Title: Director of Workplace Strategies, Lend Lease.
Organization: $13b in revenue; 16,500 employees (over 100 in DC metro).
Job: Worked on several large million SF projects for nearly every government agency; designed holding cells, courtrooms, daycare centers, embassies, gun ranges, media rooms, training centers, command centers, labs, and restaurants.
Memorable projects: Security work pre and post 9/11 and recovery and rebuilding of projects in NOLA post Hurricane Katrina.
Current projects: Working with large biotech company on property and workplace strategies, impacting over 5,000 employees and costing $170M for design, build, and permit. Also converting Old Post Office to luxury Trump Hotel & Conference Center for next year.
Grew up: Alexandria – lived in same childhood neighborhood until six years ago. Moved two neighborhoods over.
Current home: Mount Vernon – house backs up to GW’s estate.
Schools: Virginia Commonwealth University and Parsons School of Design; also teach at NVCC, Marymount, GW, and sit on Virginia Tech’s School of Architecture advisory board.
First job: Williams Contract Furniture in Richmond while in college.
Job in another life: Shop owner – would sell salvaged architectural elements from demolished or renovated buildings.
Daily habit: Walking the dog (Beagle).
Favorite app: ESPN.
Favorite movies: Blood Simple, Second Hand Lions, Pride and Prejudice, and Independence Day.
Favorite restaurants: Old Ebbitt Grill for breakfast; PJ Clarke’s for lunch; Del Frisco’s for dinner; and El Paso with family on the weekends.
Favorite singer/song: Mary Chapin Carpenter – "I Feel Lucky".
Favorite vacation spot: Fenwick Island.
Guilty pleasure: Eating popcorn while watching NCIS marathon.
Bucket list: Drive Pacific Coast Highway from LA to San Fran.
Family: Five kids; three cats; one dog; and live-in mother. Oldest daughter (23) works for WorkDesign Magazine and other four (ages 21, 20, 18, 13) are still in school.
Startling fact: Started one of the first CADD departments in a DC design firm 30 years ago for Eaton Design Group, when no one had computers. (No one had fax machines, e-mail, Internet, or cell phones either.)
