Resume
Ms. Harris has been employed with Jerry Turner and Associates, Inc. for seven years after employment with other firms for eight years. After receiving her Masters degree in Landscape Architecture in 1983 from N.C. State University, she worked as a designer and project manager on numerous complex multi-million dollar projects outside Washington, D.C. requiring a wide range of design and technical expertise. The complexity of these projects required the utilization of consultants ranging from soils scientists to civil and structural engineers.
She has been involved in regional and municipal projects from the Raleigh-Durham International Airport in the Research Triangle Park, N.C., to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival Theater in Montgomery, Alabama, an award winning development of cultural buildings in a park-like setting and the Elizabeth II State Historic Site at Manteo, N.C which included the master planning, site design and detailing for the development of cultural buildings and associated landscape.
Recently, Ms. Harris has served as principal designer and project manager for the reconstruction of the site and recreational facilities at the Carolina Country Club in Raleigh, North Carolina, a three year project where she coordinated the activities of five separate contractors not under contract with the general contractor.
Other recent large scale projects include
Alamance Regional Hospital in Burlington, N.C. where she provided detail plaza, garden and planting designs on a site where soils also presented special problems to plant growth and survivability.
Project Commitment
Ms. Harris has experience on a wide variety of projects and project management skills on large and small scale projects such as Meridian Business Park and the Raleigh-Durham International Airport where difficult site conditions and soils required special expertise and creativity.