The quality of my background reflects a series of undertakings investigating performance within multiple disparate urban and architectural systemic conditions. The varied nature of my prior preparation is most clearly demonstrated by the transitions and deviations I’ve pursued within the initial path of my architectural career. Through my educational and professional experience, I’ve participated in disparate fields of design, all the while remaining committed in my pursuit of environmental criteria in the design process. My professional and academic experiences reveal my attempt to gain an understanding of design process which could lead to more environmentally inclusive and complex built responses to contextual conditions than the “surficial” responses that are typical of much recent development practices throughout the globe. My interests are in furthering the strength of technical explorations related to ecological design, and promote actual implementation into building markets and into the architectural profession at all scales. I believe the knowledge gained from my doctoral studies is absolutely critical to address the inevitable infliction of social, economic, and political matters forthcoming in the domain of construction and across the realms of ‘inter-scalar’ design problems that span material, architectural and infrastructural considerations. There is also an urgent need to overcome the division between the built environment and emergent next generation building energy technologies. The synergy between the two make a powerful argument to promote greater sensitivity to bio-climatic and energy criteria, especially since the building industry contributes 38.1% of the nation’s total carbon dioxide emissions. I believe that conventionally accepted best practices suffocate the necessity for striving to remediate the situation through the curtailing of substantially new or different building methods, thereby making the support of innovation within building systems within academic research an ethical requirement. I hope to participate in these developments in the pursuit of systems research that is currently underfunded in the area of architecture, but which I believe needs to play a much bigger role in architectural education. Education Academy | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY Degree | Candidate for Masters in Architectural Sciences (2007-Present) Concentration | Built Ecologies Thesis | Building Integrated Water Reclamation and Thermal Control System for Hot and Arid Climates