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Ross Knazs is the co-owner and lead landscape architect for L&L Landscaping in Alamo, California. He began his career as a designer and project manager for a landscape architecture and planning firm in southern California, after serving his country honorably for seven years on active duty in the United States Navy. While at this design firm, Ross managed and collaborated with team members on over 100 projects including sports complexes, urban and dog parks, private residences, apartments and condos, commercial properties, streetscapes, medians, campus master plans, golf courses, wetland mitigation, and rehabilitation projects.

Ross’s career as a licensed landscape architect has further progressed as the lead landscape architect and project manager at L&L Landscaping. His finely honed sense of detail and understanding of the land has taught him the importance of designing spaces that encourage, rather than inhibit, the community. His experience working for both landscape architecture and planning firms and land development companies on large master planned communities provides him a distinct perspective to carry landscape design from concept through construction while balancing quality of design, materials, and budget with client expectations.

Ross holds a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from LSU. Additionally, he is a licensed landscape architect in the state of California.

Ross’s Portfolio

Ebru Ozer, who teaches landscape architecture at Florida International University in Miami, received tenure and was promoted to associate professor.

Dave Baldwin, BLA 1975, celebrates 31 great years as principal of David C. Baldwin Inc., Landscape Architecture and Planning located in Plano, Texas, where he provides the gray hair and design inspiration for the firm. The company is currently enjoying the exceptional growth in the DFW area with some exciting urban design, park planning, and master-planned community projects.

Ryan Harrison, class of 2003, was promoted to studio lead for The Office of James Burnett in Houston. OJB, founded in 1989, received the 2015 ASLA Firm Award. Harrison joined OJB in 2008 in the position of associate. Current projects include the Union in downtown Dallas, Texas, and the North Houston Bike Park in Houston, Texas.

Ken Uhle has been a practicing landscape architect for 29 years, the past 23 as the landscape architect for the Westchester County Department of Parks, Recreation and Conservation. He received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in landscape architecture and is licensed in New York and Connecticut. Ken is an avid gardener and is active with the Native Plant Center and the Garden Conservancy Open Day program. In 2015, Ken’s garden was included in the Garden Conservancy’s 25th anniversary book, Outstanding American Gardens: A Celebration.

Matt Mathes, ASLA, PLA, works and lives in Bellevue and Richland, Washington, with his wife Kathy Mathes. His MBA and MURP graduate degrees are from University of Miami. Prior roles include consulting firms and municipal agencies in Southeast, Southwest, and Pacific Northwest U.S. regions plus ASLA national and chapter leadership roles. He is a LARE Prep workshop instructor and wrote two books. He is an expert witness in land use planning, water management, master planning, contracts, quality and professional practice.

Nadine Bopp, MLA 1994, retired from college-level teaching at the School of Art Institute, Columbia College, and Depaul University in Chicago and relocated to Carlsbad, California. She is designing classes for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes at SDSU, CSUSM, and UCSD in urbanism, sustainability, economic botany and science, technology, and society. She is also doing freelance drought-tolerance work for Andrea Loosen Design.