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• Diversified membership, donor and corporate support significantly; personally responsible for March 1979 to April 1992
donor gifts that ranged from $100,000 to $5.0 million for endowed lecture series, capital Columbus Recreation and Parks Department, Columbus OH
campaigns and special exhibitions of art, sculpture and horticulture Landscape Architect and Design Director
• Successfully received grants from Kresge Foundation, Frey Foundation, Grand Rapids • Served as landscape architect for the City of Columbus
Community Foundation and other family funds • Designed public parks, zoological garden exhibits with Jack Hanna, recreational facilities,
• Served as primary spokesperson for the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park bikeways, nature trails, reservoir marinas, campground facilities and restoration of historic
landscapes and properties
• Worked effectively with neighborhood and “Friends” groups on design and development of
January 1993 to April 1997 community parks and playgrounds
Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Garden, Columbus OH • Served as Design Director of AmeriFlora, the first international garden festival ever held in the
Executive Director, serving a 15-member appointed Board of Directors United States, leading the 100-acre festival site design for Franklin Park, coordinating the design
• Served as chief executive officer for a joint recreation district-based non-profit organization with and engineering efforts involving over 20 landscape architectural design firms for the $100
responsibilities for a 28-acre public garden within historic Franklin Park on the near eastside of million, six-month garden festival; responsible for the primary design for the post-event legacy
Columbus, Ohio landscape
• Led a professional staff of 50+ with six direct reports and over 400 volunteers within a greatly • Designed international gardens for similar international garden festivals in Gateshead, England,
expanded century-old Victorian-era conservatory, expanded to include two new major Osaka, Japan and Glasgow, Scotland where I won a Silver Medal for International Garden Design
conservatories from the AmeriFlora ’92 exposition at the Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988
• Managed an annual operating budget of $2.4 million • Won City Beautiful awards for Mayme Moore Park and the North American exhibit at the
• Developed the first USDA-permitted temporary tropical butterfly exhibit, “Butterflies are Columbus Zoo
Blooming” that began a national trend for popular, profitable exhibitions
• Developed successful cultural and educational partnerships with the Columbus Zoological Education:
Garden, the Center of Science and Industry and the Columbus Museum of Art The Ohio State University, Columbus OH
• Worked effectively with the Friends of the Conservatory and Women’s Sustaining Board to • 1980 Graduate cum laude, with a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture
establish a Conservatory Endowment Fund with an annual gala event raising over $100,000 • Received the American Society of Landscape Architects Student Merit Award and the Garden
annually Club of Ohio Outstanding Student Scholarship Award
Professional Registration:
April 1992 to January 1993 • Registered Landscape Architect, State of Ohio, registration #472; January 1982 to present
Medina County Metro Parks District, Medina OH
Director, serving a 3-member appointed Board of Park Commissioners Awards:
• Served as primary administrator of a county-wide park district of over 2,500 acres comprised of • Won the 2010 Municipal Fiscal Advisory Committee’s Public Managerial Award for the City and
eight large regional parks and significant tracts of open space County of San Francisco
• Led a professional staff of 15+ with four direct reports and over 100 volunteers and an annual • Invited floral designer for the DeYoung Museum’s Bouquets to Art exhibition in 2011
operating budget of $600,000 and a capital improvement projects budget of $1.0 million in FY
92/93, budget supported by a voter-approved park district tax levy
• Secured an historic farm donation that created Allardale Historic Farm Metro Park Lectures:
• Led strategic planning and master planning of park development • Invited Guest Lecturer at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University; January 2012; “Golden
• Secured a Historic Preservation grant to restore a barn and provide ADA compliant access Gate Park-Growing an Urban Oasis”
• Established a nursery to grow native trees and plant material to enhance parks and natural
areas • CSDA Annual Conference Presenter 2014 – “Walking the Political Tightrope between Employee
• Worked effectively with the Friends of Medina County Parks Rights and Public Demands”; 2015 – “Public Engagement in the Master Planning Process” for
• Served as primary spokesperson for the Medina County Metro Parks District the California Special Districts Association in Sacramento, CA
Personal: I enjoy gardening, art, museums, travel and community volunteering.
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