Over a decade of Architecture and construction, both as employee and business owner, have taught Ace many valuable lessons. Lesson #1: Life is the sum of our relationships. Whether it’s Clients, Contractors, or Consultants, worth comes from the value we offer each other. Value grows as we offer more of what the other side needs and shrinks when we can’t. Every interpersonal interaction tells a story about ourselves and what we mean to each other. Lesson #2: Services are meant to produce… Show more Over a decade of Architecture and construction, both as employee and business owner, have taught Ace many valuable lessons. Lesson #1: Life is the sum of our relationships. Whether it’s Clients, Contractors, or Consultants, worth comes from the value we offer each other. Value grows as we offer more of what the other side needs and shrinks when we can’t. Every interpersonal interaction tells a story about ourselves and what we mean to each other. Lesson #2: Services are meant to produce solutions and those solutions should outnumber problems. Conflicts are inevitable but there are always multiple perspectives on and approaches to addressing them. Finding the best one is tough, because we’re human, but necessary, because we must make progress. Lesson #3: Entitlement spawns delusion. Any Architect not putting Client needs and the safety of stakeholders first isn’t an ally; they’re a liability. This means seeking and maintaining the relationships necessary to fulfill our most basic, professional function in a complex industry; cooperate. Empathy requires experience and we owe people occupying and financing projects both. Ace is honored to join Atlantic-AE, LLC to continue bringing adaptable, dependable, and relatable services directly to Clients who pay for results and outcomes, not drama. Show less

Having recently started my own company offering Architecture and BIM Consulting services, I’ve learned how necessary practicality, clear communication, and trust are to project completion. Services are meant to produce solutions and those solutions should outnumber a Client’s problems 3 to 1. There are always multiple angles of attack on problems and finding the best one takes teamwork and ego-control. Entitlement spawns delusion. Architects direct builders what to build when they haven’t built… Show more Having recently started my own company offering Architecture and BIM Consulting services, I’ve learned how necessary practicality, clear communication, and trust are to project completion. Services are meant to produce solutions and those solutions should outnumber a Client’s problems 3 to 1. There are always multiple angles of attack on problems and finding the best one takes teamwork and ego-control. Entitlement spawns delusion. Architects direct builders what to build when they haven’t built anything themselves. This means seeking and maintaining relationships necessary to fulfill our most basic function: Cooperate. Empathy requires experience and we owe the clients paying our grocery bills both. Wayside was created in order to bring practicality and objectivity back to a profession ripe with divas trading fee for fame. I founded my own company to bring adaptable, dependable, no-nonsense services directly to Clients who want results, not drama. Show less

Blue Star Integrative Studio is an Indigenous American-owned, small business enterprise committed to quality design, environmental excellence, and smart community building. We represent ​a ​team-focused, interdisciplinary professional design practice, ​offering a variety of services.

Blue Star Studio Inc is an Indigenous American owned, small business enterprise committed to quality design and smart community building. We represent a team-focused, interdisciplinary professional design practice, offering a variety of services.

My induction into the productive and collaborative aspect of Architecture. As a youngblood at a traditional firm, I absorbed information at light speed. A natural innovator, I not only acquired ritual, I analyzed and updated practices, regardless of personal financial reward. Academia sparked the creative fire but working my first job in this field secured the burn. The seriousness with which the traditional process of Construction Document production and the quality control thereof was… Show more My induction into the productive and collaborative aspect of Architecture. As a youngblood at a traditional firm, I absorbed information at light speed. A natural innovator, I not only acquired ritual, I analyzed and updated practices, regardless of personal financial reward. Academia sparked the creative fire but working my first job in this field secured the burn. The seriousness with which the traditional process of Construction Document production and the quality control thereof was imprinted upon the entire team. Documents going out the door were seen as the measure of one's soul and serious minds created legit outcomes.With the firm’s leaders looking to modernize their ways, be it for recruitment, profitability, or both, I volunteered for the responsibility of introducing BIM and transitioning other software to the cloud. This, it turns out, is not easy. With centuries worth of the firm's habits and the classic 'digital divide' in place, I diplomatically analyzed and remedied the too-common standard array of siloed data, 2D drafting, unorganized communications, local-only file storage, etc. For BIM, digitally pre-building the project represented a philosophical shift for a firm. It meant that participating staff had to know more about what they're doing and self-police. It meant folks couldn't bullshit their way into Construction Documents to the chagrin of every Contractor involved. It called for technical knowledge, previously reserved for mid-range and beyond, to exist in the brains of the traditional worker bee. Unlike many BIM experts in small firms, I didn't spoon feed the group. My approach was to either do it or don't. After researching and customizing best practices, I created a BIM environment most suitable for the firm's project types. Using a combination of web research, professional consultations, regional conferences and leading lunch meetings, I was able to make both Revit and Google Business Apps both useful and profitable. Show less

Invigorated 1001 Prince street, a historic masonry building, by updating finishes, repairs, details, and electrical connections to the facilities elevated standards. Technologies that allowed for the sharing of information from faculty, staff, students, and visitors within a common area were implemented in a student-led design/build scenario. Utilizing the physical and collaborative resources from one of the nation's best Architecture schools, our team completed the project ahead of both our… Show more Invigorated 1001 Prince street, a historic masonry building, by updating finishes, repairs, details, and electrical connections to the facilities elevated standards. Technologies that allowed for the sharing of information from faculty, staff, students, and visitors within a common area were implemented in a student-led design/build scenario. Utilizing the physical and collaborative resources from one of the nation's best Architecture schools, our team completed the project ahead of both our expectations and the start of the school year. From patch and paint to structure and wire, the W.A.A.C was re-upped once more. Show less

Introduced to the world of residential construction through two summers of residential framing. Used for both brute lifting and rafter calculations, I was embedded in a small team of skilled workers and exposed to the realities and practicalities of building down-river from a construction document set.

Breathing rocky mountain air and pouring concrete for a long December in Colorado. Through a mutual contact, I was introduced to and graciously hosted by the GC as a live-in assistant. The doors of running a small, but efficient building operation were flung open and allowed me to reap upon the knowledge of great professionals but also amazing people.