Justin Brooks

Principal

ZGF

Justin Brooks, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, is a Principal in ZGF’s Portland office. He is passionate about preserving the environment through low impact design, with experience designing one of the greenest buildings in the country—the Rocky Mountain Institute’s net-zero energy Innovation Center—as well as high-performance laboratories for Stanford University’s Biomedical Innovation Building, the University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Health Sciences Building, and the PAE Living Building—the largest commercial Living Building in the world. Justin’s projects are contextually inspired, expressive of the building’s mission, and timeless in nature. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Syracuse University.

Ryan Bussard

Design Director

Perkins&Will

Born and raised in the Midwest, Ryan was introduced to art and architecture by his grandparents’ frequent trips to Europe. This dichotomy of urbanism and pastoral landscapes inspired him to wonder at an early age how architecture, space, and landscape interact to create the cities, places, and environments people inhabit.

Ryan’s designs continue to be influenced by these early questions and by his client’s visions and aspirations. Drawn by the natural beauty of the Northwest, and the opportunities within a rapidly growing Seattle, Ryan and his family moved to the city to become one of the core team members for the once newly opened Seattle studio. He continues to balance both passions—visiting cities and cultural institutions around the world with his family, and in the Northwest—hiking and taking bicycle trips to explore the landscape.

Jack Rusk

CEO and Co-founder

C.Scale

Jack Rusk the CEO and co-founder of C.Scale, a software startup democratizing access to whole life carbon data and design strategy. C.Scale was founded on the belief that data-driven tools can help get “”all hands on deck”” in the work of transforming buildings and cities from a climate burden to a climate solution.

Jack is a graduate of the Yale School of the Environment and the Yale School of Architecture. In the past few years, he has published or presented research on ecosystem restoration, life cycle impacts of bio-based materials, urban hazard risk, and decarbonization policy’s consequences for health and social equity. Previously, he was Director of Climate Strategy at EHDD.

Todd Mayne

Principal

Weber Thompson

Weber Thompson Principal Todd Mayne is a Construction Administration specialist with a focus on mass timber and other construction technologies in complex mid-rise and high-rise commercial and residential buildings.

Todd excels at bringing designs to life by balancing design intent with the application of technology to achieve real-world solutions. He is a sought-after mentor for both his approach to his projects and for his depth of knowledge on technical matters.

His construction administration management is marked by a focus on relationship management, specifically Todd’s collaboration with internal and external stakeholders throughout the life of a project.

Todd’s award-winning projects include the mass timber commercial buildings Northlake Commons and 35 Stone, as well as residential high-rises Nexus and Kiara, and the currently under-construction Sloane tower. Todd has also presented at the International Mass Timber Conference on the benefits of Dowel-Laminated Timber versus Cross-Laminated Timber. 

Teresa Moroseos

Research Engineer

University of Washington

Teresa Moroseos, AIA is a Research Engineer at the Integrated Design Lab (IDL) in the University of Washington’s (UW) College of Built Environments and a Teaching Associate in the Department of Architecture. She is a licensed architect in the State of Washington. Her research includes studying the impact of extreme weather events on building energy use and thermal comfort, and optimizing energy use, daylighting, indoor air quality, and the operational lifecycle impacts of buildings. In her role at the UW IDL, she works as a consultant on design projects throughout the United States and provides technical expertise to improve daylighting and energy performance for retrofits and new construction. Teresa regularly teaches at the University of Washington in topics of climate analysis, energy principals for buildings, passive solar design, and daylight simulations.

Neil Warburton

Principal, Senior Building Science Specialist

RDH Building Science Inc.

Neil Warburton | PE, CPHC

Neil’s versatility allows him to contribute to RDH’s New Buildings, Existing Buildings, and Energy & Climate practice areas in Washington.

Neil is a Building Science Specialist who works tirelessly to ensure that project requirements and client expectations are achieved. He works on a wide range of New Buildings and Existing Buildings projects, and he is committed to exploring and integrating Passive House and high-performance buildings on the West Coast of the United States.

Before joining RDH in 2005, Neil worked with another building enclosure consulting firm in Ontario, where he focused on roofing condition assessments and construction as well as fire protection field inspections.

Thomas Stearns

Operations Manager

SWINERTON

Thomas Stearns is an Operations Manager at SWINERTON and brings over 18 years of construction experience with expertise in project and design development management. Stearns has mentored owners, consultants, and project teams on the benefits and implementation of mass timber structures. Notable Seattle mass timber projects include Northlake Commons and Heartwood Workforce Housing.

Marc Brune

Senior Principal

PAE

A leader in next-generation engineering for over two decades, Marc has led the mechanical and energy-systems design for many of the world’s most prominent net-positive energy buildings, including the Bullitt Center, Rocky Mountain Institute Innovation Center, the Kendeda Building at Georgia Tech, and the PAE Living Building. He believes that designers have a responsibility to create buildings that minimize resource use and is grateful to be part of a design community working toward a net zero carbon future.

Jess Harris

Green Building Program Manager

City of Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections

Jess Harris, LEED AP BD+C is the Green Building Program Manager at the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections (SDCI), where he leads the development, promotion, and administration of the city’s green building incentive programs. Jess spearheaded the creation of Priority Green, one of the region’s first expedited permitting incentives. He oversees Seattle’s Living Building PilotProgram, inspired by the internationally recognized Living Building Challenge, which pushes the boundaries of performance in sustainable design. Since 2019, Jess has served on the Built GreenExecutive Committee, and in 2022, he was honored with the Master Builders Association’s BuiltGreen Pioneer Award for his transformative impact on the green building industry. He recently became a committee member with the Carbon Leadership Forum Seattle Hub. With over 30years of experience in land use planning and sustainable development, Jess is widely regarded as SDCI’s subject matter expert in green building. Prior to his current role, he served as a Senior Land Use Planner, contributing to a wide range of public and private development projects across Seattle.

Irene Martin

Facade Team Leader

Arup

Irene Pau Martin leads Arup’s Americas West Facades Team. She has an Environmental and Mechanical Engineering background and leads the Building Envelope Physics work within the Americas Region. Having worked in London and Los Angeles, Irene brings international experience to the group on a range of building typologies. Her passion for environmental considerations and occupant comfort has led her to advocate for thoughtful envelope designs that balance architectural delight with responsible resource consumption, particularly that of energy and carbon. Her design approach focuses on passive strategies specific to each project site to help reduce HVAC sizing and to improve resilience & passive survivability. She also has a keen interest in healthy and sustainable materials. Irene has guest lectured at SCI-Arc, USC, UT Austin, & NJIT and has taught the highly popular AIA-accredited courses, “Basics of Building Envelope Physics” and “A Whole-Life Carbon Approach to Façade Design”. She currently sits on the Façade Tectonics Institute’s embodied carbon working group and its advocacy committee to bring about code and policy improvements. She is also a voting member of the IECC Commercial Envelope & Embodied Energy Subcommittee.

Haruka Saito

Principal

ZGF

Haruka Saito believes perspective is everything. Originally from New York, she appreciates having more room for the built environment to grow in the Pacific Northwest. On a recent project, she used a drone to explore the views of Seattle from the site in every direction. The mountainous landscape became part of the frame, unlike in New York, where it’s difficult to see beyond neighboring buildings. Haruka’s passions for three-dimensional modeling and construction coordination of complex geometries inform her design process, and her interest in the pedestrian experience of cities encourages her to study how buildings can create a dialogue with ever-evolving urban tapestries.

AIA
Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, Princeton University
Master of Architecture, Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Harry Rodin III

Senior Project Manager

DCI ENGINEERS

Harry Rodin III PE

Harry’s DCI journey began with an internship in the time between earning his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Structural Engineering at Washington State University. Joining the firm officially in 2018, Harry has since been an integral part of DCI’s team, often involved in mass timber projects throughout the region. In the past, Harry served as the co-chair of the AIA Mass Timber Committee and still assists with their efforts to this day. Beyond mass timber, Harry enjoys working on a variety of other projects. His experience includes high rises, data centers, schools and residential projects throughout Seattle, California, Texas and into the Midwest. Harry also loves to connect with clients and team members and can often be found organizing happy hours and events for the Seattle office.

Kristen Dotson

Principal, Worldwide Sustainability, Sustainable Buildings

Amazon

Kristen Dotson is a dedicated sustainability professional with extensive experience in green building performance, building certifications, Scope 3 embodied carbon, mass timber, healthy materials, and sustainability implementation & process improvement. She is currently leveraging all of these skills and experiences for Amazon’s Worldwide Sustainability organization as part of the Sustainable Buildings team.

Throughout her career, she has focused on supporting and catalyzing sustainability achievement in hundreds of building projects while driving organizational change in real estate portfolio delivery. She continues to be a technical consultant, certification bar raiser, carbon accountant, owner’s representative, contractor trainer, and general troublemaker/catalyst for positive change everywhere she goes.

Rebecca Hutchinson

Associate Principal

Mahlum

AIA

“I fell in love with cities while living abroad in Florence, and consider it my privilege to contribute to the narrative of our urban environments every day through design and architecture.”

Becky’s 18 years of experience between Boston and Seattle has focused on educational clients and the design of new learning environments – both inside and out – for our next generation of students, teachers, and communities. She has served as a project architect and project manager at Mahlum for the past 11 years where she focuses on creating smart, sustainable spaces for K-12 learners. Becky led the design effort for Northwood Elementary School on Mercer Island, the recipient of five design awards, including the Award of Excellence in Education Facility Design from AIA Committee on Architecture for Education.

Becky holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University. She is a registered architect in Massachusetts. Becky is active with the Association for Learning Environments (A4LE), currently serving as the President-Elect for the A4LE Washington State Chapter and as a member of the JEDI Committee.

Joseph Mayo

Associate Principal

Mahlum

Joining Mahlum in 2008, Joseph Mayo is an architect and author of the first book devoted solely to mass timber commercial buildings. He has worked on over a dozen mass timber projects, including the Capitol Campus Childcare Center in Olympia, Washington (Mahlum’s first Net Zero CLT project); a multi-story, K-12 CLT prototype grant with the United States Forest Service; and he assisted in pushing for Alki Elementary School to be Seattle Public Schools’ first three-story mass timber school.

Joe has served on local and national AIA committees, co-authored a research paper exploring the economic viability of tall wood buildings, and assisted in teaching mass timber courses. He values the strength of collaboration and has worked with the City of Seattle Department of Planning and Development, and Washington State non-profit Forterra to lead investigations into the use of CLT in the building industry. As Chair of Forterra’s Building Code and Regulations Action Team, Joe helped to successfully pass new building codes in Washington State that now recognize mass timber as a construction type, allowing up to 18 stories of CLT building. Joe was also a founder of the AIA Seattle Mass Timber Committee and is currently a past co-chair.

Joe holds a Master of Architecture from University of Oregon and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from University of Washington. He is a registered architect in Washington and a LEED Accredited Professional.

Jesse Walton

Associate Principal

Mahlum

Jesse Walton, AIA LEED AP BD+C is an Associate Principal with more than 20 years of experience with educational clients, Jesse is passionate about creating sustainable, healthy spaces for learners of all ages. As project architect and energy efficiency specialist he works closely with design teams and district staff to maximize efficiency, and thermal comfort. An early adopter of BIM, he is an office-wide leader in Revit documentation, building envelope design, and energy code compliance. Jesse is committed to mentoring Mahlum staff and sharing his knowledge of the profession.

Jesse is currently serving a two-year term as Co-Chair of the AIA 2030 Working Group – a group that provides strategic direction for the AIA 2030 Commitment, its annual By the Numbers report, and Design Data exchange (DDx) updates. Holding a Bachelor of Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design, Jesse is a registered architect in Washington, and a LEED Accredited Professional

Gavin Smith

Project Manager

Perkins&Will

Gavin Smith is a Project Manager with vast expertise in all phases of architecture and design. With 23 years of experience at Perkins&Will, he has helped clients realize their visions on both national and international projects on science and technology and corporate mixed-use projects. Gavin is well-versed in specific issues associated with environmental design and uses a collaborative approach for the successful delivery of technically complex projects.

Tad Neeser

Architect

Perkins&Will

With experiences ranging from higher education to high-rise residential sectors, Tad specializes in creating human-centered spaces inspired by principles of the natural environment. He seeks opportunities to foster connections between users and the architecture, ensuring aesthetics strike a balance between an environment that is both practical, yet information rich. From big-picture concepts to construction technicality, Tad’s design contributions have led to beautiful, well-organized architecture that enhances the user experience.

Michelle Murray

Architectural Sales Representative

SAFTI First

Michelle Murray has over 15 years of experience in the architectural glazing industry. As the Architectural Sales Representative at SAFTI FIRST®, she brings her extensive knowledge and expertise of fire rated glazing systems and fenestration in general when working closely with architects, specifiers, glazing contractors and code officials. Michelle is a dynamic presenter and speaker who has been delivering our AIA-registered presentation to various architecture firms, AIA local chapters, CSI local chapters, and at other architectural and glazing industry events.

J-F Robert

President

RAICO North America

As a Professional Engineer and owner of Blackcomb Facade Technology, J-F Robert has focused his practice on significant curtainwall projects. His experience ranges from 60 story high rise, PHI certified commercial buildings, high end residences and complex freeform structures. Blackcomb Façade Technology is the exclusive fabrication partner for RAICO Bautechnik in the Pacific Northwest for all systems types including Timber, Steel and Aluminum.

Brian White

Technical Manager – Americas Insulating Glass

H.B. Fuller

Brian White is the Technical Manager for the Americas Insulating Glass team at H.B. Fuller Company, where he manages research and development and technical service for North America. Brian has been with H.B. Fuller for 10 years, starting as a scientist developing insulating glass sealants and gaining experience and familiarity within the fenestration industry. Currently, he is active in the Insulating Glass Manufacturer’s Alliance (IGMA), Insulating Glass Certification Council (IGCC), American Architectural Manufacturers Association (AAMA), and supports activities in ASTM and the National Glass Association (NGA). He earned his B.A. in Biochemistry from St. John’s University in Collegeville, MN and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Minnesota.

Red Ramsey

Business Development Manager – Texas

Longboard Architectural Products

My name is Red Ramsey and I am the Business Development Manager for Longboard Architectural Products in the South Central which includes AR, LA, MO, OK, and Texas (based in Houston). I have been a representative for interior and exterior architectural building products for about 6 years with a focus on being a resource for architects and contractors to create a smooth transition from design to install. My hope is to work through the details early to iron out any hiccups before they become problems.

Dionne Darling

VP of Brand Partnerships

The Architect’s Newspaper

Dionne Darling has been with The A|N Media Group for over six years. As VP of Brand Partnerships and Associate Publisher, she manages A|N’s Texas headquarters and handles accounts in the West, Southwest and Europe territories. Dionne has over 28 years of direct B2B sales, management and business development experience.