Senior Landscape Architect/Project Manager
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STEPHEN R. BURNS, RLA, LEED AP 120 N. Oak Park Ave., Apt. 408 Oak Park, IL 60301 (904) 556-9028 [email protected] Senior Landscape Architect/Project Manager: Award winning designer with proven success at managing others, delivering multiple projects on time and on budget, and improving client relations. Decades of experience includes multiple areas of lan dscape architecture, including the design and construction of golf courses and their accompanying residential developments, parks, playgrounds, artificial turf fields, a day camp, and major historic landmarks. Management experience includes seventeen years of ownership of a two to three person design firm, a senior role/management in the design studio at a twenty person firm. Career Accomplishments: • Played a major role in the design and construction of more than a dozen projects winning awards or major magazine recognition. • Awarded Excellence in Achievement Award, by The Board Room magazine, in 1999 and 2000, becoming their first two-time golf course architect winner. • Dramatically reduced firm liability for errors and omissions. • Successfully completed construction administration for more than twenty projects in 2009. Professional Experience: July 2006-March 2010 THOMPSON DYKE & ASSOCIATES, LTD. Chicago, IL VICE PRESIDENT Senior landscape architect/manager in the design studio for a twenty person landscape architecture, urban planning, and design firm. • Dramatically reduced the firm's errors and omissions claims through design review of projects during design phase, effective construction administration, and improved relations with clients. • Successfully completed the permitting and construction administration for more than twenty projects in 2009, including the award-winning major renovation of the landmark Buckingham Fountain, seven artificial turf fields, several small parks, playgrounds, and other projects. • Carried out the majority of the land planning for a dramatic river-front 950 acre mixed-use project in Michigan, which includes golf, single family and multi-family residential, retail, and resort components. 1988-July 2006 BURNS GOLF DESIGN Fernandina Beach, FL GOLF COURSE ARCHITECT/P RINCIPAL Owner and principal designer, responsible for most of the design and construction administration work as well as the management of the firm. • Designed high quality, award-winning golf courses, despite working with generally modest construction budgets. • Awarded both a 1999 and a 2000 Excellence in Achievement Award, by The Board Room magazine, becoming their first two-time golf course architect winner. • Created the firm’s highly successful web site, which ranked very high on search engines, and generated many design inquiries and compliments. 1981-1988 FAZIO GOLF COURSE DESIGNERS, INC. Jupiter, FL DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION ASSOCIATE Worked more than five years as a full-time field representative for the firm. The firm’s drawings were only used as a general reference in the field; therefore, most of the actual golf course design work was done in the field. This included directing the clearing of the property, production o f grading plans, drainage design, and most of the actual design of the golf course. • Directed six highly rated projects, completing them in a timely fashion at reasonable cost. Responsible for most of the design for those projects, including clearing, grading, drainage, grassing, and landscaping. • Directed portions of the work at four additional projects. • Worked closely with owners representatives, engineers, and land planners to successfully design and integrate project drainage systems and coordinate simultaneous golf course and residential development. • Installed drainage, shaped portions of golf holes, and finish-graded portions of golf holes, utilizing bulldozers, backhoes, tractors, and other construction equipment. • Functioned as construction foreman and labor supervisor on projects where Fazio Golf Course Designers had the contract for golf course shaping. “The construction component of our work has never run smoother since Steve's involvement.” --Peter Dyke President, TD&A “Steve is thorough and very creative. We have all enjoyed working with him and very much appreciate his many talents.” --Nancy Butler Developer Morris Farms
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Professional Registration and Memberships:• Bachelor of Science, Landscape Architecture—The Ohio State University• Landscape Architect: CLARB Certificate #20394, Registered in Florida #986, South Carolina #568,
Illinois #157-001219, Michigan #3901001484, Washington #682 (inactive)• LEED Accredited Professional• Former Member American Society of Golf Course Architects
• Former Member American Society of Landscape Architects• Former Member National Golf Foundation
Awards:• Board Room Magazine Excellence in Achievement Award (2)• Illinois ASLA Honor Award, Outstanding Historic Renovation, Buckingham Fountain Restoration• Illinois Landscape Contractors Gold Award, Buckingham Fountain Corridor • Golf Digest ‘Best New Affordable Public Golf Courses,’ Cobblestone Golf Course, Kendallville,
Indiana• Golf Digest ‘Most Improved Golf Courses,’ Legion Memorial Golf Course, Everett, Washington
• Golf Digest ‘Best New Private Golf Courses,’ Hammock Dunes Golf Links, Palm Coast, Florida• Golf Course News, ‘Best New Private Seaside Course,’ Hammock Dunes Golf Links, Palm Coast,
Florida• Several other award-winning or rated golf courses.
Published Work:• DailyFee Golf, “Are Egos Bad for the Golf Business?,” May/June 2001• The Board Room, “Designing with Playability in Mind,” June 1999• The Board Room, “Remodeling of Legion Memorial Golf Course: A Case Study” October 2001• The Board Room, “If Your Club has these Problems, You may be in need of Renovation” Volume VI,
Issue 53• Golf Architecture: A Worldwide Perspective, “Are egos ruining the golf business?” Volume 1
• Golf Architecture: A Worldwide Perspective, “Designing golf courses for playability” Volume 2• CMAA Club Facilities and Amenities Series Volume IV Golf Course Construction and Renovation
Guide, “Does Your Golf Course Need Renovation? A Case Study of Legion Memorial Golf Course,”
2009
Continuing Education:• PSMJ Resources, Inc. - Project Management Boot Camp
• Basic Civil Engineering Culvert Design
• Design Within the Environmental Process• Regenerative Landscape Design Sustainability• Stormwater Management An Introduction• Basic Civil Engineering Asphalt• Sustainable Design-A Primer • Traffic Calming• Contracts for Professionals• Geotechnology Global Positioning Systems
• Parking Lot Storm Drain Design• Wetland Primer Advanced Field Evaluation• A Wetland Primer for Design Professionals• ADA Guidelines General Site Bldg Element• Business Management Part 3: Marketing• Business Management Part 2: The Business
• Business Management Part 1• Landscape Architecture: Energy Savings• GIS: The Very Basics• Landscaping with Native Plants• Green Roofs: A Sustainable Strategy
“Steve is a detail
oriented
professional who is
an excellent
communicator and
very easy to work
with.”--Robert Natke
Principal
Urbanworks,Ltd.
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Selected Parks & Recreation and Urban Design: • Buckingham Fountain Restoration – Chicago Park District• Logan Square Skate Park – Chicago Park District• Diversey Driving Range – Chicago Park District• Artificial Turf Fields: Calumet Park, Riis Park, McKinley Park, Lincoln Park, Kiwanis Park, Hawthorne
Park – Chicago Park District• Lighthouse Landing ADA Improvements – City of Evanston• Megowen Park – City of Evanston• Kedvale Park – Chicago Park District• Jefferson Park – Chicago Park District• Playgrounds: Amundsen Park, LaFollette Park, Maplewood Park, Brighton Park, Sherman Park,
Garfield Park, Park #519, Brands Park, Dickinson Park, Rosedale Park, Algonquin Park, Supera
Park, Skinner Park, Miami Park, Senka Park, Gage Park, Chase Park, Rutherford Sayre Park, SheilPark, John P. Wilson Park, Jackson Park, Archer Park, Aiello Park, Augusta Park, Eckhardt Park,Eugene Field Park, Merryman Park, Sauganash Park, Weisman Playlot Park – Chicago Park District
• Rehm Park Sand Volleyball – Park District of Oak Park• Apachi Day Camp – Lake Zurich, Illinois• Reilly School Streetscape – Chicago Public Schools• Randolph Magnet School Streetscape – Chicago Public Schools
Selected Land Planning: • Morris Farms – Niles, Michigan• Arrowhead – Cedar Grove, Florida• Highland Ridge – Augusta County, Virginia
• Race Track Road Parcel – Tampa, Florida• Mountain Road – Baltimore, Maryland• Water's Edge Development – Granbury, Texas• Genesis Point – Richmond Hill, Georgia• Crandall – Nassau County, Florida• Lofton Landing – Nassau County, Florida
• Lofton Greens – Nassau County, Florida• Willow Lakes C.C. – Jacksonville, Florida• Indian Hills C.C. – Bowling Green, Kentucky• Prairie Pathways – DeKalb, Illinois
Selected Golf Course Design: • Club de Golf Malinalco – San Sebastián de Amola, México
• Hawks Nest Golf Club – Wooster, Ohio• Cobblestone Golf Course – Kendallville, Indiana• The Country Clubs of Fox Meadow, Meadow Course – Medina, Ohio• Hammock Dunes Golf Links – Palm Coast, Florida• John’s Island West – Wabasso, Florida• Long Point at Amelia Island Plantation – Fernandina Beach, Florida• Wachesaw Plantation – Murrells Inlet, South Carolina• Dataw Island Club, Cotton Dike Course – Dataw Island, South Carolina• Laura Walker Golf Course – Waycross, Georgia
• Legion Memorial Golf Course – Everett, Washington• Sebastian Hills Golf Club – Xenia, Ohio• Charles Pointe – Bridgeport, West Virginia• Hunter’s Green – Tampa, Florida• Old Trail – Jupiter, Florida• Golden Eagle Golf Club – Tallahassee, Florida
Selected Residential Design:• Adams Residence – Fernandina Beach, Florida• Foster Residence – Fernandina Beach, Florida
• Beasley Residence – Yulee, Florida• 5449 Marshview Lane – Fernandina Beach, Florida
“We had the
pleasure of working
with Steve on the
Buckingham
Fountain project.
Steve's experienceand professionalism
helped make the
project a success.”
-John Girzadas
Executive VP
Burling Builders,
Inc.
