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Architecture, Design, Construction, Real Estate and Brand Consulting

Seattle, WA, US

Design Leader Overseeing Multiple Design Studios / Regions Studios - NYC | Miami | Chicago | Dallas | Seattle | Toronto | Montreal | Vancouver Regions - NE, New York Metro, SE, Florida, South Central, Mid West, Mid America, Mid Atlantic, South America, Central America, Caribbean, Canada and all US License Stores175 person Design Team overseeing approx 2700.

Seattle, WA, US

Design Leader Overseeing Multiple Design Studios / Regions Studios - NYC | Miami | Chicago | Dallas Regions - NE, New York Metro, SE, Florida, South Central, Mid West, Mid America, South America, Central America, Caribbean115 person Design Team overseeing approx. 1400 (New Stores, Renovations, and Relocations)

Seattle, WA, US

Design Leader Overseeing Multiple Design Studios / Regions Studios - NYC | Miami | Chicago | Dallas | Mexico City | Sao PauloRegions - NE, New York Metro, SE, Florida, South Central, Mid West, Mid America, South America, Central America, Caribbean115 person Design Team overseeing 1400 Store Designs for FY16

Seattle, WA, US

Seattle, WA, US

Seattle, WA, US

Seattle, WA, US

• Creative oversight, leading a 10 person, in-house team that creates, develops and executes locally-relevant store environments that align with the Starbucks global design strategy.
• Design Leadership: Mentor design partners by providing them with consistent design education, review, and critique design projects in partnership with the senior design manager; provide all members of the team with.
• Keep up with knowledge of regional trends, communicate/educate the teams and translate into or appropriately influence our store design in the markets. Lead design charettes and provide insight into design trends.
• Act as connection point between concept team and regional designers. Ensure two-way communication with updates & ongoing training. Understand what concepts is working on & provide appropriate & timely feedback. Act as.
• Lead / manage design initiative projects to be deployed/rolled out to regions; provide feedback to global team on projects impacting markets.
• Support concept team understanding of regions to support local relevance

• Founder, principal and owner of a virtual architecture / design / construction management business. In response to the economic downturn of 2008, I created a virtual business model that mitigated risk and maximized.
• Created, designed, permitted and provided construction management services for 10,000 sq. ft. facility
• Vanquish Nightclub. www.vanquishlounge.com Created, designed, permitted and provided construction management services for 10,000 sq. ft. facility
• Represented Gidewon Group in zoning hearings regarding public opposition from numerous high profile project opponents, including the powerful Midtown Alliance and the City of Atlanta.
• Compound Nightclub. www.compoundatl.com Designed and provided construction mgmt services for a 20,000 sq. ft. nightclub in Atlanta GA.
• Family Dog. http://thefamilydogatlanta.com Design services for a neighborhood Restaurant and Bar in Atlanta, Ga.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Architect for Cooper Carry’s Retail Specialty Practice Group. Managed an integrated team of architects, interior and graphic designers specializing in the design of all types of retail facilities including department.
• Houston Galleria Mall Renovation. Project Manager for tremendously complex, four year, $60 million, 100,000 sq. ft. renovation to the Houston Galleria located in Houston Texas. Converted a two story Lord and Taylor.
• Quaker Bridge Mall Expansion. Lead Design Architect for Simon Properties project in Lawrence Township, New Jersey. Designed a proposed 600,000 sq. ft. project to add Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom as tennants, along with.

• Founder, principal and owner of a boutique architecture firm that developed into a full service architecture / design / real estate development and design-build construction business.
• Responsible for all aspects of business operations including, but not limited to, developing and maintaining work systems and processes, developing and maintaining company policies and procedures, developing and.
• Assembled a multi-disciplinary team of 18 professional architects, designers, developers, and contractors as ongoing project resources.
• Developed a lucrative purchasing revenue center for the business.
• Improved design process by outsourcing, resulting in generating more studies, faster and cheaper.
• Established a satellite office in Bangkok, Thailand as an outsourcing post to modulate workload fluctuations. Created model to sustain location’s profitability.

Atlanta, US

While at Ai Group, I worked on the design and production of high rise residential towers, hotels and misc. commercial projects. Responsible for complex layout of hospitality “Tent Village’ for approximately 50 top Olympic sponsors at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games - Atlanta GA. Required ongoing dialogue with each sponsor for needs assessment and allowing.

Project Architect for the Johnson Studio, a small boutique design firm that is nationally recognized for producing award winning, unique and extraordinary restaurants. While at the Johnson Studio, I learned all aspects of design services from conceptual development, architecture / interior design, to lighting design, to furnishings and material purchasing.