experience

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECT MANAGER / M&R HOLDINGS

  • Managing designer in town center planning for new 500+ acre development in Maine

  • Design and build master sign plan and master trails plan

  • Work in collaboration with town agencies, planning board and council members, and stakeholder groups to ensure a value-aligned approach to the town’s largest single development in its history

  • Coordinate subcontracting engineering, design, and construction teams to execute development projects

PRINCIPAL PLANNER - ASSOCIATE PLANNER / BASELINE ENGINEERING CORP.

  • Lead projects of multiple sizes, overseeing the progress of community planning and private entitlements, land surveying, and civil engineering departments for a high-volume firm serving clients in both the public and private sectors

  • Support client relationships and manage project goals, timelines, and budgets

  • Design landscape plans, illustrative graphics, and marketing materials

DESIGN CONSULTANT / INDEPENDENT

  • Advise in the development of property site planning and landscape design for individual clients including scope, contract, and management for private property projects

  • Manage and direct design charrettes and client expectations throughout design processes

  • Produce final deliverable documents in AutoCAD and Adobe Suite for site plan mapping

OPERATIONS and PROJECT MNGMT / ATHENA DEVELOPERS

  • Guided team in brand development exercises for startup development and property management company producing final logo art, email signatures, and branding system guidelines

  • Illustrate and deliver company design decks

  • Supervise client services in long-range projects

DIRECTOR of MARKETING and SALES DIRECTOR / STRONGWATER BOTANICALS

  • Mobilized a brand movement around a cocktail bitters startup company through marketing, co-branding, and networking professional and personal connections on a national scale

  • Engaged and sustained a growing community of dedicated customers, building national presence from one to over thirty state markets, growing and managing all regional sales teams

  • Secured and oversaw all subcontracting designers, printers, and packaging production companies

  • Outlined and executed evolving business and sales strategies for fresh, imaginative approaches to market

TRANSPORTATION DESIGNER / ALTA PLANNING AND DESIGN

  • Lead planner and designer at bicycle-pedestrian transportation firm promoting  safe, accessible, and equitable communities through public engagement, consulting in policy, and collaborative design

  • Designed long-range bicycle and pedestrian transportation master plans for cities and groups across Colorado including Denver, Aspen, Boulder, Glenwood Springs, and Roaring Fork Transit Authority

  • Led development and management of varied outreach and survey tools aimed at gathering and analyzing transit user experiences in underserved communities across the state of Colorado

  • Proposed solutions for investment in transit infrastructure through data, graphics, and mappings

INTERN / DENVER DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP

  • Data collection, urban mapping, and research in pedestrian amenities within the Denver Downtown Business Improvement District

  • Analyzed data to make recommendations to City departments on improvements and future design considerations

WAITSTAFF, BARTENDER, CONSULTANT / EDIBLE BEATS

  • Served at award-winning restaurant company on lead bartending and waitstaff teams

  • Directed the layout and construction of three-season restaurant gardens

RECREATION PLANNER / PITKIN COUNTY OPEN SPACE AND TRAILS

  • Developed and administered tools for massive community outreach efforts to gather user experience data

    for underserved communities in an otherwise highly priced community in Colorado

  • Authored and presented representational graphics and reports for public and council consideration

PLANNING INTERN / DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION

  • Development of the Denver Zoo master plan rewrite

  • Designed and led programming on project blog

  • Lead manager on small capital projects in planning and design

DISTRICT TEAM LEADER / COLORADO CENTER FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

  • Led team of landscape architects and planners in design of new playgrounds and educational schoolyards for the Active Schoolyards Active Minds grant project

  • Led and presented in front of community focus groups and public meetings of up to 300 people

  • Drafted cost estimates and construction documents

  • Coordinated with district and municipal offices and firm principals for construction development

MEMBERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INTERN / NONPROFIT CENTERS NETWORK AT TIDES FOUNDATION

  • Support the outreach and education work of organization members in the public and nonprofit sectors with resources, professional networks, and standards to better serve their goals

  • Developed the new Whole Earth Resource Center library collection for members throughout the country

LEAD WAIT STAFF AND BARTENDER / CASABLANCA

  • Iconic Harvard Square, Cambridge restaurant and bar; lead bartender and dining-room server

POLICY INTERN / NEXUS and THE GREEN ROUNDTABLE

  • Aiding in an independent non-profit whose mission is mainstreaming green building and sustainable development using the tools of education, technical assistance and policy

  • Developed physical and online digital resources library for sustainable building products and services for city officials, municipal teams, contractors, and home owners

CONSTRUCTION TEAM MEMBER / EASTWARD COMPANIES

  • Supported on-site framing, carpentry, painting, finishing crews in home and commercial construction business across Cape Cod