Alfred J. Socias has over 25 years of experience as an architect and project manager for commercial and educational building projects. He has managed projects from schematic design through construction administration. His experience includes tenant improvements, schools, retail buildings, offices, housing, and more. He is proficient in Revit, AutoCAD, and other design and project management software. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Architecture and is a Construction Documents Technologist and member of the Construction Specifications Institute.

1. ALFRED J. SOCIAS, CSI, CDT
5209 Greyfield Blvd.
Durham, NC 27713
Home: [919] 321-6659
Mobile: [925] 451-1761
E-mail: alsocias@sbcglobal.net
OBJECTIVE Employment as a job captain / project architect on commercial building
or educational building project types.
EDUCATION Revit Training Videos (Scott Onstott) – June 2008
Revit Fundamentals Class – April 2008
Design + Technology of Roofing Systems Class - May 2003
Better Understanding of Roof Systems Institute
Principal & Practices of Specifying Class - March 2003
East Bay/Oakland CSI Chapter
2001 CBC Non-Structural Update Class - June 2002
International Conference of Building Officials
Building Codes Semester Long Class [1998 UBC] - December 2000
San Francisco City College
Bachelor of Architecture - December 1991
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California
Graphic Arts Certificate - December 1988
Mount San Antonio College, Walnut, California
Contra Costa College, San Pablo, California
CERTIFICATION Construction Documents Technologist Certificate 2000
Construction Specifications Institute
MANAGEMENT Managed a variety of architectural projects such as school laboratory
buildings, school modernizations, grocery store additions / remodels,
retail shell buildings, mid-rise offices, tenant improvements, warehouses,
single and multi-family housing developments, custom estate residences,
residential room addition/remodels, and churches from schematic
design, to design development, to bid, to construction documents, and to
construction administration phases. All included building official
coordination, consultant coordination, project file management,
specification coordination, and construction administration.
TECHNICAL Drafted architectural design development packages, construction
documents, addenda, and clarifications on CAD. Prepared detailed
building code analysis for various project types including assigning
building occupancy classification and construction types. Determined
occupancy, and or area separation requirements, exterior wall protection,
allowable area and occupant loads. Prepared allowable area
calculations, and exit width calculations. Researched and incorporated
architectural products into projects. Solved architectural, fireproofing and
waterproofing details. Coordinated architectural drawings with consultant
drawings. Edited specification sections including door hardware groups.
Assisted with construction administration including shop drawing and
submittal processing, and clarification generation. Field verified existing
fire & life safety exiting schemes. Field verified existing accessible or
non-accessible conditions.
DESIGN Designed architectural space plans, sections and elevations. Designed

2. exiting schemes from hallways to corridors to enclosed stair towers.
Designed accessible and non-accessible site parking, drive aisles, site
and building paths of travel. Designed ramps, stairs, toilet rooms, areas
of rescue assistance, wheelchair lifts and elevators for school
modernization projects. Design developed various project types in
preparation for construction documents.
COMPUTER Windows XP: Revit 8.1, AutoCAD 2013, Microstation CAD V8, Microsoft
Outlook, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Adobe Acrobat, and WinZip.
Windows Mobile: Pocket Word, Pocket Excel, Adobe Reader, Pocket
CAD
COMMUNICATION Direct communication with building officials, project consultants - civil,
structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, landscape, fire alarm,
telecommunication, and title 24 energy, and product representatives.
PROJECTS Microsoft Building 4, Redmond, WA - Construction Documents &
Construction Administration
Interior tenant improvement & office remodel of existing type II building
Nazareth Terrace, San Mateo, CA - Construction Documents
Mixed use multi-family residential / office / retail building with 1 stories of
apartments, 1 story of office, and 1 story of retail / parking garage. 9 total
dwelling units, elevator, storefront, basically 2 stories of wood frame
construction on a concrete podium.
AOL, Palo Alto, CA - Construction Documents & Construction
Administration
Interior tenant improvement & office remodel of existing type II building
including entry lobby & custom furniture and graphics.
Box.net, Palo Alto, CA - Construction Documents
Interior tenant improvement & office remodel
Hangar 42 Studios, Walker, MI
Interior remodel of office & support spaces for future movie studio.
University of California, Berkeley, School of Law Building, Boalt Hall,
Berkeley, CA - Construction Documents
Interior tenant improvement of existing law school building. Program
included distance learning room, classrooms, offices & journal rooms.
Albertsons Grocery Store, Lake Forest, CA – Construction Documents &
Specifications
Existing 43,000 s.f. grocery store remodel / addition. Entry piece
addition, new interior décor package, and new refrigeration.
Traditions Building, Walnut Creek, CA - Construction Documents
Interior tenant improvement and minor exterior building improvements.
Phased project included obtaining demolition permit, site development
permit, tenant improvement permit, exterior building improvements
permit, and fire district approval.
Hillcrest Village, Antioch, CA – Site Plan Design Development
16 building office / retail / restaurant on a 1,004,000 s.f. site. Calculated

3. parking basis including HCP. Determined fire truck access and
accessible paths of travel.
Enea Plaza, Dublin, CA - Site Plan Design Development
3 retail buildings on a 166,800 s.f. site. Calculated parking basis
including HCP. Determined fire truck access and accessible paths of
travel.
Buchanan Crossings, Antioch, CA - Site Plan Design Development
9 building office / retail / restaurant on a 590,000 s.f. site. Calculated
parking basis including HCP. Determined fire truck access and
accessible paths of travel.
Canyon Oaks Plaza, Chico, CA - Site Plan Design Development
6 building office / retail / restaurant on a 245,600 s.f. site. Calculated
parking basis including HCP. Determined fire truck access and
accessible paths of travel.
Kiernan Plaza, Salida, CA - Construction Documents
New 12,000 s.f. retail shell building that was subdivided into 8 tenant
spaces. Built on a 52,000 s.f. lot.
Bristol Farms Grocery Store, Santa Barbara, CA - Construction
Documents & Specifications
Existing 34,700 s.f. grocery store remodel. Included minor exterior
building architectural elements, new interior décor, and new refrigeration.
557 Merrimac, Oakland, CA - Construction Documents
Mixed use multi-family residential / retail building with 3 stories of
apartments, 1 story of retail / parking garage and basement parking. 30
total dwelling units, elevator, storefront, basically 3 stories of wood frame
construction on a concrete podium. Calculated as 3 separate buildings
for allowable area purposes.
Contra Costa Gospel Church, Walnut Creek, CA – Construction
Documents
New 3096 s.f. multi-purpose building on an existing church site.
Leonard Flynn Elementary School Modernization, San Francisco, CA -
Construction Documents
One building which includes a day care center, multi-purpose room,
library, and classrooms whose scope of work included accessibility and
fire-life safety upgrades to current code, separate exit routes for
kindergarten and elementary students, exterior door replacement, interior
finishes and casework, toilet room remodels, and electrical, plumbing
systems upgrades.
Tileshop Warehouse, Berkeley, CA - Construction Documents
New 23,000 s.f. two story warehouse with ancillary office space features
metal cladding over steel and metal stud structure.
Thurgood Marshall High School Modernization, San Franciso, CA -
Construction Documents
One 150,000 s.f. building which included an auditorium, gymnasium,
cafeteria, library, classrooms, and laboratories whose scope of work
included accessibility and fire-life safety upgrades to current code,

4. gymnasium addition, roofing and waterproofing, interior finishes and
casework, toilet room remodels, and electrical, plumbing, and data-
communication systems upgrades.
Salvio Street Parking Structure, Concord, CA - Construction Documents
Addtition-remodel of existing 6 story post tension structure parking
garage. Work included new offices, accessible parking re-stripping, new
accessible toilets, and upgrade mechanical, electrical and plumbing
systems.
Zio Fraedo's Banquet Hall, Pleasant Hill, CA - Construction Documents
New Mediterranean influenced 8700 s.f. banquet facility with restaurant,
commercial kitchen, and offices.
King of Thai Noodle House, San Francisco, CA - Construction
Documents
Tenant improvement of two story restaurant with commercial kitchen,
and offices.
Palo Alto High School Science Building, Palo Alto, CA - Construction
Documents & Specifications
New 28,000 s.f. 1 story science building on an existing campus.
Building program included 10 labs, prep space, and a teachers' office
suite.
California State University Hayward Library Fire Repair, Hayward CA -
Construction Documents
Interior remodel of fire damaged library. Included offices, instructional
media center and a high tech distance learning classroom. Seismic
upgrade included floor to ceiling high steel K bracing.
AC Transit Headquarters, Oakland, CA - Construction Documents
7 floor tenant improvement of an existing 10 floor mid-rise office building.
Includes custom ticket window casework with butt glazing, computer
casework and new manufacturer workstations.
AT Systems Armored Transport Facility, Oakland, CA - Construction
Documents
Existing 12,000 s.f. repair garage converted to a mixed use repair
garage-coin counting facility.
Jackson Center One, Oakland, CA - Construction Documents
Tenant improvement and seismic upgrade of the existing mid-rise
defunct State Office Building. 10 floor scope includes new gunite
exterior, exterior granite cladding, exterior metal canopies, new built-up
roofing, and storefront.
Foley & Lardner Law Offices, San Francisco, CA - Construction
Documents
Two floors of high rise, high end, high tech design interior tenant
improvement. Includes custom detailed desks, cabinetry, partitions,
soffits, glass railed stairways, and doors. Approximately 33,000 s.f.
Villa Cortona, San Jose, CA - Construction Documents
New 72 unit French Provincial multi-family housing project consisting of 2
duplex town home building types and 2 condominium building types of

5. approximately 4800 to 10,300 s.f., all units are multi-level which
exempted accessible requirements, and all are located on a complex
sloping site.
Palo Alto High School Modernization, Palo Alto, CA - Construction
Documents
19 existing buildings whose scope of work included accessibility and fire-
life safety upgrades to current code, exterior door replacement, roofing
and waterproofing, interior finishes and casework, toilet room remodels,
and electrical, plumbing, and data-communication systems upgrades.
Vallejo School Modernization, Vallejo, CA - Construction Documents
8 elementary school modernization projects whose scope of work
included accessibility and fire-life safety upgrades to current code,
exterior door and window replacement, interior finishes and casework,
toilet room remodels, and electrical, plumbing, and data-communication
systems upgrades.
Marr Residence, Atherton, CA - Construction Documents
A new 11,000 s.f. French Normandy style custom estate home included
a sunroom greenhouse, swimming pool, pool pavilion, three car garage,
carriage house, guest house, tennis courts, a hidden garden and 'smart
home' electronics.
Del Grande Residence, Los Gatos, CA - Construction Documents
A new 7,600 s.f. hillside custom estate home reflects the architecture of
Carmel. It features decks and terraces that take full advantage of a
panoramic valley view below, swimming pool and croquet lawn.
Nepenthe, Sedona, AZ - Construction Documents
A new 182 unit complex of multi-family town houses comprised of four,
five, and seven unit buildings. Geometric shapes and colors relate to the
Sedona's surrounding red sandstone Bell Mountain which is adjacent to
the site.
Highlands at Clearbrook, Hayward, CA - Construction Documents
2 designs of new single family production housing about 2600 s.f. to
3200 s.f. each. Both designs were for lots with a 2:1 downward slope and
incorporated view decks from both the first and second floors.
AWARDS San Jose Veterans Memorial Design Competition, 1993,
COMPETITIONS participant. San Francisco Waterfront Competition, 1992, Honorable
mention/gallery exhibitor. Tijuana Cultural Center Demountable Roof
Structure Competition, 1991. Douglas Conelly Memorial Scholarship in
Architecture, Contra Costa College, San Pablo, California, 1987. Solano
County fair ribbons in architectural and mechanical drafting, 1984.
EMPLOYMENT PROJECT ARCHITECT
Studio O+A, San Francisco, CA 9/09 to present (working remotely from
home in Durham, NC)
PROJECT ARCHITECT (Contract Work)
ID Architecture, Pleasanton, CA 2/09 to 8/09
PROJECT ARCHITECT
The Ratcliff Architects, Emeryville, CA 2/08 to 12/08
JOB CAPTAIN
Craig+Grant Architects, Danville, CA 11/05 to 1/08

6. JOB CAPTAIN
VBN Architects, Oakland, CA 4/98 to 11/05
JOB CAPTAIN
Loving & Campos Architects, Inc., Walnut Creek, CA 3/95 to 4/98
JUNIOR ARCHITECT
Kattenburg & Associates, Benicia, CA 6/92 to11/94
ARCHITECTURAL DRAFTSMAN
Architectural Design, San Dimas, CA 6/88 to 5/90
ENGINEERING AIDE
Vallejo Sanitation & Flood Control District, Vallejo, CA 4/83 to 8/87
ORGANIZATIONS Construction Specifications Institute - Professional Member - SF Chapter
- 2000 to 2003
International Conference of Building Officials/International Code Council
- Professional Member, 1998 to 2004
PORTFOLIO And samples of working drawings available upon request
REFERENCES Primo Orpilla, Owner, and Perry Stephney, Studio Manger, Studio O+A,
San Francisco, CA
[415] 908-1880
Bill Douglas & Carmen Campos, Owners, ID Architecture, Pleasanton,
CA
[925] 484-5245
Moshe Dinar, Owner, Dinar & Associates, Oakland, CA
[510] 893-8300
WEBSITE https://www.linkedin.com/in/alfred-j-socias-csi-cdt-b8069512

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