commercial and industrial projects), and Part 9

  • Ability to negotiate and resolve disputes without unnecessary escalations.

  • Naturally foster cordial relationships.

EXPERIENCES

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

  • Project management for commercial projects for Oxford Properties.

  • Improvement & establishment of drawing standards, specifications, and CA/business practices.

  • Development of standard drawing details.

  • Responded to RFP and drafted proposals.

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

  • Fabrication shop technician and designer developing concepts & drawings into diagrammatic models for coordination, and for presentation purposes.

  • Developed floor plan/facade studies for SD and DD for SPA.

  • 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.

  • 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 course for non-architecture students.

  • Supported other TA’s 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, ARCS4107 (Sacred Space, Sacred Place)


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

  • Drawing management (DD, Working Drawings, Permit, SPA) and CA.

  • Coordination with Consultants for electrical, lighting, and life-safety design.

  • Established in-house drawing prototypes for client-specific projects in CAD and 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

2023 June Faith and Form Awards for Religious Architecture and Art (Winner: Student Category)
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)