landscape designer
landscape designer


Creative landscape professional who enjoys utilizing unique methods to get results customer wants. Adept at designing for proper runoff and irrigation, creating landscape concept, planting plans and utilizing existing plants and native plant material to maintain local ecosystem. Specializing in residential and commercial properties, shopping centers, restaurants, and child care centers.

Experience
2002� 9/1/2018
Owner
Olive Tree Landscape & Design
4020 Middleton Dr.
Monrovia, MD 21770
Established a small family landscape design, install, maintenance business. Efficient in running day to day operations of a crew of 4 FT employees. This includes labor management, training and safety compliance, bookkeeping with Gopher software, route development, equipment maintenance, sales, knowledge of Pro Landscape software for landscape plans, presentation drawings, including lighting design with a strong emphasis of pond less waterfalls. Hands on experience from plant placement to teaching and/or supervising site visits. Customer relations during design concept phase to completion of installation. Creative in annual plant installation rotations, and planter designs using quality plant material, including on site plant clippings, branch pruning.
1989-1992
Residential Draftsman
LTJ Architecture
3200 Cordell Ave. Bethesda, MD 20817
Residential plan, section revisions. Extensive lettering prepared on deadline time frame.
Proficient use of AUTOCAD. Visiting job sites for existing features for drawings.


Education

� Maryland Drafting Institute, College Park MD- Technical School degree in Architectural/Engineering Drawing (1989)
� George Washington University Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Landscape Design(2006)
� Member, Small Business Association (2002- 2015)
� Donation of time/material every year in beautifying front entrances of assorted Academy of Child Development Schools in Montgomery County MD. (2011-2015)
� 2012- Bethesda Magazine feature of Olive Tree Landscape & Design for hardscape/planting design and installation. ------------/Bethesda- Magazine/SeptemberOctober-2012/Family-Ties/
� Vista Low Voltage Lighting Design Certificate (2012)
� Worked with RAINSCAPES association to develop the first native planting design/installation for an HOA entrance in Montgomery Co. MD. Potomac Oaks,

References
George Papaheraklis- Fine Craft Builders ------------
Vincent Perella- Arborcare Inc.------------