Alan D\'Souza resume overview

1. • work experience
• technical qualifications
overview
• projects
• representative projects
• list of representative healthcare projects
• sustainable design
• LEEDTM
• performance design
• education
• other relevant experience
• volunteer work
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2. experience
BWBR Architects Project Architect/ Project Manager
Saint Paul, MN, 2004-08 Education and Worship
Health-care
Sustainability
KKE Architects, Inc. Project Architect/ Project Coordinator
Minneapolis, MN, 2001-2003 Commercial-Retail
Education
Miller-Dunwiddie-Assoc. Project Architect
work
Minneapolis, MN, 1994-2001 Industrial
Commercial
Restoration
Multi-fly. housing
H. G. Malkani, Architects Architect , Code review
Bombay, India, 1990-1991 Hospitality
Schematic design
Multi-fly. housing, planning and development
Chandrashekhar & Bhagat Architect
Bombay, India, 1989-1990 Commercial
Schematic design, Construction documents
Multi-fly. housing
The Planning Group Intern Architect
Bombay, India, 1989 Single and Multi-fly. housing
Industrial
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3. qualifications
summary of technical skills
•over 15 years of professional work experience
technical
• experienced in delivering complete, accurate
and coordinated construction documents
• over 4 years in BWBR Architects, a firm that
specializes in Healthcare design
• professionally registered in MN
• trained in Revit
• over 15 years AutoCAD proficiency
• advanced Xcel skills
• basic Wordprocessing skills
• advanced Powerpoint skills
• basic knowledge of 3D computer modeling and
graphic design
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4. projects/ bwbr
Project cost: $2 million in two phases.
center, monticello, mn
Lower level of a MOB under separate contract.
monticello cancer
Responsibilities: Project Architect
Contractor: RJM Construction
Developers: Frauenshuh
Permit drawings: Early issue
Phase I: Radiation Oncology Vault
Phase II: Interior Build-out
Medical Oncology/ Chemotherapy
Radiation Oncology/ Radiation
therapy
Opened on time (Sep ’08) and within budget.
Very favorable owner reviews.
Mech Enggr: Dunham Engineering
Electrical Enggr: Dunham Engineering
Structural Enggr: Meyer, Borgman & Johnson
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projects/ bwbr
monticello cancer
center, monticello, mn

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projects/ bwbr
memorial blood center,
woodbury, mn

7. projects/ bwbr
Project cost: $6 million construction
center, rosemount, mn
st. joseph’s education
Responsibilities: PA/PM
Project scope: 46,000SF, 2 levels in two phases.
K-8 10 classrooms, Social hall
Geo-Exchange system, Fabcon
panel exterior wall system
Phase I: Site, structure (building envelope),
October 2008
Phase II: Building Interior buildout, interior
finishes
Projected completion/ occupancy: Aug/Sep 2009
Contractor: Greystone Construction
Mech Enggr: Mechanical systems design ,
Harris/ Trak
Electrical Enggr: Wunderlich- Malec
Structural Enggr: Meyer, Borgman & Johnson
Civil Enggr: Kimley-Horn
Food Service: Robert Rippe
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8. projects/ bwbr
church, saint paul, mn
lumen christi catholic
In the Fall of 1997, Highland The Church was reopened on
Catholic School began a Holy Saturday March 26, 2005
capital campaign that was under the parish‟s new name
successful in raising over “Lumen Christi.” The new parish
$1.6 million. The funds were center for Lumen Christi was
used to renovate the school formally opened on February 11,
building, making it safer, 2006. It was dedicated by
more accessible, Archbishop Harry J. Flynn on April
and better adapted to new 23, 2006. All parish activities now
directions in education. The take place at the Lumen Christi
school also added a third site.
kindergarten class that year,
reflecting the increasing
demand for quality
Catholic education.
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projects/ kke
shoppes of arbor lakes,
maple grove, mn

10. representative
• Monticello Cancer Center
Monticello, MN
• BWBR Architects
• Regina Medical Center
Endoscopy/ Emergency Department/
projects/
Medical Surgery Addition & Remodel
Hastings, MN
• BWBR Architects
healthcare
• Memorial Blood Center
Woodbury, MN
• BWBR Architects
• Gillette Children’s Central Fabrication
New Brighton, MN
• BWBR Architects
• Regions Hospital ED Triage
Saint Paul, MN
• BWBR Architects
• Regions Hospital Morgue Remodel
Saint Paul, MN
• BWBR Architects
• Fairview University Medical Clinic Pharmacy
Minneapolis, MN
• Miller-Dunwiddie Architects
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11. sustainable
•Project Administrator for two projects
attempting LEED-EB, OM certification
•successfully marketed clients interested in LEED
certification
design
•organized and ran the Green Design Forum: an
in-house education and knowledge- dissemination
forum that invited speakers from within the office
and experts from outside to focus on sustainable
efforts.
•member of Performance Design Group
•designed and executed the Performance
Design checklist to be used on every project
•USGBC national and regional liaison for BWBR
•LEED- EB and LEED-EBOM resource within office
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12. LEED Project Administrator
•Allan L. Schuman Corporate Campus, Eagan
•LEED services marketed successfully
•220,000SF
•70,000 Lab, rest Office
•LEED-EB
•submitted for 57 Points (Gold)
LEEDTM
•November 2008
•Lawson Commons, Saint Paul
•LEED services marketed successfully
•200,000 SF
•Office
•LEED-EBOM
•Saint Mary’s Regional Health Center, Detroit Lakes
•Marketed
•LEED-CI
LEED-EB Technical Review workshop
USGBC, Saint Paul, 2007
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13. education
Master of Architecture
June 2000 University of Minnesota, MN
Thesis: A search for a relevant and evocative
architecture for urban India.
Bachelor of Architecture
June 1989 University of Bombay, India
Thesis: A cultural center for Ambernath, a
satellite town of Bombay.
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14. • Idea Box
• conceived
experience
• digital interactive feedback to further the aim
of Continuous Improvement
• chaired the Idea Box Committee for 2 yrs
relevant
• Visiting critic for undergraduate design juries
University of MN, College of Design
other
• Guest Lecturer
„Resource efficiency‟, University of Minnesota,
March 2009
• Teaching Assistant
computer workshops, drawing and pre-thesis
programming classes
University of MN, College of Design
• Research Assistant
Mary Guzowski, Director,
Daylighting Center, University of MN
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15. • Center for Victims of Torture
• direct client contact
• speaker‟s bureau
volunteer
• keynote speaker (scheduled) for the Cultural
Diversity Committee, Mankato State
University
• story-gathering group
• moderator of speaker panels
work
• African Food Distribution
• collection, packing of food, registration of and
distribution to clients
• Brooklyn Center, MN
• Independent Futures Project
• programming, space-planning
• Habitat for Humanity
• two projects in Minneapolis
• KKE-Bannecker School Partnership
• work directly with 6th grade inner-city students
• Search for Shelter design charette
• “Science house”: Child care facility,
St. Paul, MN
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