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Biography
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Graduated
Ecole Secondaire Charlebois, Ottawa,
Ontario - Honors English, Chemistry, Geology and Electronics |
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Fluent
in English and French |
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| POST
SECONDARY: |
1994 |
Office
Systems Specialist (Mac),PBS
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1990 |
BC
Building Code Part 9, BCIT |
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1984 |
Interior
Design / Space Planning, Kwantlen College |
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1982 |
CADD
(Mac), Alberta School of Drafting |
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1982 |
Residential
Solar Design, Encotech |
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1982 |
Member
Alberta Association of Architectural Technologists
and Technicians |
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1982 |
Wood
Basement Design and Construction, NAIT |
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1980 |
Architectural
Technology, BCIT |
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EXPERIENCE:
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08-96
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Freelance:
custom design projects, and artist's concept renderings.
Residential & commercial design, space planning,
interior design, and graphic presentation projects.
Clients include CHBA builders and developers, National
Geographic IMAX Theatre, CHBA, Johnston Sport, John
Chew, CFI Composites, Big City Marketing, Paldi
Construction, BC Ministry of Tourism, Braemar Developments,
and many more. I've produced and drawn most of the
Times Colonist Home of the Week features since the
CHBA 2002 Parade of Homes.
Also designed
and carried out three major residential renos during
this period, doing all the trades work myself (except
drywall finishing).
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96-94
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Residential
Designer Technologist for Zebra Designitects, Victoria.
Small-to-mid scale residential design, working drawings
and renderings. Concept and design work for Beach
Lane Resort, Bahamas. Manual drafting and artist's
concepts, 3D modelling, presentation graphics, large
site planning, conceptual planning. |
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90-94
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Freelance
illustration and design work, Vancouver. Commercial
design and interior design work for a wide variety
of clients, including Palmer-Jarvis, Village of Whistler,
Blenz, Safeway, R Phillips, Science World, Wishes
Foundation, many architects and design firms. Work
included concept development, renderings, model-making,
Spec writing, prototyping, shop drawings, project
management coordination, contract administration,
and display building. Art, layout, file prep for the
Sicon Sign Group (and other Vancouver signage firms). |
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87-90
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Designer
/ Technologist for Graham F Crockart Architect, Vancouver.
Job Captain and Project Coordinator. Medium to large
scale residential design and working drawings. Most
manual, some CAD (Mac). Projects include Queensgate
for Polygon Properties, Le Chateau for Adera, Hawthorne
Park for Diversicare, ICBC building NVan, and numerous
others. |
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87-84
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Designer
/ Draftsman for Group Five Design Associates, Vancouver.
Corporate and retail design and space-planning, working
drawings, millwork drawings and details, Spec writing
and tendering, sub-contracting, contract administration.
Projects include Magnum Force, Velvet Turtle, Mogi's
Gifts, Gourmet Lifestyles, KLM, Lignum Sales, Pacific
Congress, McDermid St Lawrence, Levesque-Beaubien,
Galactic Resources (Marine Building), F46 exposition
at Expo 86, MSA offices, and retail and corporate
office projects. |
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84-83
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Head
Designer / Detailer for Prestige Sign & Awning,
Vancouver. Design and development of logos and corporate
ID to finished artwork and shop drawings. All manual
art, various media and archaic techniques now considered
obsolete :-) |
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83-80 |
Residential
Designer / Draftsman for Home Planning Centre, Edmonton.
All aspects of custom residential design and drafting,
some small commercial design and working drawings.
Architectural rendering, and modelmaking. Assisted
in design and production of Homes Today Magazine. |
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| SKILL
SET AND INTERESTS: |
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Graphic
art skills, experience with Vectorworks, ClarisCad,
Freehand, Photoshop, Pagemaker, Word, InDesign,
Powerpoint and various others on a Mac platform.
Good modelmaking skills, electrical and mechanical
experience, technical writing ability. Standard
First Aid.
Longtime
electronics hobbyist. Extensive use of hand tools
& shop tools. Site work, construction trades
experience. Play acoustic guitar and keyboards,
dabble in paint, enjoy cooking for guests.
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