ARCHITECTURE
Architecture, Real Estate, & Development Intern||The Doe Fund
May 2015 - August 2015
Logged 325 hours of Architecture, real estate and development, and construction learning.
Registered my internship as a Credit Bearing Internship towards my Architecture Degree under the course “Arch 499 Semester Internship”.
Comprehensive investigation of architectural construction documentation including document reading and assembly, industry best practices fireproofing and fire rates systems, concrete usage and foundations, wall assemblies, and the basics of materials flashing roofing windows and waterproofing.
Bi-weekly field trips and attendance at four (2) on going construction projects. One project is a large scale gut renovation and the other is new construction ground up development. Total value of work in progress is $40,000,000.
Site visits included participatory walk-thrus observing and commenting upon various construction trade work in progress.
Introductory look at contractor cost requisitions and the use of MS Excel to track and determine architectural progress.
Comprehensive investigation of construction requisition and continuation forms G702, G703, and general contractor legal documents, AIA A101 and AIA A201.
Basics of real estate development process and decision making including initial feasibility determination, zoning analysis and bulk determination, and attendance at the sponsors real estate acquisition meetings.
Introductions to real estate and development critical path decision making and bubble and gantt chart creation including creation of a basic real estate and development critical path chart.
Architecture, Construction, Engineering (ACE) Student||ACE Mentor Program of Greater NY
September 2010 - May 2012
Mock designed a SkyScraper consisting of Architecture, Construction, Engineering, and Interior Design aspects.
Worked with real professionals, Architects, Engineers, and Construction managers, in a real work environment.
Received an hands-on education and learned to understand the day-to-day workings of a business.
Constructed 3D models to understand building facades.
Served as group leader of eleven ACE members to create architectural, engineering, and constructional plans.
Participated in a field trip to the One World Trade Center Building, after the last steel beam was put into place and announced, and outlined construction methods, materials used, and project timeline.
Discussed architectural designs with professional engineers and architects.
Presented overall design and final presentation at the General Soceity of Mechanics and Tradesman to the ACE board of directors and NYC ACE participants across, 500 attendees.
Redtop Architects Architecture Intern||School Construction Authority (SCA) Summer Internship Program
July 2011 - August 2011 (2 months)
Interned with SCA Business Partner RedTop Architects LLP- a small, women-owned full Service architecture firm that specializes in educational, institutional and high-end residential projects.
Received exposure to career experience and mentoring
Participated in six Summer Internship Program (SIP) training sessions.
July 6th: MS Excel, Work Readiness, Team Building, Public Speaking.
July 12th: Decision Making & Problem Solving, Professional Writing, Writing a Resume, MS PowerPoint.
July 19th: Career Panels, Financial Planning, College Admissions Panel.
July 26th: Team activities, Academic Strategies, College Session.
August 2nd: Site Visit of an NYC SCA Construction site.
August 9th: Final Presentations, Program Evaluations and Debrief.
Offered an opportunity to see all stages of firms projects and assisted in drawings, renderings, model building projects, as well as worked in the materials library.
Constructed contour site map using cork and worked with Google Sketch Up, Photoshop, AutoCAD 2007, Adobe CS3 programs.
Participated in construction site visits, shadowed professionals, attended progress meetings, met with clients, performed drafting, and vendor outreach.
Completed 10 Hour OSHA Construction Safety Training course.
Participated in the Barbecue at Gracie Mansion event, sponsored by the Mayors Office of Special Projects.
Received one elective high school credit.
Colorado Space Grant Consortium RockSat-C Program - Outreach and Radiation Subsystem|| Hobart and William Smith Colleges
September 2016 – September 2017
Participated in the National RockSat-C Program, an aerospace research opportunity that allows students to design and build a sounding rocket research module (payload).
This was the 3rd time HWS was selected to participate in this program.
Selected for flight as one of eight colleges with the most advance and abled research rocket payload to be constructed, attached to a Terrier-Orion rocket and launched into space out of NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops, Virginia.
Our payload detected Muon particles at high altitudes and took spectral images of different layers of earths atmosphere as the rocket ascended and descended and measured radiation shielding of various plastics.
(Link to Live Video Stream of Rocket Launch: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/NASA-tv-Wallops).
Participated with a team of eight students and two faculty members.
Conducted multiple teleconferences with with the RockSat-C Program Manager, a liaison for Wallops Flight Facility.
Completed the design phase and presented three design reviews during the fall semester; Conceptual Design Review (CDR), Preliminary Design Review (PDR), and the Critical Design Review (CDR).
Completed the integrated phase and presented four interim reviews; Subsystem Testing Review (STR), Intergrated Subsystem Testing Review (ISTR),
Full Mission Subsystem Review (FMSR), and Launch Readiness Review (LRR).
Completed Preliminary Report and Final Results documents to be included in a scientific journal at the end of the year.
Conducted final presentation to NASA Offcials, directors, and participant, along with my team members.
Assisted with grant and fundraising proposals for up to $20,000-$30,000. Applying for grant funding from Hobart Student Government, NY Space Grant Consortium, HWS Presidents Office, KETEK Corp, and Alcoa.
Created a website (https://hwsrocksatc.wordpress.com) that blogs our daily activities and tasks at NASA Wallops.