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Megan Sta Maria Mackin

Megan Sta Maria Mackin

New York, NY, US

 
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About 

Motivated Architecture graduate with strong AutoCAD, Sketchup, Revit, and rendering (Lumion and VRAY) skills with combined 2 years relevant experience. Professional work includes preparing drawings for RIAI work stages of Design, Planning, and Tender, prepared detail drawings, site and building surveying for residential and commercial projects. 

Eligible to work in the USA with the J1 Irish Work and Travel Visa. 
No sponsorship required.

Elsewhere:

Employment 

Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, GB, Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

- Mentor Year 2 undergraduate architecture students in a research project on alternate and extreme ways of living; included methods of research, collating and presenting research through architectural drawings.
- Provide tutorials on Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop and InDesign

Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
 

McNamee LTD, Dundalk, IE, Architectural Assistant

- Prepared design, planning, and tender documents and detail drawings using AutoCAD.
- Oversaw site and existing building surveys.
- Communicated with clients on their needs for their projects which were primarily private dwellings (bespoke housing and rural housing), renovations, and extensions.
- Surveyed and completed drawings for a renovation project of a protected structure

Jun 2019 - Sep 2021
 

Education 

Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast County Borough, GB, MArch, Architecture

MArch with Distinction
Projects included a theatre in the cultural hub of the Cathedral Quarter in Belfast, housing using data centre energy waste, redesigning a data centre infrastructure in the rural Irish landscape with a focus on carbon sequestration and regeneration of peatland.

Sep 2021 - Jul 2023
 

University of Ulster Jordanstown, Belfast, GB, BArch, BA (Hons) Architecture

BA with First Class Honours
Projects included introducing a national museum of modern art for N. Ireland on a coastal site, creating a heritage and visitor centre on Lough Neagh, and designing a library and study centre as part of a masterplan; redesigning the University of Ulster’s Coleraine campus in collaboration with MArch students.

Sep 2017 - Jun 2020
 

Awards 

Regenerative Rathlin 2024, Honorable Mention

Finalist for Regenerative Rathlin Design competition 2024 with a Fellowship offer.

2024
 

COP27 Decarbonising Heritage 2022-23, Other

Participated in COP27 with Queen’s University in collaboration with University of Salford and American University Cairo presenting a research project on ‘Decarbonising Heritage’ which was also showcased at the Venice Biennale 2023.

2023
 

NIHE Future Housing Finalist, Honorable Mention

Shortlisted for NI Housing Executive Future Housing competition 2022

2022
 

Areas of Specialization 

Skills