Matthieu Mendez


9, Grand Faubourg
31590 VERFEIL
FRANCE
Phone: 0033 616 94 11 83

CAREER OBJECTIVE

Present situation

Working in an architectural company in Toulouse, France.

   
Objectives

Continue to discover various architectural cultures and different ways of working. My experiences in Spain or in USA and the diverse firms I have worked with, can give evidence of these self-interests.
Invest my knowledge and my abilities in the success of a competitive company.

   
Potential

Facility of integration – accustomed to team-work - autonomy expertise .
Full computer skills for architecture (mastery of many softwares).

WORK EXPERIENCE

"ARCHIGRIFF" Jean-Marc DURIN architecte D.P.L.G. - Toulouse, FRANCE
Jully 2007/Present Full Time Job
  Several Housing Projects
  Individual Housing
 
"Jean-Paul VIGUIER S.A." - Paris, FRANCE
October 2004
/April 2005
Trainning Period (for the 6th year of architectural studies)
  Castres-Mazamet Hospital
  Office bluiding - Antony (Paris suburb)
 
"Gabriel & Michèle De Hoÿm De Marien S.A.R.L."- Toulouse, FRANCE
Feb./March 2006 Part time job
  Competition for an aerial parking.
September 2004 Full time job
July/August 2003 Trainning period (end of 4th year) extended with full time job
  Urban plannig and renovation of the "Niel Barracks (19th century) - Toulouse
  Competition for the rehabilitation and the construction of the psychiatric department of the "Gérard Marchant Hospital" - Toulouse
 
"C.D.A. Architectes" - Toulouse, FRANCE
July 2002 Full time job
  3d-models for "Nordic Pneu" & "Sunergon" factory.
Master planning for rented office buiding.
July 2001 Full time job
  Planning and design for "Office Depot" shop -Toulouse
 
"Find'air Isolation" (Francisco-Javier De La Torre) - Labastide-Beauvoir, FRANCE
Septembre 2001 Trainning period (end of 2nd year)
  Labour practice.
 
Benoît Wendel, architect - Fonsegrives, FRANCE
April 2000 Trainnig period (1st year)
  Contact with an architectural firm.

Higher details in .pdf version

EDUCATION

2006-2007

Internationnal student in Intensive English Program at Brookhaven Community College of Dallas, Texas - USA
Accuplacer Test Passed
All ESOL Levels Passed

 
July 2006

6th year: French Architectural National Degree (D.P.L.G.) graduated with a planning & housing final project (Summa Cum Laude honors)

 
June 2004

5th year: Internationnal exchange at “Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura” of the Polytechnic University of Valencia - SPAIN.

 
Level comparable to Master of Architecture.
 
June 2003

4th year: Specialized Studies Degree of Architecture (D.E.S.A.) at “Ecole d’Architecture de Toulouse” – FRANCE.

 
June 2001 2nd year: Fundamental Studies Degree of Architecture (D.E.F.A.) at “Ecole d’Architecture de Toulouse” – FRANCE.
 
Leading to Bachelor of Architecture.
 
June 1999

“French Baccalaureate Diploma” Scientific dominant (Cum Laude honors)

 
Comparable to High school graduation (12th grade).

SPECIAL SKILLS

Languages FRENCH : Fluent
Native language.
 

SPANISH : Fluent
Year of academic exchange in Valencia, SPAIN. Regular stays and journeys in Spain.

  ENGLISH : Fluent
Several itinerant trips through USA..
English lessons applied to architecture at “Toulouse School of Architecture”.
Intensive English Program at Brookhaven College, Dallas
 
Computing Architecture and Infography sofware
Autocad , Arc+, Archicad, Vector Works & Art Lantis, 3D Studio, Photoshop, Adobe Premiere...
  Basic software
MS Office (word, excel, powerpoint...), Quark X-Press…
  Internet
Mozilla, Explorer... & Dream-Weaver (web design)…
 
Other Scale modeling, Drawing.

ACTIVITIES & INTERESTS

Music Guitar, singing
Art

Cinema, photo, sculpture

Sport Hiking, climbing, volley-ball, golf, danse (rock'n'roll)
Travelling SPAIN, PORTUGAL, SWITZERLAND, ITALY, U.S.A., GERMANY, FRANCE...
Other Small-scale modeling, computer science, cooking

REFERENCES

Available upon request