Brent Jeffrey Schulz, MUEP - District 2

Partner: DDC Engineers, Inc.
President: The LandArt Company

Qualifications:

Master of Urban and Environmental Planning, 1987
The University of Virginia-School of Architecture
Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning, 1985
East Carolina University

Professional Development:

Mid-Sized Firm Management: A Workshop for Presidents and CEOs, 2000 (Harvard University)
Golf Course Architecture and Design, 1990 (Harvard University)
Managing People: Strategies for Effective Leadership, 2000 (Harvard University)
Financial Management, 2005 (Harvard University) Designing and Developing Town Centers, 1999 (Urban Land Institute) Computer Aided Drafting and Design (CAD) Courses, 1988 (University of Hawaii)

Professional Organizations:

Horry County Councilman – (2007 – 2011)
Horry County Infrastructure and Regulation Committee Member (2009-)
Myrtle Beach Area Regional Economic Development Commission (2010)
Horry County Planning Commission – Past Member (2003-2006)
Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce – Past Board Member
Urban Land Institute (ULI) – Past Full Member
ULI-Community Development Council Appointee (2000-2002)
ULI-Small Scale Development Council Appointee (2002-2004)
American Planning Association (APA) - (2005)
North Carolina Division of Coastal Management - Member
South Carolina Land Development Council - Member
Horry County Land Development Council - Member
Leadership Grand Strand, South Carolina, Class #18 (1998)
Colonel-Kentucky Colonels (Appointed by Kentucky Governor Steven Beshear)
South Carolina Notary Public (2009-)

Academic Involvement:

Adjunct Lecturer, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC - Department of Urban & Regional Planning; 1993-1996
Adjunct Lecturer, Pitt Community College, Greenville, NC - Department of Geography; 1994-1996
Engineering Curriculum Advisor, Academy for the Arts, Science and Technology, Myrtle Beach, SC; 1999-2000
Annual Speaker, Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) of America, Continuing Education
    Orlando, Florida – Golf Course Design; 2001-Present
Guest Lecturer, Wall School of Business, Coastal Carolina University; 2002-Present

Professional Experience:

With over twenty-eight (28) years of professional planning experience, Mr. Brent J. Schulz, MUEP joined DDC Engineers, Inc. in 1996, from a Senior Designer position with Schulz International, Inc. (SI2) of Greenville, North Carolina. Prior SI2, he was employed with a variety of multi-disciplinary firms that included EDAW, Inc., located in Alexandria, Virginia; CH2MHill located in Honolulu, Hawaii; Belt-Collins and Associates located in Honolulu, Hawaii; and the Cox Company located in Charlottesville, Virginia. DDC hired Mr. Schulz in order to expand their current disciplinary areas. Mr. Schulz has a significant amount of practical planning experience in environmental design, management and assessment, site planning, urban design, resort and subdivision planning and design, federal and private master planning, golf course routing, landscape design, recreation planning, and computer simulation and design. Having successfully launched these services and developed a new catalog of clients, Mr. Schulz was named Director of Planning Services for DDC’s Landscape Architectural and Land Planning division, The LandArt Company, in 1999. While continuing to collaborate on project endeavors with DDC, The LandArt Company consistently pursues project specific work including land planning, landscape architecture, golf course design, urban design, and graphic simulation.

While employed with the previously mentioned firms, Mr. Schulz managed a variety of federal and private master planning projects located throughout the United States, the Caribbean, the Pacific Rim, Southeast Asia and Europe (specifically Germany, France, and England). These projects included, although are not limited to, the following areas: Tennessee Golf Course Feasibility Studies, throughout the state of Tennessee; Sahl Hasheesch Planned City, Central Egypt; Iwasaki Hotel and Resort, Tanegashima, Japan; Mauna Lani Resort and Country Club, Island of Hawaii, Hawaii; St. Croix, USVI; Cabo San Lucas on the Sea of Cortez; Keflavik, Iceland: Waverly Planned Community, Prince William County, Virginia; Belmont Country Club, Loudon County, Virginia; Myrtle Beach Community Recovery Plan, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; and fourty-eight (48) Military Hotels, proposed Worldwide. In addition, in 2001-2006, Mr. Schulz completed an assortment of University Student Housing designs for Bostic Brothers throughout the United States and included the states of South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana and Mississippi.