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!