Areas of expertise include:
There is a need within the broader building and real estate industry for design thinkers who deeply understand how housing is entitled, financed, and produced. It is only through an understanding that housing is a process involving many players in both the public and private sectors, that it is a balancing act between often conflicting variables and constraints, that a designer can effectively negotiate the limitations and opportunities in housing design.
My experience includes low-, mid-, and high-rise housing both domestically and internationally. The last five years have been focused on high density urban infill housing and mixed use for first tier real estate investment companies. I am intimately familiar with the development process and regulatory framework, from yield/feasibility studies to entitlements, design, environmental and policy issues, community engagement, and construction. I have appeared before Planning Commissions, Design Review Boards, and City Councils in many jurisdictions.
I have experience on the owner/developer side as well, having served in a leading role for Salesforce.com for their two million square foot, eight block corporate campus in Mission Bay, San Francisco. That work entailed site selection, due diligence, risk assessment of a brownfield site, design team management and a complex entitlements process resulting in the last-ever project approval by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency. I managed a design and pre‐construction team of more than 20 firms and 50 professionals from Ricardo Legorreta, Arup, and multiple engineering disciplines.
Significant projects over which I had direct responsibility include an addition to the US Embassy in Beijing, a 350,000 square meter mixed use development in Gurgaon, India, and the award‐winning Delancey Street Embarcadero Triangle in San Francisco, for which I was architect-of-record.
