Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

New York, New York

Oct 2009 - Current // Architectural Designer

Design professional in the SOM Education Lab

Columbia University

New York, New York

2009 - Current // Assistant Critic

course: Advanced Architecture Studio VI

2008 - 2009 // Teaching Assistant

courses: Intro To Digital Fabrication + Advanced Fabrication: Component Systems

I provided help with student projects, conducted software and machine tutorials, pursued research into materials and structural analysis as well as holding weekly lab hours in the digital fabrication shop using the cnc router, metal mill and waterjet.

Randall Stout Architects

Los Angeles, California

May 2004 - June 2008 // Project Designer

Art Gallery of Alberta . Edmonton, Alberta

I specialized in design, 3D modeling, drawing production and enclosure details from project inception and competition winning entry until end of construction documents phase on an 80,000sf museum. Main responsibility included generating ideas and coordination with DeSimone Structural Engineers and A.Zahner metal cladding to ensure integrity of design and fabrication aspects of the project as well as maintaining the integrity of the 3D project database. Completed in January 2010.

Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum . Michigan State University

I was primary designer and led a team of four, meeting tight design and presentation deadlines in an international competition for a 50,000sf museum on the MSU campus.

Taubman Museum of Art . Roanoke, Virginia

During the Schematic and Design Development phases I was tasked with 3D modelling, geometry refinement for ease of fabrication, and graphic content. Completed in November 2008.

The Living

New York, New York

February 2009 - May 2009 // Consultant

Living Light Pavilion . Seoul, Korea

I created a parametric model in catia, then linked that up with optimization software modeFrontier and FEA software AutoCad Robot to use genetic algorithms to quickly optimize the amount and location of columns of a pavilion in Seoul, Korea. After 2600 separate iterations, the most efficient design was chosen for fabrication.

Lion in Oil

New York, New York

February 2007 -       // Designer / Co-Founder

Freelance design work in web and graphic design, architecture + travel photography, clients include:

Robb Report Magazine, Luxury Home Magazine, Platinum Publications - Academy Awards Preview Magazine, Travel+Leisure Magazine, Vacation Homes, Art & Antiques Magazine

awards and honors

LEED® Green Associate

Represented Columbia in the AIA Center for Architecture, ARCH SCHOOLS: VISIONS OF THE FUTURE exhibit

      Global Panopticon, studio critic Ed Keller

2009 Portfolio and Website published in Designing a Digital Portfolio, by Cynthia Baron, published by New Riders Press.

2009 Recipient of the William Ware Prize for Excellence in Design / Saul Kaplan Traveling Fellowship

      The highest Honor Award given by the School for design work

2009 Awarded the Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Memorial Prize

      Awarded for the best final semester design problem in each studio section

2009 Granted a school-wide William Kinne Traveling Fellowship:

      Project Title: Fast, Cheap and Out of Control (Without Architects), or: Why Infrastructure Won't Save Us

2005 process and promise of a new museum, Art Museum of Western Virginia, with Randall Stout Architects

2005 undergraduate research fellowship award from the University of Texas Co-Op

Programs

Adobe Creative Suite

Autodesk: 3DStudioMax, Autocad, Robot

Digital Fabrication and Reverse Engineering: MicroScribe, Milling, Waterjet, operation plus software,

Parametric Design with Catia and SolidWorks

Rhino plus Grasshopper

Scripting with Processing and Arduino integration

Interests

Interactive Systems

Running

Photography

Cycling and Bike Building