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Jerry Hooker (BLA 2008) is a partner and principal of Mirador Group in Houston, Texas. Over the past four years, he has helped the firm grow from four to 20 employees working in all fields of residential and commercial architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, and planning.

In May 2014, Warren Kron (BLA 1997) was appointed to the GIS manager position at the Baton Rouge City-Parish Department of Information Services. He was previously the GIS coordinator at the City-Parish Planning Commission, where he worked for 16 years. He now works more closely with all city-parish departments to further implement the eBRGIS Program. Warren also recently became a certified GIS Professional (GISP) by the GIS Certification Institute (GISCI), and he serves on the Louisiana GIS Council. He participated in a recorded speaker panel discussion at the 2014 HxGN Live conference.

Mark Boyer (MLA 1996) is a professor and the director of the LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture. He was formerly the department head at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. In 2014, Mark accepted a three-year appointment from the provost as co-director of the university-wide Wally Cordes Teaching and Faculty Support Center. Mark will work with two other faculty co-directors to deliver teaching enhancement programs for all university faculty, including luncheons, workshops, individual classroom teaching observations, teaching enhancement grant programs, new faculty and teaching assistant orientations, and an annual, three-day Teaching Camp retreat.

Charles “Charlie” Patout, PLA (BLA 2004) was promoted to manager of landscape architecture services in LJA Engineering, Inc.’s Land Development Division in Houston, Texas. Charlie has 10 years of experience specializing in urban planning, land planning, urban design, and landscape architecture. His experience includes master planned communities, town center developments, commercial, mixed-use, and residential developments. Charlie is currently involved in the design of Bridgeland’s Hidden Creek Park and project theming for a new community. In his new role, he will oversee the development and growth of the landscape architecture group at LJA.

In July 2014, Nathan Elliott, ASLA (BLA 2004), was promoted from vice president to principal at the Office of James Burnett‘s Solana Beach, California, office. Not in his sixth year with the firm, Nathan’s professional work includes a variety of urban parks, corporate headquarters, academic campuses, mixed-use developments, and hospitality projects in the US and abroad, including Klyde Warren Park in Dallas, Myriad Botanical Gardens in Oklahoma City, and Hall Wines in St. Helena, California.

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Mary Martinich recently accepted a position as a team leader for multi-disciplinary firm Seamon Whiteside in Charleston. Previously, she joined Thomas & Hutton’s Mt. Pleasant office as a landscape architect in 2014. Prior to that she was an associate at Design Workshop’s Austin office. Mary graduated from LSU with a master’s degree in landscape architecture in 2010 and from Texas State University with a BBA in marketing.