ALFRED J. SOCIAS, CSI, CDT 91-1200 Keaunui Drive #400 Ewa Beach, HI 96706 Home: [808] 888-0633 Mobile: [925] 451-1761 E-mail: alsocias@sbcglobal.net

OBJECTIVE Employment as a job captain / project architect on commercial building

or educational building project types. EDUCATION Revit Training Videos (Scott Onstott) – June 2008

Revit Fundamentals Class – April 2008 Design + Technology of Roofing Systems Class - May 2003 Better Understanding of Roof Systems Institute Principal & Practices of Specifying Class - March 2003

East Bay/Oakland CSI Chapter 2001 CBC Non-Structural Update Class - June 2002 International Conference of Building Officials

Building Codes Semester Long Class [1998 UBC] - December 2000 San Francisco City College

Bachelor of Architecture - December 1991 California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California Graphic Arts Certificate - December 1988 Mount San Antonio College, Walnut, California Contra Costa College, San Pablo, California CERTIFICATION Construction Documents Technologist Certificate 2000 LICENSURE Construction Specifications Institute 2 NCARB tests away from Architectural Licensure MANAGEMENT Captained a variety of architectural projects such as school laboratory

buildings, school modernizations, grocery store additions / remodels, retail shell buildings, mid-rise offices, tenant improvements, warehouses, single and multi-family housing developments, custom estate residences, residential room addition/remodels, and churches. All included consultant coordination, project file management, specification coordination, and some construction administration.

TECHNICAL Drafted architectural design development packages, construction

documents, addenda, and clarifications on CAD. Prepared detailed building code analysis for various project types including assigning building occupancy classification and construction types. Determined occupancy, and or area separation requirements, exterior wall protection, allowable area and occupant loads. Prepared allowable area calculations, and exit width calculations. Researched and incorporated architectural products into projects. Solved architectural, fireproofing and waterproofing details. Coordinated architectural drawings with consultant drawings. Edited specification sections including door hardware groups. Assisted with construction administration including shop drawing and submittal processing, and clarification generation. Field verified existing fire & life safety exiting schemes. Field verified existing accessible or non-accessible conditions.

DESIGN Designed exiting schemes from hallways to corridors to enclosed stair

towers. Designed accessible and non-accessible site parking, drive aisles, site and building paths of travel. Designed ramps, stairs, toilet

rooms, areas of rescue assistance, wheelchair lifts and elevators for school modernization projects. Design developed various project types in preparation for construction documents.

QUALITY Helped devised custom CAD production systems for various architectural ASSURANCE project types. QA systems included an orthographic projection technique

using rotated user coordinate systems within view ports to facilitate the rapid creation of complex elevations. Helped to create a CSI based detail library, detail component blocks, a detail sheet preparation technique based on xreffing pre-bordered & pre-titled details, and working drawing (.dwt) sheet templates which incorporated pre-loaded symbols, details and architectural notation pertinent to each sheet.

COMPUTER Windows XP: Revit 8.1, AutoCAD 2010, Microstation CAD V8, Microsoft

Outlook, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Adobe Acrobat, and WinZip. Windows Mobile: Pocket Word, Pocket Excel, Adobe Reader, Pocket CAD

COMMUNICATION Direct communication with project consultants - civil, structural,

mechanical, electrical, plumbing, landscape, fire alarm, telecommunication, and title 24 energy.

PROJECTS AOL, Palo Alto, CA - Construction Documents & Construction

Administration Interior tenant improvement & office remodel of existing type II building

including entry lobby & custom furniture and graphics. Box.net, Palo Alto, CA - Construction Documents Interior tenant improvement & office remodel Hangar 42 Studios, Walker, MI Interior remodel of office & support spaces for future movie studio.

University of California, Berkeley, School of Law Building, Boalt Hall, Berkeley, CA - Construction Documents

Interior tenant improvement of existing law school building. Program included distance learning room, classrooms, offices & journal rooms.

Albertsons Grocery Store, Lake Forest, CA – Construction Documents & Specifications

Existing 43,000 s.f. grocery store remodel / addition. Entry piece addition, new interior décor package, and new refrigeration.

Traditions Building, Walnut Creek, CA - Construction Documents Interior tenant improvement and minor exterior building improvements. Phased project included obtaining demolition permit, site development permit, tenant improvement permit, exterior building improvements permit, and fire district approval. Hillcrest Village, Antioch, CA – Site Plan Design Development 16 building office / retail / restaurant on a 1,004,000 s.f. site. Calculated parking basis including HCP. Determined fire truck access and accessible paths of travel. Enea Plaza, Dublin, CA - Site Plan Design Development 3 retail buildings on a 166,800 s.f. site. Calculated parking basis

including HCP. Determined fire truck access and accessible paths of travel. Buchanan Crossings, Antioch, CA - Site Plan Design Development 9 building office / retail / restaurant on a 590,000 s.f. site. Calculated parking basis including HCP. Determined fire truck access and accessible paths of travel. Canyon Oaks Plaza, Chico, CA - Site Plan Design Development 6 building office / retail / restaurant on a 245,600 s.f. site. Calculated parking basis including HCP. Determined fire truck access and accessible paths of travel.

Kiernan Plaza, Salida, CA - Construction Documents New 12,000 s.f. retail shell building that was subdivided into 8 tenant spaces. Built on a 52,000 s.f. lot.

Bristol Farms Grocery Store, Santa Barbara, CA - Construction Documents & Specifications Existing 34,700 s.f. grocery store remodel. Included minor exterior building architectural elements, new interior décor, and new refrigeration.

557 Merrimac, Oakland, CA - Construction Documents Mixed use multi-family residential / retail building with 3 stories of apartments, 1 story of retail / parking garage and basement parking. 30 total dwelling units, elevator, storefront, basically 3 stories of wood frame construction on a concrete podium. Calculated as 3 separate buildings for allowable area purposes. Contra Costa Gospel Church, Walnut Creek, CA – Construction Documents New 3096 s.f. multi-purpose building on an existing church site.

Leonard Flynn Elementary School Modernization, San Francisco, CA - Construction Documents

One building which includes a day care center, multi-purpose room, library, and classrooms whose scope of work included accessibility and fire-life safety upgrades to current code, separate exit routes for kindergarten and elementary students, exterior door replacement, interior finishes and casework, toilet room remodels, and electrical, plumbing systems upgrades.

Tileshop Warehouse, Berkeley, CA - Construction Documents New 23,000 s.f. two story warehouse with ancillary office space features metal cladding over steel and metal stud structure. Thurgood Marshall High School Modernization, San Franciso, CA - Construction Documents One 150,000 s.f. building which included an auditorium, gymnasium, cafeteria, library, classrooms, and laboratories whose scope of work included accessibility and fire-life safety upgrades to current code, gymnasium addition, roofing and waterproofing, interior finishes and casework, toilet room remodels, and electrical, plumbing, and data-communication systems upgrades. Salvio Street Parking Structure, Concord, CA - Construction Documents

Addtition-remodel of existing 6 story post tension structure parking garage. Work included new offices, accessible parking re-stripping, new accessible toilets, and upgrade mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems. Zio Fraedo's Banquet Hall, Pleasant Hill, CA - Construction Documents New Mediterranean influenced 8700 s.f. banquet facility with restaurant, commercial kitchen, and offices. King of Thai Noodle House, San Francisco, CA - Construction Documents Tenant improvement of two story restaurant with commercial kitchen, and offices. Palo Alto High School Science Building, Palo Alto, CA - Construction Documents & Specifications

New 28,000 s.f. 1 story science building on an existing campus. Building program included 10 labs, prep space, and a teachers' office

suite.

California State University Hayward Library Fire Repair, Hayward CA - Construction Documents Interior remodel of fire damaged library. Included offices, instructional media center and a high tech distance learning classroom. Seismic upgrade included floor to ceiling high steel K bracing. AC Transit Headquarters, Oakland, CA - Construction Documents

7 floor tenant improvement of an existing 10 floor mid-rise office building. Includes custom ticket window casework with butt glazing, computer casework and new manufacturer workstations.

AT Systems Armored Transport Facility, Oakland, CA - Construction Documents

Existing 12,000 s.f. repair garage converted to a mixed use repair garage-coin counting facility.

Jackson Center One, Oakland, CA - Construction Documents

Tenant improvement and seismic upgrade of the existing mid-rise defunct State Office Building. 10 floor scope includes new gunite exterior, exterior granite cladding, exterior metal canopies, new built-up roofing, and storefront.

Foley & Lardner Law Offices, San Francisco, CA - Construction Documents

Two floors of high rise, high end, high tech design interior tenant improvement. Includes custom detailed desks, cabinetry, partitions, soffits, glass railed stairways, and doors. Approximately 33,000 s.f.

Villa Cortona, San Jose, CA - Construction Documents

New 72 unit French Provincial multi-family housing project consisting of 2 duplex town home building types and 2 condominium building types of approximately 4800 to 10,300 s.f., all units are multi-level which exempted accessible requirements, and all are located on a complex sloping site.

Palo Alto High School Modernization, Palo Alto, CA - Construction

Documents 19 existing buildings whose scope of work included accessibility and fire-

life safety upgrades to current code, exterior door replacement, roofing and waterproofing, interior finishes and casework, toilet room remodels, and electrical, plumbing, and data-communication systems upgrades.

Vallejo School Modernization, Vallejo, CA - Construction Documents

8 elementary school modernization projects whose scope of work included accessibility and fire-life safety upgrades to current code, exterior door and window replacement, interior finishes and casework, toilet room remodels, and electrical, plumbing, and data-communication systems upgrades.

Marr Residence, Atherton, CA - Construction Documents A new 11,000 s.f. French Normandy style custom estate home included

a sunroom greenhouse, swimming pool, pool pavilion, three car garage, carriage house, guest house, tennis courts, a hidden garden and 'smart home' electronics. Del Grande Residence, Los Gatos, CA - Construction Documents

A new 7,600 s.f. hillside custom estate home reflects the architecture of Carmel. It features decks and terraces that take full advantage of a panoramic valley view below, swimming pool and croquet lawn.

Nepenthe, Sedona, AZ - Construction Documents A new 182 unit complex of multi-family town houses comprised of four,

five, and seven unit buildings. Geometric shapes and colors relate to the Sedona's surrounding red sandstone Bell Mountain which is adjacent to the site.

Highlands at Clearbrook, Hayward, CA - Construction Documents 2 designs of new single family production housing about 2600 s.f. to

3200 s.f. each. Both designs were for lots with a 2:1 downward slope and incorporated view decks from both the first and second floors.

AWARDS San Jose Veterans Memorial Design Competition, 1993, COMPETITIONS participant. San Francisco Waterfront Competition, 1992, Honorable

mention/gallery exhibitor. Tijuana Cultural Center Demountable Roof Structure Competition, 1991. Douglas Conelly Memorial Scholarship in Architecture, Contra Costa College, San Pablo, California, 1987. Solano County fair ribbons in architectural and mechanical drafting, 1984.

EMPLOYMENT PROJECT ARCHITECT Studio O+A, San Francisco, CA 9/09 to present

PROJECT ARCHITECT (Contract Work) ID Architecture, Pleasanton, CA 2/09 to 8/09

PROJECT ARCHITECT The Ratcliff Architects, Emeryville, CA 2/08 to 12/08

JOB CAPTAIN Craig+Grant Architects, Danville, CA 11/05 to 1/08

JOB CAPTAIN VBN Architects, Oakland, CA 4/98 to 11/05

JOB CAPTAIN Loving & Campos Architects, Inc., Walnut Creek, CA 3/95 to 4/98 JUNIOR ARCHITECT Kattenburg & Associates, Benicia, CA 6/92 to11/94

ARCHITECTURAL DRAFTSMAN Architectural Design, San Dimas, CA 6/88 to 5/90 ENGINEERING AIDE Vallejo Sanitation & Flood Control District, Vallejo, CA 4/83 to 8/87 ORGANIZATIONS Construction Specifications Institute - Professional Member - SF Chapter

- 2000 to 2003 International Conference of Building Officials/International Code Council - Professional Member, 1998 to 2004

Filipino American Society of Architects and Engineers - National Board of Directors, 1998 to 2001

PORTFOLIO Available upon request REFERENCES Primo Orpilla, Owner, Studio O+A, San Francisco, CA [415] 908-1880

Moshe Dinar, Owner, Dinar & Associates, Oakland, CA [510] 893-8300 Oren Rubin, Principal, VBN Architects, Oakland, CA [510] 763-1313

Bill Douglas, Owner, ID Architecture, Pleasanton, CA [925] 484-5245

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