Experience

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  IC Development, Inc.

  • Innovation District Boston MA

  • President & Board of Director's member

    • 2005 - Present
    • Innovation District Boston MA

    Director of Real Estate Development, Capital Investments, and Acquisitions beginning in 2005, resulting in the development of a number of properties throughout Boston Area. With a long line of Real Estate Development expertise, as well as his diverse background in the AEC industry, Mr. Smargiassi...

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  Innovative Collaborations, Inc.

  • United States
  • Architecture and Planning
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Founder, Share Holder & President

    • 2012 - Present

    In 2002 Mr. Smargiassi founded Innovative Collaborations, a Corporation that continues to provide Integrated Design and Building Services, including Planning, Architecture, Design, Interiors and Construction Project Management. In 2005 Mr. Smargiassi acquired all shares of the firm and continues to lead and direct the boutique firm. As a hands on leader, and original founder, he is intimately involved with the details of the firm and through his coaching and mentoring maintains personal level of oversight with the team and it's technical side, including Construction Documents, Construction Control, and Construction Project Management.

  • Chief Executive Officer / Principal Architect

    • 2002 - 2012

    Co-founded and developed highly prolific multi-disciplinary architecture firm with a portfolio of both international and local projects, which include New Construction, Adaptive Reuse, Building Conversions, Renovations, & Additions.Principal in charge of all phases of project development, urban planning, and architecture: Zoning, SD, DD, CD, B&N, CA, technical coordination, and construction control.Intimately involved in projects from a macro to micro level, planning highly successful environments by responding to complex massing and site variables, while at the same time designing the smallest detail focusing on the individual's experience and their procession through space; thereby simultaneously designing inductively and deductively to maintain a balance between the intimate moments of the individual and the overall master plan.Strived with excitement and passion to respond to each client’s unique set of needs, not by simply meeting their requests but by further investigating and uncovering the client's deepest hidden desires.Maintained firm-wide expectation for clear communication, transparency, and an undistracted devotion to ethical, social, and environmental excellence. Recruit and directed a talented staff of architects, artists, designers, project managers, as well as a network of consultants.Other projects include: Entertainment & Hospitality, Military and Government, Commercial, Clinics, Automotive Dealerships, Retail, Sustainable developments, Housing Utilizing Shipping Containers, Resorts, Multi-Unit Residential, Ocean-Front Villas, Clubhouses, Residential Lofts, Homes, Penthouses, Estates, and Condominiums.Specialty expertise designing and detailing: Water Features (e.g., waterfalls, water walls, suspended streams, water ceilings, and transparent bottom pools), Luminescent Walls, Glass Partitions & Panels, Glass Floors, Movable & Collapsible Walls and Custom Metal Walls, Fireplaces, Railings, Specialty Doors, Light Fixtures, and Furniture.

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  Brady Sullivan Properties

  • Manchester, NH

  • Director of Architecture and Design

    • 2012 - 2014
    • Manchester, NH

    Principal Architect responsible for overseeing entire architecture department and architecture staff of 100+ person thriving Real Estate Development Corporation with projects in MA, NH, RI, VT, ME, and FL; including 80-300 unit historic mill conversions, 12-20 story office towers, commercial/ mix...

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  Amacher & Associates Architects

  • Cambridge, MA

  • Senior Project Manager / Designer

    • 1998 - 2002
    • Cambridge, MA

    Honed architectural skills at A&A Architects; A firm with 25 years of experience notable for its green building techniques & materials, sustainable developments, passive and active solar strategies for renovation of historic buildings, community planning, and commercial design for both c...

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  Cole & Goyette Architects and Planners, Inc.

  • Cambridge, MA

  • Intern Architect

    • 1997 - 1998
    • Cambridge, MA

    Effective team member to award winning architecture and planning firm on public projects including $18,000,000 renovation/addition project to East Boston High School, which went on to receive multiple awards and recognitions.Hand rendered final presentation boards for EBHS. Expanded on rough sket...

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  Satellite Electric / Living Electric / Misc. Co...

  • Caldwell, NJ

  • Contractor / Electrical Assistant/ Furniture & Cabinetry Carpenter

    • 1989 - 1995
    • Caldwell, NJ

    Acquired hands-on construction experience in many facets of construction including electrical, mechanical, plumbing, carpentry, framing, roofing, painting, etc. Wired large commercial and residential jobs.Developed shop skills working with thermoplastic forming, sheet metal bending, and fine woo...