Design Quality Control

Fouad Elgharabli

***** ** ******* **, *********, OR 97008

503-***-**** igkykl@r.postjobfree.com

Landscape Architect & Environmental Planner

** ***** ********** **** ********* designs, environmental planning and landscape architecture master planning.

• Registered Landscape Architect

• LEED Certificated

Core Interest

Enhance our diverse ecosystem with sustainable conditions for humans to experience plants and wild life within urban sittings.

Core Competency

• Critical Thinking & Creative Solutions & High Technical Skills

• Leadership & Team Building & Coordinating Activities & Supervision & Performance Evaluation

• Client Interest & Company Visibility

• Commitment & Reliability & Determination

• Personal Growth & Continues Learning

• Positive Attitude & Friendly

• Sustainable Environmental Planning

• Urban Vegetation & Street Trees

• Disturbed Site Grading & Restoration

• Street Trees & Urban Open Space Design

• Roadside Development & Erosion Control

• Storm water Management & Wetlands Design & Stream Bank Engineering

• Master Planning & Landscape Research & Publication

• Users’ Preference & Environmental Behavior

• LEED Certification

• Design Review & Analysis

• Contracts Review & Project Scheduling

• Site Analysis & Design Development

• Construction Documents & Specifications & Cost Estimate

• Construction Management & Materials Verification

• Graphic Design & Microstation & AutoCAD & GIS

Professional Profile

• Efficiency to ensure accomplishment of assignments.

• Eagerness for learning to advocate for client interest.

• Continues searching for creative advanced solutions that add value to employer reputation and promote their services.

• Know where to find information that can generate comprehensive solutions most updated with most recent trends.

• High technical skills that understand the real problems and provide creative ideas and suggest the right solutions.

• Critical thinking that understand the important issues and search for the best answers.

• Determination that follow up till task completion.

• Team oriented encouraging participants to contribute with their skills and experience the success.

• Admiring those with good communication skills who can work well with others. Continue to learn from them and relate to how they are in touch with their inner world and present themselves as genuine and true to who they are.

• Continue personal journey of self-awareness and growth.

Work History

2007-Now Landscape Architect

PBS Engineering & Environmental, Portland, Oregon

Spearheaded the design and production of construction documents and specifications using Microstation for transportation projects with ODOT and WSDOT for a company that focus on environmental engineering projects.

2011-2011 Senior Landscape Architect

Ecology & Environment International, Casablanca, Morocco

Selected by well known environmental quality control company to review landscape plans and ensure LEED certification of plans for new city in Morocco.

2010-Now Landscape Architect

Volunteered to review designs and select among contractors for new community center.

Established my own landscape design firm (FG Landscape) providing consulting services in Portland Metropolitan area.

2007-2007 Transportation Planner

Washington State Dep. of Transportation, Seattle, Washington

Enlisted to manage multiple transportation roadside projects including urban streets, wetlands and interchanges.

2003-2006 Head of Landscape Unit

Dubai Municipality, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Brought on board to manage City of Dubai Landscape Unit with $100 Million budget toward developing various projects of the city roadsides, parks and recreation facilities.

2001-2003 Landscape Designer

Washington State Dep. of Transportation, Vancouver, Washington

Employed to design and use Microstation to draft roadside projects including urban streets, wetlands, interchanges and detention ponds by producing required construction documents and specifications.

1998-2000 Landscape Designer

Kurahashi & Associates, Beaverton, Oregon

Enrolled by a landscape section at small engineering firm to design and draft roadside projects for ODOT including wetlands, interchanges and detention ponds.

1994-1998 Parks Planner

Department of Parks & Recreation, City of Portland, Oregon

Brought on board to assist producing the City of Portland Urban Forest Management Plan. Revised Hoyt Arboretum Master Plan while producing a report about the Arboretum plant collection history. Participated in urban trails planning and design. Developed a report about students’ after school activities.

Education

• Master degree in Landscape Architecture (University of Oregon)

• BSc in Horticulture (University of Alfath, Libya)

Publication

The Use of Seats in Urban Public Open Space. Published in the proceedings of the 24th annual conference of the Environmental Design Research Association.

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