Conor sass's Archinect profile

About

I truly love the field of architecture, from the bliss of conceptual design to the joy of construction completion, and all the gritty long days and nights in between.

Elsewhere:

Employment

CAW Architects, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, US, Designer

Jun 2015 - current

Heller Manus Architects, San Francisco, CA, US, Designer/Draftsman

Apr 2014 - Sep 2014

Choate Parking Consultants Inc, Irvine, CA, US, Draftsperson

Jun 2013 - Sep 2013

Education

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA, US, BArch, Architecture

Minored in sustainable environments, volunteered with our AIAS chapter, and tutored Revit.

Sep 2012 - Jun 2015

Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA, US, Architecture

Sep 2009 - Jul 2012

Awards

Leading Edge Student Design Competition 2012, Honorable Mention

While attending Cuesta College, I earned an honorable mention for a “realistic and buildable design” in the 2012 leading edge student design competition, a competition in which I used energy modeling and efficient design to create a net-zero-energy building.

2012

The Rotary Club 2009 Northern California Rotary Speech Competition, 1st Place

I won 1st place for my speech on the negative impacts of individual wars on human society

2008

Areas of Specialization

Architecture, Photography, Writing, Furniture Design

Skills

& Revit, & Adobe Photoshop, & Adobe InDesign, & SketchUp, & AutoCAD, Design skills: Sustainable Design, & model making, & Photography, & Graphic Design Skills, Customer Service, (+ 2 years) Teaching Assistant, Landscape and Urban Design, (+5 yrs) Interior Design, & Rhino, energy modeling, & VectorWorks, excellent public speaker and presenter, & Digital Fabrication, constuction documents, Adaptive Reuse, Historic Preservation & Restoration, (+1 year) Project Management, Conceptual Design