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Education

Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design | Minor in Fine Arts
The University of Cincinnati, DAAP | 4.0 GPA
2019-2025

Accademia Italiana | Fall 2023
Study Abroad Program
Industrial Design, Spatial Design, Fine Art

City Honors High School | International Baccalaureate Diploma
Buffalo, NY | 4.1 GPA
Class of 2019

Participating in the Professional Practice
Program, alternating semesters of classroom study with work in the field of design.

Sediment Design
Design + carpentry intern | 08/2024-12/2024
Cincinnati, Ohio | Design + Carpentry

Art direction and visual communication strategy for the brand. Carpentry apprenticeship and assistance with the fabrication of custom furniture and site-specific installations.

Studio ROOF
International Stage | 02/2024-05/2024
Amsterdam, Netherlands | Graphic Design

New product design and prototyping for colorful 3D wall-art sculptures. Developed new colorways and graphics for new and existing collections.
 

1819 Groundfloor Makerspace
Fabrication Intern | 05/2023-08/2024
Cincinnati, OH | Fabrication technology 

Responsible for programming and operating industrial waterjet CNC. Taught courses and workshops to makerspace members. Gained fabrication skills through wood and metal shop projects and maintenance.

Factory 360
3D Spatial Design Intern | 08/2022 - 12/2022
New York, NY | Experiential Marketing

End-to-end event design and experiential marketing. Designed conceptual proposals, developed spatial renderings, and assisted in production. I worked on over a dozen projects for corporate clients, including trade shows, pop-ups, and program activations.

Forms + Surfaces
Design + Development Intern | 01/2022 -04/2022
Carpinteria, CA | Furniture + Architectural Products

Front-end research and development for public-space enhancing site furnishings. Piloted an independent and self-managed project. Generated designs via concept sketching and iterative modeling processes.

Bee Haven, LLC
Part-Time | 12/2020 - Ongoing
Cincinnati, OH | Local  Bee-Product shop

Hand-making and packaging natural goods including honey, candles, lanterns, & lip balms. Redesigning the website & new graphic labels for the store’s interior.

White Oak Flower Farm
Part-Time | 05/2023- 08/2023
Cincinnati, OH | Floral design + Agriculture

Assisting with Floral design projects for holidays, weddings, and weekend markets. Farm hand for soil maintenance and floral harvesting.

Fern Croft Floral
Lead Floral Designer | 05/2020 – 08/2020
Buffalo, NY | Floral & Botanic Curiosity Shop

Designed floral arrangements with artistic compositional quality. Managed storefront’s interior. Designed and delivered over 30 arrangements that were critiqued for style association and compositional quality.

Cambria Property Group
Project Associate   | 2016 - Ongoing
Buffalo, NY | Property Design & Management

Painting, tiling, plumbing/electrical assistance, demolition, landscaping, maintenance assistance. Developing properties through fixing and building, where critical thinking and efficiency of workflow are physical.

Forest Productions & Photography
Intern | 05/2019 - 06/2019
Buffalo, NY | Commercial Photographer

Assisted with photographic styling and set creation, editing and content creation. Associated with the company for 7 years prior, advanced skills for documentation and editorial photography. Assisted on 5 shoots within the month.

ANALOG
Rapid sketching, drawing, sewing, prototyping/model making, product photography, graphic design, woodworking, metal fabrication, CNC, lathe, milling, floral design,  jewelry design, construction & landscaping. painting, concept art

DIGITAL
Adobe Suite, Fusion 360, Procreate, Sketchup, Vray, Keyshot, Microsoft Office

NEXT innovation Scholar
Cincinnatus Scholar
University Honors Program
Dean’s List | Fall 2019 - Present
Biodesign Challenge Outstanding Research Award

Village Life Outreach Ethnographic researcher, Tanzania, May 2023
Earthship Biotecture Internship Program, New Mexico, May 2021
WWOOF Farmstay Program, Idaho, June - July 2021