I am a 2011 M. Arch I masters in architecture graduate from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and I am currently seeking full-time work within the greater Kansas City area, though I am open to the prospect of relocating. I am hoping ideally to find a full-time junior architect/designer position so I can work towards becoming a licensed architect. However, I am also openly seeking a position in CAD drafting, technical writing, project managing or coordinating, a BIM analyst position, graphic design, or anything else related to the fields of architecture/engineering/construction/planning/design pertaining to my skills and talents.
I am also a freelance graphic designer and artist, so please feel free to contact me with any graphics projects, drawings, sketches, paintings, etc., that you may need.
Ark Bild, Intern Architect
Intern Architect
Ark Bild, LLC. (arkbild.com.) Kansas City, Missouri.
May 2011 - Present
Work closely with firm partners supporting their work through drafting, editing, and rendering architectural and construction documents; project file and office organization, assist at site visits and construction meetings, and aid in day-to-day firm operations.
Projects I have assisted with at Ark Bild:
-The Draft Room, Endzone Bar, and Team Store at Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, MO
(Editing redlined construction documents, site visits, facilitating communication between architect and contractor)
-City Gym Tenant Finish, Kansas City, MO
(Editing redlined construction documents, rendering elevations, project organization, assisting with client meetings, site visit, assisting in project color selection)
-North Platte County FEMA Shelter, Edgerton, MO
(FEMA guideline research, drafting and editing construction documents, assisting with project specifications and project organization)
-St. Paul United Methodist Church Partial Rebuild, Joplin, MO
(Assisting in design, drafting and editing construction documents, site visit, project organization)
Self-Employed, Freelance Artist / Graphic Designer
Commissions, awards and exhibitions, national and local. Mural paintings, commissioned portraits, window paintings, advertising and logos for businesses.
Habitat for Humanity, Construction Operations Intern
Construction Operations Intern
Habitat for Humanity Kansas City, Inc. Kansas City, Missouri.
Jun. - Sept. 2010.
Assist HFHKC’s Construction Operations Manager and Volunteer Coordinator in the organization of current projects, filing, locating construction contractors and soliciting bids, telephone, email, data entry, data analysis, document organization, creating checklists, delivering documents, and project management duties. Also includes site visits and some construction labor.
The Palm Springs Art Museum, Docent
Docent Volunteer
The Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California.
Feb. - Mar. 2010.
Exhibit: “Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner.” Lead public tours of the exhibition, featuring drawings and models by the late architect John Lautner.
Hope + Faith Ministries, Volunteer
Soup Kitchen Volunteer
Hope + Faith Ministries. Kansas City, Missouri.
Jul. 2007.
Serve meals to homeless in the urban core.
Cosentino's Lakewood Price Chopper, Cake Decorator
Cake Decorator
Cosentino's Lakewood Price Chopper. Lee's Summit, Missouri.
Nov. 2005 - Mar. 2006.
Take, translate and fill customer cake orders, stock retail display cases, assist with duties including packaging goods, baking, answering phone, clean up, assisting customers in selecting goods. Conceptualize, construct, and decorate wedding cakes and custom cakes.
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, MArch, Architecture
From the department website at http://www.csupomona.edu/~arc/march1.html
The M. ARCH I program accepts students from varied academic backgrounds, including non-design disciplines, for a three year and one quarter program, requiring the completion of 160 quarter units. For students with no previous study in architecture, two years of intensive prerequisite course work precedes the final four quarters of the Master of Architecture program. Students holding a nonprofessional bachelor of arts or bachelor of science degree, with a major in architecture, are encouraged to apply for advanced standing within the M. ARCH I graduate program. Normally, two years and one quarter of additional study in this advanced standing program would lead to the Master of Architecture degree. The final four quarters of the M. ARCH I program require 60 quarter units of academic work. Students must complete courses in college algebra, trigonometry, and physics prior to beginning this program since these courses are prerequisites to the study of design studios, structures and environmental controls.
The studio sequence consists of three segments: a two-year basic core, a two quarter group of topic studios taken jointly with fourth and fifth year B.Arch. students, and an independent project during the final quarter of design studies. Lecture classes in Architecture Theory and History, Human Behavior, Programming, Sustainability, Building Technology, Structures, Codes and Digital Media are closely coordinated with the studio sequence, and students are expected to demonstrate their knowledge of these areas in their design projects. Students are also required to take classes in the other graduate programs in the College: Landscape Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning and the John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies.
The first year graduate class usually enrolls between sixteen and twenty students. The program, as a whole, has a graduate population of about seventy students. This number keeps the student/faculty ratio small, but is large enough to provide for diversity of backgrounds, experience, and accomplishments.
University of Missouri - Kansas City, Studio Art
Note: I studied many art courses concurrently with my political science classes. I later came back to UMKC from January 2006 - December 2006 and continued on in the Studio Art Bachelors Degree Program. I have one semester of work left in order to obtain the degree. I did not obtain this degree due to the opportunity to take College Physics and Calculus from January 2007 - May 2007 so that I could be eligible for entry into the Architecture Program in California.
From the department website: http://www.umkc.edu/degrees/Sa.html
Three foundation courses (9 hours)
8 courses (24 hours) of electives selected from at least three different studio areas (drawing, painting, printmaking, graphic design, photography, digital imaging, and electronic media) and of these hours at least 12 must be upper division (additional 6 hours can be chosen from art history)
College-mandated capstone course
4 art history courses, three of which will be chosen from five options at the 300-level and one course at the 400-level.
University of Missouri - Kansas City, Bachelors, Political Science
From the department website at http://cas.umkc.edu/politicalscience/
The Department of Political Science offers courses leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts. The undergraduate program is based on the principles of a liberal arts education with attention devoted to philosophies, institutions, processes and behavioral aspects of politics.
Also from the website http://www.umkc.edu/degrees/Po.html
At least 30 credit hours of coursework in political science must be taken, with at least 24 hours of that coursework at the 300-400 level.
The following courses are required for all political science majors:
American Government (210);
Comparative Politics (220); and
Senior Seminar (490 or 492WI)
Students must take one 300- or 400-level course in at least four of these eight subfields:
Political theory
Public law
Comparative politics
International relations
American national government
State and local politics
Methodology
Internships or study abroad programs
The remaining six hours are electives to be selected with the help of a faculty adviser, depending on interest areas and career intentions.
Metropolitan Community College of Kansas City (MCC), Associates Studies
Associates Degree
Imation National High School Graphic Design Competition, 1st Place
25 high school seniors were chosen for their graphic design abilities to visit the Imation Headquarters in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. Top 25 winner out of 100 national finalists.
Ryan Netterville Memorial Art Scholarship, Scholarship
Art honors scholarship, Lee's Summit North.
Missouri Commission on Human Rights Logo Design Competition, 2nd Place
1st runner up, logo design for the Missouri Commission on Human Rights. Jefferson City, Missouri.
Denny's Save the Children Art Contest, 1st Place
Mens necktie winning design. Sold nationally in Denny's Restaurants for duration of Save the Children Promotion, 1997-2000.
