Experience

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  • Land Use and Building Professional

    • May 2020 - Present

    Samuel is currently providing private boutique level consultant services for land use, building and residential solutions. Services include drafting plans and permitting, ROI estimates, lot split, variances, pro-forma review, tenant improvement, system and energy reviews. Duties include coordinat...

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  City Of Nogales

  • Director- Planning, Zoning and Building Inspections

    • Mar 2020 - Mar 2023

    Provided his technical and analytical skills at the City of Nogales. Responsibilities include serving as the Zoning Administrator, supervising building inspections and codes enforcement and overseeing the General Plan & Development Code update.

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  Doña Ana County

  • Las Cruces, New Mexico Area

  • Planner - Advance Planning

    • Sep 2015 - Mar 2020
    • Las Cruces, New Mexico Area

    Samuel provided his technical and analytical skills at Doña Ana County-Community Development. Responsibilities include writing Best Management Practices related to LID and rainwater harvesting and grant writing for community design and rural development projects.

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  Town of Oro Valley

  • Oro Valley, Arizona

  • Intern Planner

    • Jan 2015 - Sep 2015
    • Oro Valley, Arizona

    Samuel provided his technical and analytical strategies at the Planning Development Infrastructure Department of the Town of Oro Valley (Arizona). Responsibilities include providing supplemental GIS mapping, research for both current and future planning projects.

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  Drachman Institute

  • Tucson, Arizona

  • Project Assistant

    • Feb 2014 - Jul 2014
    • Tucson, Arizona

    Samuel provided his technical and analytical strategies to the Drachman Institute, an University of Arizona outreach component. Efforts were part of a project funded by the Arizona Department of Housing. Responsibilities include providing support to gather and analyze existing conditions, prepari...

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  Sustainable City Project

  • Tucson, Arizona

  • Design Affiliate

    • Jan 2013 - May 2014
    • Tucson, Arizona

    Samuel utilizes his strengths as a urban designer,fabricator and community activist to change the understanding of sustainability at a participatory level. Responsibilities have included outreach presentations, grant writing and conceptual designs of urban retrofitting and intervention projects. ...

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  Town of Oro Valley

  • Oro Valley, Arizona

  • Intern Planner

    • Nov 2013 - Mar 2014
    • Oro Valley, Arizona

    Samuel provided his technical and analytical strategies at the Planning Development Infrastructure Department of the Town of Oro Valley (Arizona). Responsibilities included providing supplemental GIS mapping for both future annexation and zoning revisions and summarizing "Your Voice Our Fut...

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  City of Tucson, Office of Integrated Planning

  • Intern

    • Oct 2013 - Mar 2014

    Samuel utilized his strengths to provide both technical and analytical support to the pilot S.T.A.R. (Sustainable Tools for Assessing and Rating) Communities rating system. Responsibilities included conducting analysis on several aspects of the built and natural environments of the greater metro...

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  Drachman Institute

  • Research Designer

    • Jun 2011 - Jan 2012

    Samuel designed several projects in conjunction with Communities Putting Prevention To Work. Projects included Bike Skills Course, bike boulevard and urban agriculture landscape projects.

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  CPLC Schools

  • AIMS High School Tutor

    • Aug 2007 - Dec 2008

    Samuel developed tutoring program that focused on preparing and/or improving students test scores for state mandated test. Coordinated with teaching staff to provide various study workshops.