Overview
Transportation Design | Conceptual Design & Presentations | Multi-disciplinary team Management | Preliminary Engineering Documents | Program Management | Construction Oversight
I am a Senior Architect with national and international architectural experience in designing transportation, commercial, institutional, and residential facilities. My qualifications include programming, project management, multi-disciplinary design team coordination, conceptual and schematic design, design development and construction drawings, design review, specifications, scheduling, cost estimates, and construction supervision. Prior to joining AECOM, I was Principal of Americo Gonzalez Aquino & Associates, PSC a design and planning studio focusing on Transportation, Healthcare, Institutional, Commercial, Hospitality, and Residential design.
I have been working for AECOM Transportation for the last three and a half years. First as Lead Architect on the Viva Bus Rapid Transit project in York Region, Ontario, Canada; and most recently on the National Network of Highways Project (NNHP) in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago. Prior to that, I worked as a sub to DMJM Harris for eight years on the Tren Urbano Rapid Transit project in Puerto Rico. I have over 28 years of experience as an architect, 15 of which were as principal architect of my own design studio, Americo Gonzalez Aquino & Associates, PSC.
In Trinidad, I lead the Facilities Design and Preliminary Engineering effort for Tolling Plazas and Operations Support Buildings. I managed a multi-disciplinary design team in Boston and in Port of Spain, to produce preliminary engineering drawings and specifications. Design direction included incorporating styles native to Trinidad & Tobago as well as tropical and sustainable architecture typology in general
I have planning, design and construction management, and oversight experience in transit projects, as well as project and firm management experience in commercial, corporate, institutional, healthcare, hospitality and residential projects. I am an advanced user of Autodesk AutoCAD 2010, Architecture 2010, and Impression; Google Sketchup and Kerkythea; MS Word, Excel, Access, Project, Access and SharePoint Designer; Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, I am currently training on REVIT Architecture, and have started the process to achieve LEED AP Accreditation.
I am a registered architect in the US territory of Puerto Rico; a member of the American Institute of Architects, and an International Associate Member of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.