A career at SOM is part of a personal professional journey. One has the opportunity to choose along the way to focus on that which one is absolutely the best, and allow others to do the same. My passion for the design process and my experience led me to focus on the design management of large and very large complicated assignments requiring clear strategy, organization and process design. These type of assignments are some of those for which the firm is best known. They require the creation of collaborative teams with multiple and diverse design leads utilizing all of the firm’s expertise and that of many other speciality practices. They often have clients with many voices and require engagement with many external constituencies. These assignments are and will continue to be the nature of the challenges of our times. They require strong experienced creative design management leadership. These are uniquely SOM assignments.