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As a design professional for more than 20+ years, Wayde has designed Mixed-Use, Commercial, Workplace, Residential, Hospitality, Cultural & Institutional projects around the world; the USA, China, Singapore, Morocco, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Canada, Oman, & the UAE. 
Over the last 25+ years I have focused my attention on the design of mixed use, residential, hospitality, office, commercial and retail projects types at a variety of scales, as well as business development and client relations, but tap into a much broader skill-set to cover whatever task and role the work requires. You will see from my attached CV that I have, both with my own companies as well as with those companies with whom I have worked, experience in Design, Management, Operations, Project Coordination, Business Development, Marketing and a thorough knowledge of projects from concept through project handover.
Until recently I was with CARON Architecture, a USA Seattle-based design firm, designing and directing residential, hospitality, office, tech, mixed use, and tall-building project types. Prior to my tenure at CARON, I was a Design Director at GGLO. I have broad experience across a large range of work both domestically and internationally (China, Singapore, the UAE, Oman, Morocco, Canada, Indonesia, Hong Kong)
Wayde’s range of project types include City and Campus Master Planning, Urban Design, Commercial, Retail, Office, Residential, Hospitality, Academic, Library, and Visual & Performing Arts facilities. In addition to architecture graphics and urban design, Wayde Tardif has also played a pivotal role in marketing and branding for companies both domestically and internationally with his company Black Hat Inc.
Wayde has taught both graduate & undergraduate classes at Wentworth Institute of Technology, the BAC, University of Tennessee, & Carleton University. Wayde has been guest critic @ Yale, RISD, Northeastern, MIT, Roger Williams & University of Tennessee.
I am available to meet/talk with someone from your office leadership to discuss how I might be able to help your clients meet the challenges of their future visions.
Respectfully:
Wayde Tardif
Caron Architecture, Seattle, WA, US, Senior Project Designer
Wayde was the Senior Project Designer at CARON Architecture, producing global architecture and specializing in tall building design, but extended his abilities to all scales of architecture. He brings his many years of experience in architecture, design, marketing and business development to support CARON as it built and transitioned its existing practice and well established reputation to even greater dimensions.
GGLO, Seattle, Design Lead
Wayde's role as building Design Lead at GGLO covers a broad range of responsibilities, from design leadership and oversight for the work of GGLO's Tall Building Design Group in Seattle (Architecture - High Rise office, hotel, residential, corporate, and commercial design, Urban Design and Master Planning) Wayde also uses his extensive marketing & business development experience to help grow and provide global identity to GGLO's Commercial Design Group's design efforts.
MG2, Seattle, WA, US, Design Principal
Wayde’s role as Design Principal covers a broad range of responsibilities, from design leadership and oversight for work of MG2’s China Design Group in Shanghai (Architecture (High Rise office, hotel, residential as well as corporate, commercial and retail design), Urban Design and Master Planning) Wayde also uses his extensive marketing & business development experience to help grow and provide global identity to MG2’s international design efforts.
UDG (Shanghai), Shanghai, CN, Design Director
Wayde brought more than two decades of experience as a built environment professional to UDG to bear on a variety of project types from office and hotel towers to full developments of urban centers, CBD’s and Master Plans throughout China. Wayde’s role as Director of Design covers a broad range of responsibilities, from the direction and design of Architecture,
Urban Design and Master Planning, to the general oversight of the work of the Commercial Group at UDG, as well as teaching and mentoring young designers, and helping grow and develop the company from a marketing and outreach perspective. At UDG, Wayde was responsible for projects throughout China; Haikou, Handan, Beijing, Shenyang, Xi’An and Shanghai.
HMD Architects Pt. Ltd., Shanghai, CN, Design Director
As Design Director his responsibilities ranged from Designing projects, directing the design of projects of other senior staff, and leading collaborative efforts of other departments and staff members in the creation of innovative solutions for HMD’s clients. Wayde was also responsible for educational evaluation and in-house training for staff, and extra-curricular development within the framework of design.
POSIT studio, Dubai, AE, Managing Director, Design Principal
POSIT Studio was a design collaborative integrating architecture and graphic design, urban design and master planning, and dedicated to providing great service and solving the needs of our clients through clean, creative design. The work of the studio was grounded in the idea that design offers a way to tell a story about who our clients are, what their business is, and what they want it to be. POSIT Studio’s work covered a wide in a range of arenas, from Commercial, Cultural, Academic, and Institutional to Sporting Facilities, and Hospitality projects.
POSIT Studio enjoyed having several of their projects published by Compasses architecture journal.
Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, CA, Masters, MARCH
Theory & Criticism Masters Program focusing on Cultural Studies and the nature of space.
The University of Tennessee - Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, US, BArch, Bachelor of Architecture
Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, US, Assoc Program in Architectural Technology
