alfredo

e-mail address:
résumé alfmedina@hotmail.com

Address:
9443 Fontainebleau Blvd,
apt 214, Miami, FL,
Cell phone number:
973 452 2149
33172
medina
summary
Architect, graduated in 1992. Experience in the US: 5 years in educational architecture (K-12
grades) for school districts of New Jersey. 1 year of experience in high rise residential projects in
Florida. Experience abroad: 4 years in design and construction in Colombia. CAD trainer and
programmer.
Expert-level knowledge of AutoCAD, Autodesk Architectural Desktop and Revit Architecture
(BIM).

work experience
August 2005 to April 2009
Planta1 Arquitectura, Cali, Colombia, South America. www.planta1.com
As Designer | Builder | Instructor
Designed and built the Edificio Altamar, own development, a 5 story office building.
Instructor of Revit Architecture, and AutoCAD Architecture 2008 at Universidad del
Valle, the main local state university.

June 2004 to July 2005

Robert M. Swedroe Architects and Planners, Miami Beach, FL. www.swedroe.com
As Production Architect | CAD Consultant
Construction Documents for various high rise apartment buildings in Florida.
Development and implementation of CAD Standards for this 30+ people
architectural firm.
Custom tools in Visual Basic and AutoLisp. Setup the office’s transition to AutoCAD
2006

May 1999 to May 2004:

The Prisco Group, PC | Hopewell, NJ,
(formerly Prisco & Edwards, AIA | Lawrenceville, NJ) www.thepriscogroup.com
Diverse positions in 5 years: Production | CAD
administrator | Job Captain | Designer
 Ridge Street Elem. & Middle School; Newark, NJ | Area 80,000 sf.(New) + 40,000 (Renov)
 Milltown Road Elementary School; East Windsor, NJ. | New | Area 68,000 sf. | Cost: $10.3million
 Ethel McKnight Elementary School; Bridgewater, NJ. | New | Area 77,277 sf | Cost $ 12 million
 Taught approx. 30 employees on Architectural Desktop ver. 3.3 (a 24 hr. course).
 Howell Middle School; Howell, NJ. | New | Area 150,000 sf | Cost $ 17 million
 South Plainfield Sch. District; New Elem. Sch. + additions ; Area 304,000 sf. | New | Cost: $ 19
million
 William H. Ross Elementary School; Margate City, NJ ; Area 72,000 sf. | New | Cost: $ 10.7
million
 Using AutoLisp, wrote several custom routines which expedited CAD production.
 Wrote the office’s CAD Manual for a 40+ person firm with Arch. & MEP departments.
 Led a successful transition from line-based AutoCAD to object-oriented Autodesk Architectural
Desktop.

education
Elementary to High School : | Colegio Fray Damián , Gimnasio Los Farallones | Cali, Colombia
Completed 1984: | English | (16-month degree) | Instituto Colombo-Americano | Cali, Colombia
Completed 1992: | Architecture | (5-year degree) | Univ. de San Buenaventura | Cali, Colombia
Completed 2000: | Autodesk Architectural Desktop | 24-hr certificate | Westbury, NJ
Completed 2000: | AutoLisp (Programming language for AutoCAD) | 24-hr certificate | Westbury, NJ
Attended in Dec. 2002 : 10th Autodesk University Conference | 1 week | Las Vegas, NV
Completed 2002: | Presentation Skills | 4-month cert. | Mercer County Community College (M.C.C.C.), NJ
Completed 2002: | Training | 4-month certificate | Mercer County Community College (M.C.C.C.), NJ
Completed 2003: | Italian | 6 month-certificate | Berlitz Inst. | + 2.5 years w. priv. instr. | Monroe, NJ
Completed May 2004: | Web Development | 4-month certificate | M.C.C.C. , NJ
Completed 2008 : | Scheduling tasks with Microsoft Project | 24 hours | Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia

software skills
CAD Programs Graphics
AutoCAD & Architectural Desktop , Revit Corel Draw, Photoshop
Architecture, Sketch-up
Microsoft / Office Programs
Rendering
Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook, Access, Project
Accurender, 3DStudio
Web Design
CAD Programming
Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Html, PHP
Custom menus, AutoLisp, VBA

registration affiliations
Not a registered architect yet. Moderator of Autodesk Newsgroups on the internet
In the process of taking architectural registration during 3 years, 1999 to 2002, providing technical
exams. support in the following newsgroups: drafting,
AutoCAD 2002, CAD Manager, and Architectural
Desktop 3.3

further info
 References available upon request.
 US Resident.
 Languages spoken: English, Spanish, and some Italian.