2016 04 jennifer chuang resume portfolio
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ARCHITECTURAL & PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE
Lend Lease (US) Construction, Inc. PM&C San Francisco
One Mission Bay, Condominium. CIM/Strada Jul.2015 – current
Exterior D&B trade packages, Buy-out & Constructability review with Ownership
Lend Lease Project Management & Construction Singapore
Gems World Academy, International School Campus. SGD138mil. 35,065sqm Nov.2013 – Jul.2015
SG Building & Construction Authority (BCA) Greenmark Gold
BCA & Fire Safety & Shelter Dept Authorities Close-out
LL Package Manager for Façade/Glazing & Sundry Metals
ONG&ONG Senior Design Architect Singapore
OCBC Banking Façade, Renovation & BCA Greenmark Jun.2009 – Nov.2013
SG Housing Development Board: Commercial, Retail, Façade Upgrades
& DBSS New 1,000 Unit Residential Units
National University of Singapore: Class 100 & 1,000 Cleanroom Labs & Offices
Interior Alterations (NY) Construction Management New York City
Site Foreman & Project Manager on High-end Residential renovations Jul. 2007 – Mar.2008
Labor, Materials, Budget, Sub-contractor & Scheduling Logistics
Baxt Ingui Architects (NY) Associate Architect New York City
High-end Residential, Consultant & Client coordination May.2004 – Jun.2007
NYC Dept. of Buildings & Landmarks Preservation Com. Submissions
Schematic Design to Construction Admin. Neighborhood & Stakeholder Presentations
Thomas Dolan Architecture (CA) Architectural Assistant Emeryville, CA
Live-work Residential & Mixed-use housing Jul.2001 – Aug.2002
Developer, Non-Profit & City of Oakland funded
3D renderings & presentations for neighborhood hearings.
CONTACT
1095 OAK ST APT.5 OAKLAND CA 94607
415 652 5952
Resourceful Architect and Project Manager with over twelve years of experience across diverse project types, in North
America and Asia’s diverse work cultures.
Adept at generating consensus and Project momentum with Clients, Stakeholders, Operations, Engineering and Builder
partners to successfully coordinate a project from schematic design through commissioning.
Experienced at identifying Client priorities and efficiently addressing concerns to establish trust and progress towards
milestones.
A disciplined designer who is driven to refine and distill an idea through technical detailing into implementation.
Strong planning and organizational skills and significant experience with complex compliance requirements and Building
Permitting & Approvals.
References on Request
JENNIFER H. CHUANG
CREDENTIALS
California Registered Architect
LEED Accredited Professional
BA. Arch, High Honors, UC Berkeley
with Dance Minor
UCB Regents & Chancellor Scholar
Dean’s List, Fall 1999-Spring 2001
Alumni Scholar, 1997 for leadership abilities
SKILLS
AutoCAD, Photoshop CS4, Revit 2011, Rhino,
Microsoft Office Suite
LANGUAGES
English, native
Mandarin, intermediate (speaking) basic (writing, reading)
With the bank’s management in transition and the formation of a new
Customer Experience team, there was a manic excitement for the “red
lantern” to be harnessed into a cohesive design. Using the bank’s
monthly board meetings, I was able push an initially modest scope and
attain the buy-in for a bold new direction,
encompassing a new façade design, LED night lightings, and Building
& Construction Authority Greenmark Gold Certification with renewable
energy through Photo-voltaic panels.
OCBC Thomson – Façade Redesign. Night Lighting. Greenmark Gold
client OCBC Property Services Pte Ltd
structural Yr2000 Engineering Consultants
mechanical & electrical iEngineering
interior designer ONG&ONG studio 11
quantity surveyor CCL Chartered Surveyors
project cost SGD $4.0 mil
completion November 2012
cubes magazine
April/May 2013
role Architectural Project Manager & Designer, Authorities Compliance & Permitting ONG&ONG studio 9
Detailing and mock ups of LED cove
light for distance, spread, lumens and
diode spacing.
existing structure
façade studies
roof modeling
With the bank CX team’s engagement to the word “loft”, I wanted to take my appreciation
of this term as a re-use volume with early-industrial usage of clerestories for light. By
removing portions of the existing roof slab, the fissures in the exterior monolithic forms
allowed filtered tropical light to penetrate into cool internal caverns.
OCBC Thomson – Façade Redesign. Night Lighting. Greenmark Gold
The OCBC 6th Avenue site hosted graffiti artist Tr853-1’s
installation, as a part of OCBC’s FRANK branding to
appeal to youth and new-to-workforce segment.
The lifecycle of the built environment is stunted in Singapore’s change-hungry culture. In
the interest of sustainability, there is a calling to re-use the invested carbon footprint of
SG’s mostly Type II RC structures, and exercise versatility in re-sculpting them, or giving
them a new skin for the evolving market user.
Waterloo Centre – Façade Redesign. Night Lighting.
role Architectural Project Manager & Designer, Authorities Compliance & Permitting ONG&ONG studio 9
Waterloo Centre is a 1975 mixed-use development in the city’s urban Arts
District. I was excited for this HDB’s façade and renovation commission as
there was an alignment in our views for the building to engage the urban
streetscape in the Bras Basah Bugis Planning Area.
We kept close dialog with a concurrent URA (Urban Redevelopment
Agency) sidewalk project, so that our designs were congruent and
emphasized connectivity from the WLC plaza to a widened pedestrian
mall.
client Housing Development Board
structural SCE Consultants
mechanical & electrical Rankine & Hill
façade lighting ONG&ONG, lighting dept
quantity surveyor WT Partnership
project cost SGD $2.3 mil
completion January 2013
The WLC Plaza proposal exemplified URA’s call for dynamic street edge massing,
pedestrian permeability through buildings, pathways that draw people to plazas,
and connect to public thoroughfares.
The previously inward looking smokers’ corner was opened out and transformed into a
plaza-stage for events and congregation. The new façade emphasized visual
connections from all four retail stories of WLC towards Queens Street, where parades
and installations would take place.
Waterloo Centre – Façade Redesign. Night Lighting.
WLC Plaza was commissioned for the 2013 Biennale
and hosted Guo YiXiu's installation. It has since hosted
other Installations by URA and the National Arts
Council.
Collaborating with the Lighting Design studio of O&O, LEDs were incorporated to highlight the perforated aluminum ribbon that wraps the 3-tower estate.
A translucent LED screen acts as a Community Bulletin Board, broadcasting events to the Plaza, while pixilated light bands echo the content around façade bands.
I have an intuitive handle on logistics and wanted to get
more experience in Project Execution. My end motivation
is to use this larger skill set as an Architectural PM to
actualize strong design through a working understanding
of value engineering exercises and builder alternative
proposals.
In a PM role, I learned various QA/QC procedures, such
as a rigorous document control system, and
uncompromising site health and safety standards and
permit procedures for operations risk management.
The scale and complexity of the GWA Campus made
effective team coordination & procedures critical to a
successful delivery. Besides the Client / Design sign-off
management, and the Authorities & Compliance issues I
was familiar with, I also saw how Procurement Strategy
with Subs and Contract framing with Clients (incentives,
guaranteed maximum price, provisional sums) affected
project design decisions, time planning and budgets.
project /client Gems World Academy Singapore (35,065sqm GFA)
architectural CPG Corporation Pte. Ltd.
interior designphase dba pte ltd
structural RSP Architects Planners & Engineers (Pte) Ltd
mechanical & electrical Bescon Consulting Engineers Pte
quantity surveyor Rider Levett Bucknall
project cost SGD $138mil. Including Consultant & Development Fees
completion December 2014
Gems World Academy (Singapore) – International School Campus
role Contractor Project Management, Client Redesign & Commitment, Authorities Compliance & Permitting, Delivery Logistics Lend Lease Singapore
• Fina Standard Olympic pool & learners pool (NEA Permit)
• 500 seater 3D planetarium Auditorium
• Climbing wall in Indoor Sports Hall
• Canteen Kitchen (NEA Permit)
• Rain water harvesting irrigation system (NEA/CBPU Permit)
• Synthetic turf & siphonic rainwater drains at Sports Field
• New Yishun Street 42 (LTA)
• Greenmark Gold
• Phased completion and Authorities Permitting
(BCA/MOM/FSSD)
client National University of Singapore, Office of Estate Development
structural E2000 Pte Ltd
mechanical & electrical Rankine & Hill Consulting Engineers
clean room specialist Acromec Engineers Pte Ltd
quantity surveyor Quants Associates
project cost SGD $21.1 milcompletion 2012
S14 Micro, Nano-Fabrication & E-beam Lithography Cleanrooms – Class 100 & 1000
role Architectural Designer. Consultant Coordination, Authorities Compliance & Permitting ONG&ONG studio 9
Working as a team with faculty, research partners, campus estate management, structural/mechanical & lab specialists engineers,
we reviewed User, Process and Equipment requirements. The result was a Chase & Bay layout in both the Class 100 and
1000 labs of the Graphene Research Centre. The lab is headed by Prof. Antonio H. Castro Neto, and established under the
scientific advice of Nobel laureates Prof Andre Geim and Prof Konstantin Novoselov.
• Hazardous gas and chemical usage analysis,
processes & service providers
• Toxic gas monitoring and life safety systems
• Code compliance evaluations, consultations and
attaining approvals
• HVAC, mechanical and exhaust systems
• Fume cupboards & Scrubbed exhaust design
• Flammable gas storage
• Flexible modular lab stations, served by
infrastructure columns and droppers
• Static charge and chemical resistant finishes
project Brooklyn Heights NY
completion 2005
West 54th Street, Manhattan NY
client MPL Music Publishing, Inc.
completion 2005
In sites within the Historic Districts of Brooklyn and
Manhattan, we worked closely with NYC Landmarks
Preservation Committee presenting proposals at public
hearings to neighborhood interest groups and stake holders.
Projects typically consisted of Additions to Type3 masonry
buildings, restoring historical façades and retaining the
material integrity of the building.
There was a high level of detailing and working with local
craftsmen and custom millwork. The personal nature of
residential work entailed a high level of client management,
Dunne Residence Extension MPL Residential Extension
role Architect, Schematic Design through to Contract Administration Baxt Ingui Architects
Draycott-Hamilton Residence – Addition & Alteration. NYC LPC Restoration.
role Associate Architect, Schematic Design through to Contract Administration
project State Street, Brooklyn NY
completion 2004
This project was organized as a
conservation-house container, with
contemporary or foreign objects placed
within. For homes in LPC Historic
districts, this delineation works well to
allow flexibility in aesthetics.
DuPerot Residence – Alteration. Interior finishes.
role Site Foreman with Construction Management Interior Alterations
project Upper East Side, Manhattan NY
architect Barbra Hillier
completion 2008
In the second phase of this Alteration project, we extended the
existing horizontal veneer reveals through to the living areas of the
upper east side apartment. Continuity in these datum levels was
achieved with engineered slab surface topping and careful millwork
detailing and execution.
I took this role in construction when
I was inspired to learn from the
knowledgeable craftsmen I had
been working with. An
appreciation for workmanship
and process is the basis of
architectural detailing and
design.
Underhill Field – Earthwork
role Landscape 101 Studio with Linda Jewell UC Berkeley CED
Brief
• Simple elegant form
• Hardy vegetation – grasses
• Easily readable
• Specify & locate water drainage from site,
slot drains
• At least 20% flat land for use and play
• Maximum height of 15ft above college.
• Readable by cars, surrounding dorms,
passersby
• Mostly easily accessible from public
sidewalks
• No more than 50% slope
• Limit to 1600sqft retaining wall
• Drop of over 30ft requires 42” railings
RCQS’s previous logo references Singapore’s Housing Development
Board’s response to the 961 fire of Bukit Ho Swee, that razed 100 acres
and displaced 16,000 people.
Impressive fund raising and mobilization efforts enabled HDB to
relocate 6,000 of displaced people to 1,150 new flats in Queenstown
area within 4 months of the fire. By 1967 there were more than 12,000
new flats in the area, creating the urban built environment of Singapore.
- Government land acquisition rights were enabled
- Relocation efforts for the first large-scale public building development
- Started a nationwide programme for public housing and kampong
clearance.
tiong bahru, silkscreen design
The conservation neighborhood of Tiong Bahru was established in the 30s, and evokes
nostalgia in many Singaporeans. The estate was a development of the British colonial authority
and is associated with a transitional period of progress, when people moved from Kampongs
(villages) into the urban and uniquely Singaporean take on Public Housing.
I lived in this neighborhood in 2009 while it was going through rapid gentrification. One of the
idiosyncrasies was the neighborhood chickens that had survived the 2004 SARs culling, and
continued on as a living artifact of this older neighborhood. The Tiong Bahru Rooster has
become a cultural icon, in one of the most successful Place-Making exercises in Public Housing.
cow car water, silkscreen design
牛车水 is what Singapore calls it’s Chinatown. It is a
literal translation of the original Malay name of “Kreta
Ayer”, referring to peddlars who sold potable water
from ox-carts in the neighborhood up till the 1940s,
before public water infrastructure was laid.
This literal method of translation is common to the
diverse cultures in Malaysia and Singapore, lending
to a colourful linguistic richness and confusion.
Graphic Design – Silkscreen
role Graphic Design Singapore
Rotary Club of Queenstown – Logo
The new RCQS
logo updates the
theme of Nation
Building by
depicting a HDB
Project The
Pinnacle, an in-fill
development
completed in 2009.
Other Works
1 peace centre, sg
2 keong saik road, sg
3 scharoun philharmonic hall
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