EVENTS
For the last 20 years I have built a career in the events and entertainment industry. I started in Aspen in the late 90’s schlepping gear and running sound for a friends band for free food and beer. From there I joined the site operation team at Telluride Bluegrass festival and 2001 I hit the road with Karl Denson and then with The String Cheese Incident as a touring interment technician.
I spent 14 years as a roadie and it was the best job I ever had, but it didn't pay very well and I always had an eye on the big picture so about 7 years into that adventure I started to spend my summers running site operations for festivals.
In those first 7 years on the road I got to experience some of the most iconic festivals around the world. I took all that experience and applied it to Site Operations and I progressed until I could run an event for thirty-thousand attendees.
Now I want to use that knowledge to help Map Design and Build your next event
HOME PLANS
You may be wondering how 20 years in the events industry qualifies me to design you home...The best way to describe my job as Site Director at a festival is that I am the General Contractor (GC) and that is how I found my way into the construction industry.
My friend Fredrick came to work for me one year at Blues and Brews in Telluride, Fredrick is an excellent GC with many years of experience and after working the festival he told me that we basically do the same thing. We both coordinate many elements and follow a set of plans to create a place for people to gather. In his case a home, in my case a venue for thousands.
In 2017 I applied the CAD tools I had been using to design festival sites and and designed and drew the plans for my own remodel. Fredrick of course was my builder and after seeing my work he starting calling on me to design projects for other clients. People liked my work and when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the event and festival industry, my transition to the construction industry was a natural pivot.
MORE BACKGROUND
A little more insight into how I came to have a eye for home design:
My mother was a real estate broker who dealt in new high end construction so I grew up watching homes being crafted. I was also an artsy kid who loved design, and I also loved to build things--mostly skate ramps and bike jumps--but I always understood how things went together. I probably got that from my engineer dad and my great grandfather the home builder.
I grew up in a town full of beautiful, stately old homes (Shaker Heights, OH--look it up, It was one of the first planed communities) and was blessed to get to spend time in some of the most beautiful homes in the world.
I have also spent time in many of the worst! In my work producing events I have stayed in countless homes and condos around the globe and seen so many excellent examples of how NOT to design a living space. I don’t know who trained the people that designed condos in ski towns in the 70’s-80’s but they did the world no favors! As with many thing in my life, I have learned a lot from bad examples.
