DESIGN DRAW BUILD - Key Persons
Annabelle is a Business Manager at Design Draw Build.
Annabelle has been a business professional in the Bay Area for over 15 years. During that time Annabelle has held positions in operations and project management in Foreign Affairs and Geotechnical industries.
Annabelle grew up in sunny San Diego, she moved to San Francisco to pursue her education in Business and resided in the Bay Area for 16+ years. She enjoys international travel and can be found taking her dogs on hikes at Sibley Volcanic Reserve on the weekends
Job Titles:
- Architect
- DIRECTOR of MULTIFAMILY CONSTRUCTION
Avi is a licensed architect and general contractor in the state of California, Avi is dedicated to furthering the vertical integration of architecture and construction; infusing the design process with construction knowledge and enriching the construction process with a keen eye for design.
Avi relocated to the Bay Area in 2012 to help open a satellite office for a high end modern design/build firm where he directed all bay area residential and commercial construction projects for 8 years. Having exhausted his appetite for building custom homes and hotels for the ultra wealthy, Avi turned his focus to helping address the Bay Area's acute lack of work force and homeless housing. He joined Design Draw Build as the director of Multifamily construction to bring respectable high density housing to those that need it the most.
Avi received his BA in Philosophy from Brown University and his Masters in Architecture from the Yale School of Architecture. Upon graduating, Avi joined the faculty to teach the YSOA's first year studio, the Building Project, where he led the first year graduate students in competitively designing and then building a selected student designed small multifamily residence with the entire class in four short months.
Avi currently resides in Piedmont CA with his wife and two young daughters.
Job Titles:
- DESIGNER / JR. PROJECT ENGINEER
Job Titles:
- CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGER
Jackie is a Construction Project Manager at Design Draw Build.
Jackie grew up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast where she developed a love of nature and the environment. Ready for a new adventure after spending her formative years in the deep south, she moved across the country to study at the University of California, Berkeley completing a Bachelors in biology and Master of Public Health in environmental health science.
She spent a decade honing her project management skills in the heavily regulated healthcare environment managing projects and programs in environmental health and sustainable construction. As her interest in responsible land use grew, she transitioned to infill residential and commercial development. At Design Draw Build she is excited to use her project management skills to support sustainable construction and help build more livable communities.
Jackie has spent the past 20 years living in either Oakland or Berkeley and has made the East Bay her home. She can frequently be spotted on one of her bikes making her way through the city. On the weekends she enjoys hiking, camping and backpacking with her husband and two children.
Job Titles:
- SENIOR CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGER
Jeff is a Senior Construction Project Manager at Design Draw Build.
Jeff has been a construction professional in the Bay Area for over 10 years. During that time Jeff has held positions in operations and project management in the solar and landscape construction industries, in addition to several project management positions on high-end single family home and multi-family project builds.
In his current role as Senior Project Manager for DDB's construction division, Jeff is responsible for overseeing active construction projects as well as estimating and managing client relationships for prospective projects.
Jeff grew up outside of Philadelphia and received a degree in Economics from Princeton University. Currently resides in Walnut Creek with his wife and children and can be found on the weekends cycling the slopes of Mt. Diablo.
Tyler Kobick is a Bay-area CA Licensed Architect and General Contractor with a focus on housing, public-interest design, custom fabrication, and ecological design. He is the founder and President of a 21-person firm, Design Draw Build, where the firm specializes in adaptive reuse, custom residences, multifamily housing and architect-led design-build methods of project delivery. He believes strongly in warm-modern, critically regionalist architecture.
Tyler began his career as a stone mason in Northeast Ohio where he apprenticed under a master mason and soon enough started his own construction company. After hiking a large section of the Appalachian Trail, he fell in love with the Mad River Valley of central Vermont where he trained and built for 12 years with many different architects and artisans on custom residential and commercial projects predominantly under the architect Dave Sellers, whose methods catalyzed the contemporary design/build field. In 2010 Tyler founded Design Draw Build and traveled to build unusual commissions in different areas of the US until setting up a more permanent location with his business partner Jo Marcy in the Bay area in late 2014.
An educator and community-builder, Tyler seeks to revitalize and preserve town and urban centers by embracing the material culture of a place with sustainable locally-applied building technologies.. From 2005-2008, Tyler built rural medical clinics in the mountainous region of south-east El Salvador, and founded a model school for land-place based education, called Amun Shea that still teaches a couple hundred students a year. In 2009 he helped found the Ecological Design Co-laboratory Studio-a sustainable design-lab and think tank at the University of Vermont where he taught design-build classes and donated student-built structures to local school programs to promote local food and outdoor skills. Today, Tyler teaches architecture at the University of San Francisco in a variety of studio and skill classes. He is also a co-chair of the Regional and Urban Design Committee for the AIA EastBay, and currently sits on the Board of Directors for the AIAEastbay.
Passionate about live cultural production, playing and seeing live music, he has served as a lead designer for temporary festival structures at The Square Roots Festival, Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, and for Superfly Productions.
Tyler holds two degrees in architecture, a B.S Arch from the University of Cincinnati, and a MArch from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada.