>> Well I studied here at the Ambler [assumed spelling] Campus, and I mean I chose that school
at the time because it had the-- it was a small intimate and still is with the benefit
of you could expand into the larger university here at Temple if you wanted to do that,
so that now was kind of a choice.
And you know I grew up in Western Pennsylvania
and wanted the opportunity to explore eastern Pennsylvania.
But that was just a two-year program at the time, and then now it's expanded,
you know it's a full four year degree.
So I-- the fact that I went to the University of the Arts on South Broad Street Philadelphia
and then ultimately to the University of Pennsylvania, so all my schooling was here
in Philadelphia, it all culminated and then coming out of Penn with a master's degree
in urban design, but I learned all those fundamentals both you know here
and at the University of the Arts studying landscape design and architecture.
I took my first job here in Philadelphia working for a small firm, and we worked on projects
in the greater Philadelphia and New Jersey region, and then I was offered a job to move
to California by a former alumnus who had said you know we're working
on this very large project on the Berkley waterfront
in California would you like to come out and work on it?
A great offer so I left.
I left Pennsylvania and went to California, then I worked there for that firm for a couple years,
and then I was hired in 1987 by the firm that I basically work
for now, so I've been there 28 years.