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Objective

I am seeking full time employment as a project architect with design, documentation, and administration duties in an architecture firm in Pittsburgh, PA.

Notable accomplishments

Developed cad and electronic file protocols for entire Echelon project team (3+ billion dollar resort casino.)

Work Experience:

BLT Architects, Philadelphia, PA
     Senior Design Staff - April 2006 through present
In addition to serving on the firm’s technical advisory group I worked on three hospitality projects including two multi-billion dollar resort casinos (Echelon and Revel). Contributions included:

  • Shangri-La Hotel tower (Echelon) - design development and documentation of hotel including back of house areas, lobby, bar, restaurants (buffet and specialty), pool, spa, conference hall, and guest rooms.

  • Hotel Façades (Echelon) - design development, documentation, detailing, and coordination of three hotels from the ground floor to start of guest room floors.

  • Construction administration (Echelon) - coordination and revision of drawings not finished during CD phase and ongoing coordination with contractor and engineers including responding to RFIs.

  • Meeting Facilities (Revel) - development and documentation of meeting/ conference facilities.

  • Spa (Revel) - acting project manager for the Revel Spa including scheduling and running meetings, design review, design team coordination, design development, documentation, and detailing of spa.

Cecil Baker and Associates, Philadelphia, PA
     Junior Design Staff - June 2002 through March 2006
My work at CBA was chiefly in design development and documentation but included graphics production and managing firm IT infrastructure. Contributions included:

  • Montana Street Townhomes (row houses) - Construction administration.

  • Western Union Building (multi-family adaptive reuse and 5 story addition) - design development, documentation, detailing, condominium document preparation, marketing graphics preparation.

  • Forks of the Delaware Canal Museum - documentation and detailing.

  • Verge (restaurant) - design development, detailing, construction administration.

  • The Lainesborough (adaptive reuse luxury condominiums) - site documentation, design development, documentation, detailing, condo document preparation, and marketing graphics preparation.

Archetype, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI
     Junior Design Staff - June 2000 through April 2002
As my first full time job in the architecture industry my duties were primarily confined to construction document preparation and code research but included running several tenant fit-outs.

  • Twiggy, Underworld, Wizzywig (tenant fit out) - design development, documentation, and construction administration.

  • Plymouth Lakes (P.U.D.) - design development and documentation.

  • Washtenaw County Juvenile Detention Facility - documentation.

Education:

University of Michigan College of Architecture and Urban Planning
M. Arch, May 2000.

University of Michigan College of Architecture and Urban Planning
B.A. in Architecture, May 1998.

Computer Software and Systems Knowledge includes:

AutoCAD (through AutoCAD 2009), 3-D Studio (VIS through 2005), SpecLink Plus, Adobe Photoshop (CS2), Adobe Indesign (CS2), Adobe Illustrator (CS2), Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0, and Microsoft Office (including Publisher and Power Point).

Portfolio and references available upon request