Charles Shope
Email: *********@********.***
Address: **** *****
City: Plano
State: TX
Zip: 75025
Country: USA
Phone: 469-***-****
Skill Level: Management
Salary Range: $70,000
Primary Skills/Experience:
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Educational Background:
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Job History / Details:
CHARLES D. SHOPE, NCARB, AIA, CCS
7925 Slide Street Cell Phone 469-***-**** Plano, Texas 75025
ARKANSAS STATE BOARD OF ARCHITECTS
Registered Architect, Registration Number: 1420
Passed the entire nine part NCARB Architectural Examination on the first attempt in 1979.
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF ARCHITECTURAL REGISTRATION BOARDS
N.C.A.R.B. Certification; Certificate Number: 25,820
TEXAS BOARD OF ARCHITECTURAL EXAMINERS
Registered Architect; Registration Number: 10,649
ARIZONA BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION
Registered Architect, Registration Number: 24,581
CONSTRUCTION SPECIFICATIONS INSTITUTE
Certified Construction Specifier
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS
Professional Member
AIA LOUISIANA
Member of Board of Directors: 1989, 1990, 1995, 2001, 2002 and 2003
AIA MONROE
Chapter President: 1989, 1990, 1995, 2001, 2002 and 2003
ARCHITECTURE+(Formerly Heuer, Johns, Neel, Rivers + Webb, Architects)
300 Washington, Suite 400
Monroe, Louisiana 71201
Architecture+ was a forty-five person architectural firm based in Monroe, Louisiana with retail-commercial projects located in over thirty states. We have been the prime architectural firm for the Little Rock based Dillard Department Stores for over thirty years
President of the Corporation
Manage day to day operations of corporation including personnel, project production, insurance issues, contract review, local and statewide marketing, IT systems issues and meetings with staff and department heads, etc. During first two months in office managed layoff of personnel and reduction of pay for staff. Managed personnel problems and employee moral issues.
Principal, Specifications Chief and Project Architect
Major Responsibilities include the direction and coordination of projects with clients, governmental agencies and consultants. Architect of Record on local projects and Principal-in-Charge of local marketing. These responsibilities are in addition to the ones listed below.
Major Projects include:
A. Dillard's Department Stores: One Hundred plus stores in over twenty-five different states.
B. D. H. Holmes Department Stores: Seven (7) stores.
C. J. C. Penney's Department Stores: Ten (10) stores
D. Wal-Mart Super Store: One (1) store
E. Sear's Department Stores: Ten (10) stores
F. New Mall and Shell Projects: Corsicana, Greenville, and San Antonio, Texas; Monroe and Bossier City,
Louisiana; Fort Pierce, Florida; Hattiesburg, Mississippi; High Point, North Carolina. Also involved in
new mall and shell additions to Plaza Fiesta San Agustin, Monterey, Mexico.
G. Mall and Shell Renovation Projects: Corpus Christi, Temple Texas; Alexandria, Louisiana; Little Rock
and North Little Rock, Arkansas; Scottsdale, Arizona; Huntsville, Alabama; Tallahassee, Florida;
Waterloo, Iowa; Lakewood, California; Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Greenville, South Carolina
H. Distribution Center Projects: Jacksonville, Texas; Little Rock, Arkansas; Olathe, Kansas; Gilbert,
Arizona; Valdosta, Georgia; Salisbury-Rowan, North Carolina; and two major addition to existing
facilities in Fort Worth, Texas.
I.. College Projects: A Fine Arts building for Grambling State University and 36 million campus design for
Louisiana Delta C.C in Monroe.
K. Corporate Office Buildings: Dillard's Executive Office Building, Little Rock, Arkansas and Dillard National
Bank in Gilbert, Arizona and Mortgage Loan Processing Office for Chase Manhattan Mortgage
Corporation, Monroe, Louisiana.
Additional Experience with cost estimates, project production, construction contract administration, project schedules, asbestos abatement project management, existing conditions reports and marketing.
ARKANSAS STATE BUILDING SERVICES
1515 Building, Suite 700
7th and Bishop Streets
Little Rock, Arkansas 72202
Staff Architect
Major responsibilities included plan and specification reviews of various building projects to be constructed with State funds. Assisted other State agencies program various types of small and medium sized building projects. These responsibilities were in addition to the ones listed below under Inspection Engineer.
ROBINSON AND WASSELL, ARCHITECTS
8500 West Markham Street
Little Rock, Arkansas 72205
Project Job Captain (Intern Architect)
Major responsibilities included project management, working drawings production, and specification production and design.
D. M. LEWIS AND ASSOCIATES, ARCHITECTS
819 Bishop Street
Little Rock, Arkansas 72201
Project Job Captain and Draftsman (Intern Architect)
Major responsibilities included project management, working drawings production, specification production, and design.
Major Projects included:
A. Junior High School Addition, Greenwood, Arkansas
B. Physical Education Facility, Arkansas State University, Beebe Campus, Beebe, Arkansas
C. School Fine Arts Center, Siloam Springs, Arkansas
D. School Fine Arts Center, Paragould, Arkansas
E. New High School Complex, Lake Village, Arkansas.
F. New Junior High School Complex, Bentonville, Arkansas.
Additional Responsibilities included construction inspection, structural design, project
records, site surveying, building code research, project color schedules, and project presentation to clients.
LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY
School of Art and Architecture
Department of Architecture
Bachelor of Arts in Architecture
LEADERSHIP TRAINING
Member of 1992 Class of Leadership Ouachita (Monroe Chamber of Commerce)
Member of 2002 Class of Leadership Louisiana (Council for a Better Louisiana)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS
Professional Member
CONSTRUCTION SPECIFICATIONS INSTITUTE (CSI)
Professional Member and Certified Construction Specifier
COMMUNITY SERVICE
MONROE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Annual Banquet Committee; 1993-1995
Chairmans Circle 2001-2003
FAITH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, WEST MONROE, LOUISIANA
Member and Chairman of the Church Council, 2003 and 2004.
WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD
Member of the Workforce Investment Board Area 81 for Ouachita Parish
Elected Chairman 2002 and reelected Chairman 2004-2005, 2006-2007,
2007-2008, 2000-2910 and 2011.
NORTHEAST MONROE ROTARY CLUB
Rotary Paul Harris Fellow
References
Available upon request.