Project Manager Design

JEFFREY SHERMAN

*** * **** ***** **** *, Phoenix, AZ 85012 (H) 602-***-**** ***********@*****.***

Professional Summary

Jeffrey is a creative professional with over 30 years of experience in all areas of Landscape Architecture. He is experienced in urban design, land planning, open space planning, transportation, transit, multidisciplinary projects, downtown redevelopment, parks, schools and playgrounds, community involvement and recreational design, planning, visual and natural resource analysis, pedestrian circulation analysis, product design, safety and pedestrian oriented design. He is also very accomplished in the design, manufacturing, marketing and sales of designed manufactured products.

Jeffrey owned and operated a professional Urban Design and Landscape Architectural firm while simultaneously owning, operating and managing a major manufacturer of urban street and transit furniture. He accomplished this through a strong work ethic, an ability to work on a multitude of tasks with others in a team environment, while using a creative approach to problem solving, and a true enjoyment of the work at hand.

He is detailed oriented, enjoys helping others, organized, efficient, and a mature person that is seeking to become an integral member of a team organization. His aspirations are to work together with others that take professional pride and enjoy providing quality multidisciplinary services, products, innovations and solutions. He has been quoted as saying ”enjoy your work and clients and everything else will take care of itself.”

Major Strengths

• Highly experienced, results driven, high energy, with an honest enjoyment of work

• Skillful at utilizing strong written, graphic and verbal communication skills

• Accomplished at design manufacturing, product design, product development, marketing and sales of designed manufactured transit furniture products

• Hands-on person with a lust for seeing everyone working in a successful way

• Experienced on large multidisciplinary projects while maintaining a strong reputation and personal approach

Work History

President 01/1987 to 09/2012

Sherman Group Inc – Phoenix AZ

For the past 27 years Jeffrey Sherman was self-employed in the field of Landscape Architecture Planning and Urban Design. This award winning Landscape Architectural and Urban Design Firm served both private public sector clients in the Valley and the Southwestern United States. The Business Journal ranked Sherman Group as one of the top Landscape Architectural firms in Phoenix for over a decade. This firm worked within a broad spectrum of services for private sector development, major health care facilities, and community developments. Extensive public sector services included development design review for the City of Phoenix, public transit facilities, light rail programs, bus transfer facilities, urban redevelopment of downtowns, streetscape development, parks and open space, participation in many public art projects as well as the development of design guidelines and standards for right-of-way development and redevelopment.

President 05/1988 to 09/2012

Lacor/Streetscape – Phoenix, AZ

Cofounder and President of a manufacturer dedicated to the design of bus shelters and urban street furniture. Firm markets and sells over 200 products that are used in the transit industry such as bus passenger shelters, street furniture and information kiosks. Company information about Lacor/Streetscape can be viewed at www. lacorss.com. Lacor/Streetscape provides bus passenger shelters with advertising programs for many major US cities. These were for media companies such as Outdoor Systems, Gannett, Via Com and CBS and non-advertising passenger shelters for municipalities. Jeffrey Sherman's transit furnishings designs can be seen across the country in cities such as Anaheim, Bakersfield, Fresno, Irvine, La Jolla, Los Angeles, Sacramento and many others in California; also the City of Flagstaff, Boulder, Denver, Colorado Springs. Additional projects include such programs as Bus Shelter Program, and Napa California’s bus shelter standards. With a history of revenues of over $20 million dollars Lacor/Streetscape is considered one of the nations top companies in the field of transit furniture manufacturing.

Project Manager 08/1984 to 03/1987

BRW – Phoenix, AZ

Jeffrey Sherman worked as a project manager for multidisciplinary firm that is now part of AECOM. Work experience included downtown redevelopment projects, transit, transportation as well as land planning.

Project Manager 09/1981 to 09/1984

Phillip E Flores Associates – Denver, CO

Served as project manager involved in the construction observation of the Sixteenth Street Mall in downtown Denver, CO. He also worked on various designs and planning projects for the Keystone resort ski area in Dillon, CO. In addition he participated as a project landscape architect for the National Park Service Dangling Rope Marina on Lake Powell Azan the 16th Street mall in Denver.

Project Executive 01/1979 to 08/1980

Servicios Metropolitanos – Mexico City, Mexico

Worked as a project executive for the public agency in Mexico City provided expertise in the areas of urban design and environmental planning. Work included various urban transportation and redevelopment projects and the southern zone environmental analysis and ecology conservation plan.

Education

BLA: Landscape Architecture, 1979

University of Arizona - Tucson, AZ

Architectural Studies

University of LaSalle - Mexico City

Professional Registration

Registered Professional Landscape Architect, License Number 21410, State of Arizona

Additional Information

Jeffrey Sherman is fluent in Spanish and English

Professional References

John McNamara AIA, AICP - AECOM - previous supervisor: 602-***-****

Alvin Livingstone PE - AECOM - previous client: 602-***-****

Bill Hintze, PE - Southwest Fabrication – colleague, business associate: 623-***-****

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