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SWBR Announces Leadership Promotions
Four team members promoted to senior associate

SWBR announced four key leadership promotions. Michael Bills expertise as a landscape architect and urban planner,
Brown, AIA, William Price, RLA, Kristin Purdy, AIA, and Keith as well as his business development skills, have helped our
Sylvester have been promoted to senior associate. landscape group prosper and positively impact our clients,
said Don Naetzker, RLA, landscape architecture manager.
Were proud to announce our new leadership team members
as we look forward to another successful year of positively Kristin Purdy, AIA, CSI, LEED
impacting lives through meaningful design, said President AP BD+C is a project architect
Tom Gears, AIA. and member of Board of
Directors. As part of the firm’s
Michael Brown, AIA, CDT, Education Studio, Purdy works
LEED AP BD+C, has been with clients and the design team
with the firm for 16 years to develop a projects program
and is a project architect/ and design solution, overseeing
manager in the Workplace projects from programming
Studio where he manages through construction
design and construction for administration. As SWBRs
municipal and commercial sustainable design manager,
projects. As a certified NYS code she works to maintain the firm’s
enforcement officer, Brown also ongoing commitment to the
provides expert reviews and Kristin Purdy, AIA environment by integrating
assessments on code-related sustainable best practices into
issues. He earned a master of design projects and our office culture. She graduated from the
architecture, master of business University at Buffalo with a bachelor of science in architecture.
Michael Brown, AIA administration and bachelor of
architecture from the University Kristin is a skilled and incredibly organized project manager
at Buffalo. with the ability to apply her skills to many different project
types, from a beautiful performance hall, to research
Mike is well known and respected throughout SWBR for his laboratories or even sports facilities. Our clients love working
technical and management abilities, his knowledge of building with her, shes the ultimate team player, said SWBR Principal
codes and standards, his even demeanor and his teaching Steven Fernaays, AIA.
and mentoring, said Principal Randal Sickler, AIA,
Keith Sylvester, chief information
William Price, RLA, landscape officer, has been with the
architect and urban planner, firm for more than 20 years
joined SWBR in 2018. Price and manages all IT systems
helps to lead the firm’s for the firm. Sylvester is the
landscape architecture and lead information technology
urban site design projects along (IT) decision maker and is
with business development responsible for strategy, design,
and proposal writing efforts. implementation, utilization of
His extensive portfolio includes technology and data security.
the design and entitlements for He also oversees the firm’s
several waterfront and historic Technology Department, which
preservation projects. He serves uses virtual and augmented
as the chairman of the Town reality, 3D modeling, Revit and
of Brighton Planning Board Keith Sylvester, CIO drone technologies to better
William Price, RLA and is a board member of the assist the design process.
Community Design Center
of Rochester. He received a Keith does so much more than keep our systems running and
master of landscape architecture from the State University safe. He ensures our firm is at the forefront of new technology,
of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry helping us enhance our client services and design better
and a bachelor of environmental design from the University of performing, more sustainable buildings, said Tom Gears, AIA,
Massachusetts. SWBR president. q

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