PROFESSIONAL
Comprehensive experience in coordinating projects, creating strategies and leading teams to develop and implement successful green building programs and projects.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Quadrupled membership, sponsorship and visibility of the Seattle Built Green program.
• Successfully launched an identity and information campaign that fostered the exponential growth of a fiber optics research center to international prominence.
• Resurrected a retail bookstore from indebtedness to profit through creative management.
• Coordinated electrical engineering faculty to create publications, collateral and research symposia.
• Achieved the LEED Accredited Professional designation in Fall 2002 and Green Advantage Residential in May 2008.
• Redesigned home kitchen in 2006 for great looks and improved functionality.
WORK HISTORY
Otak Sustainability Advisor (Seattle, WA) September 2005-May 2008
• Provided prime consultant services to King County, WA’s sustainable building program, including development of green project training and learning materials, LEED consulting.
• Created and produced monthly sustainability e-newsletter www.otak.com/newsletter/.
• Provided sustainability consulting on Built Green Home at Suncadia www.thebuiltgreenhome.com and Going Green at the Beach www.goinggreenatthebeach.com/.
• Implemented internal company-wide sustainability strategies (LEED and The Natural Step).
• Facilitated sustainability goals for clients on diverse architectural and development projects.
• Assisted with green interior design for new office to LEED-Commercial Interiors standards.
• Co-developed online green building resources for King County, WA www.greentools.us/.
• Speaker at various venues including Built Green Conference 2007 www.builtgreen.net/conference.
Built Green Director (Bellevue, WA) March 2003-September 2005
• Managed green home building certification program for largest homebuilder association in US.
• Quadrupled membership base in two years.
• Successfully negotiated between government, building industry and environmental groups.
• Secured more than $100,000 in funding, plus more than $120,000 in-kind sponsorships for 2004.
• Received 2004 Award for Best Partnership in US from the National Association of Home Builders.
• Developed first electronic newsletter for Built Green www.builtgreen.net/newsletter.html.
• Increased web traffic to website by thousands through updates to www.builtgreen.net.
• Collaborated in planning of Built Green Idea Home www.issaquahhighlands.com/ideahome and Built Green Home at Suncadia www.suncadia.thebuiltgreenhome.com.
• Participated in National Association of Home Builders development of national green guidelines.
• Instigated and coordinated Built Green Washington and its website www.builtgreenwashington.org.
• Developed and presented numerous seminars; coordinated annual Built Green conference; wrote many articles and publications; and redesigned logo and website at www.builtgreen.net.
Consultant to USGBC (Seattle, WA) Green Building Specialist, July 2001-Dec 2002
• Performed more than 20 U. S. Green Building Council LEED Certification reviews.
• Researched, co-wrote the King County web-based LEED Supplement.
• Co-wrote, co-designed an Education Plan for Lake Hills Ranger Station (Bellevue, WA).
Design Environs (Charlottesville, VA) AutoCAD Operator March 2001 (temp)
• Produced AutoCAD documentation of entire showroom three months early.
• Performed precision building measurements for a complete set of AutoCAD documents.
FPW Architects (Charlottesville, VA) Intern Architect, July 2000-March 2001 (company layoffs)
• Redesigned apartment spaces for historic renovation to optimize compact living quarters.
• Authored a new website for firm.
Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA) Research Associate, 1985-1995 and 1997-2000
• Coordinated media and public relations programs for largest engineering department at the preeminent university in Virginia.
• Produced web pages for an internationally known fiber optics research center, an optical sciences research center and a photonics research laboratory.
• Authored, designed and illustrated publications (including publicity, technical, educational), displays, websites, and identity programs to help secure millions of dollars in funding.
• Presented complex technical ideas through clear graphics and text.
• Oversaw reorganization and renovation of FEORC office and laboratory facilities.
• Organized annual fiber optics research symposium and annual electrical engineering honors banquet.
Books, Strings & Things (Blacksburg, VA) Co-owner and Co-manager, 1981-1985
• Managed a business from 15-year indebtedness to profit in less than three years.
• Maintained book and sidelines inventory with $1 million annual gross retail sales.
• Achieved national prominence and invited to speak at ABA conventions in Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco.
• Wrote articles by invitation for trade magazines Publisher's Weekly and American Bookseller.
• Revived a wide client base by improving the interactions with the public.
• Created publisher-sponsored national award-winning book displays.
• Managed and helped 14 employees grow into increasingly more responsible positions.
Freelance Graphic Designer (Blacksburg, VA) 1980-2000
• Concurrent with my full time jobs, designed Blacksburg's annual Steppin' Out festival t-shirt for 16 years, sales of which generated >$10,000 profit annually.
• Designed logos, wedding invitations, calendars, signs, and magazines, among many others, and drew portraits of children and children’s book illustrations.
• Designed and constructed Virginia Tech's State Fair exhibit.
Virginia Tech, Information Officer, 1978-1980
• Wrote news articles for dissemination to local, state and national periodicals.
• Produced quarterly agriculture/forestry newsletter.
• Photographed faculty, staff, students for news media.
• Designed backdrop for TV sports show, related signage, logos, stationery.
EDUCATION
Master of Architecture Degree, December 1999, Virginia Tech
• Thesis: "An Appalachian House: The Design and Analysis of a Passive Solar House."
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-090699-135118/
• Focused on the environmental aspects of architecture, sustainable building and energy modeling.
COMPUTER SKILLS
Website Design 1999: MS FrontPage www.ee.vt.edu/~feorc and www.abc.vt.edu/
Data Management: MS Access, Excel.
Resource Management: Excel, MS Outlook.
Writing & Publishing: MS Word, Adobe InDesign, Acrobat.
Presentation: MS Powerpoint, Adobe Photoshop.
Drafting: AutoCAD 2000 and AutoCAD LT.
Building Analysis: Energy Scheming.
SKILLS
Architectural design, graphic design, rendering, technical illustration, drafting, photography, calligraphy, hand lettering, logo design, cartooning.
Technical and creative writing.
4-color offset, silk screen, block and etching printing processes.
PROFESSIONAL
Member ANSI-GBI Committee to develop green building standard www.thegbi.org/commercial/ansi/draft-standard-and-trial-use.asp
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