People and Resume

At Thomas & Thomas we maintain a tight team environment that reflects the diversity of clients & projects that come into our office. Our staff has a strong educational background, is well informed and active in current professional issues and is up to date with community concerns and events.

PARRY THOMAS , RLA, ASLA, APA
Principal
pthomas@ttplan.net

Mr. Thomas is the Principal and Founder of Thomas & Thomas, Planning, Urban Design & Landscape Architecture, Inc. Mr. Thomas has over thirty years of design and planning experience in professional private practice with prior experience in the public sector. He founded Thomas & Thomas to develop quality landscape, environmental and urban design projects.

Mr. Thomas' specialty is in the public process, working with boards, councils, organizations, City agencies, and design teams, helping to develop project strategies that are cost effective and maximize quality design solutions. His design work has helped to shape major development projects and public improvements throughout the western states.

Prior to founding Thomas & Thomas, Mr. Thomas practiced land planning and landscape architecture in resort communities in Western Colorado, Utah, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. For over twenty-five years Mr. Thomas has been involved in planning, environmental, and landscape architectural projects throughout the Western United States. Projects range from large scale Master Planning to site specific design elements.

Education:
Community Leadership Program, Center for Creative Leadership
Colorado Springs, Colorado

Citizen Participation Objectives, Institute for Participatory Management & Planning, Hans Bleiker, Monterey, California

Systematic Development of Informed Consent, Institute for Participatory Management & Planning, Hans Bleiker, Monterey, California

Master of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Utah State University

Bachelor of Science - Business Finance, University of Oregon

Registration:
Licensed Landscape Architect, Utah
Licensed Landscape Architect, New Mexico

Associations:
American Society of Landscape Architects
American Planning Association
Urban Land Institute

Community Activities:
Urban Peak Board of Directors, Colorado Board of Trustees, 2003-Present
El Pomar Youth Sports Complex Board of Directors, 1999-Present
El Paso County Planning Commission, 1990-1995
City of Colorado Springs Land Use Advisory Board 2003-Present
Palmer Foundation Board of Directors, 1998-2002
Partnership for Community Design Board of Directors 1996-2003
Citizens Goals Board of Directors, 1997-2000
Urban League of the Pikes Peak Region Board of Directors, 1995-1998

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LESLIE MCINTRYE THOMAS
President
lthomas@ttplan.net

Ms. Thomas, president, co-owner and co-founder of Thomas & Thomas, offers extensive project experience in community wide master planning, cultural, recreation and environmental assessments, design implementation, and project management. She has worked extensively with large institutional clients and non-profit clients to create development design guidelines that emphasize water conservation and regionally appropriate landscape architecture models.

With her strong interest in both urban and natural ecological aspects of landscape architecture and urban desing she is able to blend the needs of the client with the needs for realistic implementation that is sustainable. Ms. Thomas has over twenty-five years experience ranging from public sector planning to environmental design. Registered Licensed Landscape Architect, Colorado 2008

Education:
Colorado Native Plant Society Workshop Series on Wetland Vegetation/Willows, Dr. David Cooper, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning,
Utah State University

Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Guelph,
Ontario, Canada

Urban and Physical Geography, Trinity College, University of Toronto

Registration:
Licensed Landscape Architect, Colorado & Utah

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JAMES HOUK, ASLA
Principal
jhouk@ttplan.net

Mr. Houk offers extensive and varied experience in community and park master planning, resource management, construction management, and landscape architecture. Prior to his employment with Thomas & Thomas, he spent two years involved in the research of community based planning, alternative stormwater management strategies and watershed planning. This research has since been presented at the Soil and Water Conservation Society’s National Conference in Toronto Canada.

For over the past eleven years with Thomas & Thomas, Jim has been project manager for a wide range of large scale recreation plans, land suitability studies, community and parks master plans in southern Colorado, including Cheyenne Mountain State Park for the past 5-years, Cross Creek Regional Park, Fountain, Colorado, and the Colorado Front Range Trail from Pueblo to Trinidad.

Education:
Master of Landscape Architecture, Small Community Development and Resource Management, 1997, Kansas State University.
Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, 1992, Michigan State University, Michigan

Registration:
Licensed Landscape Architect, Colorado, Illinois and Wyoming