3D printlife, freelance product designer
Duties included designing products and testing their printability using an Afinia 3d rapid prototyper with ABS and PLA plastic. This required that I create reliable and attractive digital models while also dealing with the printer’s hardware and software interface.
RISD Rapid Prototyping Lab, Providence, RI, US, Rapid Prototyping/CNC monitor
Duties included assisting students in preparing and fixing their 3-dimensional designs to be built in the ABS plastic prototyping machine and CNC 2BOT machine. Proficiency in 3D modeling programs and fabrication processes necessary.
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, RI, US, structural analysis teaching assistant
Conducted teaching sessions on the fundamental principles of structural analysis. Concepts included calculating moments, equilibrium of rigid bodies, cables/beam reactions, compression/tension systems, pinned frames and machines, multi-force/arch bodies, and retaining walls.
Electroland, Los Angeles, CA, US, Fabrication Intern
Duties included constructing a digitally fabricated architectural installation for the Direct TV corporate
building.This required that I have a tactile familiarity with fabrication methodologies in metal, wood, and composite plastics accompanying fundamental construction/structural principles.
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), student fabricator in 'Blossom' Design-Build
Facilitated the design and construction of the community garden structures. Primary duty was working with a small team to design and complete the facade trellis system in which users would grow a variety of vegetables and fruits annually.
D.B. Lewis Architecture Firm, Miami, FL, US, Internship
Duties included creating volumetric massing models from existing drawings for conceptual high-rise and neighborhood residential buildings. Responsibilities also included researching of appropriate materials for developing projects.
Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, Miami, FL, US, internship
Completed my own independent study, which required detail oriented modeling and sketching ideas for existing structures in the firm’s portfolio to further understand their implemented typologies, design solutions and overall urban philosophy.
Design and Architecture Senior High, Miami, FL, US, High School, Architecture
Steven Lerner Scholarship, Scholarship
Based on Academic Excellence
Independent Study Travel Grant, Grant
RISD Scholarship, Scholarship
2009-2013 scholarship based on Merit and Academic Excellence
Independent Study Travel Grant, Grant
Prescott O. Clarke Scholarship, Scholarship
Based on Academic Excellence
Scholastics Gold Finalist, 1st Place
