Corporate Role: Founder & CEO, Space 6 Studios, LLC   

Functional Role: Interim Program Manager, Coastal Communities Initiative, Development Partner

Business: Space 6 Studios, LLC

Thomas was forced to overcome some incredible challenges as a young child, and before he could implement his own life’s plan and trajectory, he was fully aware of the educational challenges that lay ahead before he could take a major step in the intended direction. He graduated early from high school with no apparent plan or resources beyond that point, and a whole lot of questions about where to go from there.

He went on to obtain an associate degree in architectural engineering from the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) which he would later return as a licensed architect alumnus to serve a five-year tenure as the youngest adjunct professor in the school of Architecture and Civil Engineering Degree Program. Additionally, he obtained a five-year Professional Bachelor of Architecture Degree from Howard University. He also managed to come within six courses of obtaining a Bachelor in Construction Management before turning his full attention to obtaining his architectural license, which he indeed obtained at the age of 27.

Armed with a two-year architectural engineering degree, a five-year professional degree, and about six years of professional working experience with a few architectural and engineering firms, he was qualified to take the architectural licensing exam directly after graduation for the Bachelor of Architecture degree. Now, graduating earlier from high school all made sense! With his highest level of credentials in architecture in place, he decided to focus on project and construction management as a perfect tool to add to his toolbox to support his architectural achievements.

From that point, Thomas went on to practice as a Licensed Architect for over 24 years, over 20 years as a Program, Project, or Construction Manager, and over 20 years in private practice to comprise over 35 years of combined professional experience in the Washington DC Metropolitan area and abroad.

Thomas worked on, managed, or developed projects in coastal regions throughout the continental United States, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, and abroad, including Japan, Korea, Guam, Portugal, St Lucia, Jamaica, Bahamas, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic.

He has a current focus of real estate development of Sustainable Urban Villages (SUVs)/Enclaves – globally. With a keen focus establishing meaningful collaborative partnerships to promote making our communities far more prepared for the increasing occurrence of natural and man-made disasters, environmental challenges, and the lack of robust sustainable community education and training. Thomas is leading efforts for the establishment of a prototype sustainable “Hub within the Village,” real estate development proof of concept.

Thomas created and is managing the overall implementation of the Coastal Communities Initiative as a separate nonprofit entity that will execute the ongoing, global training and execution of this initiative. He is simultaneously finalizing the establishment of the Space 6 Studios to provide technical assistance, advanced research, planning design, engineering, and program management of the international collaborative partnerships, and real estate development of a prototype Sustainable Urban Villages (SUV)/Enclaves globally.

Space 6 Studios currently has a focus on humanitarian-related healthy communities, emergency preparedness, and real estate development of Sustainable Urban Villages (SUV) and Enclaves in coastal and adjacent communities - globally. It develops, supports, and provides collaborations to corporate, governmental, quasi-governmental, community-based, private, or individual entities with advanced research, training, planning, design, and real estate development of environmentally friendly sustainable communities.

Thomas is harassing the aforementioned coastal region experience to help develop an international collaborative effort to “not think pass the solutions” by not allowing politics, cost, etc. to obscure some discussions about identifying, researching, planning designing, and implementing real-time easy-to-apply sustainable technologies, multi-use, low-cost, environmentally friendly and disaster resistance environments before, during and post public emergencies, disasters, and climate events. His approach is to apply these preparedness measures on a community-specific, localized, and global basis.

Thomas’ overall development approach includes year-round Pop-up spaces to support the majority of his community-specific small and micro-businesses initiatives, year-round, healthy food agricultural gardening and production, international cultural exchange, and easy-to-apply, sustainable technologies. He also intends to implement disaster-resistant design & construction initiatives. It will include the immediate practical application and the basic education/training of easy-to-apply disaster resistance, design/construction techniques provided during the in-community Pop-up sessions.

With his worldwide coastal region experience, Thomas is finalizing the infrastructure required for the ongoing operations of a new and innovative Coastal Communities Initiative. It will promote the sustainability of high-risk coastal and adjacent communities without the significant reliance on forces outside of their control – public emergencies, disasters, and climate change preparedness.

Thomas is pioneering the systematic use of Geodesic Dome technologies for use before, during, and after public emergencies, disasters, and climate change events. They are well-planned and designed to be used as a “showcase prototype” for disaster resistance, environmentally-friendly design, and construction of urban assembly venues. They are hurricane-resistant up 125mph to 150mph which is in the hurricane intensity range of Category 4 to 5.

He has developed local and international collaborations that will support better knowledge and training in the practical application of sustainable technologies within community-specific pockets of underserved/undeveloped urban, rural and coastal adjacent communities - worldwide. He has developed and managed a strategic approach that is augmented by an international collaboration between universities, academic and research specialist, professionals, small and large business corporations, entrepreneurs, and local governmental, quasi-governmental, faith-based, and international stakeholders.