About Me:

I presently work as an Architect at Schmidt Architects. 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 three years of professional experience here in the Portland Metro area working on various project typologies, first with LRS, then WWA, then Habitat for Humanity, and now Schmidt. 

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 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. 

Presently, at Schmidt, I am drafting permit sets for commercial masonry buildings and 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.

More information about me, my thesis, and my portfolio can be discovered on the various tabs of this website!