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Atlanta, Ga, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

As the Program Manager of the Fulton County Public Art Program, I oversee the commissioning, acquisition, and maintenance of art for County facilities, enriching our community with cultural programming. With a legacy dating back to 1993, we have successfully commissioned 70 public art projects and acquired over 700 valuable artworks totaling over $10M. Additionally, we extend our expertise by offering technical assistance to City governments, conducting art-based outreach programs through the award-winning Public Art Futures Lab, #ArtVan, facilitating temporary art projects, and providing educational opportunities for practicing artists. Responsibilities include: - Program Management: Managed a multidisciplinary team and external partners to acquire and implement public art projects worth over $1.5m. Led Georgia’s largest public art program, comprising a portfolio valued at over $10m and 800+ artworks across 77 locations.- Customer, Client and Key Stakeholder Engagement: Engaged in comprehensive customer design and requirements gathering processes, actively ensuring alignment with stakeholder needs and project objectives. Proactively collaborated with C-Suite executives, directors, and leaders in the arts community to deeply understand their requirements and translate them into innovative projects and services.- Program Development and Strategic Initiatives: Created the Public Art Futures Lab, the first government-led design studio exploring the intersection of art and tech. Led the nation’s first Performing Arts and Disability Study, which identified barriers for individuals with disabilities participating as artists and back-of-house staff.- Partnership Development and Dot Connecting: Fostered strategic collaborations with internal departments and external organizations, securing over $200,000 in external funding. Successfully presented compelling business cases to secure annual program funding, exceeding the allocated amounts requested.

Greater Atlanta Area

Supported communities in 4 cities across 3 countries to generate ideas, identify solutions and leverage community assets, tapping into the creative capacity of neighborhoods to identify and address local issues. Highlights include working with Brooklyn-based CaribBEING in the construction of CaribBEING House as well as creating a Little Caribbean Map of Flatbush and developing placemaking concepts for an Atlanta community organization along with a grant proposal that was successful in receiving funding from the City of Atlanta.

London, United Kingdom

Spearheaded digital infrastructure projects across Europe, demonstrating international project management expertise. Managed logistics and coordinated with teams for successful implementation and operational efficiency.

London, United Kingdom

One year spent in postgraduate study, to challenge my thinking and practice as an urban designer. The Masters in Building and Urban Design in Development (MSc BUDD) emphasises the need to reconsider how we go about planning, designing and building cities.

London, United Kingdom

Provided specialised community engagement knowledge and service across a number of projects including the Sutton Northern Gateway Project and the Strood Town Centre. Led a placemaking and transformational public realm and shop front strategy for Sutton Northern Gateway Project including the use of events focused on three key aspects: placemaking - improving perceptions and experience of the place, prototyping a range of activities and interventions with real-time feedback, and co-designing solutions and designs for the alleyways with the community. In partnership with LBHF successfully applied for funding to improve air quality in the Hammersmith Town Centre as part of the Mayor’s Low Emission Neighbourhoods programme. Our theory of change took a holistic approach to addressing the complexity of air quality. Initiatives included community education and empowerment, public realm interventions and the implementation of a permanent monitoring station that also doubles as an art feature.Project managed the visioning and conceptual stage of the Hammersmith Grove Project, which proposed to create a "street of the future", integrating technology into the public realm. The project also aimed to establish the UK’s first electric vehicle only road.

Perth, Australia

Provided a specialised engagement service within the organisation.Led a place making process to engage with a local community and shopping centre management to develop a shared vision for a privately owned square. This established a number of principles that would shape the future of the site, the surrounding built form and the adjacent tenancies along with a concept plan for the layout.Engaged with retirement village management and residents on a masterplan for the long term redevelopment of their site.Undertook site analysis, stakeholder mapping, and partnered with the community and local authority to develop short and long term master plans for two district level community centres and parks.

Perth, Australia

Perth SOUP’s mission is to promote community-based development through crowdfunding, creativity, collaboration, democracy, trust and fun. Participants donate $10, listen to several groups or organisations pitch an idea they need funding for, vote, eat food and meet like minded community members.

Subiaco

Led a masterplan and development plan for a regional airport and surrounding land, guiding its future for the next 50 years. The plan was based on a two stage implementation process (short and medium term) and identifies a third stage, should the airport facility relocate to another site in the future, thus releasing the remaining land for development. Led a masterplan and development plan for a peri-urban and adjoining horticultural area of national level importance. The plan covers an area of approximately 780ha and identified a number of strategic developments that would enable economic growth in the town, including the creation of a high street anchored by the town’s redeveloped K-12 school, new vocational training centre, an upgraded commercial and retail precinct and high quality public spaces. The plan allowed for an additional population growth of 1,860-2,610 people, 24ha of mixed use, commercial and service industries and 50ha of industrial land that serviced the horticultural region and transport sector. Master planning and urban design at a transit hub in an outer metropolitan area, high street planning, development control guidelines, public realm and landscape strategy, stakeholder and community engagement. The Structure Plan provides the framework to deliver a thriving city centre with the potential to accommodate approximately 24,400 residents in 11,950 new dwellings and 10,472 workers in 140,000sqm of new commercial and retail space.Delivered built form design guidelines for a regional town, responding to a unique environmental setting. A clear process was established for addressing style to ensure that buildings appropriately responded to their context drawing on inspiration from the historical and contextual influences of the town through the use of a style guide.

Perth, Australia

Planning and Policy Development:Local Policy Formation: Developed local planning policies and submissions to State and Local agencies.Documentation: Prepared documentation for the State Administration Tribunal, supporting planning appeals and regulatory compliance.Strategic Growth Planning: Contributed to strategic growth planning, structure planning, and regional town design, ensuring sustainable and effective urban development.Project Management:Secondment to Horizon Power: Served as the Land and Approvals Coordinator for Horizon Power, managing planning approvals for power infrastructure projects, including the US$29 billion Gorgon Gas Project.Stakeholder Consultation: Conducted extensive stakeholder consultation with local government and state agencies to facilitate project approvals and infrastructure development.

Master’S Degree, Msc Building & Urban Design In Development, Distinction

An intensive 12 month programme that immerses students in the theory and practice of urban design and its role in building cities.

Social Impact

Elected to complete two graduate units delivered through the Centre for Social Impact at the UWA Business School in order to improve.

Bachelor Of Arts (Urban And Regional Planning) Honors, Second-Class Honours, Upper Division (Us Grade: A)

Activities and Societies: President of the Town Planning Students Association PIA WA Young Planners Curtin Representative PIA WA Young.