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[Profiles written by Chelsea Tabor, Communications Intern, LSU Career Services]
Jonathan Alford
Organ Placement Specialist, United Network for Organ Sharing
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John Andrew Nyman, Ph.D.
Owner, River Oaks Wetland Services
Associate Professor, School of Renewable Natural Resources
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Clint Penfield
District Manager Fry Cook and Cashier, Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers
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Christina Rentz
Publicist, Merge Records
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Brooke Taylor
Walt Disney World Engineer, Disney's Animal Kingdom and Epcot
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G. Brian Wheeler
Executive Vice President, Genesis Group
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G. Brian Wheeler, LSU landscape architecture graduate, forgets all the hard work that he puts into jobs when he sees people enjoying the places his company creates. Wheeler is the Executive Vice President of the Genesis Group.
Along with a bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture, Wheeler minored in Environmental Sciences at LSU, which aided him as the “green” movement placed emphasis on the integration of environmental elements into projects. Wheeler always had the goal to establish his own company. After graduating, he went to work for a large multi-disciplinary architecture firm in order to learn the business. He then determined that he could establish a new, professionally challenging business. Thus, he formed the Genesis Group, which is a multidisciplinary firm providing planning, urban design, landscape architecture, civil engineering and transportation engineering.
The hardest part of Wheeler’s job is balancing a combined business, profession and lifestyle. He suggests that students be well-rounded and take business, finance and real estate coursework as electives. He also recommends that students visit different firms and participate in internships or related work experiences.
Wheeler was always drawing and building things as he grew up and began to question why the built environment around him was executed so poorly. His first and favorite building that he has designed is
the Gumbo Limbo Environmental Education Center in Boca Raton.
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