design should always tell a story.

Here’s a little of my own.

Drew Carman

Director of Park Planning & Design

tolerable musician

occasional welder

PAinter

GOOD PAL

 

EDUCATION

M.L.A.University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

College of Environmental Design

Masters Landscape Architecture, May 2008

B.A.Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin

Major: Environmental Science, May 2003


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Director of Park Planning & DesignRVi Planning + Landscape Architecture

Austin, TX | 2014 - present

Park Planner IVTexas Parks and Wildlife Department

Austin, TX | 2012 – 2014

Principal—Environmental Design Studios, LLC

Watkinsville, GA | 2010 – 2013

Project Manager, Designer - various planning and design firms from 2004-2010.

Board of Directors - Member - Austin Outside

Projects Committee - Member - The Trail Conservancy


HONORS, AWARDS, SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

2023 TX ASLA Merit Award

Thriving Together: The Mueller Southeast Greenway. Austin, TX Project Lead & Landscape Architect of Record.

2022 TX ASLA Honor Award

San Gabriel Park Phase I & II, Georgetown, TX. Project Lead & Landscape Architect of Record.

2021 Austin Green Awards Winner

Colony District Park, Playground & Fitness. Austin, TX. Project Lead, Construction Administration

2021 Texas Conservation Symposium

Speaker - They Contain Multitudes: Designing native habitat systems into the dense urban development at Mueller in Austin, TX.

2020 Texas Trails & Active Transportation Conference

Speaker - More Than Just a Mile: How a scrappy .9 mile trail navigated its way through federal oversight, 6 years of planning and one very tall bridge.

2018 Texas Trails & Active Transportation Conference

Speaker—Springs, Karsts & the 100 yr Flood: Design Thinking for Trails in Environmentally Sensitive Zones.

2018 Texas Conservation Symposium

Speaker—Spring Restoration at San Gabriel Park, Revisited

2017 Texas Conservation Symposium

Speaker—Spring Restoration at San Gabriel Park

2010 GA ASLA Honor Award

Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery Rehabilitation, Project Team Member, The Jaeger Co.

2007 GA ASLA Award of Excellence

Callaway Gardens Stormwater Management Master Plan, Project Team Member, Breedlove Land Planning.

2002 Recipient—Chester Cook Research Grant, Lawrence University

Statistical study of vegetational ecology on beach and dunes community in Door Co. Wisconsin


SOFTWARE, skills, ETC.

AutoCAD (Civil, Maps3D); ArcGIS; Adobe CC Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premier Pro; Sketchup; Microsoft Office Suite including MS Projects; GSuite; Procore; Deltek Vision; ProTools…but would rather put a pen to paper any day.

Avocational or general experience in carpentry, woodworking, flatwork, MIG welding, & hole digging.
 

LICENSURE, CERTIFICATIONS

State of Texas—Licensed Landscape Architect

License number: 2908

TxDOT - Local Government Project Procedure Qualified LGPP - #72751, 08/2019

State of Georgia—Licensed Landscape Architect

License number: LA-001683 (inactive)

PSMJ’s A/E/C Project Management Certified

Course #0007693, 07/2015

 
 

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