Experience

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  University of Texas at Arlington

  • Arlington, Texas

  • Director of Institutional Construction

    • Dec 2013 - Present
    • Arlington, Texas

    Responsible for all aspects of campus design and construction including the UT Arlington Campus Master-plan, and the development and enforcement of campus design standards and construction guidelines.

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  Huitt-Zollars, Inc.

  • Fort Worth Texas

  • Sr. Architect

    • Jul 2010 - Dec 2013
    • Fort Worth Texas

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  HKS Inc

  • Project Architect

    • Oct 2007 - Feb 2010

    Collect and analyze client's project requirements and develop a comprehensive facility program.Day-to-day project Architect, management role from initial concept through construction, with a focus on achieving the client's and project's objectives.Manage consultants and project meetings.Organize, develop and track inner office project team and deliverables. Responsible for maintaining the project schedule, design and budget requirements.Develop project specific code reviews and ensure compliance with all applicable building, life safety, accessibility and AHJ adopted and amended codes.Monitor the performance of each discipline to produce contractor-friendly construction documents.Support the construction services department through project completion.Overall project quality control to ensure project objectives.

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  Ascension Group Architects LLC. (Healthcare Architects)

  • Project Manager

    • Apr 2004 - Oct 2007

    Managed multiple and concurrent projects at various stages of design, production and construction.Serve as primary point-of-contact for clients, manage their expectations, provide advice where required and assist the client in making project related decisions.Assist firm Principals with composing and negotiating Owner / Architect prime contractual agreements. Establish consultant's scope of services, negotiate fees and facilitate contractual agreements. Monitor and quality control of project consultants.Develop and maintain project schedules, and additional services.Review project billing and invoicing.Establish and maintain project files, project directories and contact lists.Schedule, organize and establish agendas for project meetings. Develop and distribute meeting reports.Manage project related inner-office resources including staffing and man-power requirements.Hands-on document development during all project phases and ensuring the use of office standards.Assume all duties of contract / construction administration from ground-breaking through warranty.Developed project related graphics and other marketing related materials as needed to respond to RFQ/RFPs.

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  FSB/Texas

  • Project Manager

    • Feb 2002 - Feb 2004

    Project Manager• Responsible for developing designs and related graphics, presenting them to clients and obtaining necessary milestone approvals.• Produce drawings at every project phase from concept through construction.• Develop specialized construction details including structural integration with architecture, roof and foundation, masonry, moisture control, thermal envelope, exterior and interior aesthetics.• Coordination of project consultants and integration of consultant designs into project documentation.• Marked up (redline) drawings to be drawn by office technical staff and CAD draftsmen.• Choose appropriate construction materials, integrating them into the project details and coordinate the drawings with the project specifications.• Established office drafting standards based on the AIA layering guidelines and assisted in the development of AutoCad template drawings.• Assisted in the development of automated AutoCad tools that labeled key note information directly from corresponding specification sections.• Developed project related graphics and other marketing related materials as needed to respond to RFQ/RFPs.

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  The O'Brien Partnership, Architects

  • Director of Design Development / Architect Intern

    • Jun 1993 - Dec 2001

    Director of Design Development / Intern Architect• Assisted in developing drawings, graphics, renderings, models and animations for all project phases including marketing.• CD drafting of multiple disciplines including architectural, structural, civil and landscape design.• Responsible for converting the entire firm from a hand drafting practice into using computer aided drafting and design. Assembled the first CAD stations and built the first LAN network for the firm.• Developed the firm’s first CAD drafting standards and integrated the AutoCad software layers and line weights with the plotters.• Instructed senior architectural staff how to use AutoCad in lieu of hand drafting.