Brooklyn, New York, United States
I'm an MBA candidate at NYU Stern specializing in Finance and Real Estate, and Co-President of the Stern Real Estate Club. I bring seven years of experience as an architectural designer at Olson Kundig and Steven Holl Architects on large-scale residential, hospitality, and institutional projects across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, totaling more than $600M in project value. I partnered with clients, developers, and multidisciplinary consultant teams to align design, budget, and delivery from luxury residential and branded hospitality to cultural and institutional buildings. I'm now at Stern to pair that design and delivery background with the financial and strategic skills to move to the principal side of real estate.
As a laser cutter operator I maintained the machines; aligned and gauged the power and speed of the laser to complete the work to the quality of the student I was working for. Additionally I provided solutions and repaired files so that the work could be completed successfully and a timely manner.
Worked for Cemex CRG, a research subsidiary of Cemex, a global leader in cement and ready-mix concrete production. I led a team of designers, carpenters and scientists in creating innovative design solutions for recharging aquifers in California using porous concrete, one of Cemex's new products. I identified several drought related problems in high need areas and created design solutions. I led another team in casting concrete with complex curvature using a fabric form technique I adapted, thus creating a faster and less expensive solution for complex architectural forms that can be constructed either on-site or pre-fab. I connected Cemex to leading architecture, landscape architecture, and engineering firms in order to introduce their new products. This led to collaborations with AKT2 in the UK, Field Operations, and SO-IL in New York as well as a 700-level Robotics in Architecture studio at PennDesign.
Worked with the in-house architecture firm, Valerian, for India's largest mid-price hotel chain. I was co-designer on several projects including a luxury resort and an airport hotel. I designed public and service areas for the first fully disabilities accessible budget hotel in India by applying best practices for disability accessibility to my lobby, restaurant, bar, pool areas, kitchen, concierge and office space designs.