Tamia Barnes
Experience
Summer 2023, Winter 2023, Summer 2024 [6.5 months]
Quinn Evans - Richmond, VA
Architecture Intern
- Fox Elementary: Rebuild of historic project. Aided with construction documentation set.
- High School Center II: Center in Albemarle County, focused on trade education. Designed and documented open stairs in the cafeteria commons, coordinated with structural consultants, attended client and consultant meetings, and contributed to LEED certification by analyzing daylight availability and quality views using Climate Studio
- Created diagrams for AIA award submissions
- Intern collaboration: Developed drawing set base for an office design charrette and co-led a firmwide session on designing with AI
January 2023 [2 weeks]
John F. Heltzel AIA, P.C. Architects - Northern VA
Architecture Intern
- Creating as-built drawings for renovation projects
- Sketching/drawing ideas for a preliminary draft
Summer 2021
Federal Aviation Administration: The Washington Center
Federal Intern [Virtual]
- Completing air-traffic related tasks for the administration of the direct reporting office, and other offices in the organization
- Updating employee offices/desks locations using an architectural-plan based system
- Working collaboratively on a cohort group tasked with re-imagining the workspace experience in HQ offices
Fall 2019 -Spring 2023
Bringing Occupational Opportunities to Schools [BOOTS]Stafford Sr. High School, Falmouth, VA
- Designer and drafter of BOOTS XXVII Home. An annual program that supports high school students to design and built a single family home to occupied by local buyers
Education
August 2020 - May 2025
Virginia Tech
College of AAD, Bachlor’s in Architecture, Summa Cum Laude [GPA: 3.93/4.00]
- CDR OpenLab Studio at Payette - Boston, Massachusetts [Integrative, Collaborative Design Lab, Top 12 Selected]: Professional Practice, Fabrication + Model-Making
- Europe Residency Program/Study Abroad - Riva San Vitale, Switzerland: Mass Timber Construction + Wood Urbanism, European City Planning + Development [Building Cities]
Skills + Certifications
- Digital Modeling: Revit + Rhino
- Physical Modeling: 3D printing, Lasercamm
- Adobe Creative Cloud Suite
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Hand Drafting + Sketching
- Drafting: Certified Architectural Drafter
- Collaboration + Teamwork
- Problem Solving
- Organization
- Detail Oriented
- Flexible
- Art + Crafts: Sewing, Crocheting
Fredericksburg, VA
tamia.d.barnes@gmail.com
(540)429-8097
linkedin.com/in/tamia-d-barnes/