Mr. Gordon has over 11 years of experience in military education and training, policy, and planning, and 16 years of experience in public and private sector urban design and landscape preservation planning. He has served as the primary and contributing author to many area development plans, numerous master plans, form-based ...
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Mr. Gordon has over 11 years of experience in military education and training, policy, and planning, and 16 years of experience in public and private sector urban design and landscape preservation planning. He has served as the primary and contributing author to many area development plans, numerous master plans, form-based codes, and transportation and aviation studies for all DoD services. He has developed curriculum and taught basic, intermediate and advanced master planning classes for the Army Corps of Engineers Master Planning Institute and the American Planning Association on national and chapter levels. In addition, he has served on over twenty planning projects that have received numerous national awards including the Outstanding Federal Planning Project - Honor Award: Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni Customer Concept Document FY18, Iwakuni, Japan (2019); Outstanding Federal Planning
Project – Merit Award: USAG – Hawaii Installation Development Plan, Hawaii (2018); Outstanding Technical Plan or Study – Merit Award: USAG – Hawaii 2nd BCT Complex Requirements Analysis and 1391 Report, Hawaii (2018); Outstanding Collaborative Planning Project – Merit Award: NASA Johnson Space Center Master Plan Update, Texas and
New Mexico (2017); Outstanding Federal Planning Project (Co-Winner): Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam Master Plan, 2014; APA FPD; Outstanding Federal Planning Program (Honorable Mention): USMC Master Plan Assessment and Training Program (World-wide-Including Japan, Korea, and the United States), 2014, and APA FPD. Outstanding Federal Planning Project Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni Installation Development Plan (2009).
Mr. Gordon is also a faculty member and researcher in the Architecture Department at the University of Oregon’s School of Architecture & Environment, College of Design, and is the Associate Director of The Urban Design Lab (UO). He teaches urban design and landscape architecture design studios, workshop facilitation, project and program development, and media classes. Mr. Gordon holds Masters degrees in both Landscape Architecture and Community and Regional Planning from the University of Oregon, and a Bachelor of Science in Community Development and Applied Economics degree from the University of Vermont. Mr. Gordon is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP), holds the designation of LEED Green Associate by the Green Building Certification Institute, Associate of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and member of the Society of Military Engineers.
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Mr. James assumed his current position in June 2018. He leads the NAVFAC Southwest Asset Management team in delivery of real estate, strategic planning, project programming, encroachment management, asset utilization, geospatial information, and public-private ventures in support of an AOR inclusive of Navy and Marine Corps assets throughout the southwestern ...
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Mr. James assumed his current position in June 2018. He leads the NAVFAC Southwest Asset Management team in delivery of real estate, strategic planning, project programming, encroachment management, asset utilization, geospatial information, and public-private ventures in support of an AOR inclusive of Navy and Marine Corps assets throughout the southwestern U.S.
Prior to his current assignment, Mr. James served as the AMBL Leader for NAVFAC Far East from 2015 to 2018 where he led delivery of asset management services throughout the Navy and Marine Corps AOR of Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Diego Garcia with 66 million square feet in 7,800 buildings on 108,000 acres valued at $38 million.
Prior to his current assignment, Mr. James served as the Asset Management Business Line (AMBL) Team Lead for Integrated Product Team Gulf Coast, NAVFAC Southeast, from 2010 to 2015. He oversaw a $9 billion PRV of real estate and led strategic land and facility planning and programming for the AOR. As NAVFAC Southeast’s senior planner, he was dual hatted as AMBL’s Planning Workload and Operations Manager.
From 2007 to 2010 Mr. James served as the Planning Director for Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Iwakuni. Mr. James oversaw execution of the $2.4 billion runway relocation project and planning and programming for the $3.5 billion redevelopment of MCAS Iwakuni in support of the Defense Policy Review Initiative (DPRI) program.
Mr. James’ federal career began in 2001 with the Department of Air Force at Misawa Air Base, Japan, where he managed the Base Development Office, which oversaw a $1 billion base development program and served as the geospatial information and services lead. Prior to his federal service, Mr. James worked as an Associate Planner for Oklahoma City from 1995 to 2001.
Mr. James maintained a military career from 1989 until retirement as a Builder Chief Petty Officer in 2013. During active duty, he was assigned to NAVFAC Keflavik, Iceland in 1989 and NMCB 74 from 1991 to 1994. While in the Reserves, Chief James was assigned to NMCB 22 and NMCB 18. In 2006 he was activated in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and assigned to Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa where he supported civil affairs and a $9 million humanitarian assistance mission throughout east Africa and the Republic of Yemen.
Mr. James’s career accomplishments include development of the award-winning base master plans for MCAS Iwakuni and Misawa Air Base and initiation and development of NAVFAC Southeast’s first in-house master plan, the installation development plan for Naval Air Station Pensacola. Mr. James was the U.S. Air Force Outstanding Individual Community Planner in 2004. Mr. James is one of only a handful of licensed landscape architects within NAVFAC and is also certified as a city and regional planner by the American Institute of Certified Planners.
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