Experience Summary
I am an award-winning architect with 8 years of using Sketchup and Layout for designing and visualizing places and spaces. I have a Master's in Architecture and have been practicing architecture for over 30 years. My skills are at an expert level using Sketchup as a modeling tool as well as Layout as a presentation platform to communicate ideas to clients. I have mentored students as well as professionals. My lessons in Sketchup and Layout will be enhanced with my skills as an artist and architect giving the student a perspective beyond the basics and mechanics. I also bring a real world perspective to my lessons sharing real world applications and experiences. I enjoy seeing students learning the incredible potential of Sketchup and Layout as tools to help them visualize and communicate their ideas in any subject.
Teaching Style
My best teaching style is working directly and interacting with students with both the computer and by pencil/pen and paper. All my lessons are goal oriented and are intended to immediately help the student learn not only the lessons at hand, but how to use what they learn in the real world. I teach students new and innovative ways to communicate.
My Hobbies
Drawing, watercolor, digital imagery, video imaging and editing
Other Comments
I have drawn much of my life and have become amazed over the past 8 years at how much Sketchup and Layout have changed my abilities to look beyond static 2D imagery. I have become dependent on both of these platforms in my daily work because of their ease and natural integration into my workflow. I now design in real time and am able to able to develop those designs in a 3D environment. Unlimited views and stylistic imagery are possible giving great flexibility in the types of visualizations that might be needed to explain an idea. With Sketchup and Layout, I am constantly learning something new everyday and experimenting with compatible platforms and ruby scripts which increase the functionality of these programs as well as the quality and diversity of my work. My work is all about communicating and Sketchup and Layout are incredible resources. I now have an opportunity to share my knowledge and give students a new way of visualizing the world around them and communicating their thoughts and ideas to others.