TEACHING AREA:
First Year Design – Coordinator
ARCH 1060 Visual Communications
ARCH 1420 Intro to Digital Media

EDUCATION:
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Master of Fine Arts in Studio (2001)
Auburn University, Bachelor of Interior Design (1991)

TEACHING & ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:
Coordinator, Program of Architecture (2007 - Present)
Chair, Program of Architecture (2006 - 2007)
Coordinator, First Year Program in Architecure (2001 - Present)
Auburn University Associate Professor (2006-Present)
Auburn University Assistant Professor (2001-2005)
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Visiting Artist (2004)
Auburn University, Visiting Assistant Professor (1997-1999)

ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL HONORS:
Gresham Professorship (2007 - 2009)
Distinguished Visiting Artist, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2004)
National Teaching Honor Award, American Institute of Architects (2004)
National Educator Honor Award, American Institute of Architecture Students (2003)
Outstanding Faculty Member, Auburn University School of Architecture (2003)
Graduate Fellow, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2001)
Schiff Foundation Fellowship, The Art Institute of Chicago (2000)
Emerging Visions Competition – Second Place, Chicago AIA (2000)
Student Leadership Award, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2001)
Trustee Scholarship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1999-2001)

PUBLICAITONS/CREATIVE WORKS:
“Fixing to: Preparing Beginning Design Students for the Auburn University
School of Architecture Rural Studio,” Not White: 20th National Conference
on the Beginning Design Student, Hampton University
“Knowledge Management and Acculturated Memory: Strategies for Maintaining
a Positive Studio Culture,” Biannual Conference of the Design Communication
Association 2004
“The Drawing Machine: Reading Between the Lines: on Teaching Drawing as a
Way of Thinking to First Year Architecture Students,” 2nd Annual Hawaii
International Conference on Arts and Humanities 2003
“The End of Beginning, from Beginning to End,” Finishing School: Inquiries into the
Completion of an Architectural Education – Association of Collegiate School of
Architecture, Southeast Regional Meeting 2003
“Towards a New Curriculum: Looking at Both the Beginning and the End,”
Methods for Design Education: In and Out of the Box –
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture,
Southwest Regional Meeting 2003
“anti|room,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
National Conference Proceedings 2003
“…The End is Everything,” Conference on the Beginning Design Student 2002
“City Emergent,” Complex Interiority, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design 2002
“prototype/enclosure/,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
International Conference Proceedings 2002
“Urban Spaces/Urban Places,” Noyse Cultural Art Center Evanston 2001-2002
“indside|out,” Gallery 2, Chicago 2001
“antproof,” Art Institute of Chicago 2000
“Emerging Visions,” Knoll Gallery, Chicago 2000
“re: Making Things,” Chicago Architecture Foundation 2000
“cat_house,” Chicago AIA Focus 2000

SERVICE:
Chair, Program of Architecture (2006 - Current)
First Year Program Coordinator (2001 - Current)
Rural Studio Advisory Council (2004 - Current)
Dean’s Council on Educational Technology (2003-Current)
Judge, Oral Presentations, Graduate Student Council Research Forum (2003)
Profesional Technology Committee, Chair (2003 - Current)
Lecture Series Coordination (with Christian Dagg) (2002 - 2004)
ARIA Thesis Coordinator (1998 - 1999)
Fourth Year Level Coordinator (1999)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Independent Consultant (2001 - Current)
Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum, Inc. Senior Designer 2000-2001
Perkins & Will , Inc Senior Designer 1996-1998
Osgood + Associates, Inc. Senior Designer/Design Director 1993-1996
Quantrell Mullins & Associates, Inc. Designer 1991-1993
Robert P, Kirk & Associates, Inc. Draftsman/Designer 1986-1991