"The buildings I care most about are the ones built right — where the design survives the field, and the field survives the schedule."
Bachelor of Architecture, Woodbury University, Los Angeles. Minor in Urban Studies. Exact match — not just preferred. Curriculum emphasizes real-world construction delivery, not theory.
Five years of Construction Administration at Gruen Associates — one of LA's most established firms. Civic, government, and luxury retail. Worked on Jamison's Opus project from the AOR side alongside Megan. Exceeds 3-year minimum by two full years.
Full CA lifecycle: RFI triage and routing, submittal review, field QA/QC, NCR issuance, pre-construction coordination, constructability review, trade conflict resolution, phased occupancy, and value engineering. RFI response standardized under 48 hours.
Proficient in Bluebeam Revu for markup, QA/QC documentation, and submittal management. Adobe Suite. Microsoft Office including Excel for cost tracking and RFI logs. AutoCAD for drawing review. Procore familiarity from AOR-side interface on active projects.
Laura described Jamison's core gap exactly: design phases in silos, information not transferring between Fred's entitlement phase, Robert's DDs/CDs, and her construction phase. This is exactly what I've spent five years solving — translating design intent to field execution across disciplines without information loss.
Managed LVMH and Dior global brand standards in the field at South Coast Plaza — clients who enforce design standards at tolerance level. Built the site standards card for the 12 most-questioned spec items. Zero LVMH compliance rejections at client inspection.
Led value engineering workshops, constructability reviews, and budget risk analysis on civic projects at Gruen. Pre-construction coordination that prevented field conflicts before ground breaking. At Entertainment Partners: platform release risk management at 99.98% uptime — identical risk discipline, different domain.
As AIA California Associate Director, I worked with state legislators on building code reform — including adaptive reuse stairwell egress provisions. Two recommended amendments incorporated into CA code updates. Existing government and building department relationships in LA directly relevant to Jamison's phased TCO on 1055 West 7th.
"I didn't come back to construction by accident. I went into technology to understand how information systems work under pressure — then returned because the problem I want to solve is the owner's side of a $195M adaptive reuse project in Los Angeles."
Five years of CA on civic, government, and luxury retail projects. Owned the full RFI and submittal lifecycle. South Coast Plaza — LVMH and Dior brand standards enforced at field tolerance level. Zero compliance rejections. Worked with Megan on Jamison's Opus project from the AOR side.
Built release runbook from scratch for a platform serving 1M+ entertainment workers at 99.98% uptime. Shadowed 3 releases, identified 8 failure modes, built the standard. Same discipline Laura described as Jamison's gap — moving too fast to pause and standardize.
Worked with state legislators on building code reform — including adaptive reuse stairwell egress provisions blocking conversion projects in LA County. Two recommended amendments incorporated into CA code updates. Government relationships directly relevant to Jamison's phased TCO on 1055 West 7th.
CA for Louis Vuitton and Dior at South Coast Plaza. Built a laminated site standards card for the 12 most-questioned spec items. Pre-con sessions with finish trades on brand requirements. Zero LVMH compliance rejections at client inspection. Same discipline for Jamison's cross-AOR standardization goal.
Full-stack web platform analyzing construction PM operations — proof that my technology background produces real deployed artifacts. Demonstrates how owner-side data surfaces patterns across a multi-project portfolio. The tech background ships.
Data journalism platforms visualizing California's fiscal crisis and 195-country energy infrastructure. Taking complex multi-variable systems, extracting signal from noise, and presenting findings that influence decisions — same cognitive skill required to manage 1055 across 33 floors and a 20-month schedule.
Architecture → civic CA → luxury retail CA → product ownership at scale → policy advisory. The thread: making complex physical and information systems work when failure is not an option.
The most ambitious office-to-residential conversion in Los Angeles history. A 20-month schedule for 33 floors. A phased TCO model never executed at this scale in the city. Jamison is writing the playbook — and the Design Manager keeps the design-to-field pipeline clean enough to make it possible.
"This is not a normal project. That's exactly why I want to be on it from day one."
"No one in LA has executed a phased TCO at this scale. Jamison is writing the playbook. The Design Manager keeps every RFI, every submittal, every field condition moving fast enough to make 20 months possible."
"I'm ready to start mid-April 2026. The 1055 project is exactly the kind of problem I want to be solving from day one."