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PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE To be a project or group manager for projects that add community value.

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION * Short courses of Note: Courses leading to a Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in Real Estate Development, Mike Lin's 2-week Graphic Workshop , LID workshops, ARCVIEW and ARCINFO courses, LEED licensure workshop and Sketch up. * Attendee at more than ten ASLA national conferences. * Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Degree - Iowa State University, 1986 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (24 yrs continuous including last 10 in St. Louis): * Sustainable design in the following areas: **Stormwater design and management **Checklist and preliminary credit selections **Materials selections **In-office LEED committee chair responsible for: **Coordinating past project information for marketing efforts **Promoting and encouraging LEED certification of fellow employees **Experience in all aspects of site and landscape design including: **Site analysis **Phasing plans **Schematic design **Cost estimation **Feasibility studies **Master Planning **Conceptual design **Construction documents **Experience in working with dozens of clients including: **The National Park Service **Metro St. Louis **Air Force Center for Envi. Excellence **The University of Memphis **US Army Corps of Engineers **St. Louis University **US Navy (NAVFAC) **The Cities of St. Louis and Memphis **County governments **Major Healthcare providers **Private developers in the Midwestern and Southeastern US * Project manager of over 45 projects dealing with the following project related tasks: **Fee and hours forecasting **Initial fee determination **Project scheduling **Establishing team direction **Directing team meetings **Mentoring **Public meetings and presentations **Client meetings **Greenway planning on a statewide, county and municipal scale for local and fed eral governments. **Master and construction implementation plans for more than 10 parks ranging fr om $400,000 to $3 million for state, local and government clients **Streetscape and urban designs for projects in the southeast and Midwestern US, ranging from $550,000 to over $4 million in value. **Master Plan and design for Facilities of all sizes. * AIA Sustainable Design Advisory Team member responsible for open space, greenw ays and environment **Design Guidelines for Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri and 4 federal facilities in the US and abroad. **Peer review of urban design and healthcare projects completed by other major d esign firms **Former Vice President of the St. Louis ASLA chapter

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS * Seeing a project from start to finish including construction * Positive collaboration with other Landscape Architects and other design profe ssions, good inner-office communications * Public meetings and workshops * Learning and utilizing new, cutting edge design techniques * Maximum use of high technology for productivity and winning client trust * Bringing a client's vision to reality for those "Aha" moments * GIS use for effective land planning analysis * Winning ASLA and other awards * The following project types: * Recreation design and planning * Urban Design * Development design and planning * Effective use of the design process * Mentoring and management PERSONAL INTERESTS * Design Competitions * Home Improvement * Running * Windsurfing * Bicycling PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS/MEMBERSHIPS Registered as a Landscape Architect in Mississippi, Tennessee, Michigan and Miss ouri Member - ASLA and US Green Building Council SOFTWARE USE The following software products that have been utilized over the years to comple te various reports and projects include: * AutoCAD (experience in various versions since 1989 including 2010) * Civil 3D and other site add-on programs * Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, In-Design and Acrobat mostly) * MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher, Office * MS Project * Wordpress * Arcview (some experience) * Sketchup (also use as a base for hand sketching) The following is a chronological list of jobs held since graduating with a BLA f rom Iowa State University, starting with the most recent first: 1. Private Consulting, St. Louis, Missouri November 2010 to present * Design and technical expertise for challenging sloped sites * Green roof design * Construction detailing for walls, pavements, site furnishings * Regular coordination with architect, landscape architect and civil engineer * Projects of note: Veteran's Administration tenant building as part of a previ ously completed master plan, Continuing care senior retirement center overall la ndscape evaluation. 2. Lawrence Group, St. Louis, Missouri September 2008 through November 2010 * Clients of note: City of St. Louis, St. Louis University, SSM Healthcare, Gi rl Scouts of Eastern Missouri, HDR Engineering, Horner Shifrin Engineers, Design Workshop, BJC Healthcare, SSM Healthcare, City of Handan China 3. Jacobs Facilities St. Louis, Missouri January 2006 through June 2008 * Clients of note: Kansas National Guard, Private Developers, Southeast Missour i State University, Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence (AFCEE) and Ar my Corp of Engineers (Various Districts) 4. Parsons Corporation St. Louis, Missouri December 2000 through November 2005 * Clients of note: Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence (AFCEE), Army

Corp of Engineers (Various Districts) and The National Park Service 5. Davis Engineering Memphis, Tennessee 1999 through 2000 * Clients of note: Private developers, Shelby County, Coordinated with various regional communities and city of Memphis for planning and zoning approvals 6. Pickering Firm Memphis, Tennessee 1995 through 1999 * Clients of note: Private developers, City of Memphis, Shelby County, Universi ty of Memphis, various other regional communities and planning boards 7. Jackson, Person Associates Memphis, Tennessee January 1993 through 1995 * Clients of note: City of Memphis, Private developers, Architectural firms, en gineering firms * The following is a general list of tasks completed for the above 6 jobs on a day-day basis: a) Project management including day-to-day direction, scheduling, internal and client meetings, coordination with other disciplines b) Design from conceptual level to more detailed level (plans, 3-dimensional sk etch, AutoCAD, Images, Sketchup, Photoshop and hand rendering) c) Production of concept, schematic, design development and construction docume nts (hand and AutoCAD) d) Technical expertise on a variety of site, landscape, healthcare and urban de sign projects e) Compiling reports and analyses (Primarily for campuses, using In-design, MS Publisher, Acrobat) f) Cost estimation (Utilizing Excel) g) Construction administration h) Key design areas: o Water features designs (fountain, stream systems) o Sustainable design (materials selections, storm water techniques, plant sele ction, pavement design) o Urban (streetscape and public spaces, specific plant knowledge, pavements, s ite furnishings, walls, planters, irrigation, sustainable techniques, drainage, soil) o Landscapes (specialized plant knowledge for certain conditions, i.e. low mai ntenance, xeriscape, street trees, themes such as healing garden plants) o Lighting design o Providing for security o Entries, gateways, site image improvement o Design guidelines o Presentations for proposals, projects and public meetings (Utilizing PowerPo int and other softwares) o Mentoring of junior staff o Fees, contracts and proposals for prime and subconsultants o Marketing including lead generation, RFP/RFQ review, go-no-go recommendation s, formulating teams o Project sizes: small sites, thousands of acres (i.e. Chouteau Island Master Plan) linear sites (Grand Avenue Streetscape) site and master planning o Work for all levels of government, hospital entities, developers o Projects of note: See following pages 8. Dunbar Jones Partnership Des Moines, Iowa 1989 to 1993 * Clients of note: State of Iowa, various communities in Iowa, Architecture fir ms large and small, engineering firms in the region 9. Schemmer Associates Omaha, Nebraska 1988 to 1989 * Clients of note: US Postal Service, City of Omaha, local universities 10. Suburban Landscape Davenport, Iowa 1987 to 1988

* Clients of note: Various high level residential owners, commercial owners, p rivate developers and The City of Davenport Iowa * The following is a general list of tasks completed while at the above three jo bs: a) Design from conceptual level to more detailed level (plans, 3-dimensional sk etch, AutoCAD, Images, Photoshop and hand rendering) b) Technical design and detailing of a variety of urban and site designs c) Master planning text and graphics (hand methods, MSWord) d) Cost estimation (Utilizing Excel) e) Design from conceptual level to more detailed level (plans, 3-dimensional sk etch, AutoCAD, Images, software similar to Photoshop and hand rendering) f) Production of concept, schematic, design development and construction docume nts (AutoCAD, hand techniques) g) Technical expertise on a variety of site, landscape, institutional and urban design projects h) Compiling reports and analyses (utilizing MSWord) i) Visual simulation and visual analysis (utilizing hand techniques, AutoCAD, s oftware similar to Photoshop) j) Presentations for proposals, projects and public meetings (hand drawn techni ques)

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