Master in Architecture I . Harvard Graduate School of Design
Cambridge MA . June 2009
Thesis: DC Public School: Rethinking the Contemporary Urban School Considering the Effects of New Media
Advisors: Antoine Picon and Hashim Sarkis
Bachelor of Science in Engineering . Duke University
Durham NC . summa cum laude May 2002
Major: Civil Engineering . Certificate: Architectural Engineering


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DESIGN
Co-Founding Partner . Low Design Office
March 2006—present
Project Designer . Hashim Sarkis Architecture Landscape Urban Planning
Cambridge MA . October 2007—December 2008
Project Designer . MOS
Cambridge MA and New Haven CT . April 2007—August 2007
Design Intern . Kieran Timberlake Associates LLP
Philadelphia PA . May 2002—May 2003

CONSTRUCTION
Project Superintendent . S/A Construction, LLP
Houston TX . April 2004—August 2004
Free-Lance Construction for Ljubica Mudri
Paris, France . Summer 2003

ENGINEERING
Intern . Leslie E. Robertson Associates, Consulting Structural Engineers
New York NY . Summer 2001
Intern . Walter P Moore, Consulting Engineers
Houston TX . Summer 2000


TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Architecture Instructor . Harvard GSD Career Discovery Program
Cambridge MA . Summer 2009
Developed curriculum, lectures and presentations for introductory-level architectural design studio
Teaching Assistant . Harvard GSD
Cambridge MA
Hashim Sarkis, Spring 2008 . Spaces for the Arts at Harvard
Martin Bechthold, 2005-2006 . Analysis and Design of Building Structures
Assistant Basketball Coach . Community Charter School Cambridge
Cambridge MA . 2007—2009


HONORS . GRANTS . FELLOWSHIPS

Nominee . Julia Amory Appleton Traveling Fellowship
Harvard GSD . 2009
Nominee for publication . GSD StudioWorks
Harvard GSD . 2006, 2007
Recipient . Community Service Fellowship
for design of youth center in Lowell MA . Harvard GSD . Summer 2006
Recipient . Aubrey E. Palmer Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement in Civil Engineering
Duke University . 2002
Recipient . American Consulting Engineers Council Scholarship
Duke University . 2001


STUDENT ACTIVITIES

Academic President . Student Forum
Harvard GSD . Cambridge MA . January 2007—January 2008
Coordinated a number of initiatives including academic reform, dean search, and marketing
Co-Chair, Organizing Committee . Systems For Inclusion Conference
with DesignCorps . Harvard GSD . Cambridge MA . April 2008
Co-Chair, Organizing Committee . FuturePresent Symposium
Harvard GSD . Cambridge MA . April 2008
Organized symposium on community design and minority under-representation in design disciplines
Steering Committee . Social Change and Activism (SoCA)
student group at Harvard GSD . Cambridge MA . 2006—2009.


ACADEMIC COMMITTEES

Chair . Dean Search Committee
Harvard GSD . 2007—2008
Chair . Course Evaluation Committee
Harvard GSD . 2007—2008
Chair . Student Affairs Committee
Harvard GSD . 2007—2008
Participant . Gund Hall Renovation Committee
Harvard GSD . 2007—2008


PRESENTATIONS

Lecturer . "Post-Textile Globalism: The United Teen Equality Center in Lowell, Massachusetts"
Harvard GSD Alumni Council . Harvard GSD . April 2007
Panelist . "Community Design Philosophy and Methodology"
Build Boston . November 2006


PUBLICATIONS . EXHIBITS

"The Urban Block Projects: Ryan Bollom" in Natural and Urban, Green and Grey: Studies on Specificities of Contemporary Architecture
Ines Lamuniere et al . LAMU: Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Mobility . 2008
"Natural and Urban, Green and Grey: Ryan Bollom" in GSD 08 Platform
Actar/Harvard GSD . 2008
"Outdoor theatre" with Leah Solk in Informal Toolbox: SLUM LAB Paraisopolis / Oficina de ideias: urbanizacao de favela
Secretaria Municipal de Habitaca Sao Paulo and Sustainable Living Urban Model Lab . Columbia Graduate School of Architecture . 2008
"Post-Textile Globalism: The United Teen Equality Center in Lowell, Massachusetts" in Trays
Harvard GSD . Spring 2008


RESEARCH . TRAVEL

"Cityscapes"
Independent Art Project . Paris, France . Summer 2003
Travel . Australia, India, Southeast Asia, throughout Western Europe and the United States