Resolution Studio, LLC Aug. 2016 - Present
Founder and landscape architect in small private business providing landscape architecture, remote sensing, visual communication, and restoration ecology services to public and private clients throughout the Great Lakes region. Business combines aerial data with the spatial design process to communicate ideas about how to bring people to nature, and nature to people.
Founder and landscape architect in small private business providing landscape architecture, remote sensing, visual communication, and restoration ecology services to public and private clients throughout the Great Lakes region. Business combines aerial data with the spatial design process to communicate ideas about how to bring people to nature, and nature to people.
Marek Landscaping, LLC Sept. 2014 – Aug. 2016
Senior landscape architect and project manager in small private business that unites the disciplines of restoration ecology and landscape architecture. Tasks include:
Senior landscape architect and project manager in small private business that unites the disciplines of restoration ecology and landscape architecture. Tasks include:
- Project management and design of waterfront, green infrastructure, park, bluff, shoreline, and wetland projects for large public entities, departments, non-profits, and private clients.
- Mentor junior staff, participate in company leadership initiatives, and implement business processes.
- Assemble, manage and participate in diverse teams of landscape architects, designers, ecologists, planners, architects, engineers, and stakeholders as prime and subconsultant.
- Research, seek, secure, and monitor grant funding.
- Research and implement innovative and cost effective technological tools for project management, CADD software, GIS software, rendering, photogrammetry, video, data retrieval, data/file management and organization, public participation polling, basemap preparation, and reporting.
- Coordinate, lead, and participate in public outreach components of design projects such as charrettes.
- Coordinate and produce graphics and marketing materials, proposals, reports, presentations, concept designs, plans, cross sections, perspectives, renderings, specifications, and field reports.
- Reviews plans and designs, review bids, respond to bid questions, respond to contractor questions, review and approve submittals.
- Practice landscape architecture principals and theories in a design and construction environment.
W.F. Baird & Associates, LTD May 2005 – Sept. 2014
Landscape architect in a private sector multidisciplinary consulting firm. Tasks include:
Landscape architect in a private sector multidisciplinary consulting firm. Tasks include:
- Design and assist in the design of parks, marinas, waterfronts, ports, and riverways.
- Complete designs at a variety of scales from long term master plans at watershed and regional scales to immediate emergency repairs of individual sites.
- Practice landscape architecture principles, theories, and applications in projects from concept to construction. Document and present projects and designs orally and in writing.
- Conduct site analysis, comment on site selection, complete conceptual design on-site.
- Draft plans and specifications, elevations, sections, perspectives, and details with computers and by hand.
- Design and present conceptual site improvements though photosimulations and “Before/After” graphics.
- Conduct topographic and hydrographic surveys using traditional, GPS, and Total Station methods.
- Create basemaps from survey data, aerial photography, and publicly available data.
- Prepare detailed itemized statements of probable cost based on unit costs, time and materials, and construction methodology.
- Respond to RFPs, and create proposals and work programs based on estimated levels of effort for landscape architects, engineers, principals, and sub-consultants.
- Create RFPs and coordinate with sub-consultants for survey, geotechnical, peer review, and traffic engineering services.
- Manage projects with multidisciplinary teams of landscape architects, engineers, surveyors, computer modelers, and architects.
- Coordinate with clients, answer questions from stakeholders, attend and conduct public information meetings, communicate effectively through face to face meetings, teleconferences, and webinars.
- Present projects to project team members, owners, clients, stakeholders, and public officials.
- Consult with contractors, conduct on-site construction observation, answer questions, troubleshoot problems, insure compliance with construction contract documents, local codes and prepare daily reports.
- Review subcontractor and peer produced designs and specifications for compliance with design intent, and applicable codes and regulations.
- Prepare permit documents for local municipalities, state DNRs, federal agencies including USACE, Fish and Wildlife Service, and EPA, and Tribal Agencies.
- Prepare and review grant applications for local, state, federal, and internationally funded projects.
Sauk County Land and Water Conservation Department May 2004-Dec. 2004
Intern for public sector governmental agency. Design and construction management tasks include:
Intern for public sector governmental agency. Design and construction management tasks include:
- Work in a multidisciplinary public sector setting along with engineers, ecologists, technicians, conservationists, construction specialists and contractors.
- Meet with clients, develop project programs, complete site analysis, survey site, and create basemaps.
- Complete conceptual designs, calculate stormwater volumes and routes.
- Carry projects through design development, create bid-packages, and construction documentation.
- Assist with construction survey and staking, construction observation, documentation, and close-out.
- Attend and conduct pre-bid contractor meetings. Review bids, answer questions, and submit input on recommend contractors.
- Designs include prairie restoration, wetland restoration, pond design, gully restoration, barnyard design and runoff mitigation, field erosion control, and stream bank stabilization.
- Utilize advanced survey equipment and 3D computer design and drafting technology to create topographic maps, drainage models, and cut/fill computations.
- Design to standard specifications and compile DNR permits while meeting clients’ needs and desires.
UW-Limnology Department- Trout Lake, Wisconsin May 2003-August 2003
Base Crew for collection and documentation of ecological data for University and National Science Foundation Long Term Ecological Research (NSF-LTER) projects. Tasks include:
Base Crew for collection and documentation of ecological data for University and National Science Foundation Long Term Ecological Research (NSF-LTER) projects. Tasks include:
- Collect water quality data (temperature, clarity, DO, pH, chlorophyll, C,P,N, etc) via boat.
- Complete laboratory tests for water and sediment quality.
- Complete surveys, site analysis and basemaps.
- Design and construct erosion control and public access stairway to fragile bog ecosystem.
- Assist in research projects analyzing lake conditions based on watershed location, riparian landscape interactions with lake health and shoreline composition effects on fish populations.