About Me:

I'm a licensed architect becoming a real estate developer. After delivering commercial and multifamily projects across the Pacific Northwest, I'm now at UC Berkeley's Master of Real Estate Development + Design (MRED+D), concentrating in affordable housing. I believe innovative design should be enjoyed by everyone, and its most worthy use is making quality housing viable for the most disadvantaged. 

I care about both the housing supply and the methods that produce it. I'm especially drawn to computational design and modular/panelized construction as ways to deliver quality faster and cheaper. Preparing for our industry’s future, I am also developing an AI-enhanced computational architect-developer workflow including Claude / Python to Excel / Grasshopper to Firefly / Rhino to Pitchdecks / Revit — that helps me innovate design optimizations while moving quickly from early concept to feasibility and real-world constraints.

Long term, I am working to become an architect-developer of creative modular housing that helps solve the affordability crisis. I aim to leverage my architecture background while sharpening my developer skills. From design I bring code, massing, documentation, and on-site construction experience, plus my license and bilingual (English/Spanish) project leadership. From MRED+D, I bring expanding fluency in due diligence, pro forma modeling, return analysis, project administration, and exit strategies.

 I graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in June 2022 where I completed a Bachelor of Architecture degree with additional minors in Spanish, Real Estate Property Development, and Architectural Engineering. I have four years of professional experience in the Portland Metro area working on various project typologies, first with LRS, then WWA, then Habitat for Humanity, and most recently Schmidt Architects. I have my Architecture License in the state of Oregon and aim to get my California License in the future!

At Cal Poly I completed several domestic internships, and also, as a fluent Spanish speaker, an international internship in Barcelona. For my Real Estate minor, I designed an adaptive reuse mixed-use affordable housing development which led our team of Cal Poly business students to win first place in the 6-day 2021 National Mulroy Real Estate Challenge. As an Independent Study, I worked with local developers to complete a master plan for the redevelopment of the 73 acre private Oceano Airport into an attractive downtown with mixed-use low-income housing. I presented the rendered vision in both Spanish and English to local Oceano community leaders.

 At LRS, I aided their Interiors Department with as-builts, design development, Enscape renders, and Revit BIM integration on office workplaces, tilt-up warehouses, and adaptive reuse/ historic preservation projects. I utilized my urban design experience to help masterplan and schematic design a phased multi-family development for Salem’s Willamette Waterfront. 

At WWA, I worked directly under principal William Wilson as project lead on a 50,000 sq ft mixed-use Church/ School/ Office/ Cafe Adaptive Reuse Project. While taking the project from design development through construction documents, I navigated joint venture intercommunication and helped design around various structural engineering complications and complex code requirements. 

At Habitat for Humanity, I worked as an assistant site superintendent to better learn construction means and methods of how to apply architectural details to active construction sites. In addition to daily leading volunteers in hands-on construction labor, I also assisted with coordinating subcontractors, quality control, interpreting details, scheduling tasks, and creating Procore RFIs. 

At Schmidt, I drafted permit sets for commercial masonry buildings and 3+ story multifamily developments including updating details for new energy code standards and ASI’s, designing facades in Sketch-up, responding to plan check comments, and coordinating templates and as-builts between Autocad and Revit.

I am completed an AI for Architects course by Jacob Russo from SOM where we are learning the latest applications of LLMs on our professional work flows, everything from AI Rendering techniques to Raven AI generation of grasshopper scripts for Rhino.Inside.Revit workflows.

More information about me, my thesis, and my portfolio can be found here on my website. Outside work I'm a board game designer, a competitive unicyclist and juggler, a jazz-funk drummer, and a volunteer educator. Whether your work touches housing, designing, financing, constructing, teaching, or playing, I'd love to connect!