QUALIFICATIONS
Architect Designer, with 19 years of experience on residential, hotels, commercial, religious and educational buildings, subdivisions and site plan developments, originating and developing creative ideas.
Functional and aesthetic design (Victorian, Spanish Colonial and Modern styles) |
Self-motivated, creative thinker, detail oriented, with strong analytical skills |
Experience with concrete, brick and wood construction |
Optimization in the use of land for storm water and site plan designs |
Roadway design for subdivisions |
Strong command of AutoCAD and Hydro CAD and MS Suite |
Excellent hand-drafting and rendering, and computer drafting and rendering. |
Knowledge of the Mexican Building Codes and Florida Building Codes |
02/07 06/10 RW Meissner & Associates, Inc. Perry, FL
Designer and Drafter
Designing architectural projects, residential, commercial and religious buildings, site plans subdivisions and storm water projects. Maintained accurate and updated documentation of the projects developed. Utilized a variety of analytical techniques to solve problems.
o Produced profits for the company from $6,000 to $20,000 per finished project, resulting in $250,000 profits in 3 years.
o Developed a strategy applied to storm water designs that led projects to be approved on earlier revisions (or first revisions), resulting in time and monetary savings for the company.
08/02 08/06 Universidad Juarez Gomez Palacio Mexico
Professor of the Architecture School
Taught at the Architecture School (Architectural Design, Town Planning), managing groups of up to 40 students, clearly establishing performance objectives and evaluation criteria. Acted as member of the candidacy exam committee for professional examinations.
o Participated on 2006 in restructuring the course content for the Architecture School, resulting in the Universidad Juarez being recognized as one of the top 10 public universities of Mexico, by the Public Education Secretary (SEP, Secretaria de Educacion Publica, the authority of education in Mexico)
01/01 12/03 Universidad LaSalle Laguna Gomez Palacio Mexico
Professor of the Architecture School
Taught at the Architecture School (Architectural Design, History of the Architecture), managing groups of up to 25 students, encouraging an environment for creative excellence. Acted as member of the candidacy exam committee for professional examinations.
o Clearly established performance objectives and evaluation criteria, organizing the revisions of the students, resulting in saving 6 hour-class of revisions per project (average).
01/85 12/00 Self Employed Torreon Mexico
Architect Designer
Developed architectural designs of residential and educational buildings, subdivisions, prototype houses, site plan developments and remodels, seeking creative alternatives that satisfied the Clients needs, keeping an open communication with them and maintaining accurate documentation of the developed designs.
o Effectively established and organized priorities to develop several architectural designs at the same time, resulting in saving time (2 days per project, average) and being rehired for new projects.
08/86 11/94 ISCYTAC Gomez Palacio Mexico
Professor
Taught at the Architecture and Graphic Design Schools. (Architectonic Design, Descriptive Geometry and Drafting), managing groups of up to 30 students, leading them to perform with professionalism and to design using their higher potential.
11/85 10/88 Otto Schott y Asociados Torreon Mexico
Architect Designer and Project Manager
Designed the executive plans for two hotels in Mazatlan, Mexico, managing a team of 3 employees to produce the final architectural design blue prints and the successful construction of both hotels.
EDUCATION
ISCYTAC Gomez Palacio Mexico
Architect October 1985.
SKILLS
MS Office Suite, with a strong command of AutoCAD and HydroCAD
LANGUAGES
Fluent in Spanish: reading, writing and speaking