A highly adaptive construction project administrator and design professional with 15+ years of experience: >5 years in healthcare facilities (CA, medical EQ, Design-Build project management, HCAI building permit process), >6 years in urban planning/design (land use entitlements and master plans); >2 years in higher education (bilingual communication, IBC compliance) >4 years in residential projects (CAD, multi-family and single-family housing). Successful in project and stakeholders’ coordination, QA/QC procedures, and successful multi-million-dollar building projects.
In parallel, I am an associate consultant at EQUILIBRIO —a Global Collective Action Initiative for Sustainable Development— focused on sustainable developments and offering professional experience in the public and private sectors, academia and multilateral organizations for Latin-america and the Caribbean.
Registered Architect Colombia · CPNAA No. A-25042001-79712128; AICP-NCARB · Candidate
CO Architects, Los Angeles, CA, US, Technical Consultant
[ Healthcare Facilities ] Contract via Actalent
Support the M.E.P. coordination and HCAI requirements with trades for three type IA buildings (Hospital, CUP and ACC) during the design deliverables; oversee and manage construction administration activities (processing RFIs, Submittals, ASI, Bulletins and ACDs); coordinate the medical equipment management and QA/QC procedures with the required trades.
Key Achievements:
• Exhibited strong organizational ethics for continual project document control.
• Developed strong working relationships with superintendents, project engineers and design consultants of record.
- Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center [566,000 SF] Riverside, California.
- University of California Irvine Medical Center [615,000 SF] Irvine, California.
EQUILIBRIO, Bogotá DC, Colombia/Los Ángeles, California, Associate Consultant
[ Global Collective Action Initiative for Sustainable Development ]
• Beneficiary Assessments (BA) for Latin-American and the Caribbean at the Emerging and Sustainable Cities Program (ESC) of the Housing and Urban Development Division of the IDB.
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• Oversee and coordinate programme/project proposals (RFP, EOIs, RFQs) to collaborate with architects, community, development financing institutions and cultural organizations for urban design and collective impact projects for Latin America and the Caribbean.
CRITERION SYSTEMS, Capistrano Beach, Technical Lead
[ Healthcare Facilities ]
Oversee, coordinate and manage the planning, development and procurement process of complex medical equipment projects; led the technical-administrative coordination and HCAI requirements during the design phases and construction administration; improved QA/QC procedures and collaborated with client and cross-function teams to track milestones, manage budge, and implement ad-hoc interventions.
Key Achievements:
• Increased quality of coordinated deliverables, successful documentation control during Construction Administrator and improved client relationships.
- Providence Cedars-Sinai Medical Center [295,000 SF expansion twr] Tarzana, CA.
- Sutter Health - CPMC/PAMF Medical Office Building [250,000 SF] San Francisco, CA
Robert Hidey Architects., Irvine, California, Job Captain
[ Urban Planning—Housing Master Plans ]
Supported senior architects and urban planners to develop master plans for low-density housing in Southern California and the People's Republic of China; assisted in strategic planning and prototypes placement.
Key Achievements:
• Evaluated and applied land-use regulations established in the RMV general plan including the
required affordable housing units, urban infrastructure and amenities.
- Esencia Planned Community [701 ac.-2,547 un] – Rancho Mission Viejo, California.
- Sweetwater Bay [340 ac.–1,344 un] – Qingdao, PRC.
MGA GROUP, Los Angeles, California , Co-founder/Urban Planning Consultant
[ Urban Planning—Land-use entitlements ]
Operated as an owner representative and coordinated with urban planners, city, county, and state agencies land-use entitlements for commercial redevelopment projects in Hawaii and Southern California; provided strategies of adaptive urban revitalization by evaluating and applying the required building codes and zoning ordinances; assisted the owners during the multi-step permitting and planning process.
Key Achievements:
• Entitlements and the Ready To Issue permit for a Net Zero Energy Site in Kauai, HI with a proposed
vernacular architecture approved by the Historic Preservation Commission.
• Provided insightful architectural technical supervision to consultants as an owner representative.
- Kauai Village, [3.3 ac.] – Kaua’i, Hawaii.
LEGORRETA, Los Angeles, California, Intermediate Designer
[ Higher Education ]
Executive Architect: LANGDON WILSON INTERNATIONAL
Aided the design and executive architects of two higher education facilities in the Middle East; facilitated communication and coordination of deliverables between the executive architect (LW International) and the design architect (Legorreta) in Mexico City by using bilingual skills during the design phases evaluating, selecting, and applying architectural techniques, procedures, modifications and norms —IBC compliance.
Key Achievements:
• Two successful and coordinated projects approved for construction by KEO —the international Project
Management and Construction Management consultant— and the Qatar Foundation.
- UHBK School of Foreign Services [737,865 SF] Georgetown University - Doha, Qatar
- UHBK Student Center [346.698 SF] Georgetown University - Doha, Qatar
La Gran Colombia University, Bogotá DC, BArch, Professional Degree
Grade: GPA 3.42/4.0Grade: GPA 3.42/4.0
School of Architecture - Merit Scholarship
Columbia University, New York, NY, US, MArch, Urban Design
MSAUD, GSAPP William Kinne Fellow Memorial Prize recipient.
• William Kinne Fellows Traveling Prize, Award
Columbia University | GSAPP William Kinne Fellow | New York, NY
Granted on the merit of proposals submitted for travel abroad incorporating the study of architecture and urbanism. India-Aqueous Transect Mumbai Easter Waterfront
• Tuition Grant, Grant
Hispanic Scholarship Fund | Graduate studies | New York, NY
Awarded to students of Hispanic heritage for graduate studies
• Award of Excellence, Award
Gran Colombia University | School of Architecture | Bogota, Colombia
GPA 3.42/4.0
