Architectural Designer, Photographer, Macintosh IT Manager, and Transit Historian
Cincinnati Area
Architectural Designer, Photographer, Macintosh IT Manager, and Transit Historian
Cincinnati Area
7 years experience in architecture firms of varying sizes. Focused on custom residential design, additions and remodeling, historic preservation, cabinetry design and detailing, interior finish selections, and electrical and mechanical systems. Developed new documentation methods for Lutron lighting automation systems motorized roller shade installations. Worked with innovative building system designs including new spray-foam insulation systems, ground-source (geothermal) heat pumps, outdoor air economizers, and energy recovery ventilators.
5 years experience in Macintosh office information technology. Managed 20 workstations, 2 servers, OpenDirectory, workgroup administration, calendar sharing, website maintenance, tape backups, large format black & white plotting, and color printing administration and maintenance.
3 years experience with architectural and sports photography. Photographed dozens of sporting events, from high school basketball, wrestling, and swimming/diving to triathlons and bike races. Also photographed several architectural interiors and exteriors for office portfolio use and publication. See the "Photography Website" link for examples.
9 years on and off research on Cincinnati's transit history, focused mainly the streetcar and electric interurban railway system, with additional research on specific local steam railroads and other transportation infrastructure. Research includes photo documentation of extant remains and mapping with GIS and CAD software. See the "Main Website" link for for more information.
Custom residential design, additions and remodeling, historic preservation, cabinet design, electric plans, Lutron systems, HVAC, geothermal systems.
(Architecture & Planning industry)
June 2003 — February 2009 (5 years 9 months)
Project manager, designer, photographer, and IT manager for Cincinnati's largest custom residential architecture firm. Managed and assisted in the design and construction administration of several projects ranging from a new garage in a Cincinnati historic district to a 45,000 square foot estate manor house. Also photographed many of the company's projects and managed all the Macintosh workstations, servers, and supporting IT equipment.
(Architecture & Planning industry)
March 2002 — September 2002 (7 months)
Produced presentation and construction drawings, and designed much of the exterior of the Chicago Public Library's Toman Branch at this small Chicago architecture firm.
(Architecture & Planning industry)
September 2000 — December 2000 (4 months)
Developed design ideas, presentation drawings, and construction documents for post offices, retail renovations, office buildings, Navy facilities, and small residential projects at this medium-sized Charleston, SC firm.
Master of Architecture , Architecture, Historic Preservation , 1997 — 2003
Received a Certificate in Historic Preservation.
Architecture, Design, Photography, Geography, Urban History, Transportation History, Mapping, GIS, HVAC