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Mr. Pedro Gomez June 20,2022 Page 7 NELS YOUNGBORG Senior Associate / Architectural Historian Nels Youngborg has thirteen years of experience in the architectural inspection services and historic preservation fields. He holds a Masters Certificate in Historic Preservation from the University of Texas, San Antonio and is completing his thesis for a M.S. in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania. For over six years, Nels worked as a consultant to advise public housing authorities on best practices for maintaining, weatherizing and rehabilitating their properties and how to approach projects that would impact historic resources. These services required experience with material life -cycle analysis, LEED AP accreditation, federal certification for real estate assessment, and intimate knowledge of Federal and State regulations regarding historic resources. Nels also worked as a student professional worker and an emergency appointment planning assistant at the City of Los Angeles Department of City Planning Office of Historic Resources for two years. He managed the Historic - Cultural Monument program, worked with the Cultural Heritage Commission to create their hearing schedule, wrote staff reports to advise the City's historic preservation cases, assisted in management of the Mills Act program, reviewed and cleared permits for historic resources, reviewed Environmental Impact Reports that proposed potential impacts to historic resources, and served as the social media coordinator for SurveyLA, the Los Angeles Citywide Historic Resources Survey. At Chattel, Nelshas continued to manage aspects of the City of Los Angeles's Mills Act Program, including pre -approval and periodic inspections. Nels specializes in assessment of historic significance, design review, permit expediting, geolocational database management and map creation through ArcGIS software, material condition assessment and risk analysis, preparation of documentation to support local, State and Federal historic preservation regulations, such as the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Ordinance, Mills Act, California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), and compliance with the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties. ALVIN-CHRISTIAN NUVAL Associate II 1 Planner Alvin holds both a Master of Urban and Regional Planning with concentrations in Design and Development and Transportation Policy and Planning and a B.A. in Global Studies with a Minor in Education Studies from UCLA. Alvin's professional experience includes interning for Chattel prior to advancing as an Associate, working with cultural community - based organizations in Historic Filipinotown and Little Tokyo, and engaging in the production of events such as the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and CicLAvia. At Chattel, Alvin has drafted historic resource assessments and historic context statements; conducted neighborhood and property research, field surveys, and DPR documentation; and produced graphics such as significant space diagrams and alteration maps to support various assessments and reports. In 2018, Alvin received a Student Scholarship to attend the National APIA Historic Preservation Forum in San Francisco. At UCLA, his master's capstone project focused on identifying ways to support teachers, educators, and parents, in introducing urban planning topics to elementary school -aged children. For his work, he received a Shapiro Fellowship and was selected by the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies as a student grantee. Alvin is passionate about making urban planning concepts and ideas more accessible to people of all ages and sees good design as a way of connecting to people from different backgrounds.