professional experience

commercialization interncompleted feasibility study to optimize distribution, manufacturing, and operations strategies for grapheneidentified commercialization opportunities for graphene startuppresented gap analysis findings to startup founders

Koratkar Lab, Rensselaer Entrepreneurship Intern Program, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

12.2012 - 04.2013

forensic data analysis senior associatemanaged a team of 8 to generate vendor selection criteria for a fortune 500 clientsuccessfully presented analysis findings to c-suite level executives to extend project duration by 18 monthsreviewed team generated t-sql and pl/sql code extracted, transformed, and loaded data and developed 1099 + 1042-s reporting business requirement documents

PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP

07.2007 - 04.2010

founder + managing memberraised capital for property acquisition and brought over $1m of assets under managementprojected earnings estimates and completed bookkeeping and tax accountingperformed preventative property maintenance

Nova Terra Management, LLC

02.2008 - 06.2014

conference director for Holistic Options for Planet Earth Sustainability (HOPES)managed team of 25+ to organize 20th annual HOPES sustainability conferenceperformed holistic gap analysis to identify opportunities for improving organizational structuredeveloped and executed integrated strategic plan to increase cross-disciplinary student involvement

University of Oregon

06.2013 - 06.2014

architectural interncreated pro forma analysis for 60,000+ sq.ft. for urban entrepreneurial maker\incubator spaceevaluated 18 acre urban riverfront property for development + created financial visualization tool developed 3D site + building model, rendered interior and exterior perspectives, generated plans and sectionsdelivered presentations to the Eugene City Manager, members of city planning , and private client

Speranza Architecture

12.2013 - 03.2014

president + treasurer + project managerfounded student digital fabrication + computation grouporganized and led workshops in Rhino, Grasshopper + plug-ins, VRay, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Processingraised $1500 for student-run design build project; managed design\build teams of over 10 members

Digital Media Collaborative

09.2011 - 06.2014

ben prager

entrepreneurial experience

researcher + teaching assistantassisting with development of Social Simulation tool for scripting and visualizing urban interaction characteristicsled workshops in rhino+grasshopper concentrating on Excel, OSM, Galapagos, and Elk work flow for urban designcritiqued 9 students on urban intervention proposals, data visualization, and data management methodology

Urban Interactions Lab (UIxD), University of Oregon

06.2014 - 08.2014

teaching + service experience

barcelona, spain

eugene, or

troy, ny

new york city, ny

somerset, nj

eugene, or

eugene, or

phone: 732.407.7991 email: benjamen.prager@gmail.com address: 301 W 108th Street, NY, NY

graduate teaching fellowtaught AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Rhino, VRay, Grasshopper to 30+ studentscritiqued students’ design communication during formal pinupsdeveloped class lectures for course website

University of Oregon

09.2013 - 12.2013

eugene, or

studio researcherresearched amazonian informal urbanism data for analysis using Rhino + Grasshopper, Processing, and QGISdeveloped neural network algorithm to support cellular automata simulation of informal urban growth in belem, brazil supported undergraduate student design process by developing and leading Grasshopper workshops

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

01.2013 - 06.2013

high school latin teachergave daily instruction on latin grammar and advanced latin literature, including works of ovid, vergil, and catulluscreated, administered, and graded daily homework and quizzes served as the faculty advisor to the latin club

North Brunswick Township High School

08.2005 - 05.2006

education

university of oregon, orthree studio projects selected for archivalstudied abroad in rome, tokyo, london, cadiff, and vancouverlectures committee graduate student representative

Master of Architecture

06.2010 - 06.2014

rensselaer polytechnic institute, nyconcentration in technology and entrepreneurshippitched economic development proposal to members of congress in washington, d.c.developed full business plan for sustainable product capstone project

Master of Business Administration

09.2012 - 08.2013

rutgers university, nj1 of 18 chosen from Rutger’s student body into its oldest honors society, Cap & Skullpresident (2007), treasurer (2006), marketing director (2005) for College Avenue Players drama group edward j. bloustein distinguished scholar

Bachelor of Arts, Economics, Classics, Minor in Mathematics

09.2003 - 05.2007

awardsirene and robert p. bozzone ‘55 management & technology fellowrome 2012 travel scholarship recipientrutgers college outstanding scholarpricewaterhouse coopers chairman’s award for market leadershipamerican education week award recipient for outstanding teaching achievementbest show 2007 for directing “one flew over the cuckoo’s nest”

material consumption + value transposition, published in community week 2013: conference proceedings

publication

hand + laser + cnc + 3d printconceptualrapid sketch detailed presentationsite

model makinganalog + digital

hand drafting + renderingconceptual renderingphotorealistic renderinginfo graphicstime-based simulation

visualizationanalog + digital

processingpl/sql + tsqlms accessms excelqgisrussian

mediaother skills

illustratorphotoshopindesignautocadrhino + vraygrasshopper

water colorspen, graphite, ink, chalkplaster

troy, ny

north brunswick, nj

references

relationship: supervisor

Philip Speranza

phone: (917) 579 0152

title: principal, speranza architecture, eugene, oregon

relationship: thesis advisor

Erin Moore

phone: (541) 868 6074

title: principal, float architecture, eugene, oregon

relationship: supervisor

Diana Moutela

phone: (646) 471 1264

title: manager, pricewaterhousecoopers, new york, ny