Education:
MLA - Landscape Architecture, Rutgers University
BFA - SUNY Purchase College, Conservatory of Theatre Arts and Film in Design/Technology
Experience:
Landscape Architecture
2020 - 2024
SMMA, Cambridge, MA
Drafted design documents to enhance project accuracy, efficiency, and ensure compliance with desired outcomes and client budget. Conducted site inventory and analyses to ensure documentation met design standards and local regulations. Pioneered implementation of 3D modeling into department, studio, and team workflows. Created Rhino 3D models, improving design realization, visual representation, and client understanding. Rendered with VRay and Enscape, producing high quality visuals for presentations and internal design review. Prepared and presented reports and documentation for Conservations Commissions and Planning Board submissions. Collaborated with interdisciplinary experts, contributing to successful project completion. Integrated sustainable design principles, reducing environmental impact. SMMA is an employee-owned multidisciplinary firm, specializing in integrated design of public projects. Studios at SMMA include K - 12, Corporate & Commercial, Federal Government, Higher Education, and Science & Technology. Members of the Site Team in Landscape Architecture work on a diverse range of projects within the studios.
Landscape Designer
2019 - 2020
Symbio Design, Cambridge, MA
Landscape Designer reports directly to the Registered Landscape Architect and Design Director concerning creation of diagrams, drawings, written communications, and cost estimates. Symbio Design specializes in a broad range of residential and commercial outdoor spaces. Tasks include drafting and rendering site plans, creating models in SketchUp with VRay, generation of cost estimates, plant schedules, planning board documents, graphics for client meetings and correspondence.
Junior Landscape Architect / Project Manager
2017-2019
Edgewater Design LLC, E. Orange, NJ
The Junior Landscape Architect collaborates with the principal Registered Landscape Architect and other Junior Landscape Architects in creating designs, renderings, construction documents, and specifications for a large range of projects including large residential estates, corporate campus planning & design, educational playgrounds, and university campus projects. Responsibilities for specific clients include managing multiple ongoing projects for NYCSCA playgrounds from all stages including scope reporting, schematic design, construction documentation, and construction administration. Additional responsibilities attending meetings for projects from inception through quality control and revisions for construction documents, to weekly and biweekly construction inspections.
Designer for the Boys & Girls Club of Trenton
2016-2017
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Work with the Boys & Girls Club on Trenton / Mercer County to create a community garden on three vacant lots across from the Centre Street Club. The space includes areas for growing vegetables, flowers and a native plant ‘forest’, while incorporating an outdoor classroom area, recreation space, and composting area.
Teaching Assistant – Construction III
Fall 2016
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Work with undergraduate and graduate students to understand the technical aspects of design. Including principles of grading, including slope and drainage, planting design, materials and construction documentation and administration. The main objective is to assist the instructors, Dean Cardasis and Arianna Lindberg, to instruct the students and carry them through the semester to complete a set of construction drawings.
Team Member; Bergen Co. Parks Inventory
Summer 2016
CUES, Rutgers U., New Brunswick, NJ
The Center for Urban Environmental Sustainability at Rutgers University has been contracted to complete a Master Plan for the Bergen County Parks Department. The summer of 2016 was spent inventorying the properties owned by the county using GIS data available from the state and federal resources. The five-member team worked for three months to catalogue the sites in the lab and on site. The team visited each site and used the ArcCollector App to ground truth the data gathered the lab. A report of all findings was presented to the county and the participating partners at the end of August.
Human Resources Assistant
2014 - 2016
SBI, LLC, Secaucus, NJ
Research Human Resources projects, including QuickBooks functions, state and federal regulations. Assist and consult with policy setting and Human Resource guidelines for the company. Consult with full time employees regarding past and current policies and procedures.
Production Staffing, Logistics & Office Manager
2012 - 2014
SBI, LLC, Secaucus, NJ
Managed daily operation of 10-person office and 15 – 50 person wood shop, including payroll communication to headquarters in NY, supply ordering, basic hardware management and infrastructure oversight. Managed allocation of purchases to specific client jobs, petty cash, and employee reimbursements. Assisted Project Managers with cost analysis, job estimates and invoicing. Hired and managed all freelance labor for onsite events, including carpenters, painter and basic laborers. Coordinated hiring for union labor contract obligations and reviewed invoices pertaining to those obligations. Worked to expand the pool of working freelancers and shop employees. Coordinated logistical transportation for scenery to onsite locations which included renting trucks to transport scenery, managing labor to drive trucks, and ongoing recruitment and driver evaluations.
Project Coordinator / Account Admin.
2010 - 2012
All-Ways Advertising Co., Bloomfield, NJ
Manage individual projects for multiple high-end clients in a fast-paced customer service oriented promotional products advertising agency. Oversaw all aspects of a project from placing orders to delivery to the client. Manage dozens of client orders through multiple stages of development and production. Handle invoice communication between the sales, accounting and billing departments. Including inventory and invoice reporting for website orders and reports to the client. Research and present prospective products to clients through electronic and in-person presentations. Maintain and oversee website content and inventory for several client company store websites.
Assistant Product Manager
2008 - 2010
International Playthings L.L.C., Parsippany, NJ
Assist Senior Product Manager in managing seven product lines, over $9 million dollars of product sales. Communicate new toy designs and changes to existing toy designs to overseas vendors. Track all new products from the development stages through launch. Including communication with vendors, briefs to the art department concerning packaging and website marketing and tracking of products through rigorous safety testing. Oversee certifications and registrations of stuffed toys within various jurisdictions in the U.S. and Canada. Implementation of new items on catalogue website directed to the trade and consumer. Examination and calculation of margins and returns on investment for product lines. Research of market share and competitive items in the sales categories of items in lines. Coordination of design for trade show booth at major NY based trade show.
Assist. Production Coordinator / NJ Office Manager
2007 - 2008
KadaN Productions Inc., Secaucus, NJ
Assist as many as ten Project Managers in productions of fashion shows and high-end corporate and private events, including researching, pricing and ordering of materials. Work in conjunction with Director of Operations, Shop Foreman and other essential personnel to guarantee on-time delivery of all necessary materials and scenery. Coordinate and dispatch all transportation of scenery and supplies to upwards of forty job sites at a given time. Coordinate pickup and return of all outside rentals. Manage daily operations of busy production office, including petty cash disbursement, purchase order tracking, data-entry into Excel spreadsheets, and scheduling of meetings for all off-site Production Managers. Required to establish good rapport with and ensure timely and accurate communication with corporate office. Assist vice president in daily operations.
Project Coordinator / Assist. Production Manager
2005 - 2007
Drape Kings, North Bergen, NJ
Work with clients to assess and fill their needs both creatively and logistically. Prepare and dispatch equipment, labor, and trucks to multiple job sites daily on tight deadlines. Coordinate insurance for venues, clients, and subcontractors. Ensure that contracts and payment are systematically obtained and filed for all clients.
Related Skills:
AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Rhinoceros 3D, Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Portfolio), Microsoft 365, SketchUp, VRay, Enscape, Bluebeam Revu, Esri ArcMap
Extra-curricular and Awards:
2020 NJ ASLA Honor Award For Landscape Architecture Design - Edgewater Design
Member of the Bloomfield Environmental Commission, Bloomfield, NJ 2017-2019
2018 NJ ASLA Merit Award – Bergen County Parks Master Plan - Team member – Rutgers, CUES
Sigma Lambda Alpha Honor Society
Class of 2017 representative to the Graduate Committee for the Rutgers MLA Program 2015-2016
President of the Landscape Architecture Graduate Student Association, Rutgers University 2015-2016
Outstanding Scenic Design - Helen Hayes H.S. Theatre Award, 2002
Related Coursework:
Geodesign Studio, Architectural Preservation seminar, Advanced Plants, Creative Placemaking Studio, focused on Hackensack Main Street; Special Problems in LA Studio, focused on creating a park from a brownfield site in a completely developed suburb in NJ; Introduction to Geomatics; Research Methods; Landscape and Architecture Housing Studio, focused on student housing; Visualization 2 (AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign); Landscape Construction; Landscape Plants; History of Landscape Architecture; Theory in Landscape Architecture; Visualization 1 (Hand drawing and drafting techniques); Urban and Residential Design Studio; Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture Studio.
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