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Tom Eliot Fisch, San Francisco, CA.
Project manager, LEED project administrator, job captain: 9/06 – today

• Code analysis, commercial interiors, educational (Title 22), LEED CI, legalizations (accessibility, exiting, change of use), multifamily residential (common area interiors), OSHPD plan check, Secretary of the Interior's rehabilitation, tenant improvement, Warm Shell.
• SD, DD, permitting, CD, public bidding and CA.

Wildlife Conservation Society, La Paz, Bolivia
Pro bono designer of Jaguar Madidi Hotel, Bolivia: 12/05–9/06

• Hospitality (remote destination hotel).
• SD, DD, cost-estimating, public hearing, CD.

DEVCO, Berkeley, CA.
Building and planning permitting consultant, drafting: 5/05 – 2/08

• As-builts, single family residential (infill, addition, remodel), tenant improvement.
• DD, permitting, CD.

Mercedes Corbell Design + Architecture, Oakland, CA.
Designer, job captain: 7/05–9/05

• As-builts, single family residential (addition, remodel).
• SD, DD.

Woolman Architecture, Albany, CA.
Designer, job captain: 10/02-6/05

• Accessibility Improvements, As-builts, Commercial, Mixed-use, Single Family Residential (New, Addition, Lift, Remodel)
• SD, DD, Permitting, CD

Mia Lehrer + Associates, Los Angeles, CA
Designer, CAD TROU 9/01-1/02

• Landscapes (institutional, recreational, residential), infrastructure, streetscapes.
• SD, DD, CD.

Marmol, Radziner + Associates, Santa Monica, CA
Designer, office photographer: 7/00-8/01

• As-builts, design guidelines, high-end residential, landscapes, studio photography & portfolio production, photo-scouting, marketing.
• SD, DD, CD.
  

UC Berkeley Botanic Garden, Berkeley, CA. 
Horticultural Assistant: 1996-1999

Internships & Volunteering:

UC Botanical Garden, Berkeley, CA
Research, outreach: 12/09 -

• Proposing plan and developing guidelines for the expansion of the South American section.

SAHB (Bolivian Human Settlements Service), La Paz, Bolivia
Research, outreach: 12/05–9/2006 

• Proposed projects to improve the seismic performance of owner-constructed adobe-vaulted structures built with local materials.
  

Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Garden planning: 12/05–9/2006 

• Researched garden development strategy to amplify mature areas while describing the major vegetation types of Thailand.

Blinder & Janches, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Internship: 2/02 

• Participated in architects’ design charettes.
  

Schucard Assocaiates, San Diego, CA
Internship,: summers 1996-1998

• Assisted architect/expert witness document building defects in residential tract development.

Academic Experience:

• 94-1999 B.A. in Architecture, University of California, Berkeley
• 96-1997 European & Venetian Arch. History at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia

Skills:

• Project management.
• Architectural documentation.
• CAD instruction.
• Hand drawing.
• AutoCAD 2006, VectorWorks v11, Revit, SketchUp, Kerkythea, Photoshop, Illustrator,  InDesign Word, Excel, Database, Web HTML.
• Studio and field 35mm, medium format, perspective control, and digital photography experience, including B&W darkroom experience.
• High-level Spanish, Italian and German proficiency.
• Plant identification and botany.

References furnished upon request.