PROFILE:                     

    PURA | JAM | arquitectura          

                 A combined experience of thirty years in architectural and interior design, production, and management. I have provided  services in New York, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. A CCNY and UCLA alumnus, extensive experience in Educational, Commercial, Institutional, and Resort-Theme Park design and Hospitality projects. I hold licenses in six states .As Design Management Leader; I have gathered diverse background in Architecture, Interiors, Adaptive Re-use, Town Planning, Resort Design Master Planning and Urban Design. In the last fifteen years my professional emphasis has been on design and management, and within my pursuit I had roles as Sr. Design Architect, Sr. Production Architect, Consultant Quality Assurance Architect/ Liaison, and URS Director of Architecture, Las Vegas Branch office.

                 In the last two years my work has been in Shanghai on Changxing Island Master Plan and in Doha on Education City. Both in Lead Positions as a Senior Studio Leader handling design and Production and Technical Construction Administration on site.

Hospitality/Resorts/Theme Parks:

                As Director of Architecture, I have managed production and design staff and marketed for Hospitality projects in Las Vegas. My theme design experience was further enhanced while at Walt Disney Imagineering. I was the Lead Project Manager/Architect for the Port Discovery Land at the Tokyo Disney Seas Theme Land Fill Park in Tokyo, Japan. In addition, I was also the Design Architect on the Paris Animation Studios, Paris France during his tenure at Walt Disney Imagineering.  Projects encompassing this professional specialty include the Viejas Casino/Turf Club renovation and the Viejas Master Plan Expansion in Alpine California and the Scottsdale Waterfront Mixed-use Development (Office/Retail/Hotel). My Casino experience includes the Hard Rock Hotel Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi and a Vertical Casino in Moscow, Russia. In the Interiors of the Las Vegas Convention Center I designed new food courts and restaurants and designed many entitlement venues, shops and kiosks on the Las Vegas strip in particular at the Summerlin Marriott Hotel and Paris Hotel and Casino Resort.

                 In the past few years, I was given an opportunity to design the Moulin Rouge Hotel/Casino/Work Live Mixed-Use Development.  Just two years ago, I just completed two additional large-scale Mixed-Use Development projects in Laughlin and in the Northwest County of Las Vegas where I assisted in envisioning their development and designed the master plans.

Education Arena:

                I am a licensed architect in four states. Through my thirty (30) years of experience, I have demonstrated adaptability to have multiple roles in the design, and project/construction management and administration. I am capable of executing goals in setting large school construction programs to the highest standard of design and construction with energy savings and security/redundancy measures for greater student’s achievement. My education experience includes new construction, expansion, addition, modernization, rehabilitation and /or replacements of elementary, middle, and high school facility projects and other government, institutional and military projects Among many of the projects I managed at Clark County School District (CCSD) were also contract types such as design-build and or  bundled contracts (particularly for Kindergarten rehabilitation projects and ADA upgrades.

 EDUCATION:  PROFESSIONAL LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS

 LICENSURES:                                                                                                                           

Masters of Architecture -  UCLA 1992                                                

Bachelors of Science, Architecture - CUNY 1975

Bachelors of Architecture - CUNY 1977   

Licensed Architect in California #C259926                                                           

Licensed Architect in Florida #AR0015542

Licensed Architect in Nevada, #3542

Registered Architect in New York, #024923-1 

NCARB                 

AIA, RIBA, NYCSA                                       

USGBC   Certified LEED AP [BD+C] US Green Building Council 2005-Present

CPTED    Certified Crime Prevention through Environmental Design\ (CPTED)

CEPFI                    

COMPUTER SKILLS:

AutoCAD –(25 years),Autodesk Revit 2014 BIM software, Ziggurat 3d Clash Detection software, Microsoft project, Microsoft Office , Microsoft Excel,  Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Photoshop, Sketchup 8, 3d studio.