Profile

Personal Greeting Eric Davis, AIA

Cook County Government
Bronze Member

Contact Details

Cook County Government
Oak Park, IL

Bio

Mr. Davis is an architect with over 30 years of experience as a program manager, design architect, technical lead, project manager, design manager and planner, primarily on programs and projects for government, educational, and public safety agencies. He is currently serving as the Deputy Director of the Cook County Department of Capital Planning and Policy, the lead architect managing the Department and overseeing the design and construction of over 300 projects annually with a capital budget of approximately $280m/year, in three portfolios of approximately 19m SF. He has worked in the private sector for a variety of firms, almost entirely for public agency clients, and also served as an architect and planner at the Chicago Park District. He has been visiting faculty in urban design, architecture, and architectural history at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Chicago, Notre Dame and IIT. He has researched, lectured and published scholarly works on the Prairie School architect Dwight Perkins. Mr. Davis has served on the Board of Directors of the Chicago and Illinois chapters of the American Institute of Architects and is also a local elected official in Oak Park, Illinois.

Education

University of Illinois at Chicago
M. Arch
1984 To 1986

University of Virginia
BS (Arch.)
1979 To 1983

North Central High School

Job History

Cook County Department of Capital Planning and Policy
Deputy Director
Chicago, IL, United States
April 2017 - present

Public Design Architects LLC
President
July 2011 - April 2017

CDM
Client Service Manager in Training
July 2007 - June 2011

DMJM/AECOM
Senior Associate/Senior Project Manager
April 2001 - July 2007

Ross Barney Architects
Architect
March 2000 - March 2001

Patrick Engineering
Senior Project Manager
January 1999 - March 2000

Globetrotters Engineering Corporation
Senior Project Architect
July 1997 - January 1999

OWP+P/Cannon Design
Architect V
November 1993 - July 1997

Chicago Park District
Architectural Designer/Planning Coordinator
June 1988 - November 1993