RALEIGH SULLIVAN

• Lead Houston operations within an exclusively K–12-focused practice, achieving 15% year-over-year growth over three consecutive years while strengthening long-term district partnerships.
• Provide leadership across planning, design, and delivery, ensuring alignment between educational vision, facility outcomes, and community impact.
• Guide a team of 15–20 professionals, fostering a collaborative, mission-driven culture focused on student-centered design and client service.
• Partner directly with school district leadership, supporting bond programs, long-range planning, and evolving educational delivery models.
• Drive regional market strategy, expanding presence across the Houston-area education sector through relationship-based growth.
• Establish and manage financial performance expectations, including profitability, backlog health, and sustainable growth planning.
• Align staffing and resource planning with project demands and strategic priorities to ensure consistent delivery.
• Lead contract strategy and negotiations, balancing risk management with long-term client value.
• Collaborate with shareholders and executive leadership to shape firmwide direction and strategic initiatives.
• Translate firmwide priorities into local implementation, ensuring consistency in service delivery and operational performance.
• Contribute to a firmwide client experience initiative, establishing measurable standards for client engagement, responsiveness, quality assurance, and process-driven delivery to elevate consistency and performance across the practice.
• Elevate brand presence and thought leadership within the K–12 market, reinforcing position as a trusted advisor to educational institutions.

• Delivered a broad portfolio of K–12, higher education, and civic projects, with a focus on functional, flexible, and future-ready learning environments.
• Led educational programming, stakeholder engagement, and master planning, aligning facility solutions with instructional goals and community needs.
• Built strong client relationships through a consultative approach, resulting in repeat engagements and long-term partnerships.
• Coordinated multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality, design-forward, and technically sound solutions.

• Design and produce high density multi-unit and mixed use projects in
urban nd suburban areas across the country. Four storys of type V over a
concrete podium, garden apartments, and some office space. Size of
projects ranged for 40 to 400 units.
• Primarily responsible for the construction documentation and construction
administration.
• Assigned to clients as the day-to-day contact for projects

Developed and documented designs for civic projects such as police
stations, court houses, and recreation centers.