Résumé
Landscape Design · Studio Leadership · Practice Growth
Objective
Seeking a full-time landscape design and leadership role with a design practice or cultural institution, contributing design expertise, project delivery, team development, and new business opportunities.
Summary
I bring 20+ years of landscape design experience across cultural landscapes, public spaces, campuses, urban infrastructure, hospitality, and private gardens. My work combines planting expertise and technical development with hands-on design leadership, multidisciplinary coordination, and project delivery.
I also build client relationships, mentor designers, and develop opportunities for new and repeat work. Based in Southern California · Open to opportunities across California.
Mentorship + People
Over 20+ years, I have mentored designers and direct reports, many of whom have advanced to project manager roles after working with me. Developing people is a central part of my leadership, alongside design direction, project management and client relationships.
Selected Expertise
Design
Concept Design · Design Direction · Native Planting Design · Material Strategy · Site Planning · Design Development · Construction Documentation Coordination · Sustainable + Regenerative Design
Leadership
Project Leadership · Client Leadership · Project Management · Multidisciplinary Teams · Consultant + Public Agency Coordination · Specifications Research + Writing · QA/QC + Documentation Review · Cost Estimating + Budget Planning · RFP/RFI Responses · Design Standards + Workflow Development · Design Review · Mentorship · Studio Leadership
Practice
Business Development · Strategic Relationships · Market Expansion · Proposals + Interviews · Practice Growth
Selected Cultural, Public-Realm + Mixed-Use Work
Pacific Palisades, CA · 2006
Kansas City, MO · 2024
Chongqing, China · 2020
Nanjing, China · 2019
Driggs, ID · 2024
Houston, TX · 2017
San Pablo, CA · 2024
San Diego, CA · 2022
Buena Park, CA · 1998
San Diego, CA · 2017
San Diego, CA · 2022
Selected Residential Work
Palm Springs, CA · 2025
Manhattan Beach, CA · 2009
Larkspur, CA · 2013
Napa, CA · 2012
Malibu, CA · In Permitting
Woodside, CA · Design in Progress
La Quinta, CA · Under Construction
Professional Journey
2026 — Present
Founder & Design Director · Independent landscape design practice
California
2022 — September 2026
Associate Principal · West Coast Business Development
California
2017 — 2022
California · Shanghai
2009 — 2017
2002 — 2009
Founder
1996 — 2002
California
1996
University of Southern California
Client Experience
Residential + Development
Private residential clients · Toll Brothers · Lennar · Shea Homes · Crescent Communities · David Weekley Homes · Trammell Crow · Palmer Square Capital Management
Cultural + Hospitality
The Getty Trust · Augusta National Golf Club · Ritz-Carlton
Additional Select Experience
Google · Rolex · Vanke · Disney · Knott's Berry Farm · Kilroy Realty
Affiliations
ASLA · AIA · SPUR · USGBC · ULI · Children & Nature Network · Therapeutic Gardens Network · California Native Plant Society · International Ecotourism Society · International Palm Society
Tools
Hands-on
AutoCAD · Land F/X · Adobe Creative Suite · Bluebeam · Miro · AI platforms · Mosaic · Vantagepoint
Review and direction
SketchUp · Rhino · Revit · Lumion
SketchUp includes past hands-on experience.