He holds a Master of Landscape Architecture (2009) from the University of Pennsylvania where he was awarded a Van Alen Traveling Fellowship and the John Dixon Hunt Prize in History, Theory, and Criticism. He has taught landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design, the City College of New York’s Spitzer School of Architecture, and Rutgers University’s School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. In addition to design studios, he has taught field ecology and plant identification, site engineering and grading, materials and construction methods, digital representation, and scholarship in landscape architecture.