Corporate Role: Founder & CEO

Functional Role: Interim Program Manager

Business: Space 6 Studios, LLC

Thomas practiced as a Licensed Architect , Program, Project and Construction Manager that comprise over 38 years of combine professional experience in the Washington DC Metropolitan area and abroad. Thomas worked on, managed or developed projects throughout the continental United States, Hawaii and Puerto Rico, and aboard including Japan, Korea, Guam, Portugal, St Lucia, Jamaica, Bahamas, Haiti, Dominican Republic and Bermuda.

Thomas also served as a full-time Adjunct Professor for the technical-professional-oriented evening programs in the two and five-year Architectural and Civil Engineering Program at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC). In addition to his faculty position, he was selected to served as an interim Deputy Director of the University’s Architectural Research Institute (ARI).

This position required that he provide day-to-day management of senior and top-level students awarded converted internships at the institute, professional consultants and interface with university departmental and top-level personnel. And to lead a team of A/E professionals and senior students in production of construction documents and oversight of construction activities for residential projects completed through the ARI, a professional studio which was charged with completing interagency contracts/agreements..

Thomas worked five years on the U.S. Dept. of Labor (DOL), Job Corps Center Training Program. A nationwide Design and Construction Rehabilitation Contract tasked with design and construction management of more than 110 nationwide Job Corps training campuses located throughout the continental U.S., Hawaii and Puerto Rico.

As a Project Manager for the Design and Construction Group, he managed multiple sites, simultaneously throughout the United States, out of more than 110 Job Corps Training Campuses, he was assigned one of the five largest Job Corp sites in the DOL/Job Corps Inventory during a highly active renovation and capitol improvement period.

He also served a tenure as Deputy Assistant Director of Project Management for the Design and Construction Group. In addition, he was selected to serve on the DOL agency’s selection panel to determine the award of two to three new expansion state/cities to receive a new highly converted Job Corps facilities.

As Project Executive, Program Manager, and eventually a tenure as Chairman of the Board of a prominent international 501c3 organization with more than 20 years of experience working in the rural areas of Haiti, Thomas helped identify and facilitate acquisition of development sites in Haiti after its 2011 earthquake. Thomas main responsibility was to serve as the Project Executive and Technical Representative at three separate sites in Haiti including one urban, one rural and a mountainous region in Fond Verete. These sites utilize Pedal Watt Bicycle Technology for electricity and the use of large and small solar cooking ovens for cooking, agriculture garden for community-specific health food source. He provided pre-development site, building and community development assessments, design and facilitated the collaboration between the nonprofit organization and international and local community-based entities including forging collaborations with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)..

During his tenure, Thomas led efforts to acquire, reportedly, a first-time ever unsolicited contract with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for which he received an excellent performance rating as Program Manager. Reportedly, this was one of the first times this agency awarded this type of contract to a US-based local small women-owned entity for during work state-side.

This contract required the development of a worldwide IT platform and funding criteria that will facilitate funding to small businesses and organizations, and sustainable technologies to perform work for USAID - globally. This contract led to a referral by the Washington, DC Main headquarters of USAID for projects in the Caribbean mission(s) region.

Fast Facts:

Years of Professional & Project Experience

(35+ Yrs.)

Education

Bachelor of Architecture,

5-year Professional Degree

Associate of Architectural Engineering

2-year Associates Degree

Coursework up to six final courses Bachelors in Construction Management,

Professional Continue Education Certifications

- Pop-up and Prefabricated Architecture – Completed 2022

- Designing Healthy and Productive Workspace Buildings-Completed 2022

- That Dangerous Damp - Dealing with Water Inside – Completed 2022

Certifications and Expertise

- Real Estate Development - Present

- Architectural License – 25 years

- Program Management – 20 yrs

- Project and Construction Management – 20 Years

- Site and Building Assessments – 10 yrs

Previous Certifications

Certified Building Officials Code Administrators (BOCA) General Building Inspector
Certified Asbestos Inspector
Completed OSHA Approved Construction Safety Courses-

The studios also serve as an ongoing technical assistance support structure to provide community-based, nonprofit and faith-based, local and international governmental entities with the advanced research, planning, design and construction expertise required for the execution of the SUV concept on a scalable approach. We have provided a quick overview below demonstrating this scalable approach on three of our studio six efforts ranging from a detached single- family residence site to our One Block International Marketplace. However, we also provide a brief overall description of the remaining four studio projects as well. We are mindful that this concept is a new and innovative approach brought on by the realization COVID- 19 pandemic and the increasing occurrence of other global natural and man-made disasters. We look to establish a re-imagination of how we plan, design, prepare, use and sustain our coastal communities in urban and rural areas on a scalable basis.

Prior to being promoted to Project Manager for the Construction Group, Thomas served a two-year tenure as Project Manager with the DOL Facility Assessment Group. He conducted site and building assessments for Job Corps Training Campuses throughout the continental US, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Each site typically consist of federal and local government compliant training workshop facilities in electrical, HVAC, plumbing, carpentry, world of work, painting booths, etc. Each site also contained administrative, classroom, medical, onsite residential housing, and food service facilities.

After Thomas’ initial tenure in private practice, he re-enter the corporate world to work on the Reagan Washington National Airport, New Terminal Building, Washington, D.C., initially, as a Senior Office Engineer for the construction management team responsible for the $450 million plus new terminal renovation project.

After completion of the new terminal project at Reagan’s National Airport, Thomas went to work on another large signature project at the Pentagon Renovation Program; Arlington, Virginia, as Project Manager for the architectural contributions from one of the main joint venture firms (i.e. 3D International – currently known as The Parsons Construction Management Group). Each Wedge comprises over one million square-feet of core and shell, and tenant build-out construction. And included over $500 million in construction for Wedge One.

Thomas was responsible for coordinating onsite Quality Assurance (QA) resources and developing a program-wide QA plan. This plan would serve as the blueprint for subsequent Wedge Construction.

As the Founder and CEO, Space 6 Studios, LLC also draws upon this experience. . During the past 12-plus years (inclusive of the pandemic) Thomas worked exclusively in coastal communities in the Caribbean region and the District, Maryland and Virginia (DMV) communities. This includes working directly with community-specific, small and micro-businesses in his own community of Ward 4, Brightwood section of the District of Columbia, and on his pre-development analysis on the north coast of the Dominican Republic in the seaside coastal community of Cabarete. In addition to other coastal regions including the Bahamas, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and three areas of Haiti. He has completed the pre-development planning, site analysis, community needs analysis, and pre-development site concept design phases for five of the six sites in Space 6 Studios.

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 and quasi- governmental stakeholders.

The Cabarete, Dominican Republic development (Studio no. 6) efforts are scheduled for a late fall 2024 restart. Three of the six .sites are currently under control/ownership of his real estate development team. He also brings over 25 years of experience in coastal regions including Portugal, Japan, Korea, Quam and Hawaii, St Lucia and Bermuda.

The studios also serve as an ongoing technical assistance support structure to provide community-based, nonprofit and faith-based, local and international governmental entities with the advanced research, planning, design and construction expertise required for the execution of the SUV concept on a scalable approach.

Thomas spent the last 10 to 12 years in my community (i.e. Ward 4 - District of Columbia) which is currently undergoing major revitalization efforts researching, training, designing, and collaborating to develop a foundational starting point to create an environment of cultural competence. It will increase small/micro-businesses and entrepreneurial skills training programs/initiatives in order to create Sustainable Urban Villages/ Enclaves that will collaborate with large local businesses, educational, governmental, institutional, and quasi-governmental entities to promote, and drive community-specific sustainable economic development, and small-micro business community-based initiatives in areas of shared-interest.

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