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Victoria Ikede

Mobile: +1 (647) 533-6920

Email: vickede@gmail.com

LinkedIn: bit.ly/3HboyhX Github: https://github.com/VictoriaIkede Toronto, Ontario

SUMMARY I have 8 years of experience in the AEC Industry, with 5 years of experience in BIM as a Modeler and Coordinator. I am experienced in BIM Modelling in Revit, Quality Control, Scan to BIM, Clash Detection, 4D, 5D and 6D Modelling, mapping model parameters to the IFC and other BIM data creation and analytics approaches.

I am also skilled in programming using visual tools like Dynamo and Grasshopper, but also text-based programming languages: Python, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, SQL, C#, IFC XML and I am competent in plugin creation with the Revit API. I spearheaded a partnership between Autodesk and my previous company to start the fist BIM training curriculum led by a consulting firm in my country, and the training sessions held consistently turned in a 70% profit.

I also supervised projects requiring BIM Components at LOD 500 for the first Dolby Atmos Recording Studio in West Africa.

RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE BIM AUTOMATION RESEARCHER- KOBILABS [ 03/2022 – 09/2022 ] Research on Automating Revit Commands using the Revit API and Power BI. BIM Manager - ATO Architects [ 04/2018 – 08/2021 ] • Business Process re-engineering and creation of sequence diagrams for standard operating procedures • Increased the firm subsidiary’s gross profit margin by 50% through planning, organization, and delivery of paid workshops on Revit for AEC Professionals.

• Created and maintained standard documentation templates and software templates.

• Provided training on BSI_PAS 1192 and ISO 9001:2015 global BIM standards • Created standard Revit Models and Families carrying technical information for quantity take-offs.

• Maintained the organization’s knowledge base with lessons learnt on previous projects.

• Evaluated clashes and produced clash detection reports using Navisworks and Revit.

• Training and onboarding of new and existing staff on relevant BIM technology.

Research/Teaching Assistant - The University of Sheffeld [ 10/2017 – 01/2018 ] Conducted Workshops on Unity, 3D Printing, Photogrammetry and Virtual Reality.

ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANT - Base Consult [ 03/2014 – 10/2015 ] • Produced Designs and Construction Documentation using Revit • Interfaced with planning authorities and interpreted their requirements in the Building Information Model.

EDUCATION

MSc Building Information Modelling Erasmus Joint Master Degree from Politecnico di Milano,Italy and University of Llubjana, Slovenia. [ 10/2021 – 09/2022 ] Thesis: BIM project progression auditing system: use-case methods & Revit plug-in prototype MA Master’s in Architectural Design - 72% The University of Sheffeld, England [ 10/2016 – 10/2017 ] Thesis: Investigating IFC Interoperability between Revit and ArchiCAD BSc Bachelor of Science in Architecture - 4.2 GPA The University of Nigeria [ 09/2008 – 07/2012 ]

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE GRAPHIC DESIGNER - OLIVER NELSON [ 03 – 10/2016 ]

I used Photoshop, Illustrator, Corel Draw and Adobe InDesign, Premiere Pro and Corel Draw professionally to create graphic productions and video material for various commercial uses.

Intern- DeFInite Strokes Ltd [ 07/2011 – 09/2011 ] •

Gained proficiency using Revit for interior design, visualizations, and quantification during this internship.

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Explored elementary BIM object creation.

CERTIFICATIONS Autodesk Certified Revit Architecture Professional [ 2020 – 2024 ] LinkedIn Learning BIM Management Techniques, C# for Revit API, Dynamo, Grasshopper, Python Foundations, BlockChain Foundations, Generative Design with Revit, Rhino, Lumion

DIGITAL SKILLS

BIM Autodesk Revit, BIM Collaborate Pro, SimpleBIM, BIMCollab, Bexel Manager, IFCXML, EnviMet, Insight, Formit, Navisworks, Recap Pro, Enscape, Solibri, Rhino Inside.

Programming Essentials Dynamo, Grasshopper HTML/CSS, Python, Javascript, C# for Revit Data Visualization Tableau, Power BI, Visio, Excel 3D Printing Cura, Netfabb, Meshmixer, 123D Make 3D Modelling and Visualization Enscape, Vray, Sketchup, Rhino, Lumion, Twinmotion

SOFT SKILLS Training, Presenting, Document Control, Marketing, Content Creation, Corporate Communications.

Creative Design & Content Management Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Premiere Pro,

Coursera Graphic Design

Wordpress, Canva.

FutureLearn Social Media Analytics

CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

HONOURS AND AWARDS

West Africa Digital Conference, 2019 [ Lagos, Nigeria ] The role of national vs international standards in BIM Implementation in Nigeria

N.D.D.C. (Niger Delta Development Commission) [ 2016 ] - Postgraduate Scholarship Award for Master’s Studies Erasmus Mundus Scholarship [ 2021 ] Enyo Retail and Supply [ 2020 ] - Top 10 out 400 Finalist in the 2019 Enyo Retail Competition: Designing a gas

BIM Harambee Africa, 2020 Panelist [ Online, African Region ] The Promise of BIM vs the Reality, Speaker: 3D Printing as a Method for Distributed Manufacturing BIM Harambee Africa Conference, 2020 3D Printing as a Method for Distributed manufacturing

station of the future.

LANGUAGES

VOLUNTEERING

ENGLISH - Native ITALIAN - A1

Furniture making with Upcycled Timber for the Humanitarian for Architecture Society, Sheffeld Judge for the Queens Commonwealth Essay Competition.

REFEREES

Available on Request

PORTFOLIO

HOTEL FACADE DESIGN PROPOSAL

I designed the facade for this hotel design proposal which was set to be built near the local airport, as a branding opportunity for a franchise hotelier brand.

One section of the hotel was designed to attract high profile clientele, as the 7-star section, while the other was to be a budget friendly, 4-stars section for regular visitors.

To differentiate both sections, a design language of diamond shaped openings was chosen as the overall theme for the facade, with one section having simple aluminium panels and window openings, and the other clad in a shell with adaptive openings.

The shell was designed to be curvilinear, in an attempt to give a more pleasing effect to the longer facade, and provide a more interesting character to the facade, without appearing ‘too long’ to onlookers.

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Parametric Facade design using dynamo. The concept of attractors was applied to created openings in the panels based on nearness to a defined geometry.

The development was designed to meet high-security standards. Accessibility by physically challenged persons was also a key design consideration.

The final proposal features a large auditorium accessible via a reception with an open atrium, luxury and budget hotel suites, a multipurpose hall, water fountain, rooftop garden, and outdoor recreational spaces.

The proportions of the building in plan view, was chosen for easy sectioning of the budget and luxury portions of the hotel, but also to mimic the proportions of an aeroplane with wings.

This was done intentionally, as the building would be visible to landing passengers on the nearby airstrip, and needs to leave a lasting impression.

HQ OFFICE DESIGN PROPOSAL This project was a competition entry for the new headquarters of a renowned insurance company. Their requirement was for the development to be sustainable, smart and energyefficient in its design, construction and running. The building should also have an iconic façade that sets it apart from others in its surroundings, and meet high-security standards.

We opted for a design of open offices centred around two cores, and wrapped in an amorphous glass facade. The building had offices on 8 floors, and basement parking to increase the amount of green spaces around the buildings ground floor level.

For this project I created the presentation visuals and renders, using Revit, Adobe InDesign and Photoshop.

The challenging part of this design was assessing the feasibility of achieving the proposed glass facade. We were able to justify our choices with a 3D printed prototype and details of the connections for areas where the glass tends to ‘move’. An aspiration for me, given more time, would have been to rationalize the facades using Galapagos and Grasshopper.

TRINITY CHURCH DESIGN PROPOSAL I participated in the design, visualization and postproduction for winning entry for a ‘megachurch’ design competition. The Church’s property stretches over 300metres from the main road to the edge of the Atlantic Ocean. Approximately two-thirds of the available land has already been developed till date.

In Christianity, the three-pointed star (and the number three in general) is often used to symbolize the Holy trinity- The father, the son and The Holy Spirit, which form the God-head. In line with the trinity concept, the proposed Church complex is also designed to have 3 main zones: The Multipurpose Hall,

The 5000+seater capacity Main Auditorium,

Other Offices.

The façade of the building proposal features a crenelated rhythm punctuated with gables in the form of the three-pointed star.

Consideration was given to the selection of building materials, to ensure that they can withstand the effects of salt deposits from the sea.

BANK BRANCH DESIGN PROPOSAL A legacy bank wanted a brand defining design for their buildings, and my firm was contacted for the job.

In this project, I participated in design reviews, performed clash detection during the coordination of the project between disciplines, and created the A1 boards layout for the presentation.

The bank building was designed to have a simple design language, with a rectilinear glass form enmeshed in aluminium mesh panels.

The focus on the project was to create easy circulation and security between the banking hall, vault, and other office spaces requiring different levels of clearance.

Scalability was also a major design consideration, as the prototype facade needed to be applicable to both new and existing structures already owned by the bank.

LUXURY TOWER WITH OFFICES & RESIDENCES This project was a mixed use tower design proposal with offices on the lower levels and houses on upper floors. Green Balconies were added to break the continuity and length of the structure, while the office spaces were located in a raised podium, as a way of differentiating the two different building uses.

TRANSFORMING TEMPORALITY IN SPACE A TRAVELLING MARKET This was my final design project during my Masters in Architectural Design Studies at the University of Sheffield in England.

Based on an existing semi-permanent market square in Graz Austria, this project explored the integration of a Human-Computer Interface that could transform a public space by informing configurations with the market stall, and could serve as a space for performance and participation as the market moved from city to city as temporary installation during different annual events. Our ideas were to combine telescopic poles with spring systems, and a data capturing device, which controlled the behavior of the stalls based on user needs.

4 - BEDROOM TERRACE HOUSES This project was a design of 4 luxury bedroom apartments, in a 2 terraced units of 4 houses in a row.

The main challenge for this design was creating a roof for the heavy tropical rains, while maintaining a contemporary facade, as shown in the sections on the next page. Each bedroom needed to have a luxury lounge space and walk in closets, with cross ventilation achieved via the use of internal courtyards.

Minimizing width, and maximizing length, ventilation, and natural lighting, with a contemporary facade, were the key influencers for the final outcome of this project.

PARAMETIC TENSILE SHELL OPTIMIZATION AND FABRICATION DESIGN In this project, I went from a novice and barely using grasshopper, to creating a complex shell structure, unfolding it for fabrication, and even developing further in Revit using Rhino.Inside.

The Shell was rationalized into panels for exploring the possibilities of man-made fabrication in the future.

Two methods were used to generate parts for potential fabrication of the structure.

The first is the Mesh Unfold, and the second, dividing each subdivision of the mesh defining the shell, into individual panels.

I was able to transpose all the panels with specific thicknesses of 50mm to a flat plane and number them according to positions on the mesh for fabrication.

The mesh outline went through a series of evolutions, from a simple rectangle, to a complex network of curves.

Several attempts were made before understanding the network of curve definitions that could correctly create a seamless mesh.

The mesh outline was created with simple polylines in Rhino.

The mesh unfold action as completed using Ivy. The module is able to define the complete mesh as several parts that can be ‘folded’ or ‘cut’ using predefined flaps.

REVIT DOOR FAMILY LIBRARY Part of my duties as a BIM Manager was to create family libraries, and communicate documented updates to the staff in ways that could be easily understood.

The image below shows a set of standard Revit door families I created, and the documentation to explain each one by door number.

PRODUCT DESIGN EXPLORATION Using Rhino and Grasshopper, Open AI dallE, and locally available materials, I have made several furniture and product design prototypes as shown in these images.

I generally explore design technologies in my free time, including point cloud scanning, creating immersive 360 visual environments, AI generated design, plugin creation, design optimization and form finding, implementing microcontrollers and actuators to make a responsive prototype, project sequencing with BIM Software, and so on.

The images that follow are some of my favorites from these experiments.

THANK YOU.