Professional Design Experience
LEVEL Architecture and Design 2010-present Contract Designer/Project Manager/Principal
- Contract design services, Interior Design, Architectural Design, CMF, Furniture, Props and Modelmaking NYC
- Managing daily operations in a fast paced design shop, sustaining flexible staff and freelance labor on a project by project basis
- Working directly with clients to assure clarity for scope of work in order to supply accurate deliverables. Creating budgets that are realistic and sustainable. Projects delivered on schedule and within or under budget
- The design, creation and fabrication of materials including 2D and 3D models, graphics, drafting, drawing review, design ideation, standard and digital fabrication of prototypes in architecture and industrial design.
- DS+R Diller Scofideo and Renfro Contract Designer / Design and fabrication of Architectural models for Venice Biennale 2018 and SHED. Current freelance
- Grimshaw Architects Contract Model Designer / Design and fabrication of Architectural models and prototypes
- Jean Nouvel Contract modelmaker / Creative design ideation
- Rockwell Group Freelance Designer on furniture, film and set design, Prop Maker, Model Maker
- ARO Architecture Research Office Freelance model making
- Rafael Vinoly Architects Freelance model making
- Marvel Films Contract modelmaker and prop maker
- Netflix Contract designer and prop maker
CBS Contract designer and prop maker
LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City (Queens) NY CUNY 2017-present Adjunct Professor Humanities/ Industrial Design
- Teaching the principal skills needed in Industrial Design. Basic foundation level skills including drawing, drafting and rendering (hand and digital) basic forming, painting, 3D design, basic fabrication both traditional and digital, model making and prototyping in scall and full size.
- Knowledgeable instruction in fabrication and traditional tool work. Artwork is created in a FAB-lab setting. Capabilities include 3D printers, laser cutters and traditional shop tools. All non-fabrication work is created in a classroom or studio setting.
- Instruction to students in the creation of presentation materials both tangible and digital. These include 2D booklets, portfolios, 3D materials, and PowerPoint presentations
- Heavily focused on technique, aesthetics, art & design theory, method & materiality and techniques in line with professional workplace standards. Fundamental skills are taught and built upon, as a foundation followed by more complex design and fabrication instruction.
DS+R Diller Scofidio and Renfro_2018 Contract Model Making Services / Fabrication of Architectural model for the Columbia University/Venice Biennale 2018
Grimshaw Architects 2016-present Contract Model Maker Design and fabrication of architectural-models Materials and techniques include metalwork, woodwork, 3d printing and laser cutting, plastics, hand detailing, painting and fabrication Creation of materials including 2D and 3D for presentations to clients, drafting and redrafting for scale, drawing review, design, and fabrication
NORTON + LOFT MANAGEMENT 2012-2014 Marketing Coordinator & Design Consultant Design/Build/Construction Management
Design Development, Interiors & Graphics
Coordination with Architects and Designers/ Drawing Review & Plan Checking with Teams
Coordination of Supplies/Specifying Products/Ordering and Scheduling to Teams in Field
Creation and Coordination of Marketing Materials between Main Office and Satellites
Website Design and Maintenance
Creation of Documents Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint/WordPress/Adobe for Database
Beyer Blinder Belle Architects and Planners 2003-2010
Model Shop Manager- Staff flex to 15
Creating Budgets and Drafting Project Proposals
Managing and Staffing Projects
Drafting and Re-Drafting plans for Architectural Models
Ordering and Stocking Materials, Handling Suppliers/Outsourcing
Design Graphic Services, Presentation, CAD Services
Laser Specialist Prepare CAD drawings, Laser Technician Rapid Prototyping Stereolithography
Mentoring College Level Interns in Typical Design Applications
Bronx Charter School for Architecture: Taught 6 Week course in Basic Design
WP Industrial Design Products
Product Designer / Design Consultant for Promotional Office Products, Conception to Manufacture.
Rockwell Group
Architectural Model Maker and Design Consultant- Building Scale models Interpreting plans and working alongside Architects to resolve issues in designs
Furniture design consultant, Design consultant for Sets including for Hairspray, Fiddler on the Roof & Film Team America
Archit-X a+d LLC Architecture and Design
Architecture and Interiors: Design, site visits, construction documents, construction details, fast track scheduling, budgeting. Custom Furniture Design: sketching, rendering, drafting, research, scale models, pattern building and finishing, coordinating and presenting to manufacturers and prospective clients, exhibit design for booth in ICFF 2002, Coordinate branding and promotional materials
Professional Visual Arts Experience
Set Shop
Freelance Scenic Painter for 10,000 sq ft set shop duties included Color Mixing, Color Matching & Layout from Plans and Exhibit Fabrication.
R&F Encaustics
Paint Maker and Color Development, Apprenticed under Master Paint maker Richard Frumass learning the trade of mixing and milling traditional oil & encaustic paint and development of a newer medium Pigment Sticks.
Workshop Educator, Teaching small adult classes techniques with Encaustic Paint and Pigment Sticks.
Artpark
Taught various Art Workshops to Children, Adults and Disabled people including Enameling, Pottery (wheel), Papermaking, Glassblowing and Bronze Casting. These classes ranged from 30 min. to 2 weeks long depending on the medium
Artist assistant at the State funded Park for the Arts during summer seasons. Small and large scale projects including welding, glassblowing, ceramics, fiber arts, jewelry and more.
Education
Pratt Institute School of Design
Masters in Industrial Design, Honors
State University of New York at New Paltz
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Honors Painting and Sculpture ~ Merit Award Visual Arts / Honors
ACUE Online Learning Intensive course 2020
- Intensive Professional development for Inclusive teaching practices online
Blackboard OTE online learning Intensive 2021
- Intensive Professional development for online teaching methods and course design
Daemon College / Niagara County Community College
-Early Admissions Fine Arts Program
Awards, Honors, Competitions
- Humanscale Faces in the Wild competition-Winning submission
- Finalist Park Avenue Green, Marco Island FL ideas Competition
- Winner of Graphis Design Annual
- Emerging Designs /Graphis design/ furniture design Tonus Set
- Finalist MOSAIC Foundation Competition
- Winner of Village of Roslyn Harbor local safe streets competition
- Salone di mobile: Winner slot in Pratt booth / Milan Italy
- Finalist Gowanus Highway Competition
- Winner slot in Pratt booth for furniture design / ICFF NYC
Publications
- Axis Magazine Dromus Chair
- Contract Design Magazine Triad Table
- Interior Design Magazine Dromus Chair
- Graphis design Annual Tonus set
- Case da Abitare Orbit chair
- IBM corporate Publication Graphic Illustration
- Memo Magazine Tonus set
- Graphis #328 Orbit Chair
Shows and Exhibits of Visual Art and Design
- Works on Paper solo exhibit Brooklyn NY New Prospect
- Oil and Collage Brooklyn NY The ’LOFT”
- Collage on Paper NYC Earthworks
- Paintings solo exhibit in Brooklyn NY New Prospect
- Group Show: Portraits in Oil Kent Ave Gallery
- Oil on Canvas solo exhibit Brooklyn NY New Prospect
- Collage Brooklyn Earthworks, BK
- Works on Paper solo exhibit Brooklyn NY New Prospect
- Works on Paper solo exhibit Brooklyn NY New Prospect
- Small works on Paper Art Market Ithaca NY
- 3-d sculpture/ group show Skull a Day Virginia
- Collaborative Design Pratt
- Decoding Digital Pratt
Skills and Strengths
- Team Oriented / Flexible
- Self-starting
- Comfortable in fast paced environments
- Easily adjusts to changes, varying standards and procedures on projects
- Teaching, mentoring, advising
- Sustainable studio practices
- Materials, techniques and methods
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Google Products
- Auto CAD
- Rhino-Beginner
- Microsoft Word
- Excel
- Power Point
- Laser Cutting
- 3D Printing
- CNC basic (in progress)
- 4 axis CNC basic(in progress)
- Drawing/Sketching
- Ideation
- Traditional Hand and Shop tools
- Casting (metal, plaster plastic, silicone)
- additive and reductive
- Prototyping and fabrication in wood, metal and plastic
- Drafting/Pattern Making
- Painting/ Finishing
- Adhesives
- Modelmaking
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