Experience and Selected Work
Explore a selection of representative projects demonstrating my experience in planning, managing, and delivering complex capital projects. Each reflects my role in helping organizations and individuals move projects forward through clear decision-making, coordination, and oversight.
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
The BAM Fisher Building
Location: Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Budget: $40M (public and private funding)
Program:
A 250-seat black-box theater combining renovation, new construction, and historic preservation on a site constrained by tight lot lines and adjacent subway infrastructure.
Key program elements included:
Flexible black-box performance space
Rehearsal facilities
Back-of-house support spaces
Historic preservation
Indoor and rooftop event spaces
Classrooms and offices
Full FF&E programming and procurement oversight
LEED Gold certification
My Contribution
Coordinated multiple internal and external stakeholders, including public agencies
Managed multi-source public funding and associated compliance requirements
Established and supported institutional project governance and decision-making
Managed design process and consultant team coordination
Performed technical document review and evaluation
Oversaw construction execution and project delivery (CMAR)
Managed internal budget, cost control, and change management
Managed FF&E procurement and deployment
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
BAM Strong - Harvey Lichtenstein Theater
Location: Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Budget: $45M (public and private funding)
Program:
A 850-seat proscenium theater combining renovation, new construction, and miscellaneous capital upgrades.
Key program elements included:
Renovation/restoration of an existing 1904 theater
A new construction ceremonial stair and enclosure in an existing rear yard requiring zoning approvals and easements.
A new construction lobby with a rooftop terrace on an existing vacant lot
Historic preservation
Public art
Miscellaneous capital upgrades: new seating, new balcony, new elevator, new cinema (2D/3D) capability, miscellaneous ADA upgrades
Full FF&E programming and procurement oversight
LEED Silver certification
My Contribution
Managed communication and engagement of multiple internal and external stakeholders, including public agencies (NYC DOB, PDC, MTA, DCLA, etc.)
Procured and managed all consultants
Managed multi-source public funding and associated compliance requirements
Established and managed institutional project governance and decision-making
Oversaw public art process including approvals, procurement, and installation
Performed technical document review and evaluation
Managed construction execution and project delivery (CMAR)
Developed and managed internal budget, cost control, and change management
Managed FF&E procurement and deployment
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
BAM Strong - Harvey Lichtenstein Theater
New lobby and art gallery built in adjacent vacant lot requiring acoustic treatment and ADA accessibility.
New ceremonial stair and enclosure. This stair required zoning approvals, easements, and fire/life safety modifications to adjacent spaces. Design issues included how to unify new construction with the existing, well-established aesthetic throughout the space.
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
L10/BAM KBH Arts and Cultural Center
Location: Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Budget: $60M (public and private funding)
Program:
As part of a public-private partnership between the City of New York, BAM, and other cultural partners sharing a cultural condominium, this project featured new cinemas, education space, archives, lobby and public.
Key program elements included:
3 new cinemas (large and small)
An education space/black box theater
A new lobby featuring public art by Leo Villareal
The BAM Hamm archives and offices
New cinema lobby and ticket booth
My Contribution
Managed communication, engagement, and led governance for of multiple internal and external stakeholders, including NYC agencies like EDC and other cultural partners (651 Arts, MoCADA, Brooklyn Public Library
Managed and coordinated the public art process with the City of New York and the artist
Managed establishment of internal governance (legal) between BAM, cultural partners, and the City of New York
Developed and managed internal budget, cost control, and change processes
Managed FF&E procurement and deployment
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
L10/BAM KBH Arts and Cultural Center
Real Estate Development
Boymelgreen Developers
Beacon Tower - 85 Adams Street
Location: DUMBO, Brooklyn
Budget: $140M, 300,000sf
Program: Hi-rise luxury residential condominium
My Contribution
Project management
Reviewed design and engineering packages, negotiated change orders, and ensured contract compliance.
Led owner/architect/contractor construction meetings
Oversaw construction, closeout, closings, and move-in
Real Estate Development
AlUla Development Company - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Luxury hotel and resort - AlUla, Saudi Arabia
Location: AlUla, Saudi Arabia
Program: Ultra-high-luxury and luxury hotels, resorts, and related infrastructure projects
My Contribution
As Senior Design Director--managing a staff of five architects, designers, and engineers--I led design management and related activities for all UDC projects. The projects were hospitality and related infrastructure projects.
My duties included authoring RFPs, design briefs, design competitions, design consultant procurement, design management, budget management, scheduling, risk management, establishment of company-wide design management protocols, practices, and standards, evaluation of engineering reports and proposals, stakeholder management and approvals to include presentations to authorities such as the Royal Commission of AlUla (RCU).
Design competition entry for luxury hotel in AlUla
Design competition entry for luxury hotel in AlUla
Design competition entry for luxury hotel in AlUla
Single-family Residential
Location: New York City, Upstate New York
Program: Single-family residential projects
My Contribution
As a consultant I performed many services such as design management, technical document review, change order review and evaluation, construction oversight, design review, and contract evaluation/negotiation.
The projects ranged from single-family country houses to loft/apartment/co-op renovations including custom furniture design.
NYC loft apartment conversion
Upstate New York country house
Central Park West apartment renovation