Education

BA in Architecture

2008-2011

University of Kentucky

Employment

Utilizing the full breadth of my experience and skillset this position has afforded me the luxury of being both a furniture and lighting designer and fabricator, managing the in-house shop, architectural model construction and project management.

Site supervision and carpentry for residential and commercial projects from start to finish. Duties ran the spectrum from labor organization, material take-offs, sub contractor management, architectural and structural consultations and client relations. Carpentry included Frame-to-finish responsibilities.

Carpentry and architectural design work from design conception through trim carpentry. All phases of design from concept sketches to working plans and sections. All phases of construction from foundations to framing to trim carpentry and everything in between.

Designer / Carpenter

2012-2017

Prajna Design & Construction Lexington, KY

2017 - 2021

Hammer & Hand Seattle, WA

Site Supervisor / Carpenter

Designer & Fabricator

2022-present

Mutuus Studio, Inc Seattle, WA

Philosophy

"Draw your attention to what draws your attention". I have quietly cultivated skills and interests that have been beneficial in seemingly abstract ways. Noticing the way light hits a curved corner on a jobsite and capturing it in a photograph, obsessing over details in a custom wood joint, an obscure and odd fascination with theoretical physics and its' practical applications, etc... Sometimes these skills and interests are seen as detrimental to the goal of "getting the job done", but what I have learned over the years is that there is no end goal in all of this. That obsession and that moment when the light catches my eye, the questions that arise from a fleeting moment of concentration, those are the goals. Moments that lock me into the present and stop time.