Stephen Simon

Current

• Designer at Tom Eliot Fisch
• Founder, President at InsideArch.org

Past

• Design and Construction of Personal Apartmentat Self-Employed (Self-employed)
• Project Designer/Architect, Associate at Sydness Architects (Sole Proprietorship)

Education

• Carnegie Mellon

Connections

95 connections

Industry

Architecture & Planning

Websites

• InsideArch.org
• www.ssimon.org

Stephen Simon’s Summary

Since moving to San Francisco, I have purchased an apartment and worked full time on its gut renovation, performing most of the work myself. This has been a tremendous learning experience, allowing me to hone my design skills and improve my knowledge of construction.

During my ten years in New York City I have done façade restoration on public schools in Brooklyn and master planned universities in India. I have worked on a roof deck in Greenwich Village and six-story rooftop atrium for a hotel design in Suzhou, China. I have sought diverse positions and unfamiliar projects that offered the opportunity to learn about particular building types or systems, and the opportunity to quickly master new roles and subject matter.

At Sydness Architects, I served as Project Manager for a new commercial development in Arkansas. I completed the first building, a 9-story, 250,000 s.f. office building. The full build-out of the project will include three office buildings and a hotel. My responsibilities included design, supervision of document production, client and consultant coordination, running job meetings, and supervising both local and remote teams of architects performing complete Construction Administration. At the same time I was finishing construction administration for a retail store in Manhattan, Design Development for a new 30-room lodge in Colorado, and curtainwall design for a 30-story office building in Shanghai.

I am seeking a position that offers the opportunity to work with intelligent and interesting architects at a firm that challenges its employees and pushes the boundaries of the profession. I seek to develop my design skills and take responsibility for projects and teams.

Stephen Simon’s Specialties:

Design: Schematic designs, design presentations, 3D-modelling software, masterplanned developments, massing studies, facades and curtainwalls. Skilled at learning the mechanics of a new system quickly. Detailed brick masonry facades, architectural precast concrete, EIFS, and stucco facades, glass and aluminum curtainwall systems, and engineered wood frame construction.

Stephen Simon’s Experience

• Designer

  Tom Eliot Fisch

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Architecture & Planning industry)

  April 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)

  Tom Eliot Fisch is an architecture and interior design firm lead by principals Doug Tom, AIA, LEED, Amy Eliot, AIA, and Bobbie Fisch, CID, LEED. Based in San Francisco with projects throughout the Bay Area and California, the firm's diverse portfolio includes education, healthcare, public works, historic building renovation, waterfront development, and multifamily housing and healthcare interiors.

• Founder, President

  InsideArch.org

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Architecture & Planning industry)

  June 2002 — Present (6 years 7 months)

  InsideArch is the first architecture web site devoted to understanding Professional Culture, as it exists within specific firms. What makes a firm an enjoyable and fulfilling place to work? Which firms provide such an environment? Which firms just don't get it? We believe that providing interns and architects at all levels with information about a firm's work and its culture will serve to improve the efficiency of the market for architectural talent, matching employers with better employees, and interns and architects with better opportunities.
  
  The primary goal of InsideArch is to gather quantitative and qualitative information about the work, culture, and employee experience at architecture firms, to synthesize and present that information in a meaningful, valuable format so as to empower interns and architects to make career decisions more beneficial to themselves and the profession as a whole.

• Design and Construction of Personal Apartment

  Self-Employed (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Architecture & Planning industry)

  August 2004 — April 2007 (2 years 9 months)

  Designed and implemented gut renovation of 1,000 s.f. apartment in San Francisco. Personally prepared permit and construction documents, performed demolition, structural remediation, rough framing, drywall, finish carpentry, flooring, and tile. Coordinated with structural engineer and lighting designer. Contracted and supervised electrical and plumbing trades. Designed and fabricated custom cabinetry, stone counters, stone sinks, and glass tile.

• Project Designer/Architect, Associate

  Sydness Architects (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Architecture & Planning industry)

  1997 — 2004 (7 years)

  Instrumental in all activities of this small firm. Design/Production: Led teams on projects ranging from 9-story, 250,000 s.f. office building in Arkansas to ground-up university in India (through DD) to 40-story, five-star hotel in Shanghai to $7.5 mil commercial lobby and façade renovation in Philadelphia to high-end residential and retail renovations in Manhattan. Served as a primary designer, client/contractor contact. Directed teams of up to five junior architects and interns in production of design and construction documents. Design Competitions: Held key roles on teams designing and producing entries for invited international design competitions. Marketing: Directed design and production of firm’s web site. Oversaw complete redesign of firm’s brochures. Created proposals and presentations, participated in pitch meetings.

Stephen Simon’s Education

• Carnegie Mellon

  B. Arch., Architecture, August 1989 — May 1994

  Research Projects:
  "Land Use Succession in Pittsburgh’s South Side"
  "Frick Art Museum: A Building Performance Study"
  "Urban Spatial Analysis & Design of Pittsburgh’s Strip District"

  Activities and Societies:

  Bachelor of Architecture with a minor in Drama, 1994

Additional Information

Stephen Simon’s Websites:

• InsideArch.org
• www.ssimon.org

Stephen Simon’s Groups:

InsideArch.org

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