J Douglas Mcwhinnie Email & Phone Number

Denver, Colorado

Any job that needs to be done.

Glendale, Colorado

A new NFT live game

Greater Denver Area

 I design home gardens and roof tops. I have achieved a working knowledge of 500 plant Latin names. In my designs I Incorporate water wise planting, edible landscapes, annuals and perennials, and trees and shrubs. My knowledge of Photoshop, InDesign, AutoCAD, LandFX, Sketchup, GIS and the Microsoft products has allowed me to excel in my designing.

Denver, Colorado

My responsibilities as Parks Horticulturist are to maintain clean, green and safe parks in the Denver Metro Area.*Various duties include weed management throughout the parks. -Tree rings: Chemical application and use of mulch. -Turf: Chemical application, aeration, soil fertility building and seeding. -Gardens: Pest management, hand weeding. -Natural Areas: Biological, Physical, Cultural control.*Tree and shrub care -Analysis of tree quality and structural stability. -Best pruning practices.*Irrigation -Assisting our technician with various irrigation-related issues.*Snow removal -During the winter we open all the parks trails to the people. -Residential Snow Plow*Planing -Every year I work with the city greenhouse to implement plans for new or existing gardens that will improve the environmental quality of the parks.*Equipment Operation -It is my responsibility to run every piece of equipment. -Tractors, Bobcats, Kaboda, Scag, Toro, Jacobs, Gator. -Along with all the hand equipment -Tillers, Chainsaws, String Trimmers, Blowers, Edgers.

Denver, Colorado

I assisted with the planning and general maintenance of the Rosedale parks systems.

Denver South East- Washington Park

Brooklyn

Manhattan, Nyc

• My wife and I had a great opportunity to help with the maintenance of the High Line, designed by Piet Oudolf. Much of my time was spent doing self observations of the design and the usage of the High Line. There was work involved though, such as big teams of us hand shoveling and cracking ice with shovels so the Line could continue to be open during the winter. We could not use melting salts, because of the planting plan. This opened my eyes to the amount of work needed in any great design. It also gave me great skills in problem solving with groups.

Manhattan, New York

• Here I worked on privately owned roof top gardens. My self-motivation pushed me into finding solutions for problems such as: plants falling over in wind storms, roots attaching themselves through the paving, and deciding what plants should stay or go. Working on such a small scale I really needed to be clean and organized. Always putting down drop cloths before the job was a must, because we were guests in other people’s homes. I learned many of the native New York plants, and gained construction skills by having hands on experience.

Logan Utah

• I was to collect water samples during a rain event. The samples were collected from input and output points in parking lots that had designed bio-swales. During every event a site analysis was taken. These samples were then brought to the Utah State University’s water quality lab. There they were inventoried and sampled for heavy metals and toxins. The basis for this is to determine what native plantings filter out toxins.• Later the professor that I was working for was granted an area where construction of chambers filled with specific plantings would receive the storm water runoff from a larger residential/ commercial area. This made sampling easier and more specific. In addition to the previous tests, the plants were collected, dried and tested. I continued to help with this research as well as part of the construction of the site.

Asbestos In Soils

I have had training in the proper protocols of what to due when Asbestos is found in soils.

Master Of Architecture - March, Net Zero Building, 2 Years

Activities and Societies: President of Studio 12:12 Architecture and Planning Club

City Of Denver, Parks And Recreation, Greenbelt

I have received my greenbelt certification from the City of Denver

Bla, Landscape Architecture And Environmental Planning

Activities and Societies: Sigma Lambda Alpha/ Study abroad: Italy, Paris, London, Edinburgh

Gis Certification, Landscape Architecture, A

Associate'S Degree, Graphic Design

Activities and Societies: Full tuition scholarship- Graphic DesignNever completed!