An experienced design professional with an extensive background in residential work, Ms. Shapiro has successfully managed large-scale projects, fostering positive working relationships with numerous city agencies and enforcement jurisdictions. Being a highly organized and detail oriented designer and project manager, Andrea works well in close relationships with clients, consultants, and contractors. 

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Before starting her own design firm, Ms. Shapiro worked for eleven years as a project manager at Eserts Architecture & Interiors, in Santa Monica, CA, helping high-end residential design clients create their dream homes in the Malibu and Beverly Hills areas of Los Angeles. 

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In Massachusetts, Ms. Shapiro was a project manager on transportation projects including airport parking structures and car rental facilities & T-stations around the Portland, ME and Boston, MA areas. She worked on rehabbing old hospital buildings into senior care facilities, and designing numerous homes in the Boston suburbs. While at Ives Architects, Ms. Shapiro worked on environmentally friendly buildings such as the Cambridge Sustainable Design Project (now The Sabbatical House), and The New England Wildflower Society. Such work included the use of trombe walls, radiant floor heating, grey water reuse strategies, solar water heating, and environmentally sensitive material selection. Sustainable design being a passion, this was also the focus of her college thesis.

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Ms. Shapiro received a Bachelor of Architecture Degree from Roger Williams University, Rhode Island, in 1994. She is a Massachusetts licensed Architect, and practiced architecture for 10 years on the east coast, before continuing her career in California since 2003.