For the first large scale project that I led as a project architect, I was working with a major retail developer based out of NYC. We had a design meeting at their headquarters in NYC, in a beautiful conference room on Central Park overlooking the entire skyline. I’m pretty sure my eyes were as big as saucers, and it was pretty apparent to everyone else in the room. However, it was an important moment for me to take advantage of a great opportunity to present to a high-profile client, and the culmination of a lot of hard work. I left feeling that I ‘belonged in the room’, and it would end up being a major jump-off point for my confidence and career going forward.

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