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