I am a registered architect have practiced in both Winston-Salem, NC (with projects that spanned much of the state between 1987 and 2013) and in Houston, TX (where I received my formal architectural education, began my career, and returned in 2013). Now that the rubber band has snapped, I am back in Houston serving as a Senior Project Director for Lone Star College’s Facilities & Construction department.
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I’ve had the good fortune to work with great clients over the years in all sorts of settings and a variety of building types. While I have a fairly diverse portfolio, two sectors certainly stand out: church and university projects.
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With over 60 church projects in my portfolio, I have deep experience in master planning campuses, the design of worship spaces, classroom buildings, fellowship halls, kitchens, recreational facilities, offices, and the other components that go together to produce a church. Projects have ranged from very small to mega-church scale.
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Projects for numerous universities has punctuated my experience at intervals. My first project was as a right-out-of-school draftsman working on the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Building at The University of Texas in Austin. Some years later I led a team of architects, engineers, and interior designers in the design and production of construction documents for The Thurston-Bowles Buildings at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While that was under construction, I shifted my efforts to a large addition at Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center nearby. Some years later, I did numerous small projects for Winston-Salem State University, and prepared a study for Wake Forest College in Winston-Salem.
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My new position as Senior Project Director in the Facilities and Construction Department at Lone Star College in Houston has built upon my educational experience from a new perspective — that of the owner’s representative for multiple construction projects including the Center for Science & Innovation, the Energy and Manufacturing Institute Building at University Park campus, the Westway Park Technology Center. and the East Aldine Satellite Center. Currently I am overseeing the construction of a new Student Services Building at Lone Star College’s Montgomery campus.
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I am married to Nancy Benton Parks and we have a wonderful (now-married) daughter Marie. In my spare time, I like to travel and paint. I exhibit and sell some of the fruit of that interest, site-specific acrylic paintings, on this online gallery site.
