Alfonso is an Architect, Computational Building Performance Strategist & Design Integrator and Regional Design Resilience Leader at Gensler. He has extensive experience in Resilience / High Performance Based Design, Building Performance Modeling & Simulations (Daylight/Glare, Solar, CFD, Thermal, and Energy Modeling), Performance Parametrics, Solar Form Finding and Performance Oriented Design Integration

He has been involved in over 250 LEED and non – LEED projects in the US, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia. He has written whitepapers for and presented at prestigious conferences such as SIMBuild, Facades +, ASHRAE BPAC, Advanced Building Skins, the Performance Huddle and PLEA among others. He is a board member of the Houston Chapter of the International Building Performance Simulation Association, a member of the Daylighting Committee of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America and a board member of the Houston Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America. Alfonso is also part of the Product Advisory Group for ClimateStudio as well as of the Modeling subcommittee of the International Energy Conservation Code 2024.

Alfonso has taught Environmental Technologies at the graduate level at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture at the University of Houston. As invited design juror, he has also participated in design critiques on both graduate and undergraduate levels at the University of Houston, Prairie View University, the University of DC, the University of Miami and the Pratt Institute in New York. He was a Tutor and the Coordinator of the Architectural Association Visiting School Houston.

He is a graduate of the Sustainable Environmental Design Master program at the Architectural Association in London as well as the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design at the University of Houston.