My professional practice encompasses policy development, planning, and design. As the US Army Corps of Engineer’s Director of Sustainable Design, I have written 27 national policies to support a more sustainable planning, architecture, and construction process. Since then, I have written the national Unified Facilities Criteria for Area Development Planning (2-100-04) and for Planning and Resiliency (2-100-03) (in publication). In my current position as a Senior Architect and Urban Planner for the Urban Collaborative, I have worked on 15 architectural designs, seven comprehensive master plans, 19 sustainability component plans, seven area development plans, 13 area development execution plans, 2 environmental impact states/assessments, and two feasibility studies.

Further, I have augmented my practice with professional service covering two constructed architectural designs, three master plans, and one policy study. I am currently the elected Chair of the Humanitarian Planning Committee and the Chair-at-Large for the International Planning Division for the American Planning Association. From 2011-14, I was elected to two terms as the U.S. Green Building Council’s Board of Directors for the National Capital Region. In this capacity, I helped to develop a tri-state council to address federal agencies’ unique facility and site concerns.

The following are selections of design and planning projects I’ve worked on in the past 15 years:

National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)

    • Area Development Execution Plan for Boulder Laboratories, CO
      (206 acres, 34 structures)
    • Area Development Execution Plan for Gaithersburg Campus, MD
      (579 acres, 62 structures)
    • Integrated Implementation Plan Feasibility Study (40-year strategic projection)
    • Project Manager/ Senior Architect & Urban Planner/Charette Facilitator
    • The Urban Collaborative, 2019-2020

Naval Air Station Lemoore (NASL), CA 

    • Functional Analysis Concept Design for Avionics Repair Facility (83,000 sf facility)
    • Nodal Component Plan (2 airport runways, 195-acres, 36 structures)
    • Project Manager/ Senior Architect & Urban Planner/Charette Facilitator
    • The Urban Collaborative, 2017-2018

    US Army Fort Hood, TX

      • 8 Sustainability Component Plan overlays (214,000 acres)
      • Sustainability Technical Lead/Charette Facilitator
      • The Urban Collaborative, 2014-2016

      National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

        • Johnson Space Center Area Development Plan, Sustainability Component Plan, Area Development Execution Plan (1,620 acres, 47 structures)
        • Sonny Carter Training Facility/Ellington Field Area Development Plan, Sustainability Component Plan, Area Development Execution Plan (2,362 acres)
        • White Sands Test Facility Area Development Plan, Sustainability Component Plan, Area Development Execution Plan (600,000 acres)
        • Integrated Development Plan
        • Architect & Urban Planner/Sustainability Technical Lead/Charette Facilitator
        • The Urban Collaborative, 2015-17

      Schools for Orphans in Uganda Project at Nabikabala Village, Uganda 

            • Area Development Plan (25 acres, 7 facilities)
            • Functional Analysis Concept Design for Secondary Classrooms/Auditorium
              (12,400 sf facility)
            • Net Zero Strategic Plan
            • Principal Architect & Planner
            • Independent, 2014

      Martin Army Community Hospital at Fort Benning, GA 

            • Design-Build Project (65-acres, 745,000 sf facility)
            • Project Engineer/Sustainability Technical Lead
            • US Army Corps of Engineers, 2009-11

      The ReachOUT House at Emerald Village, OR

            • Design-Bid-Build Project (160 sf facility)
            • Principal Architect, Project Manager, Construction Lead
            • Independent, 2017-19

      Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan 

        • Vision Plan
        • 6 Functional Analysis Concept Designs (totaling over 100,000 sf in facilities)
        • 1 Area Development Plan (1,600 acres)
        • Quality Assurance, Architect
        • The Urban Collaborative, 2018-19

      US Army Garrison Hawaii

        • 5 Sustainability Component Plans
        • 1 Area Development Execution Plans
        • Sustainability Technical Lead, Planner
        • The Urban Collaborative, 2015

      US Army Reserve Forces Training Area, Camp Parks, CA

            • Sustainability Component Plan (2,500 acres)
            • Functional Analysis Concept Design for Reserve Training Center (64,000 sf facility)
            • Sustainability Technical Lead, Architect
            • The Urban Collaborative, 2014-15

      US Army Fort Leonard Wood, MO

        • 2 Functional Analysis Concept Designs (120,000 sf facilities)
        • 2 Area Development Plans (450 acres)
        • 1 Comprehensive Master Plan
        • Project Manager, Senior Planner, Architect
        • US Army Corps of Engineers, 2010-11

        US Solar Decathlon, DC

          • Icarus House (800 sf facility)
          • Architectural Designer
          • Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-8

          US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Emergency Centers, DC

            • Planning Resilience Centers (43,740 acres)
            • Planner
            • Architecture for Humanity, 2013-14