As President and Principal Engineer, I manage the civil engineering and landscape architecture group providing team leadership, mentoring, marketing, project scoping, scheduling, and project management. Utilizing my varied industry experience, I define the company standards for design, documentation, project communication, and delivery.Élan Design Lab, Inc. (Élan) is a team of civil engineers and landscape architects that specialize in site design and development located in the North Loop neighborhood of Minneapolis. We believe that a collaborative atmosphere mixed with responsive team members creates the framework for a successful project. Our company was formed with the vision of bringing value to a project through thoughtful, holistic design. Élan is a service provider to the construction and development marketplace. Clients include regional, state and federal agencies, counties and municipalities, state and local school systems, national corporations, commercial and residential contractors, developers, property owners and other architectural and engineering firms. Élan is fully committed to retaining existing clients and building future relationships based on inspired solutions, technical competency, professionalism, responsiveness, and accountability.Élan is certified as a Targeted Business (TG) small business firm based on its women-owned status through the State of Minnesota Department of Administration, a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE/WBE) through the MN Unified Certification Program, and a Small Woman Business Enterprise (S/WBE) through the Central Certification (CERT) Program.