I was born in West Germany and the adventure of my life began.  Over the course of my youth I spent years living also in Panama, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  As an adult I have lived in Louisiana, New Mexico, California, Tennessee, Saudi Arabia, and Oregon. 

My travels throughout the years have been extensive and explorative, covering nearly the entire nation, as well as traveling across Canada and parts of Mexico.  My wife and I are a perfect team in that we both have a great passion for travel, exploration, and the visual arts; as a result we rarely miss a weekend of seeing something new.  For her, as a writer, this adds to her repertoire of characters, places, conversations, and lives with which she enriches her stories.  For me, as a designer and artist, I have expanded my creative palette and gained a diversified view of the full potential design truly encompasses.

My wife is my dearest friend and together we share a rich life of reading, photography, travel, admiration for history, land design and architecture, primitive camping and hiking, music, laughing, and learning.

My desire is to be a part of a design firm that I believe in.  I personally feel that land design and preservation is critical for human happiness both in our present and in our future.  As an artist, my designs tend to lean toward the unusual, but because I possess a great affection for the land, the art and the natural seem to join together perfectly to form a very complete, fulfilling space within which to dwell.

I chose Landscape Architecture because I believe in the core principles of the practice.  I believe in the heart of what it provides mankind, as well as the planet upon which we have the privilege of living. 

My goal is to be a part of a true design team.  I feel that when a team of designers are working together, with each member expressing his or her full potential and unique talent and wisdom, it is then that powerful and enduring spaces are created and the clients, community, as well as the designers, all gain fulfillment from the project’s creation.