Designer and recent M. Arch graduate at Pratt Institute with a background in fabrication and community-based work.
Experience in project management, research, and teaching: micro-finance and financial literacy, architecture and design, and English literacy.
Pratt SoA / IDC Co-designing Brooklyn’s Hidden Heritages: The Weeksville Experience, Brooklyn, NY, US, Workshop Co-developer and Facilitator
• Prepared class modules and co-taught basic design and architecture workshops (urban intervention in Weeksville, Brooklyn) for high schools students at Medgar Evers College Preparatory School
Pratt Graduate Architecture & Urban Design, New York, NY, US, Graduate Research Assistant
• Researched case study projects, and coordinated class requirements with professors and students for “Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Space” and “Critical Geography” seminars
Mark Foster Gage Architects, New York, NY, US, Architectural Intern
• Created design proposals, drawings, and code documentation for a residential adaptive reuse project and exhibition spaces
• Participated in product design and fabrication of casted objects
• Worked on product documentation, styling and photography
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, US, 3D Printing & Laser Cutting Fabrication Assistant
- Assisted architecture, industrial and interior design students in troubleshooting digital models for 3D printing (plastic) and laser cutting transactions
- Operated and troubleshot FDM 3D printers and Universal Laser Systems laser cutter
- Maintained knowledge of SLA (wax and resin) printers and 3D scanning
- Researched and created tutorials for Meshmixer and Rhino 3D
Generalitat Valenciana/CEIP Rico Sapena, Castalla, ES, English Language and Arts Teaching Assistant
- Assisted in English language and art classes for primary school students (ages 6-12) through reading, writing and activity planning at CEIP Rico Sapena, a rural Spanish public school
Social Enterprise Development Partnerships Inc., Quezon City, PH, Micro-finance and Financial Literacy Program Officer
- Traveled to 15 provinces in the Philippines and conducted research, training and consultancy work on micro-finance, financial literacy, social entrepreneurship and disaster risk reduction and management
- Trained micro-finance institutions, government agencies, and non-government institutions involved in mass housing and rehabilitation projects (post-Super Typhoon Haiyan)
Urban Gardens Philippines Trading Corp., Quezon City, PH, Co-designer and Head of Finance
• Co-founded corp. and handled all financial documentation
• Co-designed, produced, marketed and sold indoor garden products targeted towards urban residents
Ateneo De Manila University, Quezon City, PH, Bachelors, Major in Management, Minors in Literature and Enterprise Dev.
