David McKinley

• Project manager for design and planning for multi-scale landscape architecture projects, ensuring alignment with client vision, budgets, and sustainability goals.
• Organized and led multidisciplinary teams to integrate innovative solutions into site components of architectural projects, enhancing functionality and aesthetic appeal.
• Mentored junior staff in best practices for design, project management, and effective communication and presentation strategies.
• Developed site plans and specifications utilizing AutoCAD and other design software for Construction drawings.
• Created multiple proposals for future work.
• Projects included Derry, NH Fire Station, Avon, MA Town Offices, small parks and playgrounds in MA and RI, and developing general specifications for DCR.

• Landscape architect in a firm specializing in education and fire & police facility design. Responsible for site design and civil coordination on multiple projects, from the initial competition stage through to construction. Led the firm’s Massachusetts Landscape Architecture department, overseeing and mentoring the Landscape design staff. Participated on over 50 different schools and Public Safety projects in more than 6 states; below are a list of the more recent or largest projects.

Sample School Projects:

• Diman Vocational Technical High School, Fall River, MA
• Attleboro High School, Attleboro, MA
• Minuteman Regional Vocational Technical High School, Lincoln, MA
• Baypath Regional Vocational Technical High School, Charlton, MA
• Westbrook Middle School and athletic facilities, Westbrook, CT
• Westerly Middle School & High School Campus, Westerly, RI
• Sharon Middle School, Sharon, MA
• Canton High School, Canton, MA
• Bourne Elementary School and Early Education Center, Bourne, MA

Municipal Safety Projects in the following towns and cities

• Massachusetts: Abington, Acton, Bellingham, Blandford, Beverly, Bourne, Brockton, Carver, Chatham, Chelmsford, Foxborough, Hampden, Harvard, Harwich, Hingham, Holliston, Hyannis, Lakeville, Leominster, Mansfield, Marshfield, Mendon, Middlesbrough, Nantucket, Needham, Northbridge, Orleans, Plainville, Provincetown, Randolph, Sandwich, Sharon, Southbridge, Sudbury, Wareham, Watertown, Wellfleet, and Winthrop
• Rhode Island: Cumberland
• Connecticut: Ledyard, Southington
• New Hampshire: Londonderry, Litchfield

Joint partner in a Landscape Architecture firm in Paris, France. Specializing in urban and rural road design, led projects from the planning through construction phase, including landscape analysis, design proposals, construction documentation and maintenance/development recommendations.

• Sample Projects included:
• National project "40,000,000 trees" for the town of Epinay-sous-Senart, Essonne
• Highway landscape design for the A86, Rueil-Malmaison, Hauts-de-Seine
• Deviation of the RN 13 around the city of Lisieux, Calvados
• Landscape follow-up study for the Autoroute A16 (Amiens and Boulogne-sur-Mer) for a period of five years - Société des autoroutes du Nord et de l’Est de la France
• Design Competition for Square Roger Salengro, Dunkirk, Pas-de-Calais

Representative for a New York based LA firm, managed all aspects of the French office operations, including overseeing existing work and generating new clients and contracts.

• Sample Projects:
• Green belt study, Rueil-Malmaison, Hauts-de-Seine
• Insertion of the Autoroute A16 in the Plaine de France (SANEF)
• Design of the intersection RN 13-Avenue de la Jonchère, Hauts-de-Seine
• Study of the interchange at Pont Colbert, Versailles, Hauts-de-Seine
• Study for the insertion of a hotel group in Siem Reap, Cambodia (ARTE architects)
• Urban re-organization Competition for Fort-Mahon Plage, Somme

• Worked as a designer, an analyst, and draftsman for a French Landscape architecture firm. Work included renderings and landscape design (planting plans and details)