PATRICIA MORALES
ARCHITECT
Phone # 954-***-**** e-mail:*******@*******.***
PROFESIONAL PROFILE
Creative Designer with AutoCAD proficiency, versatility and attention to
detail. Able to coordinate a design team and consultants and put together a
very solid set of construction drawings and specifications. Capable of
taking projects design from start to finish. Ability to work on, and manage
several projects simultaneously. Six years experience in design and
construction documents in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and 15 years of design
and construction management in Colombia S.A.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Project Design, Project Management, Construction documents,
Relationship with clients, Coordination with consultants, Relationship with
cities and other government agencies, Construction Management and
supervision.
PROFESSIONAL SYNOPSIS
Designed residential, hospitality, restaurants, educational, and commercial
projects, with 10+ stories jobs and more than 350,000 s.f.
Produced construction documents for residential, hospitality, restaurants,
educational, and commercial projects.
Coordinated projects with MEP, Civil, and Structural Engineers for
hospitality, commercial, restaurants, and educational projects.
Submitted the projects according to the cities requirements and maintained
good communication with cities officials in order to respond to comments
and complete the approval processes.
Built and oversaw all cost estimations, quality control, and delivered
finished projects including high-end residences, warehouses, condos, and
office buildings.
Supervised the construction of townhouse developments; responsibilities
included urban planning, and overall project coordination and supervision
in projects ranging between 50 and 300 townhouses.
Assisted a marketing department in assessing customer needs before and
after sales as Superintendent in the job site.
PROFFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Operations Manager, GIRAFFE IDEAS, LLC. - Ft. Lauderdale 2008
-Present
Project Manager, BERRIE ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN - Ft. Lauderdale 2002 -
2008
Architect, Self-employed. - Bogota - COLOMBIA
1997 - 2001
Architect & Partner, CALDAS & MORALES ARCHITECS - Ibague, Colombia
1989 -1997
Construction Division Head, ERCO LIMITED - Ibague, Colombia
1987 - 1989
Architect, INVERSIONES OKALA LIMITED - Neiva, Colombia.
1986 -1987
EDUCATION AND COMPUTER SKILLS
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBIA - Architecture degree - 5 year program,
1980
Proficient in AutoCAD, Excel, Word, Power Point, Photoshop, Adobe
illustrator, Indesign.
Languages: English and Spanish.
PROJECT LIST
The following are the most important projects that I worked on in Ft.
Lauderdale, as designer, project manager and/or in the production of
construction documents.
RESTAURANTS
. IHOP RESTAURANTS in Florida: cities of Gulf Breeze, Port St. Lucie,
Doral, Panama City, Miramar, Plantation, Ocala. (5,000 s.f. average)
. Hunter's Lounge, Ft. Lauderdale (5,500 s.f.)
. Cort's Coffee House - The Fountains @ Plantation (3,000 s.f.)
. R.J. Gators - Ft. Lauderdale (6,000 s.f.)
. Gelatomania - The Fountains (1,500 s.f.) Plantation
HOSPITALITY
. The Place - 10 story hotel with 350,000 s.f. aprox in Pompano Beach
. Liquid - 11 story hotel with 250,000 s.f. aprox in Pompano Beach
. Ramada Inn - Hialeah. Hotel renovation
COMMERCIAL
. Westcreek Plaza - 1 story retail shopping center. 38,000 s.f. Built
in 2004 in Coconut Creek
. Westgate Shopping Center - Site planning in a 9 acre lot for the
redesign of existing plaza in Plantation
. Avalon - Tamarac warehouse - 40,000 s.f.
. The Fountains Shopping Plaza - Tenant improvement (9 bays from 1,500
s.f. to 5,000 s.f. each) in Plantation
. Broward Mall - Tenant improvement (2 bays 2,500 s.f. aprox. Each)
Plantation
. Hub Woodworks - Millwork factory (12,000 s.f.) Deerfield Beach
EDUCATIONAL
. Keiser College - Port.St. Lucie (20,000 s.f.)
. Keiser College - Orlando (21,000 s.f.)
. New Horizons - Technical school - Fashion Mall @ Plantation
RESIDENTIAL
. Sonata Beach Club. 16 story condominium building. (220,000 s.f.)
Pompano Beach
. Sundancer Condominiums - 10 story building (200,000 s.f.) Pompano
Beach
During more than 15 years of work in Colombia, I worked as a licensed
architect and designed, built, renovated, provided budgets and expense
control in residential and offices projects as employee, partner, and self-
employed Architect.
. Superintendent and architect for a 350-townhouse development project.
. Coordination and supervision of several townhouses developments, which
included the construction of the infrastructure, (utilities, roads,
access) as well as the townhouses.
. Design and construction of high-end single-family homes (3,500 s.f. to
5,000 s.f.)
. Renovation of condos and offices
. Construction Supervision of a 18 story high-end condo building.
(120,000 s.f.)