About Me

I've spent 15 years in urban planning. I've worked inside city government at the City and County of Denver, collaborated on large-scale resort development at Vail Resorts, and contributed to comprehensive plans that shape how communities grow and change for decades. I know how this industry works: the processes, the politics, the public meetings, the compromises.

But I've never been able to turn off the part of my brain that thinks like a designer.

Where most planners see a community engagement process, I see a storytelling problem. Where most plans produce maps and policy language, I think about what it would feel like to actually live inside that vision. I believe that the most technically sound plan in the world fails if people can't see themselves in it, if it doesn't capture something true about who a place is and who it wants to become.

That belief is why I founded Narrative Designs. And it's why I also design neighborhood flags.

The flags aren't a side project. They're how I practice what I preach. Distilling the identity of an entire neighborhood into a single piece of visual design forces a kind of clarity and intentionality that I bring into every consulting engagement. It's easy to talk about sense of place. It's harder to actually make something that captures it. I try to do both.

I work best as a creative partner on teams that already have the technical horsepower but want someone who can translate complex ideas into visuals that move people, and who cares deeply about getting the story right. If you're working on a comprehensive plan, a small area plan, a community visioning process, or any project where identity and narrative matter, I'd love to talk.

I live in Denver with my wife and three boys. When I'm not working, I'm on a bike or in the mountains, which is part of the same obsession. I do this work because great places matter. I experience that every day.