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I am an architect, design strategist, and product and technology leader with an extensive track record of being a catalyst for high achievement and innovation. In a little over a decade, I have built a broad portfolio of award-winning work and cultivated highly effective teams, operating at the leading edge of the AEC industry. From the onset of my career, I have intuitively seized opportunities at the forefront of architecture and design, and I've dedicated my talents and energy toward expanding that frontier.

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Head of Technical Computing
Juno
San Francisco

Juno is a product-based real estate development startup, rethinking how housing is developed in cities across America. There, I lead our technology and computation strategy within the Product team.

Architecture Discipline Manager
WeWork
New York

I led the architecture discipline as part of a cross-functional design leadership team focused on Enterprise businesses. In this role, I recruited, managed, and nurtured exceptional talent while delivering transformative design solutions for leading global institutions. Based on my track record as a functional manager and leader in the organization, I worked with executives at the highest levels of the organization to inform recruitment practices, company culture, and support and lead sensitive, high-risk ventures.

Architect
Ennead Architects
New York

Served as a design technology leader - facilitating the improvement of colleague’s capabilities, firm-wide, with digital design methodologies. I worked on numerous institutional projects across all project phases. My project roles were broad -operating at the intersection of design, computational expertise, and strategic acuity - including the design and development of specialty systems, building enclosures, space planning, and programming.

Architect
Adjaye Associates
New York

Served as a Project Architect for the 130 William project, primarily focused on the detailed development of the tower's facade systems. Among a team of three architects, I led our documentation and coordination efforts - rationalizing and systemizing our approach to the nuances and details of the tower's features.

Intermediate Designer
Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects
New York

Led several fast-paced, high-pressure projects during my tenure with JGA. My responsibilities ranged from design leadership for the (unbuilt) New York Flagship location of Marc Jacobs -the firm’s largest client-, to construction administration on the renovation of a historic Hudson Valley residence for the CEO of Marc Jacobs. In this role, dealt extensively with demanding clients and their teams, contractors, and sub-contractors.

Junior Designer
Studio V Architecture
New York

Led the winning competition team for the Empire Stores RFP. Managed a group of 3 designers and was responsible for the conceptual development of the project and management of submission deliverables. Spearheaded several employee development programs to bolster the educational facet of the studio’s culture.

Independent Architectural Designer
Dubai, UAE
Geneva, CH
New York

In 2009, while teaching full-time at the American University of Sharjah in the UAE, I took on several projects as an independent contractor. I continued this type of work for several years, across three countries, working on an award-winning installation, commercial, hospitality, and stadium projects.

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significant projects
Yas Viceroy Hotel Abu Dhabi, Unite,Unire Rome, Karle Hubs 1&2 Bangalore

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Junior Designer
ARX / Archen
New York | Dubai

With ARX, I worked as part of a lean design team, developing several mixed-use projects in the gulf region. In 2008, several projects were moving forward and I moved to the UAE to further the project’s development under the associate architect, Archen. 

Highly-effective team leader, having built accomplished teams and coached top talent into effective leaders in their own right. Highly-skilled communicator, comfortably navigating engagements with executive leaders and clients, challenging discussions with managers, peers, and subordinates, or sensitive community engagement discussions.

Systems thinker with a robust command of architectural and design technology subject matter expertise. Certified Design Thinking practitioner, having successfully leveraged the methodology across an array of high-risk ventures and initiatives.

Pratt Institute, School of Architecture
Brooklyn, New York

BArch

Certified Design Thinking Practitioner 
LUMA Institute, CDTP

New York

Accredited Profession in Building Design + Construction 
LEED AP, BD+C

Fellow

Civic Leadership Program Fellow

Museum of Modern Art

Exhibition - Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter - Rethinking Refugee Communities (Ennead)

Design Honor Award - Rethinking Refugee Communities (Ennead)

Museum of Twenty-First Century Art, Rome

1st Prize , 2012 MAXXI Young Architects Program - Unite,Unire (UMD)

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Columbia Universaity, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation

Housing design studio critic, focused on emerging business models for scalable housing solutions.

Visiting Assistant Professor
Pratt Institute, School of Architecture

Seminar instructor of architectural representation.

Adjunct Professor
American University of Sharjah, College of Art, Architecture, and Design

Studio instructor of second year undergraduate design studio.

Seminar instructor of courses in digital fabrication, design computation, and parametric design.

Assistant design studio instructor for fifth year thesis design studio.

Fellow, 2019

Inaugural Civic Leadership Fellow, 2017

Executive Board Member - Treasurer, 2016

ACE mentoring coordinator at Ennead Architects

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