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Nevada State College, Glenn and Ande School of Education Building

Summer 2021 (anticipated)
Carpenter Sellers Del Gatto Architects
Burke Construction Group, CMAR

This is the fourth building for the Nevada State College, located in Henderson, Nevada. Along with classroom and administrative offices for the School of Education, the building includes a Speech Pathology Lab and an Early Childhood Center. This facility is critical in addressing our shortage of child care professionals, speech therapists, and teachers.

I started with this project at the beginning of Design Development and will be managing it through Construction, with an anticipated completion in summer of 2021. Along with maintaining budget and schedule as the owner’s representative, responsibilities have included contract coordination and detailed documentation reviews at each phase.

UNLV College of Engineering, Academic Research Building

On Hold
PGAL and SmithGroup, Architects
CORE Construction, CMAR

This new building in the center of the UNLV campus will provide needed research laboratory spaces at the second and third floor while providing a lecture hall and maker space at the ground floor.

I was involved with this project from the beginning of design development through the completion of construction documents, when the project was handed over to a colleague. Along with managing budget and schedule, my responsibilities included contract coordination and detailed documentation reviews.

CSN and NSC, Health Sciences Building

Summer 2021 (anticipated)
KNIT Designing Communities, Architect
CORE Construction, CMAR

This building in Henderson is shared by the nursing programs of the College of Southern Nevada and Nevada State College. The program includes offices, classrooms, training laboratories, and a campus library.

I was involved with this project from the beginning of design development, through the completion of construction documents, when the project was handed over to a colleague for construction administration. Along with managing budget and schedule, my responsibilities included contract coordination and detailed documentation reviews.

State of Nevada, Public Works Division

2018 to present

I am a project manager coordinating a range of projects, from major capital improvements, including design and construction of university buildings, to managing small tenant improvements for state agencies.

My primary responsibilities include preparing project budgets, coordinating contracts, and document review. Internally, I have been assisting the team in the transition to digital signature processes, including coordination of our agency processes into the statewide ERP system.

NSC School of Education
DRC, Buildings 1304 and 1306


publicworks.nv.gov

Grizzly Pear Blog

I have never been comfortable keeping all my information on other people’s servers, so after completing graduate school, I finally set up my own website.

It was originally conceived to be a place to practice drawing and play with poetry. That concept quickly fell away, but the website remained as a location for random posts, photos, and essays, as well as being dormant for much of the time.

In 2018-2019, I posted daily to the blog, which was an interesting but uneventful exercise. The effort was more akin to a diary, however, I had a few posts concerning architecture and work.

Currently I’ve been toying with the tagline “notes on my consumption“. I’m not sure where it may lead, but I’m looking forward to the journey with this (and future iterations of the blog).

Gu / Pang Residence

2017, with Jing Gu

The 1,100 sf house was constructed in 1952 and needed a complete renovation.

Along with an complete update of the plumbing and engineering systems, the kitchen was rearranged with the former laundry room opened up for interior access and the insertion of a new powder room within the existing footprint.

Exterior work included a new roof, retrofitting the carport structure, and new concrete flatwork.

We performed the work as owner, architect, and general contractor overseeing the major trades. We also installed and refinished the interior throughout the house.


Photography

2016

I was introduced to photography at Rice with Professor Frank White.

In 2015, I started listening to the podcast On Taking Pictures and participated in their weekly “assignments” for a year, responding to simple words and phrases, such as symmetry, abstraction, or parking lot.

These photographs were taken on my old Nikon D40 (with various manual lenses), iphone 5C, and iphone 6S.


Sourdough

2001, 2017-present

When I was a landscape laborer, I started baking my own bread for lunch. Part of that effort included raising my own starter, which made some excellent pancakes but I was never successful at making sourdough loaves.

Sixteen years later, my wife read an article about sourdough pancakes. This rekindled the old flame, and with the help of the internet, we finally started getting decent loaves after three weeks of daily attempts.

One of the unspoken benefits with sourdough is that you are forced to bake at regular intervals to keep the starter alive and I have come to enjoy the consistent practice, as a meditative a conversation between my hands and the dough.

Over the years, I have found pleasure in constant exploration. It has been fun to experiment with different aspects of bread making, including enriched doughs and steamed breads. Most recently I have been playing with whole wheat berries, grinding them up in a vitamix for a super fresh whole wheat dough.

City of Las Vegas Planning Department Tenant Improvement

2018
Aptus

Taking advantage of new City of Las Vegas office standards, the Planning Department renovated a portion of its space, providing updated workstations, replaced finishes, and included a new central work / break area to encourage a collaborative creative work environment.

The project also included designs for a new distinctive entry from the elevator lobby, feature reception area and conference room to be installed in a future phase. Construction was completed in late-2018 after I had left the company.