Craig is the current president of the Southern California Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects. In addition, he is starting a role as a member of the Design-Build Institute of America Western Pacific Region DEI Committee. He has more than 3 decades of experience in the design and construction of public projects. For the last 5 years he was the California Public Practice lead for IBI Group (now Arcadis) in charge of the public practice work with offices in Los Angeles, Irvine, San Diego, San Jose, and San Luis Obispo. In addition he was the executive sponsor of the firm’s JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) Task Force employee resource group force that is developed recommendations to improve the culture of the firm in these areas and to make sure IBI follows through with the statements made in our response to the tragic and unjustifiable killing of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Regis Korchinski-Paquet, “Working Together to Respond to Systemic and Institutional Anti-Black Racism”. Craig has recently left Arcadis to take on a new challenge at Carrier Johnson + Culture and is looking forward to working with the leadership to grow the practice in Higher Education and Civic work.

He holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. During his time at Cal Poly, he studied architecture for a full year in Copenhagen Denmark. He became a California Registered Architect in 1994. His career started with BFGC Architects in 1990 where he became a firm Principal. In 2009 BFGC was acquired by IBI Group and in 2013 Craig accepted an opportunity to be part of the leadership in the Los Angeles Office. He has been involved with all aspects of complex public project business development, project management, planning, design, quality control and project delivery for public clients throughout California. He is most proud of his ability to build project consensus and become part of the fabric of a client’s organization. His resume includes educational and civic sector projects ranging from programing to new construction to tenant improvements for K-12 schools, Community Colleges, University, and Civic Sector Projects including Libraries, Transit and Public Safety Projects.

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