I think I’ve figured out I’m an entrepreneur with a desire to improve the world. Professionally, I have almost thirty years of experience as a landscape architect and planner. For the past twenty years, I have run my own design firm, Corvus Design, with six of us currently working to get things done in and around Alaska. I have served as Chapter President of the Alaska Chapter of the American Association of Landscape Architects, have been involved with the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), have been the board representative to the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects on behalf of the Northwest Territories Association of Landscape Architects, have served on a communications committee with the Council of Landscape Architecture Review Boards, sat on the Anchorage Urban Design Commission, sat on the board of the Alaska Design Forum, have sat on a number of design award juries, am a past board member for the Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation (LACF) and have served as the President of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA). I am very proud to be a Fellow of the CSLA, with my nomination based on my contributions to the Society and the profession of landscape architecture through my service.

In short… I have had trouble saying “no” for many years. Through all of this, I’ve spent a lot of time watching, listening, and learning. One of the best reasons for being involved locally and nationally is that you get to meet a bunch of people! And many of them are people you don’t compete with! That’s when you can share information freely and get the dirt on what it really takes to get things done in this world. While I remember being shy as a kid, I’m finding more of my grandfather’s ability to sit down and just chat with anyone. That’s where we really learn things.

So… for me, this blog is a chance to chat with people I haven’t had the chance to meet yet.