Provide landscape architectural services for a variety of clients, including architects, businesses, contractors and homeowners; manage all operational aspects of the company.

Designed residential, commercial and institutional landscape plans; met with customers to establish their project goals; measured properties and created CAD drawings of existing sites; researched and developed landscape solutions tailored to the site and the customer; rendered plans for presentations; prepared cost estimates; presented proposals to potential clients; oversaw landscape installations to ensure quality; worked with a tech group to re-design the company website.

Designed residential and commercial landscape and planting plans; met with customers to establish their landscape project goals; measured properties and created AutoCAD base drawings; designed landscapes and prepared cost proposals; presented work to clients; coordinated and managed landscape installations to ensure quality; created an advertising brochure in Photoshop for the company's holiday seasonal goods and services.

Assisted with the processing and preparation of employee opinion surveys and Affirmative Action Plans; assisted with various projects and office work. This was a temporary, part time job on a help-as-needed basis.

Worked the front desk; answered phones; created production planning worksheets for new customer orders; coordinated shipment dates/schedules; created Certificates of Analysis from lab testing data; created lot packet files for records of each shipment; provided price quotes for customers; ensured customer satisfaction.

Worked in residential, commercial, campus, and park design sectors; designed planting, hardscape, layout and grading plans; prepared tree inventory, preservation, and relocation plans; prepared support sections/elevations and 3-D computer renderings in SketchUp; met with clients and city/county approval boards and committees; coordinated designs with Architects and Civil Engineers; prepared construction details and documents; prepared permit submittal packets and obtained permits; assisted with plan checking, cost estimating, and bid facilitation; conducted construction observation and maintenance inspections; photographed installed landscapes for company portfolio; hand-selected plants from nurseries at request of clients.

Maintained the grounds including pruning, planting, mowing and weeding; led the installation of a new sodding project for a children’s play area.

Worked to eradicate invasive species and re-vegetate with native species; maintained plants at native plant nursery through watering, re-potting, seed-sowing, and seed cleaning; collected native plant seeds; conducted plant surveys/assisted with research; assisted with two youth programs (the SAMO Youth Team & Eco-Helpers); researched and designed a fire-safe, ethnobotanic garden for the park’s cultural museum and led the construction of the garden; served as counselor to SAMO Youth program students during two work trips to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks and Channel Islands National Park.

Maintained planting beds through watering, pruning, weed control, mulching, and plant replacement; installed and contributed design input on new planting beds; identified and eradicated invasive species around the course; maintained native grasses and forbs; assisted in irrigation and drainage system repair; assisted in the maintenance of an artificial pond system.

Was responsible for manual watering; re-tagged, inventoried, and organized plant material; re-potted and pruned plant material; assisted customers; tended the cash register.