I currently work for SCJ as an on-call contractor for architectural illustration and landscape architectural or planning support.

I specialize in architectural illustration, urban design, land use planning, and work at all scales.My clients include nonprofit, public, and private sectors. Projects include writing and illustrating design guidelines, comprehensive plans.I help people with spatial problem solving and ideation.

As a Wright Hand Designs contractor I have been reporting to the managing principals and studio directors of BCRA as my clients since 2016. In addition to my other client work, we continued to collaborate on projects including planning, design, illustration and feasibility studies.

Directed maintenance and repairs of historic buildings now used as a neighborhood community center.Oversaw property management of five properties owned by the Phinney Neighborhood Association (PNA), including senior centers, daycare center, community meeting house, and two main buildings on the national historic register.Managed staff for community programs, custodial staff, and leasing agreements with PNA tenantsProject management: determined construction repairs, wrote contracts, hired contractors for grounds and building repairsEnsured public safety was priority #1: opened and closed facilties, maintained, replaced locks, lighting, on doors and accessory buildings.

Lead designer for complex projects from mixed use urban design, zoos, retail and commercial markets. • Developed multi-modal transportation plans, concepts for Tacoma Dome District transit hub• Performed urban waterfront studies analyzing shoreline management act influence on plans.• Advocated for sustainable green building technologies before their appearance on market.• Researched and taught courses on green roof technology and design, wind energy and solar. • Actively participated in public presentations and team / consultant design charrettes. • Researched and wrote papers on vacant lands redevelopment in the US as potential market.• Wrote, edited, illustrated, and analyzed reports, fee proposals, RFPs, and RFQs. • Mentored coworkers and creatively problem solved project issues.

Established nonprofit sustainable community planning advocacy.Researched literature on Peak Oil and promoting reduced neighborhood reliance on fossil fuelsDeveloped and ran community events, sustainability fairs, public lecturesPublic speaking to neighborhood groups and local government presentationsStarted regional conversations that led to Sustainable Communities All Over Puget Sound (SCALLOPS)

I worked as part of a design team for the Rainier Valley Light Rail line from SeaTac Airport to downtown Seattle. I also performed streetscape revitalization design and planning for the Shoreline Multimodal Corridor along Highway 99 (Aurora Avenue) from Seattle to Lynnwood, Washington, and helped design the bus transfer station at the northern end. I was also a principal designer, writer and illustrator for the Green River Design Guidelines in Tukwila, and assisted in the creation of several master plans including Kenmore Washington. As lead designer for the Pierce County Public Utilities new headquarters in Chambers Creek Properties (City of University Place, WA), my role was to assist siting of the new building by Miller/Hull Architects, and develop designs for gateway entrances to the Chambers Bay golf course and peripheral walking trails. As part of this study, I wrote sections of the Chambers Creek Properties Master Plan.

I assumed presidency and ownership of a crime prevention company aimed at teaching Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) principles to police officers and municipal staff from various local jurisdictions around Vancouver, BC. Through AAG Inc. I conducted crime risk assessment studies in New West Minster, BC and in Seattle Washington, analyzing statistical data from law enforcement and planning agencies, to show the actual risk of crime in neighborhoods versus the perceived risk of crime. I also presented findings and research papers at national conferences on crime prevention.

I worked as an urban design planner for a small city east of Vancouver, BC on the banks of the Fraser River. I collaborated with planners from the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) on regional trails master plans as they passed through the City of New Westminster, along rail road rights of way and a working waterfront, with properties the city wanted to purchase. I participated in design reviews and transportation corridor meetings with designers of the new Millennium elevated rail line connecting Burnaby BC with Coquitlam and participated in community presentations of the impacts that line had on local neighborhoods. This work resulted in a new linear foreshore park built by the provincial government in exchange for using their right of way which was used as a riverfront trail by citizens. I also performed crime risk assessment studies of neighborhoods using statistical analyses of police data and citizen interviews, wrote reports with recommendations for urban safety. Along with this I helped develop a bicycle plan for the city with staff transportation planners.

Worked as a municipal employee in charge of reviewing development plans and landscape plans for approval and implementation. Coordinated with planners and elected officials on township street tree program which I administered. I planned, wrote specifications and bid documents for skateboard and parks related projects I designed, and managed construction to finish projects. I performed inspections of development projects for commercial, retail, mixed use and multifamily housing.

Landscape ArchitectureUrban DesignSite Management and AnalysisConstruction Documentation

I worked as an Intern Landscape Architect, Urban Designer in very urban Vancouver, BC. I gained valuable experience in landscape architecture in a region with so much innovative transportation and city planning activity around me. It was at this time I became intensely interested in urban design with respect to rapid transit, and wanted to do more in this area.

My first full time job with a small landscape architecture firm in Portland Maine, after graduate school. My responsibilities included site planning, design development, project management, I also was in charge of my own client relations, town planning and urban design, Projects ranged from Locally around southern Maine to golf courses and New Hampshire town planning.