Experience
Real projects, real clients, real constraints.
My professional experience spans HVAC system design, mechanical load analysis, energy compliance, and client-facing engineering across commercial, tech campus, lab, and data center projects.
ALFATECH
Mechanical Designer, E.I.T
June 2024 - July 2025
- Executed block load and room-by-room heating and cooling load analyses using Carrier HAP and Trane TRACE across commercial, hospitality, laboratory, data center, and tech campus project types, deriving building envelope inputs directly from architectural drawings and sizing HVAC equipment against calculated zone and system loads in accordance with the California Mechanical Code and project-specific design criteria.
- Designed and selected HVAC equipment under real field and client constraints, coordinating with multiple vendors to identify units that met performance requirements within existing physical limitations such as occupied roof curb dimensions and available ceiling plenum depth. On hospitality renovation projects, conducted sustained client coordination to define the exact scope of diffuser and fan coil unit replacements around client-approved spaces, shaping the full design around what the owner would actually commit to.
- Performed existing conditions field surveys on projects where documentation was incomplete or unavailable, including a laboratory project with no as-built drawings where I surveyed the roof, located every exhaust fan, and reverse-engineered the duct network to enable fume hood placement and exhaust routing. Conducted full-building walkthroughs on refrigerant compliance projects to verify field conditions against existing documentation before beginning system redesign.
- Designed ventilation systems to meet zone-by-zone outdoor air requirements per ASHRAE 62.1 and the California Mechanical Code, recalculating outside air distribution when occupant density changes required rebalancing. Accounted for heat load contributions from new equipment additions and assessed how full-height partition walls affected plenum airflow paths, incorporating both into the final system design.
- Audited building mechanical systems using BMS operational data, extracting actual supply airflow from every air handler in a large tech campus facility, identifying undersized units, and independently validating the findings with a Trane TRACE model calibrated to project-specific engineering standards and the California Mechanical Code. Supported fast-turnaround data center cooling projects where cooling load calculations and drawing sets required continuous revision to keep pace with rapidly changing client floor plans.
- Produced permit-ready mechanical construction documents in AutoCAD and Revit across multiple project types and design phases, and completed Title 24 non-residential energy compliance documentation using EnergyCodeAce.