About

Erik is an Architect with extensive experience across a diverse range of project types. His ability to work across all phases of a project from design concept right through to contract documentation and advice during construction makes him a well rounded and highly versatile Architect.

Erik delivers high quality designs that reflect an affinity for clean, simple and elegant solutions. His detailed understanding of project requirements allows him to understand complex design issues and tailor a design solution that is innovative and commercially driven.

Erik has spent most of his Architectural career in Queensland. He has over 15 years experience in private residential, retail, multi-residential and commercial projects across a range of sizes and complexities, with a tendency towards major projects for commercial developers and large builders.

Experience

Cottee Parker Architects

• Senior Architect
• 2019 – Present
• Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Powe Architects

• Senior Architect
• Apr 2016 – Nov 2019 (3 years 8 months)
• Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

ML Design

• Architect, Project Leader
• Sep 2008 – Mar 2016 (7 years 7 months)
• Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

LVO’ Architecture

• Architect
• Mar 2007 – Jul 2008 (1 year 5 months)
• Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Rice Daubney

• Architectural Graduate
• Mar 2006 – Mar 2007 (1 year)
• Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Cyclone Studios

• Architectural Graduate
• Apr 2004 – Mar 2006 (2 years)
• Airlie Beach, Queensland, Australia

Hassell

• Architecture Student
• Apr 2003 – Jul 2003 (4 months)
• Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

GABA

• Private Lesson Instructor
• Nov 2001 – Nov 2002 (1 yr)
• Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

Education

University of Adelaide

• Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) Architecture
• 2000 – 2003
• Activities and Societies:
  • RAIA (SA) Education Standing Committee: Student Rep. (1999-2001)
  • School Board: Student Rep. (1997-2000)
  • School Advisory Board: Student Rep. (1997-2000)
  • Operations Committee: Student Rep. (1997-2000)
  • Workplace Health & Safety Committee: Student Rep. (1997-2001)
  • Architecture Student’s Association: 5th Year Rep. (2001)
  • Architecture Student’s Association: 4th Year Rep. (2000)

University of Adelaide

• Bachelor of Design Studies (BDesSt) Architecture
• 1997 – 1999
• Activities and Societies:
  • RAIA (SA) Education Standing Committee: Student Rep. (1999-2001)
  • School Board: Student Rep. (1997-2000)
  • School Advisory Board: Student Rep. (1997-2000)
  • Operations Committee: Student Rep. (1997-2000)
  • Workplace Health & Safety Committee: Student Rep. (1997-2001)
  • Architecture Student’s Association: President (1999)
  • Architecture Student’s Association: 2nd Year Rep. (1998)

St Peter’s College

• South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE) Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, English Studies
• 1993 – 1996
• Activities and Societies:
  • Captained the 2nd XI soccer team 1996;
  • Played water polo, 1996;
  • Rowed in the 1st VIII, 1995;
  • Rowed in the 2nd VIII, 1994;
  • Rowed in the U15D coxed four 1993;
  • Exploration Society member;
  • Muting Club member;
  • Chapel Choir member;
  • Farr house member (symbols).

Canberra Grammar School

• 1985 – 1992
• Activities and Societies:
  • Special Music Class;
  • String Orchestra;
  • School Choir;
  • Orienteering;
  • Swimming;
  • Soccer;
  • Rowing

Hobbies

This Github account is for Erik’s geekier hobby interests and personal projects. These projects are not Erik’s day job. These repositories and projects are totally and completely unrelated to Erik’s professional role at Cottee Parker Architects:

• Erik is currently working on a combination of Hesiod, DNSSEC, SSHFP and OpenPGP to create a distributed, signature backed, hardware 2FA name and auth single sign on ‘system’, without Kerberos or ldap, using existing commodity code and infrastructure as much as possible;
• Erik is currently learning about Kerberos, ldap, DNS, OpenPGP cards and Git;
• Erik is looking to collaborate on a KISS Linux package repository that updates then pulls from local git repositories under /usr/src/ rather than downloading full source each time. Step 2 is minimal i18n and l10n bolt on packages to ootb kiss linux;
• Erik is looking for help with an elegant, simple and secure physical console login with an openpgp card based private key, without a requirement to access home folders in any way until after authentication has occured;