I've been designing buildings in Michigan for twenty-five years. That's long enough to know what actually matters.

It's not the renderings. It's not the awards. It's whether the building gets built the way it was drawn, whether it works for the people inside it, and whether the process of getting there didn't make everyone miserable.

When you hire me, you get me. On every call, at every meeting, on every site visit at 7 a.m. when the flashing details matter and nobody else wants to argue about them. I do the design. I manage the approvals. I'm the one who picks up the phone. That's not a tagline. It's the structure of the practice.

My work spans breweries and restaurants, custom homes and lakefront retreats, office buildouts and historic renovations, private aviation terminals and university labs. I don't have a formulaic style. I have a definite one, but it starts with listening. Then I design what the site and the client are actually asking for.

I grew up in metro Detroit. De La Salle Collegiate, then the University of Michigan for both degrees. My wife Amy and I have four kids. We're a Michigan family. That matters because most of my clients are too, and I design in the places I know.

I'm selective about the projects I take on. Not every project is the right fit, and that's fine. But when it is, you'll get someone who treats your project like it's the only one on the board, because most of the time, it nearly is.