Louis always knew he wanted to be an architect. He began taking drafting classes in middle school and high school and discovered his love for building blocks of architecture. Louis joined Cole & Denny as a graduate architect in 2008 after graduating from Virginia Tech with his BArch.

Louis quickly drew the attention of leadership at C&DA thanks to his initiative and energy and was identified early on as a potential future principal. By the time Louis became a partner, he was serving as a project manager, and became Vice President of Cole & Denny in 2012.

During his first years at the firm, Louis maintained an active interest in all levels of a project from drafting to construction, which led to developing clients and projects, managing other project managers, managing financials, and ultimately providing growth, direction, guidance and vision to the entire firm. It was this drive that helped him grow into the project manager role and later VP.

Louis has always been forward-thinking: “After I became licensed,” Louis recalls, “I sat around thinking, ‘what’s next?’” This drove Louis to pursue a master’s degree. While maintaining his full-time leadership roles at Cole & Denny, Louis enrolled in an MBA program for professionals through UNC Chapel Hill, where he specialized in corporate finance.

Louis has spent the entirety of his career at Cole & Denny, and he’s grateful for it. He loves the collaborative environment and the ability for individuals to grow professionally and continue to take on new responsibilities. These are values that Louis & Mike both identified first as graduate architects and have striven to maintain and grow as leaders of the firm. He’s proud of their ability to build upon the strengths of the company and evolve what the two would have appreciated as graduate architects.

Louis also enjoys the diverse range and types of projects at which Cole & Denny is able to excel. This diversity means that their architects get to learn something new every day and that each member of the firm has the opportunity to continue to pursue knowledge and strengthen their craft.

Around the office, Louis is respected and admired for his vision and ability to guide the future of the firm. He is consistently goal oriented, process driven, and the peace maker, and his technical ability and detailed knowledge of architecture is renowned.

When he’s not serving as a leader and visionary for Cole & Denny, Louis enjoys spending time with his wife, kids, and their bulldog Jumbo, and pursuing his hobbies including coaching little league baseball, going to football and baseball games, and going saltwater fishing. Louis is a well-known Ravens & Orioles fan and hails from Baltimore where his family has been in the concrete industry for three generations.