Gubernatorial appointment to State licensing board responsible for oversight of licensure and regulation of all North Carolina landscape architects and landscape architectural corporations.

Founded in 2008, STACH pllc is a preservation landscape architecture and planning firm based in Asheville, North Carolina. With many notable works of preservation and design to its credit and in collaboration with allied professionals, the firm actively seeks collaboration, and creative opportunities with those interested in cultivating an understanding and enduring vision for treasured spaces.Count | Cultivate | Conserve | Create These words establish the framework inherent in our approach to preservation and design and reflect the firm's training, experience and passion. Together they establish an approach we call... Preservation Through Design. Collaboration: The future of any historic space is neither envisioned overnight, nor in isolation. Effective partnerships with allied professionals and thought leaders in preservation and design foster strong relationships and employ the collective wisdom of our project teams to produce enduring results. We are fortunate to both lead and work side-by-side with like-minded professionals, and look forward to future collaborations with those interested to pursue sustainable futures for valued places.

In 2017 STACH supported the American Battlefield Trust in their role as Administrative Secretariat to the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission; the Congressional Commission tasked to lead commemorative planning for the Nation’s 250th anniversary. Since award in early 2018 Mr. Stach has worked to support the America 250 Foundation, the designated non-profit partner staffing the work of the Commission. Mr. Stach has served in numerous capacities to establish the start-up non-profit. Current efforts include the development of National Signature Programs for what is heralded as the Nation’s largest peace-time commemoration in history.

Project manager and facilitator for regional battlefield preservation workshops throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Board of Directors, advocacy and outreach for North Carolina, Virginia

Associate of Asheville NC office, Project Manager, and Associate-in-Charge, managing over three million in professional fees and over sixty percent of office staff. Assisted in securing long term clients, and elevating the office and the firm's inclusion of historic preservation and treatment of cultural landscapes across a diverse project portfolio.

Preservation landscape architect, serving as project manager for the rehabilitation of nationally significant designed landscapes and historic sites. Significant projects include Jefferson's Poplar Forest, Virginia State Capital, Mount Lebanon Shaler Village, Lincoln Cottage, Shelburne Farms, Camden Amphitheatre and Harbor Park, US Supreme Court Annex

Landscape Architect managing over fifty projects for the studio ranging from campus planning, to downtown reahbilitation projects. Made strides in developing long-term client base and advancing the firm's portfolio of campus planning work. Key member of two award winning projects VA, ASLA.

Cultural landscape specialist managing the 1996 Cultural Landscape Report on interpretation and preservation treatment for the historic North Woods at Antietam National Battlefield.