About Joshua

Joshua is a multi-passionate, self-led learner that has always been drawn to those in-between spaces where there is room to try something different and where creativity and innovation thrive. As a licensed professional civil engineer with a focus on ecology and water resources, Joshua works on the planning and implementation of multi-disciplinary civil works projects where built, natural, and human systems overlap and intersect. In this role he embraces both art and science to hone systems-understanding skills where both consistency and creativity are needed for problem-solving in constrained and complex environments. Through the implementation of built projects, he has come to understand that science is closed systems investigation, art is open systems investigation, and engineering is the intersection of the two. Integrated and multi-disciplinary problem solving requires recognizing the strengths, and the limits, of science, art, and engineering. In his observation, applying closed systems solutions to open systems problems has led to the most detrimental long-term issues of unintended consequences.

Joshua was born in the Central Willamette Valley of Oregon and grew up in a multi-cultural Asian/American household, working and playing on a farm in childhood. He has had the opportunity to live, study, and work internationally, including six years in Southern African where he graduated high school from the American International School of Johannesburg. He also spent a year studying abroad at Lincoln University in New Zealand, and two years in Senegal as Peace Corp Volunteer in Agroforesty. He has a BS in Bioresource Research and an MS in Water Resources Engineering from Oregon State University, both are multi-disciplinary natural resources degrees where he studied biosystems modeling, environmental chemistry, soil science, hydrology, and geomorphology. He currently lives in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.