Experience

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  Curiosity.Love

  • Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

  • Founding Partner

    • Jan 2020 - Present
    • Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

    Curiosity.Love creates innovative, experiential, participatory and visually-dynamic ways to engage key audiences worldwide‍In today's rapidly evolving world, filled with an array of tools and constantly emerging frontiers, an adaptive approach to idea development, strategy building, and creat...

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  Luminaire

  • Miami

  • Vice President of Design & Marketing

    • Mar 2019 - Present
    • Miami

    • Championed digital, design, marketing, and creative departments, propelling them to both creative and financial excellence. • Grew e-commerce and digital revenue and developed lead-generation tools that allowed us to grow our market share and brand awareness nationally. • Forged the brand's...

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  A+D Architecture and Design Museum>Los Angeles

  • United States
  • Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Executive Director

    • Oct 2017 - Jan 2021

    - Orchestrated a remarkable feat by elevating museum donations to over 8x times their previous levels, demonstrating exceptional financial leadership.- Crafted and implemented an innovative, creative framework that significantly heightened the museum's name recognition.- Cultivates robust working relationships with the Board of Directors and officers, fostering a harmonious and cooperative work environment.- Spearheads the administration of the organization, consistently delivering measurable results to the Board's satisfaction and forging strong partnerships.- Collaborates with the Board to formulate both short and long-range plans, executing annual work plans with measurable, accountable actions.- Ensures strict compliance with all licensing and documentation requirements, including the Museum’s

  • Chief Curator

    • Jun 2017 - Jan 2021

    - Lead the development of a full, balanced and dynamic exhibition program. - Organize and coordinate all exhibitions and projects presented at The A+D. - As a member of the museum’s senior staff, the Chief Curator is expected to both attend and participate in Board of Directors and Collections Committee meetings.- As supervisor for the museum’s curatorial and exhibitions department, the Chief Curator oversees the planning, development, implementation, and management of the department’s approved budget, resources and programs.- Collaborate with staff on opportunities for donor cultivation and assist in the development of grant proposals/applications.- Work closely with the education department and museum operations team to ensure all programs and events are aligned with the overarching curatorial vision.- Maintain regular workflow with the museum’s communications department to ensure messaging on exhibitions and programs is aligned with the curatorial vision and updates to exhibition schedule are communicated in a timely and effective manner.- Serve as the museum staff liaison to the Collections Committee of the Board of Directors on all matters related to the collection, including providing analysis and recommendations for acquisitions and deaccessioning.- Organize and collaborate with staff to produce museum programming (lectures, workshops, ), as may be required.- Lead curatorial team to produce interpretive text for each exhibition/project, including brochure copy, catalogues and wall-text.- The Chief Curator serves as a public facing member of the museum and is expected to represent within professional organizations, the community, regionally, and nationwide to ensure the museum has a lively and productive relationship with peer professionals and institutions, as well as the creative community and the general public.- Perform other duties as may be required to support the effective operation of the museum’s curatorial department.

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  University of Southern California

  • Greater Los Angeles Area

  • Design Faculty

    • Aug 2017 - Jan 2021
    • Greater Los Angeles Area
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  SCI-Arc

  • Design Faculty

    • Aug 2019 - Dec 2020
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  Claremont Graduate University

  • Faculty

    • Aug 2019 - Dec 2020
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  One Night Stand LA for Art and Architecture

  • Los Angeles

  • Co Founder / Chief Curator

    • Oct 2014 - Dec 2020
    • Los Angeles
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  ynotWORKSHOP

  • Lead Designer / Founder

    • May 2012 - Sep 2020

  • Creative Director

    • Oct 2014 - Aug 2020

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  Archinect

  • Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

  • Editor At Large

    • May 2017 - Sep 2019
    • Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
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  Masks theJournal

  • Cambridge, Massachussets

  • Editor in Chief & Founder

    • Aug 2015 - Aug 2019
    • Cambridge, Massachussets
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  Studio Antares, Inc.

  • Greater Los Angeles Area

  • Designer

    • Jun 2013 - Aug 2019
    • Greater Los Angeles Area
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  Harvard University Graduate School of Design

  • United States
  • Architecture and Planning
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Curatorial Research Assistant

    • Aug 2015 - Dec 2018

  • Discussion Moderator - Architectural Imagination

    • Jan 2017 - Aug 2018

  • Research Assistant

    • Oct 2015 - Aug 2018

  • Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant

    • Feb 2016 - Sep 2017

  • Teaching Fellow

    • Jan 2015 - Jul 2017

  • Studio Teaching Fellow

    • Jan 2016 - Dec 2016

  • Instructor

    • Dec 2015 - Jan 2016

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  MacDowell Colony

  • New Hampshire

  • Research Fellow

    • May 2018 - Aug 2018
    • New Hampshire
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  Doug Aitken Workshop

  • Greater Los Angeles Area

  • Design

    • Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
    • Greater Los Angeles Area
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  University of Nebraska–Lincoln

  • Hyde Chair of Excellence in Architecture

    • Jul 2016 - Jun 2017

    The visiting Hyde Chair attracts emerging voices in design from both practice and teaching. Through this endowment, renowned scholars and practitioners are invited to spend a semester or more in residence at the College directing a design studio, conducting a graduate level seminar, and presentin...

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  Harvard Business School

  • Massachusetts, United States

  • Research Fellow

    • Feb 2016 - Dec 2016
    • Massachusetts, United States
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  Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)

  • United States
  • Higher Education
  • 200 - 300 Employee

  • Assistant Teacher

    • Jun 2016 - Aug 2016

  • Instructor

    • May 2016 - Jul 2016

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  OYLER WU COLLABORATIVE, INC.

  • Greater Los Angeles Area

  • Architectural Designer

    • May 2014 - Apr 2015
    • Greater Los Angeles Area
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  Southern California Institute of Architecture (...

  • Greater Los Angeles Area

  • Assistant Teaching - Visual Studies

    • Aug 2014 - Dec 2014
    • Greater Los Angeles Area
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  Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)

  • United States
  • Higher Education
  • 200 - 300 Employee

  • Teaching Assistant - Design Development

    • Jan 2014 - May 2014

  • Teaching Assistant - Structures

    • Aug 2013 - Dec 2013

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  B+U, llc

  • Designer

    • Apr 2013 - Aug 2013
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  Southern California Institute of Architecture (...

  • Greater Los Angeles Area

  • Teaching Assistant - Structures

    • Jan 2013 - Apr 2013
    • Greater Los Angeles Area
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  Luminaire

  • Designer

    • Aug 2010 - Jul 2011
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  Apple

  • Florida, United States

  • Team Lead Manager

    • May 2007 - May 2010
    • Florida, United States