Current 

Richard is working at Grimshaw Architects in the Arts District of Los Angeles as a Project BIM Manager supporting multiple teams that range from Film Studios to Transit Stations. He also spends time on National Company Initiatives like developing new Standards, Content and Content Management and Training.

Previously

Prior to Grimshaw Richard worked at Adamson Associates Inc. in Downtown Los Angeles a BIM Manager supporting multiple teams and as a Job Captain on a large commercial office Project in San Francisco. He worked here previously as a Designer with responsibility for a HQ building curtainwall system model and documentation and Annex design development.

Prior to AAI he worked at Disney Imagineering as a Show Set Designer. He  lead the show set design and coordination effort on an E-Ticket attraction in the Tokyo Disney Sea expansion. Working past 2 years from feasibility through design development into production. Primary responsibilities coordinating all the trades and internal groups as well as manage and maintain Revit and Maya models, take lead of documentation and manage the team for producing the project’s documentation deliverable. This has also included travel to Japan to coordinate with and meet with the client to review the final deliverable and discuss coordination issues.

Additional responsibilities at Disney include participating in the development and update of their Revit standards. This includes weekly meetings, developing and testing various aspects of the standard and providing input. He also did beta testing for apps that have been development internally and presented at the company’s BIM summit as a speaker on work flows, documentation and data/ model management.

Prior to Disney Richard worked at AECOM on projects that ranged from large master plans, mixed use developments, transportation, institution, civic, commercial and entertainment. Part of his work also included industrial design and planning for the Olympic bid, research & development for project proposals, model making, presentations and construction documents.

Richard also has experience as a Project Manager/ Designer at ORA a  small boutique Architecture firm in Downtown Los Angeles. Working on core & shell/ interior TI for a creative office space in Chinatown, a new construction vacation desert cabin in Yucca Valley and fourplex renovation & addition in Highland Park

Support

Over the years Richard has enjoyed the support side of the practice managing data, documentation and models. Also over the years he has tended to take on building and developing standards, work flows as well as instructing/ teaching when needed to help build the team skills to better aid projects. All his practical experience over the years include fabrication, building, modeling, drawing through various software and experience in the field have aided me to develop a unique skill set that will be a great value to the team and projects.

School Years
Richard graduated with distinction from SCI-Arc, Southern California Institute of Architecture, with a Professional Bachelors Degree of Architecture.

For the year before prior to his thesis he worked as the Project Architect on the SCI-Arc Caltech Solar Decathlon team. He lead various designs proposals and was key to the development of various aspects of the project. One of which was the design of the exterior skin structure and the production of a full scale mock-up to test the design. 

In the summer of 2011 Richard worked at Oyler Wu Collaborative. The first two months he worked closely with Dwayne Oyler developing one of three schemes for a residential tower proposal in Taipei. This consisted of development and production of presentation drawings and images. His scheme was favored and chosen by the client and went into construction documents; it is currently going into construction. The last two months of the summer he was instrumental in the steel fabrication on the SCI-Arc graduation pavilion. 11 hour days cutting steel precisely, assembling, painting, rope knitting and installing. He was charged with training proper technique when required and developed time saving methods during production.

In Richard's early days at SCI-Arc he work under Gary Paige conducting research that varied from graphic techniques, developing study models, documenting urban and building typologies. Some of this work eventually be incorporated into the LA Forum for Arch & Design Dingbat 2.0 Competition and would win a 2nd place.