Curriculum Vitae

• Education • Current Work • Past Experience • Honors and Awards • Publications • Skills •

Education top

• Bachelor of Architecture with Minor in Music (2009) - Cornell University
• Semester of Study Abroad in Rome, Italy
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• New York State Regents - High School Diploma (2002) - Jamesville-Dewitt High School
• National Honor Society

Current Work top

• Intern Architect (September 2011 - Present)


• ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, Cambridge MA


• Freelance Jazz Saxophonist (2004 - present)


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• Perform with numerous groups at social and charity events in various cities.
• Organize bands and negotiate performance contracts.

Past Experience top

• Facilities Design Consultant (January 2010 - September 2011)


• Allegheny Center Associates, Pittsburgh PA


• Provide in-house design and drafting services to a property management office overseeing a 3.5-million square-foot, mixed-use office and residential complex in downtown Pittsburgh.
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• Produce detailed design concepts for numerous renovation projects.
• Create comprehensive 3-D CAD/Sketchup models for visualizations.
• Field-measure existing spaces and provide as-built CAD drawings for leasing and planning purposes; calculate area measurements per BOMA standards.
• Review, update and correct errors in existing drawings.
• Analyze building code issues and devise potential solutions.
• Design office test-fit plans for potential tenants.
• Produce photographs for marketing purposes.


• Digital Imaging Assistant (2007 - 2010)


• Cornell University Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) Laboratory, Ithaca NY


• Performed quantitative and qualitative processing of digital microscope/mass spectrometer images and designed related procedures to aid in research.
• Co-authored and assisted in preparation of publications and a successful National Institutes of Health R-01 Grant application.
• Upgraded and maintained lab computer systems, resolved compatibility issues in transferring images and data from 20-year-old Macintosh systems to new Windows XP-based PCs.


• Restaurant Employee (2005 - 2006)


• Carriage House Café, Ithaca NY


• Website Designer (Summer 2004)


• Cornell University Department of Plant Pathology, Ithaca NY

Honors and Awards top

• Bronze Award, 19th Annual Koizumi International Lighting Design Competition, for group entry "Light Blanket" (2005).
• Recipient of the Cornell University Music Department's 2007 Ellen Gussman Adelson Music Scholarship for outstanding performing musicians.
• Elected Treasurer (2006) and President (2007) of CU-Jazz student goup at Cornell.
• Honorable Mention, Seipp Memorial Prize (Third-year design competition) (Fall 2006).
• National Merit Scholarship Finalist (2002)
• Portfolio Award, Gold Key, Silver Key, Honorable Mention - Central New York Scholastic Art Awards (2002)
• Selected first-chair tenor saxophonist in the 315 All-Stars, finalist band in the Jazz at Lincoln Center Essentially Ellington Competition (2001-2002)
• Numerous awards at state and local-level science fairs, for research entitled: "Leaves: Monitors of Particulate Air Pollution?" (1998-2000).
• Selected as speaker at Upstate NY Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (2000).

Publications top

• Studio Work ("Proximity Cloud") published in SERVO Design Studio's Networks and Environments (Damdi Architectural Publishing, Seoul: 2008).
• Digital imaging work for Cornell SIMS Lab featured on the cover of the Journal of Microscopy (232:1, Blackwell Publishing, Oct. 2008).
• Chandra, S., G. Pumphrey, J.M. Abraham, and E.L. Madsen. "Dynamic SIMS ion microscopy imaging of individual bacterial cells for studies of isotopically labeled molecules." Applied Surface Science 255:847-851, 2008.
• Abraham, J.L., S. Chandra, C. Thakral, J.M. Abraham. "SIMS imaging of gadolinium isotopes in tissue from Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis patients: Release of free Gd from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents." Applied Surface Science 255:1181-1184, 2008.
• Fireman, E., A.B. Shai, Y. Lerman, M. Topilsky, P.D. Blanc, L. Maier, L. Li, S. Chandra, J.M. Abraham, I. Fomin, G. Aviram, and J.L. Abraham. "Chest wall shrapnel-induced beryllium-sensitization and associated pulmonary disease." Sarcoidosis Vasc Diffuse Lung Dis. 29(2):147-50, Oct. 2012.
• Other papers from research at Cornell SIMS Lab in progress.

Skills top