Always seeking new ways landscape and architecture can be woven together to define spaces and experiences through material, program and light.
Searching for professional employment, working on LEED GA & AP BD & C certification, moving to NYC in 2016 to further path to licensure.
Thesis work during graduate program focused on researching methods / strategies of memorial design in the United States, with a design proposal that provides one solution to memorializing ambiguous events with shifting viewpoints and perspectives. Through the utilization of architecture and landscape architecture, the thesis analyzed the place of a memorial in the age of terror, the contemporary time period that currently occupies the ongoing U.S. War on Terror.
Glendale Development, Buffalo, NY, US, Creative Director
•Responsible for creation of re-branding & marketing designs and initiatives
•Creation, Design and management of new websites / branding for different properties
Linden Properties of WNY, LP, Buffalo, NY, US, Creative Director
•Responsible for creation of re-branding & marketing designs and initiatives
•Surveys and measures existing apartments & buildings, translate into Revit & Sketchup diagrams
•Provide management of I.T. and architectural initiatives within company
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, Teaching Assistant
Teaching Assistant for several classes:
•Diversity & Design under coordination of Beth Tauke, Spring 2015
•Architecture History 2 under coordination of Hadas Steiner, Spring 2014
•Teach Recitation of 15 students details & principles of architectural history
•Evaluate, grade and create lesson plans for recitations during the semester
•Architecture Media II & Media III under coordination of Matt Hume, Academic Year 2013-2014
HHL Architects, Buffalo, NY, US, Designer
•Collaborated with Architects and Project Managers in creating / editing construction documents
•Converted existing historical drawings into updated detail drawings
•Participated in Design workshops, construction and accessibility seminars
Undergraduate Student Association: University at Buffalo, Amherst, NY, Creative Director of Communications
Contract position, only for 1 year cycle.
•Create outreach within student body through creative viral branding techniques
•Manage staff of 16 and oversee creative branding and production for $4.2 Million organization
•Created marketing campaign for annual concert series which returned $150,000+ more revenue than previous years
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, US, MArch, Masters of Architecture
Focus on Ecological Practices, Thesis work on War Memorial design in United States
AIA Henry Adams Certificate of Merit, Award
Henry Adams Certificate of Merit recognizes the top academic performance of each accredited school of architecture in the country. This award recognizes the second highest grade point average in the School of Architecture and Planning's 2015 graduate class at 3.94.
Department High Academic Achievement List Scholarship, Scholarship
Scholarship received for outstanding Academic Achievement from the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning
Department Scholarship, Scholarship
Scholarship received from the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning