Curious, eager, and excited Intern Architect ready to gain more experience and offer any possible advantage to a design team. Experience in schematic design through construction documents phases of projects and an interest in any facet of practice and hoping to improve wherever possible.
• CAD and BIM Design Experience
• Adobe Creative Cloud
• Creation of Construction Documents
• Collaboration with Product Representatives
• Experience in Schematic Design
• Experience in Design Development
• Presentation and Public Speaking Skills
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration Experience
Intern Architect
PryorMorrow Architects Engineers Interior Design - Columbus, MS
• Introduced new company wide template for project documentation and marketing
• Spoke to company shareholders on new system and how it may be implemented for increased efficiency
• Assisted Principal Architect in the production of construction drawings
• Assisted Project Architect in design and drafting across several projects
• Attended client meetings to discuss project development and revisions
• Corresponded with material and product vendors for pricing estimates
• Produced renderings for client presentations
• Produced construction drawings for final submittal
Lifeguard Warehouse Worker J. Ward Maint. Crew
• Red Cross Certified in First Aid and life safety practices
• Maintained and oversaw beach furniture and equipment
• Opened beach each morning and oversaw closing in evenings
• Patrolled beach and ensured patron safety in the water
• Organized warehouse design to maximize space for stock while allowing for high volume traffic zones
• Received deliveries, scanned packages and updated orders in internal database
• Moved large and bulky items manually or with pallet jacks or forklifts
• Ran cash register and assured customer satisfaction
Lake Tiak O’Khata Family Resort - Louisville, MS Winston County Co-Op - Louisville, MS Winston Academy - Louisville, MS
• General grounds maintenance across campus
• Maintenance and repair of various mechanical systems
• Cleaning and waxing of floors across campus
05/2021 - Current 05/2020 - 08/2020 02/2019 - 08/2019 05/2018 - 07/2018
• 3.78 Current GPA
• Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society, 2023
• Spring, 2020 - President’s List
• Fall, 2020 - President’s List
• Spring, 2021 - President’s List
• Spring, 2022 - President’s List
• 2nd Place Team in Brassfield & Gorrie Collaborative Design Competition
Mississippi State University Winston Academy
• Honorable Mention Team in Innovative Solutions in Concrete Masonry Design Local Competition
Starkville, MS Louisville, MS
Bachelor in Architecture High School Diploma
• 4.0 GPA
• 30 ACT Score
• Citizenship Award Recipient
• Scholar Athlete Award Recipient
• Mr. Winston Academy Recipient
• Wendy’s Heisman High School Scholarship Delegate
• Winston Academy Honor Graduate
• Winston Academy Hall of Fame Recipient
• Woodshop Supervisor 2021 - Current
• History of Architecture Teacher’s Assistant2022
• Alpha Rho Chi Professional Fraternity Member 2020 - 2022
• Alpha Rho Chi Brotherhood Committee Head2020
Expected in 05/2024 05/2019
• President of Honor Society, 2018-2019
• Member of Honor Society, 2015-2019
• Class President, 2016-2019
• Student Body Vice President, 2018-2019
• Senior Captain of Varsity Football Team
• MS Boys State Delegate, 2018
• Coding Team Member, 2018
The arena and football field were only a portion of a larger campus design project for Choctaw Central Middle School & High School campus in Philadelphia, MS. I worked directly with the Principal Architect of PryorMorrow in the schematic design through construction document stages of the project. I inherited an existing floor plan and spent the summer and winter breaks developing the project and revising changes based on client feedback.
The school will be used for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, and as a tribal school, we wanted to include as many Choctaw motifs and symbols as possible. Throughout the project we included repeating diamond patterns, beadwork, and other significant traditions as the client specifically requested that people know they were in a tribal school as soon as they entered.
My first significant task was to consult with vendors and the client to devise a suitable weight room layout for the football team that would be attached to the arena mezzanine level. This started as a sketch and trace paper study, testing out several different layouts for the space. Once a layout was made, I moved to the computer to create a render package for the client to properly convey our design decisions.
Since the weight room would be visible from spectators of the basketball games, we wanted to use it as a statement piece for the quality of facilities that the students of the school enjoyed. The weight room has glass storefront on both sides of the room facing both the football field and the basketball court, allowing for continuous outdoor views for those within the room and the arena.
phase of the project is where I really got to communicate with product and material vendors to help select and properly convey our design intent within the construction drawings. From turf composition to drainage solutions for the field, I really developed an understanding of architectural detailing for final submittals.
Moving to the football field just south of the arena and weight room, we were aware of the rigidity and regulation that confines the creative exploration of the field, but still wanted to carry over tribal motifs whenever possible. This is where we employed the traditional Choctaw diamond pattern on the field border and arrowheads adjacent to the field numbers as well as the Tribal Seal to further express the Native heritage of the school and team for the players to draw pride from.
Our studio was tasked with designing a new facility for the Ross Collins Vocational Center, one of the oldest and longest running vocational centers in the state of Mississippi. The challenges facing the project were a condensed site and a plethora of different disciplines housed under one roof that needed to be integrated in a sensible way. While balancing the aforementioned problems, we were also instructed to approach the facility through the lens of what education may look like in the next twenty years, which explains the cutting edge materials throughout the project.
In the beginning, we started with iterative trace paper form and adjacency studies as a way to order the large floor areas within the building footprint. With this base understanding of the organization of the project, I then moved into Autocad and Revit to further develop the floor plan. At the same time, I was also attempting to understand how I wanted the building to be perceived in three dimensions with section and perspective studies.
Bio-char cladding is a panel system made by the German start up Made of Air. It is produced from the waste products of other wood processes in factories, successfully harnessing all possible material while also sequestering carbon from the atmosphere.
Self healing concrete was chosen as a durable base for the building for its long life cycle. the life cycle is further improved from new cutting edge technology that repairs cracks in the structure. the finish for the concrete throughout the project will be that of board formed concrete, relating the un natural material back to natural wood tones and materials used elsewhere.
The timber louvre system was chosen to lighten up the project by introducing warmer tones to the existing colder materials already employed throughout the project. Practically speaking, they help shade some of the larger panes of glass in the project.
For maximum efficiency, a low-e curtain wall system was chosen for the project to efficiently prevent the passage of heat as much as possible through the glazing used throughout the project.
When we think of the future, we may immediately jump to some understanding of steel and glass in some sort of perfect utopian universe, but I think our near future is much more grounded in sustainability at its core. This is why I centered my material selection around the single most sustainable material currently available to us: wood. Bio-char cladding produced from the waste products of other wood processes in combination with timber slats and siding to bring in warmer tones to ground the project are the basis. To round out the facade, board formed concrete relates this foreign material back to the original idea.
For this project, we were instructed to produce economical solutions for a tiny home village in Shreveport, Louisiana. The goal for each project was to design a 150 s.f. tiny home to be implemented in a community for those affected by homelessness in the local population. With the challenging square footage requirement, I still wanted to have some separation between the living and sleeping areas.
SECTION A
We were tasked with designing a mixed use residential mid-rise tower in the heart of Chicago. The first floor would be designed as a shell for commercial development, with the above levels being devoted to a repeating dwelling unit and any other amenity we chose to include.
After site analysis, we quickly moved into conceptual design where I developed a series of form studies through computer modelling. The speed at which I could move through the software gave me the quickest return on invested time as I could test out the most possible variations quickly until I landed on my final concept.
As I did not want to be entirely naive to the cost of real estate in Chicago, I wanted to implement an apartment unit that was both responsible in its footprint and seemingly spacious enough to accomodate a young professional in their living. This is how I arrived at the loft style apartment, as I felt this separated the different areas nicely with the overhang of the loft creating a more intimate space within the kitchen.
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With Chicago being famous for its brutal winters and pleasant summers, I wanted to present options for gathering of tenants within their community of the building by presenting both indoor and outdoor public amenities in a rooftop garden and roof level common area.
I’ve been interested in woodworking as long as my dad and I have been fixing things around the house. Its always seemed to get the best of me each time I’ve taken a stab at it, but I think that’s why I keep coming back to it. The pursuit to get better at something difficult has always intrigued me. When I got to architecture school, I quickly learned the lateral flexibility that a design education could afford me, and in my second year, I started experimenting with woodworking in our woodshop that I’ve really grown to appreciate. It’s been mostly small things, shelves, jewelry stands as gifts,etc. But possibly my single most rewarding project in architecture school would have to be a desk that classmates and I designed and built for the Sanderson Center on MSU’s campus for an elective class.
Specifically within the Sanderson Center, the client was the outdoor adventure department, and needed a semi-mobile front desk to function for equipment storage as well as something for a storefront to catch the attention of passerby. In Rhino, we explored parametric facades for the desk to be cut out with our CNC machine, with our concept being the peaks of a mountain range. Through experimentation and mockup modelling, we finally landed on our 12.5’ of desk. It is worth mentioning that the construction of the desk, composed partly of birch plywood sheets and the tops finished in reclaimed maple floor boards, was the most painstaking process I have ever been apart of. Then again, I believe that’s what made the final product all the better.
