Mr. Lee is an undergraduate of Howard University and has a Master of Regional Planning from Cornell University. Mr. Lee is a member of the American Planning Association, the American Institute of Architects and is nationally certified by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards. He previously headed architecture, land planning and development organizations in Baltimore, Silver Spring and Capitol Heights, Maryland. He also functioned as the Corporate Architect for a Baltimore based construction management firm operating on a national level and taught in the fields of planning and architecture on the graduate and undergraduate collegiate levels at universities in California, Maryland and North Carolina. He has professional design and/or planning experience on projects in such diverse locales as Cancun, Mexico, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, St. George, Grenada, British Virgin Islands, California, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Louisiana, Delaware, Virginia, New Jersey, and Maryland.
J. V. Lee possesses extensive experience in the areas of land use planning, site development (including topographic analysis, water resource management, and sediment control plans), museum design, marina design, civic design, building renovation, office/commercial space design, environmentally sensitive (green) design and construction administration and is a member of the American Planning Association, the American Institute of Architects and is nationally certified by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards.