Name: Peter DeBraal
Title: Senior Associate/Senior Project Manager
Company: SWBR Architects
Location: Rochester, NY
Place of birth: Rochester, NY
Family: Wife Nicole and son Nathan (4)
College: Bachelor/Masters of Architecture, Kent State University
First job unrelated to your current field: Wegmans cashier
First job in your current field: Richard Sly Architect, Vermillion, Ohio
What your firm does now and its plans for the future? We are a full service architecture practice including landscape architecture, structural engineering and interior design. Our work is focused in four design studios, education (college and K-12), life services (healthcare and different levels of housing) and products and services (corporate and industrial clients). Our plans for the future are to continue to design award winning architecture and to build a thriving practice serving the northeast region.
Hobbies: Home improvement, skiing, fishing, hiking, kayaking and road cycling
Favorite film: "Good Will Hunting"
Favorite novel: Anything by Tom Clancy
Keys to success: Trying to constantly improve your skills by working hard and doing the right thing and by providing clients with unsurpassed consulting services.
If you had to choose a different profession, what would it be? A career combining planning, architecture, construction and finance of projects.
Person you admire most (outside of the family): The military who selflessly will give their lives for their country.
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