Archives: Persons

Jennifer Kresl

Jennifer Kresl leads sales for Canvas where she focuses on helping home improvement professionals integrate Canvas into their business. With the Canvas app and built-in Scan To CAD service, architects, interior designers, and remodelers can capture a space in 3D and convert it into an editable file in various formats with just a few taps.

Sofia Jaramillo

Sofia joined Microsol Resources in 2018 as an Account Executive to support all our AEC clients across the US with Rhino, V-Ray and Enscape software. She is also an Account Executive for Autodesk products. Born and raised in Colombia. In 2016, she moved to New York and has found a new passion within the field

Joseph Freund

Joseph Freund is an AEC Application Specialist at Microsol Resources, an Autodesk Platinum Partner, in their New York office. He has experience designing single-family homes, healthcare facilities, and affordable housing. He is interested in the relationship between technology and the designer, particularly how generative design can develop spatial solutions intelligently driven by data while elegantly

Adam Chernick

As Director of Interactive Visualization, Chernick leads research and development for AR/VR and adjacent emerging technology at SHoP Architects. Previously Chernick led BIM strategy and coordination on several large projects including the GroupM Global Headquarters, in World Trade Center 3. His years on the design technology and documentation side of AEC has given him a

John Haymaker

As Perkins&Will’s Director of Research, John helps to bridge research and academics with the global firm’s practice by collaborating with architects, urban designers, and planners—putting him at the forefront of emerging knowledge and technology in the AEC industry. He holds multiple degrees in architecture, design and computation, and civil and environmental engineering. However, he fell

Nicole Mater, AIA

Nicole Mater is a Project Designer and practicing architect at HOK. She resolves intricate problems with a data-driven analytical approach, providing clarity and inspiring confidence throughout the design process. Using the power of parametric design, she orchestrates fluctuating design elements in real-time. A champion for regenerative design, Nicole strategically guides projects to sustainable solutions that

Craig Macdonald

Craig is a senior Sales Executive with 22 years of software sales experience who has been with OpenAsset since 2008. Craig is based in London but is never happier than when on the road introducing OpenAsset to future AEC clients.

Katie Faulkner, FAIA

Katie Faulkner is currently a director at PT-Tech, a division of Placetailor in Boston. She is also the founder of WestFaulkner, an office with a mission for sustainable design that is beautiful, contextual, and environmentally responsible. Underpinning all projects is the sentiment that design architecture should be accessible to everyone, regardless of budget. All endeavors

Anna Liza Montenegro

Anna Liza Montenegro develops design technology conferences and training for architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) professionals as a forum to exchange innovative strategies, best practices, and facilitate discussions into the technology trends driving significant change in building design and construction. As Director of Marketing, these events are offered to AEC professionals by Microsol Resources, a

Colin Booth

Colin is the Managing Director at Placetailor, a Boston-based, integrated development/ design/ build/ R&D cooperative. He has over 20 years of experience in all scales of design and planning, driving innovative and sustainable strategies within complex, collaborative projects. Colin’s previous positions included Associate Architect and Head of Sustainability at Sasaki, and President of the Sasaki

Diana Darling

Darling is CEO and cofounder of The Architect’s Newspaper, celebrating its 12th year. The A|N media company consists of print and digital publications covering architecture and design news, as well as the Facades+ conferences. As A|N’s publisher, Darling won the AIA National Collaboration Award, Grassroots Preservation Award, and ASLA NY’s President’s Award. She began her

Mike Martino

Mike started his lighting career reverse-commuting from a shoebox apartment in Manhattan to Philips Lighting in Somerset, NJ after receiving a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Boston University in 2012. Part of the first generation of lighting professionals who would be taught about LED before incandescent technology, and faced immediately with the challenges of

Jeff DeCaito

Jeff has been working with lighting and controls since the early 2000’s, when he worked on energy rebate projects for an ESCO while earning a degree from New Jersey City University in 2004.   Passionate about sports, he played baseball for both Sacred Heart University and NJCU during his college career before landing positions with the

Olenka Jackson

Moetsi operates Spatial Fields™, a construction-ready lighting controls system that can do so much more. Once Spatial Fields™ is installed for lighting control, the property manager can unlock its premium feature of generating real-time robust spatial data, which powers a suite of space-performance apps on the Spatial Fields™ AppStore.

Patrick Chopson

Focusing on the crossover between architecture and technology, Patrick Chopson leads cove.tool, a web-based design software for buildings using machine learning and automation to drive decision making. As Co-Founder, he oversees product development and research. A graduate of Georgia Tech with a Master’s in High Performance Buildings, he is a licensed architect with over 17

Dionne Darling

Dionne Darling has been with The A|N Media Group for over five years. As A|N’s Associate Publisher, she manages A|N’s Texas headquarters and handles accounts in the West, Southwest and Chicago territories. Dionne has over 25 years of direct B2B sales and business development experience. Dionne holds an Associate Degree from El Centro Junior College