Profile

A licensed Architect with over 30 years in the architectural profession, I bring not only a passion for innovative design but also the long view to my work.  I have a broad range of experience on many different building types, budgets and aesthetic styles.  I possess strong presentation and communication skills, and I’ve led design teams and studio operations of up to 20 people with numerous consultants.  I’ve been utilizing Building Information Modeling for several years now on the Revit, Bentley Architecture and Vectorworks platforms to both model and document my work, and first started computer modeling of architecture almost 25 years ago with Autocad R12.  

 
Experience

Associate, Senior Project Architect, West Region BIM Implementation Specialist, Architecture Discipline Leader, Harley Ellis Devereaux:  San Francisco, California — 2013 - Present

 

• Responsible for BIM setup and organization for large 5-building campus project for USC Academic Village Project.  Head of Steering Committee for Corporate Practice Improvement Group, including identification of improvements to existing Revit templates and processes.  Identified as Architecture Discipline Leader for San Francisco Bay area offices, with responsibility for staffing, development and supervisor to all architecture staff.

 

Associate, Senior Project Architect, BIM Implementation Specialist, AECOM/Ellerbe Becket:  San Francisco, California — 2008 - 2013

• Modeled and headed documentation efforts for large landscape architecture project for Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford utilizing Revit and EaglePoint software.  • Responsible for Revit modeling and documentation of 275,000sf HSB shell and core and 480,000sf THP interiors package for $600,000,000 Kaiser Permanente San Leandro hospital replacement project, leading a Revit production team of 6-8 people, with over 2,000 sheets of drawings and details generated entirely using Revit. Modeled schematic design for shell and core for a new Kaiser Permanante Portland hospital project.  • Project manager and architect for small VA Menlo Park engineering facility.  • Assisted with Revit implementation and training of staff in BIM processes and techniques. • Provided input to AECOM-wide technical councils to identify and develop Revit standards.  • Prepared BIM Execution Plans for numerous projects.

Instructor — REVIT, San Francisco Academy of Art University:  San Francisco, California — 2009 - Present

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• Instructor of BIM in classes ranging from 15-20 focusing on Revit techniques to prepare students for use of Revit in academic work and professional careers.​  • Instructor for directed study with individual students.

Associate, Sullivan Bruck Architects:  Columbus, Ohio — 2002 - 2008

• Responsible for all aspects of managing projects and project teams.  • Utilized various design software applications including Revit, Bentley Architecture, Autocad, Impressions, Sketchup, etc.  • Responsible for new and renovated urban multifamily housing projects, religious facilities, and urban mixed-use projects.

Principal, Michael J. Myers Architect:  Cleveland and Millersburg, Ohio — 1996 - 2002

• Proprietor of an architectural practice providing full-service design.  • Designed township meeting hall facility, renovation of a corporate conference facility for Fortune 500 company.  • Designed several church additions as well as institutional and service buildings for speculative development, corporations, and governmental agencies.

Senior Architect, Design Collective incorporated:  Cleveland, Ohio — 1999 - 2001

• Responsible for design development and documentation for a high end investment group relocation.  • Designed and documented manufacturing plant and office interiors for a new transmission manufacturing facility in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. • Responsible for computer visualization and design for a number of corporate, hospitality and health care projects.

Architect, Sullivan Gray Bruck Architects:  Columbus, Ohio — 1996 - 1999

• Designed and documented two large religious facilities.  • Designed and documented luxury single family home.  • Assisted with urban design competition project for OSU Gateway.

 

Director of Operations, The Arris Group:  Cleveland, Ohio — 1994 - 1996

• Responsible for Operations for 21 person interior architectural firm.  • Responsible for staffing projections, interviewing, hiring and other HR issues for the studio group.  • Installed 25 node Windows 3.11 network.  • Deployed AutoCad standards and training program.  • Developed management reporting systems.  • Managed production and contract administration of $9 million corporate headquarters facility in Akron, Ohio.

President, KA Spaces Inc./Director of Interiors, Kekst Architects :  Cleveland, Ohio — 1992 - 1994

• Responsible for establishing, marketing, managing and directing interiors activities for this 70 person architectural firm with no previous interiors focus.  • Hired and managed staff of 9.  • Directed interviewing activities and developed program for 460,000 sf corporate headquarters facility.  • Directed planning and design services for several retail banking clients.  • Managed numerous Borders Books build-outs nationwide.

Department Head/Instructor, Virginia Marti College:  Cleveland, Ohio — 1984 - 1994

• Re-focused existing decorator training program to an interior architectural emphasis, introducing many new courses, developing course curriculum outlines and hiring teaching staff.  • Instructor of most course, including CADD and design studios.

Architect, Chief Designer, MAI Architects:  Cleveland, Ohio — 1988 - 1992

• Directed architectural design and coordinated design activity with construction documentation for this large E/A firm.  • Utilized CAD resources to produce architectural models, walk-throughs and animated videos.  • Designed and produced technical documents as well as provided site observation for a 25,000 sf corporate marketing facility for a Fortune 500 company.  • Designed 60,000 sf exhibition center.  • Designed large mixed-use development on Cleveland riverfront, incorporating retail, office, and hotel uses into a complex of structures built around an existing renovated warehouse shell.

Designer, Larsen Architects:  Cleveland, Ohio — 1986 - 1988, 1983 - 1984

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Senior Designer, Kekst Architects:  cleveland, Ohio — 1984 - 1986

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Designer, Gaede Architects:  cleveland, Ohio — 1982 - 1984

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Education

University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio:  Bachelor of Urban Planning, June, 1982 Area of Concentration - Urban Design and Architecture

Architectural Association of London, London, England: Foreign Study, 1981

Professional registration

Licensed in 1990 as an Architect in the State of Ohio

Professional Certifications

Certified Autodesk Revit® Architecture 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Professional User

Referrals

Professional, personal and client references available upon request