Joe Wolf's Resume

Resume of Joseph A. Wolf


Address/Contact Information

401 North Coast Highway #311
Oceanside, CA 92054
Phone: (303) 563-9616
Email: JosephWolf1@gmail.com

Work Experience

Facilities/Community Planning Consultant
November 2006 - Present

Development of site selection recommendations, facility programming and master planning reports, community plan elements and environmental findings for public and private sector clients. Major clients have included Technology Associates, Inc. (for the United States Marine Corps) and the Beaumont, CA Unified School District.

Director of Long-Range Planning and Real Property Management
Douglas County School District, Castle Rock CO
October 2005 – November 2006

Responsibilities and accomplishments included district enrollment projections that fell within 200 students of an actual enrollment exceeding 50,000; development of disposition recommendations for 25 surplus parcels; and updating the district Facilities Master Plan. Supervised two professional staff.

Director of Facilities Planning
San Diego Unified School District, San Diego CA
July 2003 – October 2005

Responsibilities and accomplishments included managing and refining the enrollment projection process for a 140,000-student urban school district during the transition from consistent growth to enrollment decline; liaison between the Board of Education and citizen, employee advocacy groups relative to student/school assignment; liaison between the school district and the City of San Diego planning department and redevelopment agency relative to the planning and construction of new school facilities. Supervised six professional and support staff.

Supervising Facilities Planner
San Diego Unified School District, San Diego CA
March 2000 – July 2003

Responsibilities and accomplishments included guiding the site selection and campus master planning processes for a dozen new school campuses and over 50 significant additions to existing campuses. Liaison to the City of San Diego as the school district's representative for the update of the City's General Plan.

Facilities Planner
San Diego Unified School District, San Diego CA
November 1997 – March 2000

Responsibilities and accomplishments included supporting the Director of Facilities Planning in the development of campus facility needs summaries, preliminary site planning documents and supervising consultant work relative to an update of the district Facilities Master Plan. These actions supported voter approval in November 1998 of Proposition MM, a $1.5 billion general obligation bond for the San Diego Unified School District and the initial program execution of the bond. Read the district Facilities Master Plan here: http://old.sandi.net/propmm/whatis.htm#long

Demographer
San Diego Unified School District, San Diego CA
February 1995 – November 1997

Responsibilities and accomplishments included development of annual district enrollment forecasts that fell between 10 and 400 students of actual enrollment totals in the high 130,000s. District liaison to the City of San Diego demography staff and home builders active in the district service area.

Software Competency

Microsoft Office Suite; ESRI ArcGIS; Microsoft Project

Education

B.S., Economics and Master's in Community and Regional Planning, Iowa State University, Ames IA

Professional Work Portfolio

Can be viewed at: http://joewolfprofessionalportfolio.blogspot.com/

Professional Portfolio of Joe Wolf

Rebuilt and New Schools in Urban Neighborhoods:

Edison, Normal Heights and Sherman Elementary Schools

San Diego Unified School District, San Diego CA

This portfolio outlines three school projects where I led the site selection/site expansion, site master planning and facilities/space programming activities.

Edison Elementary School

Edison - originally established in the 1930s - was expanded and rebuilt, saving the architecturally significant exterior facing of the original building and mirroring its primary details in the new library/media center.

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Above: An example of the Institutional/Art Deco detailing on Edison's original main building. This detailing is mirrored on the adjacent new library building.

This building was completely gutted and rehabilitated, while preserving the historically significant exterior facing.

Above: This corner of the new library/media center building is adjacent to the school's main entrance and mirrors its architectural details.

Above : The new classroom building shown here replaced eight modular classroom buildings

that were both substandard relative to current facilities standards, and occupied scarce

playground space.

Normal Heights Elementary School

A new campus notable for its building design and site planning, as well as well as the unusual amount of community participation and engagement brought to the project; as an example, the community lobbied for and received a promise from the school district to hire an architecture firm active in the neighborhood to design the school.

The site was fit into a completely built-out residential neighborhood, taking on a somewhat irregular shape to preserve non-blighted homes, apartments and condominiums. It was also situated adjacent to a new neighborhood park, allowing for a number of joint-use opportunities.

Above: Administration and support space building.

Above: Classroom building.

Above: Interface between the school playground and the adjacent city park.

Sherman Elementary School

Sherman was originally programmed in the (Proposition MM) bond language to have its enrollment reduced through the construction of a new school nearby. During the course of

the bond program the demographics in the neighborhood changed, and enrollment at the

school dropped significantly. The community lobbied successfully to have the Sherman campus

demolished and completely rebuilt, in lieu of building a new school on a separate site.

Above: Detail of the school's new main entry on the southwest corner of the school site, as well as adjacent support and classroom buildings. The campus structures, including almost 20 portable classrooms used to occupy the east and northeast portions of the site.