I'm currently a senior designer with KTGY Group, Inc in Los Angeles, CA. Here I am charged with designing the highest quality neighborhoods and homes for developers and potential home buyers throughout the West Coast. I'm currently working on a 120 unit multi-family apartment development in Houston, Texas, while at the same time, designing new hillside homes for the Glassell Park area of Los Angeles. It is always a challenge multi-tasking and moving so many large projects across the finish line, but I love a challenge. I also love to design a place for so many people to eventually call home.
Windrich Group Inc, Calabasas, CA, US, Consultant Architect & Project Manager
-Providing property assessments, historic record investigations, as-built surveys, architectural design, entitlement packages, code expediting, and legalization solutions for additions, conversions, and new building designs for apartments and single family homes
Westfield, Los Angeles, CA, US, Senior Project Coordinator of Retail Plan Management
-Produced and managed lease and development plans for large scale retail projects
-Prepared exhibits and calculations of leasing scenarios following state and local building codes
-Coordinated work with many entities of the business including developers, leasing managers, designers, and project architects
KTGY, Irvine, CA, US, Project Manager/Job Captain
-Coordinated the work of multiple staff members including senior designers, graphic artists, associate designers, and additional landscape & civil consultants for large scale design entitlement packages
-Attended city planning meetings and hearings to present project materials and obtain planning department and design review board approvals
-Trained new design staff on office design, drafting, and code standards and procedures
KTGY, Irvine, CA, US, Designer
-Designed single family homes, townhomes, and semi-custom homes
-Refined sketch designs using AutoCAD, photoshop, and sketchup, preparing materials for schematic design, design development, and construction document phases
-Designed and fabricated custom library shelves, layout tables, and workstations
-Created office graphic & CAD standards, team folder structure, and project start-up protocol
-Acted as liaison between team and director of technology, providing technical support and solutions
-Implemented company-wide Canto Cumulus digital asset management software
-Created and maintained system for managing office resource library including: color and material sample books, plan books, and reference books.
Michael Maltzan Architecture, Los Angeles, CA, US, Associate Intern
-Built study and presentation quality models for high end museums and custom homes
-Curator of project slide collection
-Fabricated conference room cabinetry and display shelves
University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, US, BArch, Architecture
France & Spain Study Abroad, USC School of Architecture 2000
George H. Mayer Foundation - USC Architectural Guild Travelling Fellowship, Other
The George H. Mayer Foundation -USC Architectural Guild Travelling Fellowship awarded for:
A study of Frank Lloyd Wright in Japan & America
With the Fellowship I traveled throughout Japan for 3 weeks along a predetermined path to locations Frank Lloyd Wright once visited, as well as his architectural designs still existing in Japan today. Following studies in Japan I traveled from the East coast of the United States back to West Coast visiting as many of Frank Lloyd Wright designed structures as possible.
I completed this fellowship with a couple presentations building a possible relationship between Wright's love of the Japanese wood block print and composition, and traditional Japanese architecture and concept to his own work in the US and abroad.
