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A Michigan native, Amy has a degree in psychology and art history and over a decade of experience in marketing analytics. She came to TBDA as a marketing consultant in 2014 and took on other tasks like bookkeeping and website maintenance. She appreciates working for a firm with a mission to address climate change by building beautiful, high performing, healthy homes. She lives in Oak Park, IL, with her husband, two sons, and dog named Boomer.

Garrett is a master draftsman both digitally and manually, and is in charge of TBDA CAD templates, detail libraries, and product research. He prepares renderings and presentations drawings, and coordinates all project documentation for permit and construction, including WUFI-Passive and THERM energy modeling for Passive House certification. Garrett has a Master of Architecture from Kansas State University and lives in Oak Park, IL.

Mark grew up in Central Illinois, attended art school in California, and studied abroad in Burkina Faso in West Africa. He worked in San Francisco in graphic design before returning to Illinois to pursue a Masters of Architecture from UIC. Prior to TBDA, he worked on a variety of municipal projects in Federal Plaza as well as educational projects for Chicago Public Schools at Koo Architecture. Mark lives in Albany Park where he spends a decent amount of time with his dog Juniper, and is currently on a quest to see all the Great Lakes.

Job Titles:

• TBDA As a Project Architect

Sage recently joined TBDA as a Project Architect. They are from Western North Carolina and have been a part of the outdoor community from a young age. Sage graduated from University of North Carolina with a Masters of Architecture. Sage was raised by an environmentalist and respecting the environment has been at the core of their values for as long as they can remember.

Tom Bassett Dilley's passion for architecture was kindled in high school when he found a book in the school library on Frank Lloyd Wright: those exuberant buildings harmonized with their sites were endlessly fascinating and inspiring. Shortly after he found Edward Mazria's Passive Solar Energy Book, whose practical techniques showed how to tune a building to climate. Tom spent a year at Taliesin West, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, continuing to Ball State University for undergrad and Columbia University for graduate work. He became a Certified Passive House Consultant in 2010 to learn advanced energy modeling, building science, and principles of conservation exemplified by the Passive House standard. He is a founding member and past President of the Chicago PHAUS chapter, and has presented numerous times for local audiences and at national conferences. Tom is an avid guitarist, gardener, and painter. He lives in Oak Park with his wife and their two children, cats, and dog.