Projects & Case Studies

The record is in the work.

These examples show a consistent project method: define the real need, organize the stakeholders, manage scope and risk, and leave behind greater capacity.

Patrick has held the Project Management Professional credential from the Project Management Institute since 2015.

Resilience / Public Service

ResilientALX Charter and action-plan framework

Situation

Alexandria’s preparedness strategy needed a wider, whole-community view of risks, lifelines and the people and organizations responsible for resilience.

Approach

As chair of the Citizen Corps Council, Patrick helped lead a chartered process for assessment, reporting and stakeholder-based recommendations to the City’s Strategic Plan.

Value created

City Council unanimously adopted the ResilientALX Charter in January 2021, creating a public framework for a future action plan and strategic updates.

City of Alexandria record ↗ResilientALX Charter ↗

Health / Community

English Street community garden

Situation

A neglected New Haven garden had become unusable, limiting a neighborhood asset for fresh food, shared work and local connection.

Approach

Through Fitizen’s first pilot, Patrick coordinated Yale football players, Warrior-Scholar Project veterans and neighbors to clear waste, rebuild beds and plant produce.

Value created

The work restored a community resource and demonstrated how health, service and project coordination can reinforce one another.

Fitizen’s current record ↗Alexandria civic record ↗

Water / Environmental Health

Balance Paddleboarding at Jones Point Park

Situation

Alexandria’s waterfront offered a chance to connect active recreation with direct stewardship of the Potomac River and its shoreline.

Approach

Balance Paddleboarding operated through an agreement at National Park Service-managed Jones Point Park and paired paddling with river education and organized cleanup activity.

Value created

The venture made environmental care participatory: a 2016 public event record documents Balance Paddleboarding joining a Potomac cleanup at Jones Point.

Potomac cleanup record ↗Jones Point Park / NPS ↗

Watershed / Residential Resilience

When the Backyard Becomes the Basin

Situation

An Old Town Alexandria townhome occupied the lowest point of its block. Runoff arriving from neighboring downspouts and an alley created a drainage challenge that could not be understood—or solved—by looking only within the property lines.

Approach

The work began by tracing visible and hidden drainage inputs. The resulting design combined permeable hardscape, rain-garden function, retention capacity, upcycled raised beds, edible planting and owner education within a constrained urban footprint.

Value created

The intervention reframed a difficult backyard from an isolated drainage problem into a multifunctional, maintainable watershed asset and a transferable model for other small residential sites.

Before

Concentrated off-site inflows, constrained space and limited places for water to slow or infiltrate.

After

Water management, planting and daily residential use integrated into one layered, maintainable landscape.

2026 Chesapeake Watershed Forum ↗TLC Design Co. ↗

A simple method

See the whole

Understand the system, not just the symptom.

Frame the choice

Make the decision and its tradeoffs explicit.

Build the cadence

Create ownership, measures and a workable rhythm.

Leave it stronger

Transfer capability so progress does not depend on one person.

Project Management Institute

PMP

Project discipline is part of the operating system.

Project Management Professional (PMP), issued January 2015 and currently listed through January 2027. Credential ID 1786312.

View the credential record

The next operating question

Bring the decision into the room.

Share the situation, the stakes and what a useful outcome would make possible.

Start a conversation