Resumé

-Objective-

To have an active role in creative, exciting projects as a design professional, with a forward-thinking and modern architecture firm.

-Experience-

Architectural Designer/Project Manager
Silberstein Architecture (Delray Beach, FL) Aug. 2012-Present

Junior Designer
Frank de Biasi Interiors (New York, NY) Sept. 2011-July 2012
Site visits, design dev. drawings-CD's, specs, renderings

Intern Architect
Ronnette Riley Architects (New York, NY) Feb. 2011- Sept. 2011
RFP responses, site visits, measurements & contractor
walk-throughs, design development drawings-CDs, client
correspondence & meetings, FF&E specs.

Principal
JETDesign LLC (Ridgewood, NJ) Feb. 2010 – Present
Freelance Graphic & Architectural Design. Provide contract graphic and architectural design work to clients, i.e. architects, designers, and talent agents. Projects include design for FedEx 20,000 sq. ft. flight ops hub, logo design, trade booth model/render, and Holocaust memorial model/render.

Laborer
Professional Concrete of Georgia (Woodstock, GA) March 2010 – August 2010
Concrete tear outs, forming, and pour preparation.

Laborer
Slopeside Masonry (Fairfield, VT) July 2009 – December 2009
Custom fireplace and chimney construction.

General office assistant
Slocum Platts Architects (Winter Park, FL) September 2002 – April 2003
Courier for engineer’s sign-off on blueprints, filing, organization of past building plans.


-Education-

Bachelors of Architecture September 2003 – June 2009
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California

High School Diploma August 1999 – May 2003
Winter Park High School, Winter Park, Florida
Three years of manual drafting classes.

-Software-

SketchUP, AutoCAD, Revit, Indesign, IDX Renditioner, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Office, PC, MAC

-Activities-

CalPoly
Participated in the Annual Vellum Furniture Competition in 2008 and 2009.

Member of the Vellum Furniture Publication Committee. Responsibilities included laying out and documenting past and present entries of the competition.

Member of the Chumash Committee which planned and organized the CalPoly Department of Architecture’s 5th year thesis show.

Designed, built, and sold furniture.

Founder and writer for "Eat a Duck" food blog

-References-

Mark Brungo
Associate Architect at Ronnette Riley Architects
T: 212.594.4015 E: mb@ronnetteriley.com

Daniel LaPorte
Head Architect at Frank de Biasi Interiors
T: 212.431.1222 E: Daniel@frankdebiasiinteriors.com

Tom Di Santo
Senior Year Architecture Professor
T: 805.234.1727 E: tdisanto7@gmail.com

Projects by James Thornton