Jerry Zhang

Licensed Architect @Illinois

jerryzhang.design | jerryz2580@hotmail.com

Experience

Project Designer @TriPyramid Structures Inc.

2023 - Present

  • Assisting sales effort by producing schematic and offical shop drawings and models
  • Design and development of components and systems for diverse projects, ranging from architectural stairs, facade, skylights, customized structural components, and art installations
  • Collaborating with senior architects, engineers, clients, general contractors, vendors, and other specialists in unique projects of various types and scales
  • Project management of individual projects, collaborating with CNC machinists and technicians to build complex physical pieces with high quality control

Architectural Designer @DAU Concept

2023

  • Progamming and planning, communicating with clients, completing architectural modeling and rendering for commercial and healthcare projects
  • Developing proposals, drawings and other deliverables for bid competitions

Project Designer @STLarchitects

2022 - 2023

  • Produce SD, DD, CD sets for O'Hare Global Terminal and related aviation projects using Revit
  • Design and produce details drawings of various architectural elements during DD/CD phase
  • Intensive data collection, site investigation, presentation and coordination with client
  • Experiment with new AR/VR applications

Architectural Designer @Hoefer Welker

2022

  • Produce quick site studies and concept schemes for Mixed-used highrise, office buildings & VA clinics
  • Curate award-winning submittals and produce competition drawings
  • Designing computational details using grasshopper during DD/CD phase
  • Producing final commercial renders per client's request, published for public presentation
  • AIA Kansas City Design Excellence Award
  • DBIA-MAR Design-Build Project of the Year

Design Associate @Kennedy Hutson Associate

2019 - 2022

  • Site studies and having initial conversation with clients
  • Produce quick site studies and concept schemes of mixed-use developments and commercial layouts
  • Produce schematic drawings, architectural and construction drawing sets of houses, apartments and masterplans of numerous built projects
  • Follow the mentorship of licensed architect, participate in meetings and understand how to communicate with clients, consultants and contractors

Skills

Bilingual
English & Chinese (Mandarin)
Adobe
Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
2D Drafting
AutoCAD, Rhino, Solidworks
3D Modeling
Rhino, Revit, Solidworks, SketchUp, Grasshopper
Visualization
Enscape, Lumion, Midjourney, Vray, Unreal Engine*
Miscellaneous
Hand Sketching, Model Making, 3D Printing, Laser Cutting, Photography, Logo, Typography

Education

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Master of Architecture

May 2021

Bachelor of Science in Architecture

Minor in Landscape Architecture

May 2019

Traveling

Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, U.A.E., … hopefully more!