Matt Lancaster Ms Pla Email & Phone Number

Boulder, CO, US

Denver, Colorado, United States

Denver Metropolitan Area

• In my role I am responsible for:
• Design, management, and production of landscape architecture & planning projects
• Collaboration with visual media, landscape architecture, and architecture team members
• Preparation of construction documents, landscape plans & elevations, irrigation plans, site planning, zoning and planning submittals, design guidelines, and associated professional drawings and documents

Boulder And Denver, Colorado

• As owner and sole proprietor, I manage all creative, business, licensing, marketing, production, and philanthropy aspects. I focus on landscapes, travel, architecture, and conservation.
• By creating new, innovative, and compelling images and products that fill gaps in multiple markets, I improve customer satisfaction and grow my customer base and reach.
• Through direct interaction with customers, sales agents, and vendors I continuously refine my product strategy, vision, and quality to maximize value of my products.
• Through design and maintenance of an organized catalog of over 30,000 images through keywords and other metadata, I respond quickly and efficiently to requests for imagery from organizations such as Miles Partnership.

Greater Denver Area

• I served as senior project manager and landscape designer on multiple design and construction projects focusing on public schools.
• Provided daily oversight, tracking, development, QA/QC, review, and coordination of projects, budgets, correspondence, and meetings to ensure clients’ needs and project goals were met.
• As typical of my duties, I provided day-to-day leadership and production in design and management of staff and resources, ensuring design and construction documents met programmatic, budgetary, scheduling, and public.
• Communicated and interacted with clients and interdisciplinary team members, provided appropriate advice on landscape design and construction-related issues, led and participated in project team meetings, coordinated.
• Initiated and headed a firm-wide program to expand the firm’s expertise in and develop new business in green infrastructure
• Responded nimbly to adjustments to the project schedule for East Middle School Addition and Renovation in Aurora, CO, as client priorities changed and decisions proceeded while city submittal milestones leap-frogged.

Boulder, Colorado, United States

• Link to portfolio of built and planned work: https://remarkableearthlandscape.myportfolio.comAs sole proprietor, I performed all services from inception through completion including writing and negotiating contracts.
• Established and maintained positive client relations through direct personal communications, tailored design responses, and contractor referrals.
• Guided and advised clients to successfully navigate the processes of architectural and historic review boards in their local communities.
• Formulated and negotiated budgets and schedules for subcontractors to meet project fee and schedule goals.
• Developed master plans and phased plans to meet clients' long-term goals and design plans for immediate implementation.
• Increased sales by 500% in a single year by developing a new design servicel in direct response to client needs.

Boulder, Colorado

• As an assistant research scientist with the Coastal Science Team at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, I conducted, published, and presented collaborative research to archive, analyze, and process.
• Worked within federal government protocols, schedules, command structures, and funding sources to acquire and manage resources, establish workflows, ensure quality, document processes, and develop and implement.

Portland, Oregon Area

• As part of a multidisciplinary US-based team, I provided pro bono services for 40-acre Wollega Academy in Dongoro, Ethiopia.
• Provided development vision, growth strategy, and community pride to the Wollega Academy in Dongoro, Ethiopia by integrating services with architects and engineers in development of a master plan, phase one design, and.
• My responsibilities included guiding and developing the landscape design from inception through construction documentation and providing advice to the client representative and to team partners including architects and.
• By collaborating with client representative and consultant partners throughout the planning and design process, I helped resolve issues related to cultural norms and materials’ sourcing, and ensured constructability on.

Portland, Oregon Area

• I served as project manager, lead designer, and local business development team leader on park and institutional design and construction projects for a large regional planning and design firm.
• Led design and construction documentation efforts and provided expert advice to architectural and engineering partners on multiple local and regional park and institutional design projects as both prime and.
• Tracked and managed daily correspondence and coordination among integrated team members through status reports, meeting notes, and communication logs.
• Developed and presented project scopes, schedules, budgets, and staffing requirements to prospective clients through competitive RFP processes with nationally distributed teams, leading to award for Luuwit View Park.
• Hired, managed, and evaluated the work of as many as 4 subconsultants to support clients’ goals.
• Resolved construction budget issues in coordination with project construction managers and recommended corrective actions with respect to budget, schedule, and client interests, including that for a water feature for.

Greater Denver Area

• As project manager and landscape architect in a multidisciplinary planning and design firm, I applied my broad design and management expertise on a wide variety of projects with diverse scales, funding sources.
• Initiated, developed, and delivered planning and design documents, contract documents, specifications, cost estimates and reports for projects with individual fees to $660K and construction budgets to $3M.
• Managed, coordinated, and tracked communications and documentation on +$10M of commercial landscape construction involving architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, and other disciplines from inception through.
• Provided design guidance on landscape architectural improvements to government agencies, non-profits, internal and external architects, engineers, designers, specialist consultants, developers, and contractors for +40.
• Facilitated project development and improvements by obtaining approval of plans from architectural review boards of state universities and private community developers, including the renovation of Farrand Field at the.
• Communicated creative, technical, procedural, and regulatory land development information to stakeholders such as hospital administrators, business owners, developers, and educators.

Greater Denver Area

• I served as a landscape architect and project manager for a multidisciplinary design and planning firm focusing on federal design and planning projects, higher education, healthcare, mixed-use, and institutional.
• Developed, managed, and delivered project proposals, contracts, reports, correspondence, planning and design documents, construction documents and specifications, and cost estimates for projects with fees up to $200K.
• Guided the Byron Rogers Federal Courthouse project in Denver, CO, among others, from inception through completion within budget, schedule, and quality constraints leading to an Honor Award from AIA Denver Chapter.
• For Denver, CO’s 4-block Federal District, I provided design guidance and phased, strategic implementation criteria to federal property managers and guided the master plan through federal review and presentation.
• Presented technical information to non-technical stakeholders such as city councils and educators, such as the City of Lone Tree City Council during rezoning hearings for Sky Ridge Medical Center, Lone Tree, CO.

Bachelor Of Landscape Architecture

Master Of Science, Geology

Bachelor Of Science, Geology