Heather joined Animal Arts in August 2000 and has since become a principal in the firm. Her primary area of expertise is facilitating the streamlined management of animal shelter projects. She is also in charge of the management of equine and large animal projects. Heather has managed the drawing production and construction administration for significant animal care facilities, including the 80,000 square-foot Dumb Friends League in Denver and Upstate Veterinary Specialists in Greenville, South Carolina, which was awarded the 2003 Hospital of the Year by Veterinary Economics magazine. She was the project manager for the 36,000 square-foot LEED Platinum Denver Animal Shelter completed in May 2011. She is currently working on a 57,500 square-foot, multi-story animal shelter and veterinary hospital with veterinary teaching facilities for the Seattle Humane Society.
Heather is experienced in the front-end development of animal shelter projects and has completed needs assessments for numerous projects, including the Orange County Animal Services facility in Orange County, North Carolina, the Larimer Humane Society in Fort Collins, Colorado, and Imperial County in California.
Heather has spoken on animal care facility design at the HSUS Animal Care Expo, the Veterinary Economics Hospital Design Conference for the Central Veterinary Conference, the American Association of Equine Practitioners Conference, the North American Veterinary Conference, The Wild West Veterinary Conference, Texas Unites for Animals, the American Association of Feline Practitioners Conference, and the UC Davis International Symposium on Feline Health. She has been published in Blackwell’s Five-Minute Veterinary Practice Management Consult and has written numerous articles for Veterinary Economics and EquiManagement magazines.
Heather is a member of the Veterinary Economics Advisory Board and Dr. Marty Becker’s Fear- Free Advisory Board.