I am an Urban Planner and Project Manager. My responsibilities include managing projects through schematic design, design development, and construction documentation along with managing client relationships and building professional networks. I am also the lead for business development for the firm and lead all RFP and RFQ responses.
With a passion for public space, I have conducted extensive first hand research throughout the world with special focus on the psychological and sociological significance of open spaces. Prior employeers include Perkins+Will, Site Design Group and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP.
I also sit on the Board of Directors for Friends of Downtown.
site design group, ltd., Chicago, IL, US, Senior Associate, Senior Project Manager
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
Represent firm at all levels of business communication
Represent firm at project interviews and public meetings
Manage network of relationships with clients and owners
PROJECT MANAGER
Roles and Responsibilities
Primary responsibility for successful planning and execution of project
Primary contact with clients and owners
Sub consultant coordination
Design and technical leadership to the project team
Define project scope, schedule and fee
Conduct contract negotiations
Accomplishments
Manage firm’s prime contracts, higher education clients, and highest value projects
Manage up to 10 projects a various stages of the project delivery process at once
Managed over 20 projects in the last three years
Consistently meet all project deliverables and deadlines
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT LEAD
Roles and Responsibilities
Provide leadership role in establishing business development strategies
Direct marketing, communications and business development efforts
Lead writing and development of RFP and RFQ responses
Accomplishments
Responsible for procuring over 25 projects in the past three years
Reinforced firm’s presence in established markets
Raised firm’s presence in higher education
Introduced urban planning practice
Vastly increased proposal success rate
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), Chicago, IL, US, Project Manager, Senior Urban Designer, Sustainability Specialist
PROJECT MANAGER
Worked with Managing Partners to establish project scope, schedule, and fee
RFP responses
Maintained project staffing and budget
Primary point of contact for clients
SUSTAINABILITY SPECIALIST FOR UBBAN DESIGN AND PLANNING
Established sustainable vision for large and small scale master plans
Detailed sustainability analysis for master planning efforts
Developed sustainable design guidelines
LEED-ND analysis and review.
URBAN DESIGN AND PLANNING
Created open space and streetscape concepts, design, contract documents and specifications
Urban planning for academic institutions, hospitals, mixed-use transit-oriented neighborhood development, zoning analysis, land use planning, and Brownfield redevelopment
TECHNICAL COORDINATOR
Technical oversight to ensure constructability of the design
Overall organization and production of contract documents including drawings and specifications
Management of project through Construction Administration
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, US, MArch, Archictecture
Design Thesis: “Designing for Place: A Public Plaza for the People of Bloomington, Indiana”
ADDITIONAL STUDIES:
Institute for Advanced Architectural Studies, Barcelona, Summer 1999
University of Illinois/Tongji University, Shanghai, China, Summer 2004
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, US, Bachelors, Journalism, Fine Arts
Concentrations in Photojournalism / Visual Communications and Graphic Design
AIA/AAF Fellowship for Advanced Study or Research, 2004, Grant
Selected Professions Fellowship, American Association of University Women, 2001, Grant
Creative and Performing Arts Fellowship, University of Illinois Graduate College, 2001, Grant
Frank B. and Jennie M. Long Traveling Fellowship, U of I, School of Architecture, 2000, Grant
Grant for Master’s Thesis or Project, University of Illinois Graduate College, 2000 and 2001, Grant
Edward L. Ryerson Traveling Fellow in Architecture, 2001, Grant
American Institute of Architects/American Architecture Foundation Scholarship, 2000 & 2001, Scholarship
Chicago Women in Architecture Scholarship, 2001, Scholarship
American Institute of Architects/American Architecture Foundation Scholarship, 2000 & 2001, Scholarship
Grant for Master’s Thesis or Project, University of Illinois Graduate College, 2000 and 2001, Grant
ACADIA International Design Competition, “Library for the Information Age” Finalist, 1998, Other
