Steve Blye

Background

About Steve Blye

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS • 35-plus years of planning and design team leadership and collaboration on over $2 billion of built projects: healthcare, education, institutional & others • NMHC campus experience since 2001 as senior designer at Prentice | experience at about eight other healthcare systems • Master planning, healthcare planning, architectural design and interiors proficiency and familiarity • Parallel-track project design manager, planning flexibility & expansion, functional performance, strong aesthetics, performance and longevity of materials, and maintenance • Experienced with numerous project roles: designer, project manager, project architect, and construction administrator • Coordinator of proposals and interviews • National and local award-winner in healthcare & other projects PROFESSIONAL SKILLS • Collaborative design and project management leadership • Generate and maintain work plans, project team tasks, schedules, and budget compliance • Research latest HC technologies and procedures • Integrate team experts’ input in sustainability, energy modeling, FFE planning, & more • Develop proposals • Uncover existing site conditions • Seek out core client needs and expectations • Transition the client’s visions into design responses, and ensure compliance • Artistically skilled at design and presentations using multi-media freehand and digital rendering • Incorporate 3D-modeling, full-scale mockups, design workshops (charettes), staff flow diagrams, and more • Experienced in SketchUp, Enscape, InDesign, Bluebeam Revu, Excel, Microsoft Project, Powerpoint, Photoshop, drawing iPad Apps (Morpholio Trace, Procreate, Sketchbook, Brushstroke); rudimentary at Revit • Mentor, teach & learn • Continual business development networking EDUCATION AND TRAINING • University of Illinois M-Arch & BSAS | Champaign IL • UIUC Study Abroad | Versailles France CERTIFICATIONS AND AWARDS • Licensed Architect since 1991 • National Individual Award of Excellence | 2018 | Healthcare Facilities Symposium & Expo • Brick in Architecture Awards | 2015 Memorial Medical Center | 2019 Glenbard West Science Wing | 2022 Arlington Heights Police Station • Chicago Building Congress Merit Award & Building of the Year | 2013 | Silver Cross Hospital Campus • National HREI Insights Award | Best New MOB over SF | 2013 | Pavilion A at Silver Cross PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS • AIA Healthcare Knowledge Community • Lambda Alpha, Ely Chapter • AMFP (committee member) • Chicago Health Executives Forum • LCI—Lean Construction