Jason Ayles
Architectural Technologist/Architecture Student
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About
Jason Ayles is a businessman with experience managing commercial properties and service-based businesses. His marketing, business management, and real estate background have helped him achieve high levels of success.
Jason is passionate about real estate, building, maintaining, renovating, buying, and selling. He considers himself a ‘forever student,’ eager to learn better building practices and creative solutions to modern-day problems. He enrolled in the RAIC Syllabus Architecture program in 2020 to continue his real estate education with the goal of becoming a licensed architect.
Jason is a student in SAIT’s Architecture Technology Program, he has completed Semester I as of December 2022 and has maintained a 4.0 GPA.
Jason is seeking an architecture internship in 2024 when he completes his diploma in Architecture Technology. As part of the RAIC Syllabus program, he needs to log 9800 hours under a licensed Architect to complete the program.
Jason is a focused and driven individual that can adapt to different working conditions. He works well with varying personality types and is not afraid to ask questions or get clarification on projects.
Experience
2011-Present
Business Owner – J.J.D.K. Properties Ltd
Trail, British Columbia- Own and manage two commercial properties with five commercial tenants and six residential apartments.
- Find tenants for commercial properties and solve problems for their business using design and location
- Maintain building systems to limit tenant interruption
- Purchase and Sell Commercial Property
- Renovate spaces to solve commercial tenants' issues and improve the residential apartment tenant experience.
2010-Present
Portfolio Manager – C2 Properties Ltd
Salmon Arm, British Columbia- I maintain a Real Estate and Investments portfolio of 6 million dollars.
- Manage commercial tenants, and buy and sell properties.
- Bookwork and annual reporting for the government of Canada and the Province of British Columbia
2009-2020
Small Business Owner – Trail Martial Arts Ltd
Trail, British Columbia- Started the business from scratch and built it up to two locations in two cities with 16 employees.
- Passionately taught martial arts to all ages and competed locally and internationally.
- Built systems so the business could be replicated and run without my direct supervision.
- Sold the company in 2020.
Education
2022-present
Architecture Technologies Diploma
Two-year programSouthern Alberta Institute of Technology (S.A.I.T.)
Calgary, Alberta
- Maintaining a 4.0 GPA
- Completed Semester I for Research and design, technology, science, and systems.
- Completed Technical Communications
2020-present
R.A.I.C. Syllabus Diploma in Architecture
Three-part programUniversity of Athabasca and R.A.I.C.
Calgary, Alberta
- Maintaining a 3.7 GPA
- Completed courses in Architecture History, Structures, Materials and application, and Architecture Design Theory
- Completed four R.A.I.C. Syllabus design studios with local Calgary licensed architects.
- Completed Part I of the program in August 2022