Erik Olson Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon Area

New York, New York

Borough Planner in the Manhattan Office of the Dept. of City Planning, acting as liaison to Community District 7 (Upper West Side).

Portland, Oregon Area

Project management for the Other Essential Facilities & Systems chapter of the Citywide Systems Plan, the infrastructure component of the City of Portland’s Comprehensive Plan update. Assisted with the development of a Scope of Work, budget and Request for Proposals for a facility redevelopment project at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland’s Rose.

Portland, Oregon Area

Alderwood Community Planning (ACP) is a consulting team made up of six PSU Master of Urban and Regional Planning students. ACP was hired by Living Cully: A Cully Ecodistrict, a coalition of community-based organizations, to develop strategies to prevent displacement and increase access to opportunity for low-income residents and populations of color in.

Portland, Oregon Area

Assisted with development and analysis for the Regional Equity Atlas 2.0 project, an interactive mapping tool highlighting the spatial manifestation of various indicators of social justice, public health, equity and other regional disparities.

Assisted Dr. Karen Gibson with furthering her research on the Albina District, with a specific focus on the 1993 Albina Plan and its impact on gentrification and displacement in the area.

Performed regular communications and outreach work; coordinated a project conducting research to develop local food distribution solutions involving the use of farmers’ markets as temporary aggregation nodes.

Organized community outreach events, managed PSU’s EcoWiki website and coordinatednew volunteers for the PSU Sustainability Volunteer Program.

Performed administrative work, accounting tasks, client correspondence and assisted in LEED certifications for this temporary, non-profit position through Park Personnel at the Transportation Management Association of San Francisco.

Performed design, drafting, and rendering of landscape documents, construction details, sketches and presentation documents for projects in the San Francisco Bay Area. Position also involved research of codes and ordinances, site analysis, land-use diagramming, handling requests for information, project correspondence and coordination between a variety of.

Organized station-wide meetings, gave weekly presentations, performed data entry, managed promotions, selected music to go on the airwaves, and kept in correspondence with promoters at Cal Poly's college radio station.

Spent the summer installing landscape features and servicing various sites in the Paso Robles area, including oak and pond preservation work on the Eberle vineyards property.

Spent the summer at a mineral engineering firm in their product research and development laboratory. I helped test new equipment, analyzed and examined mineral samples, and performed data entry.

Masters, Urban & Regional Planning

Activities and Societies: Volunteer at Sustainability Leadership Center, Communications Director for PSU Urban Planning Club. Member of.

Bachelors Of Landscape Architecture, Landscape Architecture

Four quarters of Civil Engineering: Design Principles in Civil Engineering, Calculus I - IV, Physics Concentration of Study in Cultural.