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Email: dj@dalejordan.net
Resume online: dalejordan.com
Portfolio online: http://www.dalejordan.net/portfolio.htm
Telephone:  310-227-3922
I live in Glendale, CA

Overview

I
have worked on a variety of projects with diverse teams in often complicated circumstances. I have also worked on my own. My strengths are: crisis prevention and crisis management. I have rescued troubled projects on many occasions. Everywhere I have worked I have earned the respect of my superiors, peers, consultants, clients, and, most proudly, subordinates. I have a good (and improving) knowledge of means of construction and codes (CBC, title 24, CFC, IBC, UBC, SBC, ADA). I have worked in extensively in hospitality, industrial, commercial, and residential (high & low). I also have landscape architecture and civil engineering experience.

Computer Experience

  -  AutoCAD from releases 12 to 2018
  -  Graphic work on sketchup
  -  Completed a Revit class at Orange Coast College
  -  CAD management of a small office, CAD committee of a large firm
  -  AutoCAD troubleshooting, tech support, supervising and training new personnel
  -  Standards development. File structure organization.
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Security feature engineering (burglar alarms, FLS systems, etc...).
  -  Interpreting AutoCAD data from unfamiliar sources
  -  Plotters, printers, scanners, upgrading and building computers,
MS Office

Professional Experience 

JHAI ARCHITECT, INC, TARZANA, CA
I worked as a project manager from Sept. 2017 to Feb. 2018.
 
-  Prepared LAUSD ADA plans for submission to DSA
  -  BOMA

MVA ARCHITECTS, IRVINE, CA
I worked as a project manager from April 2010 to Aug. 2015 and regular contract work at times including from Feb. 2017 to July 2017, I also worked there as a project coordinator from May 2003 to January 2005.
 
-  T.I., R.D., & marketing CD sets of varying scopes, BOMA
  -  Measured sites - industrial and commercial
  -  Project management & coordination, client interaction
  -  Approval and permit process, CBC, state and local FLS, ADA, municipal codes
  -  Drafted and achieved approval of a custom residence in Newport Beach
 

SECURITY FIRM, CALIFORNIA
I worked for a security firm designing and drafting burglar alarm & FLS plans, amongst other duties. I was one of many laid off when the firm closed its construction division. For security reasons I can not provide the name or contact information of this firm online, however I can tell you in person. They've told me they'll issue a letter of recommendation upon request to any firm considering hiring me. All my work for this firm was confidential; I have no portfolio samples. I worked there from February 2016 to January 2017.
 
-  Designed and implemented a completed set of CAD standards for the firm's drawings and wrote a 60 page standards book;
   
  the standards covered CDs, proposal drawings, project specific graphics, and technical forms
  -  Measured sites, travel on short notice
  -  Sketch-up
  -  Developed and maintained a database for the firm's construction drawings


KRITZINGER AND RAO, LOS ANGELES, CA
I worked as a senior designer from May 2008 to January 2009.
  -  Master Planning, 3d modeling (Sketch-up), Complex design work

STEELMAN PARTNERS, LAS VEGAS, NV

I worked as a project coordinator from March 2005 to the May 2007.
I worked on casino projects projects in Las Vegas, Macau, and elsewhere.
  -  Worked within large and frequently changing teams of drafters, designers, architects, and consultants
  -  Coordinated frequent client changes to the plans
  -  Casinos, hotels, convention centers, theaters
  -  9 months worth of overtime

PRESCOTT ARCHITECTS, DESTIN, FL
I worked as an architectural drafting technician from June of 1998 to May 2003.
  -  Residential of all kinds from cheap catalog plans to high-end
  -  Wealthy and famous clients who prized their privacy
  -  Condo Towers
  -  1.5 years worth of overtime.

AVANT LTD, LANDSCAPE AND LAND-PLANNERS, AND GOLF COURSE ARCHITECTS
I worked part time drafting at home for architect Bill Isenhower from September 1999 to November 2000
  -  High end residential mostly in Palm Beach; Landscaping & runoff plans
  -  Fast food restaurants.

PREBLE-RISH CONSULTING ENGINEERS, DESTIN, FL
I worked as a drafting technician from July to October of 1997, please note that the Destin office is now closed.
  -  Station maps, site plans, drainage, survey data

References
I can provide references & letters of recommendation upon request.

Education
Northwest Florida State College
Associate of Science in Architectural Design and Construction Technology, 1995-1997


Hospitality Project Resume
Due to confidentiality agreements, I cannot post portfolio samples of my Steelman work online, but I can show you in person. In addition to what is shown below,  I’ve worked various restaurant & night club TIs.

Foxwoods expansion (for Steelman Partners)
· Valuation: the scope of the project changed several times. At the time of my work it was about $450 million.
· The project had been in the design phase for 4 years when I took over CAD for the SD. I repeatedly redesigned the floor plan based on the frequent changes demanded by the client, and worked as one of the team leaders on the DD.
· Coordinated with MEP and a kitchen consultant

Venetian Cotai Phase 2 (for Steelman Partners)
· Valuation: $1.8 billion
· Steelman Partners was the exterior architect, and interior space planner, except for the 3 hotel towers and the shopping mall.
· There were 5 other architecture firms on the design phase. A 7th firm in Hong Kong was to do the CDs. I coordinated with:
        · RTKL-Dallas: designed 2 shopping malls into designated spaces in the plan
        · Four Seasons (they had one tower) sent us room plans from an unnamed (or in house) architect
        · The other 3 design firms simply sent floor plans to be inserted into overall plans
               (serviced apartment tower, Billionaire Boys Club tower, the landscape architect)
· I managed all CAD on the project, created most of the sheets, supervised the drafters who drafted the exterior elevations and details, space planned the BOH space and participated in the trans-ocean, multi-lingual conference calls where conflicts between the parties were resolved, and assembled the final DD set.

Fontainebleau Las Vegas (for Steelman Partners)
· Valuation: when I was on the project it went from $1.2 billion to $1.9 billion
· Steelman Partners was responsible for all interior architecture. I coordinated with:
            · Carlos Zapata and Associates: exterior Architecture
            · Bergman and walls: executive architect
            · Lifescapes: landscape
· I was assigned to the project after the design had begun after which I managed all CAD on the project through SD, DD, and CD submission, drafted the hotel tower and worked on some of the room designs, drafted revisions to the convention center (working directly with the client) established & coordinated project standards with the other architects, supervised other drafters at various “busy” times on the project.

Majestic sun hi rise condo in Destin FL (for Prescott Architects)
· A 12 floor condo building (about 250 units).
· I drafted the front office and marketing center, See in my portfolio.
· I inspected about 70 of the finished units for construction quality

Bay Club phase 2 in San Destin resort, FL (for Prescott Architects)
· 5 story, 30 unit condo building.
· I inherited a rough overall design and drafted the CDs. See in my portfolio
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Thank you for reading my resume

dj@dalejordan.net   310-227-3922  Resume & Portfolio online: dalejordan.com