MARK WILLIAM KIRCHNER
#1186, American University of Sharjah
P.O. Box 26666, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

www: http://www.mwkdesign.com
Email : info@mwkdesign.com

WORK EXPERIENCE

2000 - 2006

American University of Sharjah. Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
FACILITIES DIRECTOR and UNIVERSITY ARCHITECT.
Oversee campus planning, design and construction.
Average 200,000sf construction completed per year, including academic buildings, new library, a student center, staff housing, & dormitories.

1999 - 2000

MWK Design. Honolulu, Hawaii
CONSULTANT for Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum, Inc. (HOK), CUH2A Architecture, Anderson Anderson Architects, The Kenneth F. Brown Architecture Award Program (School of Architecture, UH Manoa)

Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum, Inc. Science + Technology Focus Group
LABORATORY DESIGNER. Major projects include:
Yerkes Vaccine Research Center, Emory University. Atlanta, Georgia
Completion Date: 1999. Construction Cost: $11,000,000. Size: 70,000 sf.

ARCHITECTURAL SOFTWARE INTEGRATION
Microstation Cad Development. Integration of Excell, Word, EasySpec.

1995 - 1997

Housworth Parker / Cherry Roberts, PC. (Now KPS Group)
SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
Responsible for researching new technologies for architectural use, including: Lantastic Network 7.0, Microsoft NT and Windows 95, Microstation 95, SpecLink. Directed computerization of the Marketing department and conducted seminars in Microstation 95, Pagemaker 5.0, Canvas 3.5, Netscape 3.0.

ARCHITECTURAL INTERN
Worked on two elementary school additions, an archival library renovation for the Atlanta History Center, and a Food Science Laboratory addition for the University of Georgia.

Interactive Media Architecture Group IN Education (IMAGINE)
CONSULTANT
Projects for the university, the Olympics, and various real estate development ventures. The work focused on extensive three dimensional modeling and architectural animation.

Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Architecture
IMAGINE (Interactive Media Architecture Group IN Education) member

CODA (Corporation for the Olympic Development of Atlanta)
An Urban Planning Workshop associated with CODA that continued into my thesis and projects after graduation.

COMPUTER LAB MANAGER, AUTODESK STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE
Novell v3.11 network assistant administrator. Autocad 12&13 and 3Dstudio tutor.

Friday Systems, Inc. Software Development Company
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, ARTISTIC CONSULTANT
Designed and developed a customer tracking database interface.
Wrote and maintained custom financial and leasing software.
User training, hardware maintenance, phone support.

EDUCATION

1991 - 1995

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Master of Architecture, Extended Degree
Tau Sigma Delta, Honor Society in Architecture and Allied Arts

Summer, 1990

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Graduate School of Design, Career Discovery

1981 - 1985

Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, Minor in Computer Science