Kevin Franz is an architect and project manager with over 20 years of experience in various building types including retail, office, healthcare, and industrial. He has extensive experience leading projects from design through construction while achieving LEED certification. Some of his accomplishments include designing a revitalization project that provided a women's shelter and designing an office park restoration that increased revenue.

1. Kevin Franz, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, CDT
735 Poindexter Drive • Charlotte, North Carolina • (704-641-7776)
www.linkedin.com/in/kevinmfranz • kfranz09@live.com
http://philippemediagroup.com/kevin-franz-portrait-of-an-architect.html
Profile and Qualifications:
 Seasoned Architect and Project Manager with extensive design and build expertise committed to quality,
teamwork, stakeholder engagement and customer interaction.
 Results oriented Project Management including project planning, team development, budgeting, and
stakeholder reporting in highly dynamic environments.
 Experience spanning retail, banking, hospitality, mixed-use, industrial, not for profit, government, office
and health care industries.
 Key contributor to client proposals and liaison to municipal review and approval boards.
• Strong Client Engagement Focus • Extensive Process Improvement Skills
• Effective Vendor Manager • Compelling Proposal Creations
• Technical Expert Across Disciplines • Persuasive Negotiator
• Proactive Project Leader • Effective Communicator
Key Accomplishments:
 Designed revitalization project for city block in Charleston, SC
 Provided customer with unanticipated saleable street frontage and space for women’s shelter
 Led effort to restore unused office park in Huntersville, NC
 Resulted in increased revenue for client and municipalities
 Managed Wachovia Prototype Branch Project
 Resulted in a repeatable process for build-out of new branches nationwide
 Increased transparency into project status and health through enhanced documentation
 Architecture Consultant for Building Information Modeling BIM Software
 Subject matter expert for requirements, functionality and beta testing
 Resulted in enhanced models and effective client proposal presentations
 Design and submittal of six LEED certified buildings
 Innovative design within each rating system
 Development of LEED EB (Existing Building) process and procedures presentation
 Winner of International Sustainability competition
Education:
1996 | Bachelor of Architecture | University of North Carolina at Charlotte | College of Art + Architecture
2001 | Registered Architect in the State of North Carolina
2007 | LEED AP BD+C
2007 | Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) - CDT
Technical Skills:
Revit, AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop, Sketchup, Microsoft Suite (Excel, Word, Project) and Adobe InDesign

2. Experience:
LEED Projects:
LEED CS:
 Phipps Tower | LEED Gold |24 story | Atlanta, GA
 Corporate Center IV | LEED Gold |8 story | Tampa, FL
 320 East Main | LEED Gold |4 story | Spartanburg, SC
LEED NC:
 Adventist Health Services | LEED Gold |5 story | Altamonte Springs, FL
 Siemens Energy | LEED Gold |1 story | Charlotte, NC
 The Entangled Bank | LEED Platinum (proposed) | 33 story | Dallas, TX
LEED CI:
 Valerie C. Woodard Center | LEED Silver |1 story | Charlotte, NC
LEED EB
 340 East Main | LEED (creation of template) |4 story | Spartanburg, SC
Selected Projects:
A M King Construction, Charlotte, NC (2010-2013)
Architecture Department Head | Industrial
 Director of internal GBCI development and credential maintenance for all accredited employees
 Developed and implemented internal architectural processes and procedures, created project
templates in Revit and AutoCAD, standardized specifications, generated national publications,
marketing graphics and project proposals
 Authored two whitepapers for publication in national media
 Instrumental in creation of project submission to Food Engineering Magazine, garnering 2012 Food
Engineering Food Plant of the Year Award
 Aldi Inc.| Cold Storage Facility | Batavia, IL
2010-2011 | (60,000 sf)
 Design of cold storage expansion with 5 loading dock positions, -20° Ice cream freezer, -10° freezer and 34°
cooler dock
 Innovative slab, wall and roof composition meeting ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1 2007 whole
building energy simulation
 Bake Rite | Baking Facility | Bensalem, PA
2012-2013 | (13,500 sf)
 Design of expansion of production space for proofing and baking equipment, daylight harvesting and 12
shipping dock positions
Little Diversified Architectural Consulting, Charlotte, NC (2002-2004) (2006-2010)
Architect | Project Manager | Corporate Workplace
 Siemens | Office Building | Charlotte, NC
2009-2010 | (60,000 sf) |LEED-NC Gold
 Direct contact with Siemens Real Estate and local leaders throughout the preconstruction and construction
stages to obtain LEED Gold as required for all Siemens Real Estate facilities world-wide
 As project manager, led interior and shell design, coordinated engineers and consultants, produced
construction documentation, developed LEED submittals and construction observation
 Provided multiple face-to-face presentations to Siemens’ international corporate leaders

3.  Coordination with Duke Energy, Siemens and the photovoltaic panel vendor navigating site design, annual
fees, ties to existing high voltage lines and marketing for all parties involved
 Founders Federal Credit Union | Office Building | Lancaster, SC
2008-2010 | (115,000 sf)
 Coordinated with design director to determine construction viability during preliminary design.
 Design and construction details of a sustainable roof garden system
 Enlarged details at areas requiring in-depth construction knowledge including the signature floating
staircase, interior and exterior connections at unique intersections of materials, expansion and control
joint continuity and retention wall design
 The Entangled Bank | Mixed use |Dallas, TX
2009-2010 | 33 Floors (+700,000 sf) | Mixed Use | Winner of International design competition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7YQxdMlEYo
 Urban Re: Vision and the Central Dallas Community Development Corporation introduced an international
design competition with the goal to transform a vacant inner-city block into a carbon-neutral community.
A blend of multi-family unit types and work/live units is provided to address the different life
circumstances of the residents. Differing in footprint and degrees of compartmentalization, efficiency and
affordable units coexist seamlessly with market rate townhomes
 The development of the self-sustaining mixed-use community included the elements of education,
wellness, retail, dining, entertainment, public green space, food production, commercial and resource
capture (Water, Solar and Wind)
DMR Architecture, Charlotte, NC (2004-2006)
Architect | Project Manager | Retail
 Epi-Centre | Mixed Use | Charlotte, NC
2004-2006 | multiple Floors (+500,000 sf)
 Worked closely with ‘Noble Investment Group’ in the design of the ‘W’ hospitality tower (Aloft) prototype
 Designed below grade parking system, requiring in-depth coordination with city zoning ordinances,
structural constrictions, shipping and receiving requirements, trash disposal, light rail access, separation of
residential parking and pedestrian vertical access
Fryday & Doyne Architecture, Charlotte, NC (1999-2002)
Architect | Project Manager | Institution, Residential
 Charlotte Mecklenburg Government Center| Government Building | Charlotte, NC
1999-2002 | Multiple Floors
As part of the architectural firm under contract for all interior renovations.
 Led each project from start to finish, working directly with the department heads programming internal
relocations and/or modifications for those departments involved
McCollough England Associates Architects, Charlotte, NC (1998-1999)
Architectural Intern | Health Care
 Potomac Park | Medical Office Building | Woodbridge, VA
1999-2000 | 4 Floors (52,000 sf)
 Provided schematic design, code research, design development and construction documentation of
speculative medical office building
 Fry Regional Hospital | Hospital | Hickory, NC
1999-2000 | (5,000 sf)
 Provided the interior design and production of the construction documentation for hospital’s radiation
therapy department renovation

4.  Site design | Mobile MRI Units
1999 | Multiple locations
 Generated site design for multiple existing medical office and hospital parking lots for placement of mobile
MRI Units
Camas and Associates, Charlotte, NC (1994-1998)
Architect Intern | Project Manager | Interiors
Transamerica HQ | Office building | Charlotte, NC
1995-1996 | 4 Floors (80,000 sf)
 Designed the interior workspace. Programmed for future growth, allocation of space and arrangement of
staff/departments. Functional process spaces included a climate controlled data center, dedicated
copy/mail/admin spaces and conference areas
Community Involvement & Affiliations:
2010-Present | House Operations Volunteer Ronald McDonald House, Charlotte
2010-Present | US Green Building Council USGBC - regional chapter
2010-11 | Professional Consultant – UNC Charlotte School of Architecture Graduate Program
2009-11 | Director - AIA Mentorship Program – regional chapter
2002-Present | American Institute of Architects (AIA)
2002-Present | National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB)
Publications:
Flooring Systems: The Effects of Composition and Application (White paper)
2013 | Author: Kevin Franz AIA, LEED AP BD+C
Soundproofing: The Coordination of Floor, Wall and Ceiling Solutions (White paper)
2013 | Author: Kevin Franz AIA, LEED AP BD+C
MORE THAN SKIN DEEP: Building Sustainable Surfaces
2010 | Authors: Kevin Franz, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Peter Wong, Associate Professor
Entangled Bank; A Sustainable City Block for Dallas/Prototype for the World
2009 | Authors: Kevin Franz AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Stacey Franz AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Brad Bartholomew, LEED AP BD+C,
Ashley Spinks