Resume + Work Samples

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cargocollective.com/lnimox lnimox1@gmail.com

Education

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA Bachelor of Architecture, Architectural History Minor, GPA: 3.32

May 2012

Involvement: American Institute for Architecture Students (AIAS), National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS)

Virginia Polytechnic State University, Alexandria, VA Washington Alexandria Architecture Center (NSE), GPA: 3.75

Related Experience

Aug. 2010-May 2011

NOMA National Student Design Competition production team leader

Nov. 2011

Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center Competition, 2nd place design team leader

May 2011

ACME Brick Design Competition, 3rd place design team leader

May 2010

CxC Distinguished Communicator LSU accredited high-level communicator State Department Federal Credit Union Scholarship John M. Cryer, III Architecture Scholarship

May 2012

Lead development of presentation materials, model making, and assisted with schematic design and design development

Lead competition from schematic design through final presentation with a team of two landscape architecture master’s students

Collaborated with another architecture student in design of the [re]Trombe Wall from schematic design through final mock-up

Honors

Robert Sprague Jr. Memorial Architecture Scholarship Louisiana State University Dean’s List

Skills

Additional Experience

June 2011 May 2011 May 2010 Jan. 2008-May 2012

3D: Autodesk: Revit, Vasari I Rhinoceros I Sketchup 2D: Adobe: Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Flash Autodesk: AutoCAD I Artlantis (Sketchup) Mircosoft Office: Word, Powerpoint, Excel D-Fab: CNC router I Laser Cutter Banana Republic sales associate Urban Outfitters sales associate

Sept. 2010-Aug. 2011 May 2010-Sept. 2011

American Campus Communities marketing assistant

May 2010-Aug. 2010

LSU Public Policy Research Lab research surveyor

Jan. 2010-May 2010

Responsible for implementing marketing strategies on campus and with local businesses

Worked for the University to accurately complete various field research for different state department projects

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VOA Associates Incorporated 722 12th St. NW Suite 100 Washington, D.C. 20005 RE: Architect I Position

Project_01 St. Louis Urban Monastery Design Studio X, Spring 2012

Benedictine Monastery + Soup Kitchen

This project calls for the design of a Benedictine Please accept this letter and attached resume formal application Monastery asinmydowntown St. Louis,forMissouri. At the Architect I full-time position at VOA Washington As a recent of a prime D.C. location along graduate the Gateway Mall, the Louisiana State University’s School of Architecture, I have been part of several monastery would become both a beacon and source winning design competition teams where I learned how to effectively for nourishment to both lead the diverse monks and hungry. teams and participate in exciting and dynamic team environments. These student The final design centers around a tripartite concept competitions along with my studies at the Washington Alexandria Architecture of nature,of sacredness, secularity. As Consortium (WAAC), have given me the experience working inand a fast-paced anda result, the relationship between the monk’s cloister and the hungry’s rigorous environment. soup kitchen garden became the driving force for the overall scheme.to The building captures While studying at the WAAC, I had the opportunity work on a form teamphysically of this collision between the sacred landscape architecture students on a competition for a new Chesapeake Bayand the profane.

Environmental Center in Norfolk, Virginia. We wanted to employ innovative and environmentally conscious design concepts that could act as catalysts for the protection and restoration of the Bay. As lead designer, I was responsible for ensuring the seamless integration of the coastal environment and architecture to provide a didactic experience for visitors. Our entry took first place honors at the WAAC and advanced to Virginia Tech University’s main campus to clench second place among thirty entries.

My experience and skills from previous marketing and research positions would complement both the design and business side of your D.C. office. From these positions, I have acquired a richer understanding of working with a client and how that dynamic relationship can bring about better solutions. With my architectural education, and applicable work experience have served as preparation for thriving in the forward thinking practice at VOA Associates. I look forward to hearing from you soon to discuss a full-time position at your D.C. office. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely, LaQuinton A. Nimox

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VOA Associates Incorporated

Project_02 722 12th St. NW Suite 100

Ashby Washington, MARTA Station and Visitor Center D.C. 20005 2011 NOMA National Design Competition

Design Team: Nyguyen, Kim Nyguyen, Ivan O’garro, RE: Kevin Architect I Position Elizabeth Galan, Erica Geromini

Please accept this letter and attached resume as my formal application for The success of the Civil Rightsposition Movement stemsWashington D.C. As a recent graduate of the Architect I full-time at VOA from the emergence of multiple leaders, Louisiana State University’s Schoolsome of Architecture, I have been part of several less recognized than others, working in concert winning design competition teams where I learned how to effectively lead diverse to attain equality all. The design drawsand upon teams and for participate in exciting dynamic team environments. These student the ideas of multiplicity and aggregation competitions along with my studiesasatthe the Washington Alexandria Architecture impetusConsortium to social gathering, pedestrian circulation, (WAAC), have given me the experience of working in a fast-paced and programmatic arrangement, and architectural form. rigorous environment.

As the main transportation hub of the area, the While studyingpedestrian at the WAAC, proposed project encourages trafficI had on the opportunity to work on a team of landscape architecture students on a competition for a new Chesapeake Bay multiple levels on the site. The ground level hosts Environmental Norfolk, Virginia. a variety of open and Center intimateinpublic spaces for We wanted to employ innovative and environmentally conscious design concepts that could act as catalysts for the neighborhood residents and visitors to gather.

This protection and restoration of the Bay. As lead designer, I was responsible for serves as a destination for visitors in the greater thesimultaneously seamless integration the coastal environment and architecture to Atlantaensuring region, while providingof public provide a didactic experience for visitors. areas and green spaces for residents of Vine City. Our entry took first place honors at the WAAC and advanced to Virginia Tech University’s main campus to clench second place among thirty entries.

My experience and skills from previous marketing and research positions would complement both the design and business side of your D.C. office. From these positions, I have acquired a richer understanding of working with a client and how that dynamic relationship can bring about better solutions. With my architectural education, and applicable work experience have served as preparation for thriving in the forward thinking practice at VOA Associates. I look forward to hearing from you soon to discuss a full-time position at your D.C. office. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely, LaQuinton A. Nimox

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VOA Associates Incorporated 722 12th St. NW Suite 100 Chesapeake BayD.C. Environmental Washington, 20005

Project_03

Education Center

2011 Virginia Tech Student Design Competition - Second Place Design Team: Wei Cao RE: Maragaret ArchitectAmori, I Position

The project called for team collaboration with two landscape Please accept thisanletter and attached resume architecture students to design environmental center near as my formal application for Architect I full-time position atBay VOA Washington D.C. As a recent graduate of Virginiathe Beach, VA for the Chesapeake Foundation.

The Louisiana University’s School of Architecture, I have been part of several design intent of ourState project was to create a didactic landscape by winning design competition teams where I learned how providing tangible connections to the ecology of the site. Two types to effectively lead diverse teams participate in exciting and dynamic team environments. These student of ecologies areand revealed: hydraulic cycles and wildlife habitation. competitions along with my studies at the Washington Alexandria Architecture Hydraulic cycles revealed in the site include stormwater Consortium (WAAC), have given me the experience of working in a fast-paced and filtration and sedimentation, both of which are indicative of rigorous environment. processes occurring throughout the larger Chesapeake Bay region. Our proposed design demonstrates potential strategies While studying at the WAAC, I had the opportunity to work on a team of which can be implemented in other areas throughout the bay. landscape architecture students on a competition for a new Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center in Norfolk, Virginia. We wanted to employ innovative and environmentally conscious design concepts that could act as catalysts for the protection and restoration of the Bay. As lead designer, I was responsible for ensuring the seamless integration of the coastal environment and architecture to provide a didactic experience for visitors. Our entry took first place honors at the WAAC and advanced to Virginia Tech University’s main campus to clench second place among thirty entries.

My experience and skills from previous marketing and research positions would complement both the design and business side of your D.C. office. From these positions, I have acquired a richer understanding of working with a client and how that dynamic relationship can bring about better solutions. With my architectural education, and applicable work experience have served as preparation for thriving in the forward thinking practice at VOA Associates. I look forward to hearing from you soon to discuss a full-time position at your D.C. office. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely, LaQuinton A. Nimox

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VOA Associates Incorporated

Project_04 722 12th St. NW Suite 100

ChapelWashington, to Nature:D.C. Place for Memory + Loss 20005 Design Studio IV, Fall 2009

RE: Architect I Position The challenge of this project was to create a nondenominational spaceaccept that serves as and a space for resume as my formal application for Please this letter attached Memory Loss. This structure is designed a theand Architect I full-time position at VOA as Washington D.C. As a recent graduate of landscape focusing device--a mechanism Louisiana State University’s School through of Architecture, I have been part of several which the experience this coastalteams area, where from the winning designofcompetition I learned how to effectively lead diverse reconstruction of the canal to the catastrophic of teams and participate in exciting andloss dynamic team environments. These student the wetlands is made along manifest. competitions with my studies at the Washington Alexandria Architecture (WAAC), me theare experience of working in a fast-paced and The Consortium design of the Memoryhave and given Loss spaces rigorous informed by theenvironment. idea of transition from mass to void; this reflects the connection of the coast where at the WAAC, I had the opportunity to work on a team of the structure While resides.studying It constructed in a way that landscape architecture students on a competition for a new Chesapeake Bay emphasizes a transition from a closed minded society Environmental Norfolk, who ignores the issue ofCenter coastal in wetland lossVirginia. to a moreWe wanted to employ innovative and environmentally design open-minded communityconscious that embraces theconcepts idea of that could act as catalysts for the protection and restoration of the Bay. As lead designer, I was responsible for protecting this priceless resource. ensuring the seamless integration of the coastal environment and architecture to provide a didactic experience for visitors. Our entry took first place honors at the WAAC and advanced to Virginia Tech University’s main campus to clench second place among thirty entries.

My experience and skills from previous marketing and research positions would complement both the design and business side of your D.C. office. From these positions, I have acquired a richer understanding of working with a client and how that dynamic relationship can bring about better solutions. With my architectural education, and applicable work experience have served as preparation for thriving in the forward thinking practice at VOA Associates. I look forward to hearing from you soon to discuss a full-time position at your D.C. office. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely, LaQuinton A. Nimox

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LaQuinton Nimox cargocollective.com/lnimox lnimox1@gmail.com

VOA Associates Incorporated

Freehand_Sketches 722 12th St. NW Suite 100

RonaldWashington, Reagan Washington National Airport D.C. 20005 Alexandria, Virginia, Fall 2010

RE: Architect I Position Weekly drawings assignments were coordinated to give students Please a full range of this drawing accept letterand andsketching attached resume as my formal application for experience.

The drawings explored various techniques the Architect I full-time position at VOA Washington D.C. As a recent graduate of and employed multiple such School as shaded Louisiana Statemediums, University’s of pencil Architecture, I have been part of several sketches, penned line drawings, and quick marker winning design competition teams where I learned how to effectively lead diverse sketches.

Emphasis was given to capturing the essence teams and participate in exciting and dynamic team environments. These student of the competitions view and overall of the atsubject. alongexperience with my studies the Washington Alexandria Architecture

Consortium (WAAC), have given me the experience of working in a fast-paced and rigorous environment.

While studying at the WAAC, I had the opportunity to work on a team of landscape architecture students on a competition for a new Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center in Norfolk, Virginia. We wanted to employ innovative and environmentally conscious design concepts that could act as catalysts for the protection and restoration of the Bay. As lead designer, I was responsible for ensuring the seamless integration of the coastal environment and architecture to provide a didactic experience for visitors. Our entry took first place honors at the WAAC and advanced to Virginia Tech University’s main campus to clench second place among thirty entries.

My experience and skills from previous marketing and research positions would complement both the design and business side of your D.C. office. From these positions, I have acquired a richer understanding of working with a client and how that dynamic relationship can bring about better solutions. With my architectural education, and applicable work experience have served as preparation for thriving in the forward thinking practice at VOA Associates. I look forward to hearing from you soon to discuss a full-time position at your D.C. office. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely, LaQuinton A. Nimox