USGBC-NCC Member Since: 2008
What's your occupation?
My day job is as a senior Project Manager with Hathaway Dinwiddie. I
split my time: about half the time, I’m an internal consultant on
sustainable projects and in-house LEED educator, and the other half
spend on the Stanford campus working on new construction, interior
improvements and historical renovation.
I started at HD in 1999 after a two-year internship with PNM at a power
plant in the Four Corners area of New Mexico. In some ways, it was like
coming home for me; I’d gone to PNM after completing my Master’s in
Structural Engineering at UNM, but my undergraduate degree is a BS in
Structural Engineering from Stanford.
My very first project at HD was the James H. Clark Center for the Bio-X
project at Stanford. Sir Norman Foster designed it, and it incorporated
some revolutionary concepts in shared workspace, structural design, and
sustainability. It was a $104-million-dollar project, and my first
introduction to sustainability, and I was a newly minted PE straight out
of graduate school.
They say that luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity,
and I have to think that my experience with the Clark Center project is a
great example of that in action. Not many new PE’s get to work on that
kind of project, at that kind of scale.