• Responsible for all aspects of design and business management including procuring work, collaborating with other consultants, and managing landscape installations. Projects include small-scale institutional work and several high-end residential projects in Virginia, Washington DC, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and California.

• Worked with HG to manage the expansion of services to include Civil Engineering as well as Landscape Architecture.• Managed 7-person department comprised of landscape architects and engineers.• Oversaw design, engineering, project and budget management, and installation of all firm projects.• Developed and managed client relationships.

• Head of a 9-person department within a 300-person architecture firm.• Responsible for hiring and managing landscape department staff; leading design and project/budget management of all projects; developing collaborative relationships with the architecture partners in the office, pursuing new work for the office together with the architecture partners.• Project types include campus and institutional, high-end residential, resort, corporate, and public, with landscape construction budgets ranging from $1 million to $20 million. Projects were located around the world in Kazakhstan, Turkey, and France as well as in all regions of the United States.

• Project Manager and Designer for high-end residential projects in locations including Chilmark, MA; Los Angeles, CA; Bedminster, NJ; Honolulu, HI; and Millbrook, NY.

• Project Manager and Project Landscape Architect for university and corporate campus projects across the country and internationally. Budgets ranged from $3 million to $11 million. • Interviewed for new work; made design presentations before public-approvals bodies; did marketing and business development; wrote and negotiated contracts• Managed subcontractors including lighting, graphics, irrigation, and associate landscape architects• Wrote office promotional material, proposals, and entries for design competitions• Produced presentation drawings, design studies, grading plans, plant research and planting plans, cost estimates, field reports; performed submittal review and construction observation

• Project Manager and Project Landscape Architect for projects including the Dayton Residence, Minneapolis, MN; the Portland Eastbank Riverfront Park, Portland, OR; and Sigma Sigma Amphitheater and Campus Green at University of Cincinnati, OH• Wrote and negotiated contracts; produced cost estimates, design studies, models, plant research and planting plans, grading studies, CAD and hand-rendered plans, 3D CAD drawings• Wrote office promotional material, proposals, and entries for design competitions

• Represented fiction and non-fiction writers. Marketed and sold book, reprint, article, and audio rights; wrote and negotiated contracts; evaluated and edited manuscripts; worked with authors to develop book and article proposals.

• Reported, researched, and wrote articles for this start-up technology business newspaper (since acquired by the Washington Post); edited, copy edited, proofread, coordinated production, did page layout, managed columnists