HKP Architects Welcomes Kelly Valentin as a Project Manager

Kelly re­ceived her Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence in Ar­chi­tec­tural Stud­ies from Wash­ing­ton State Uni­ver­sity in 2017 and Mas­ter of Ar­chi­tec­ture in 2018. Af­ter grad­u­at­ing, she joined Un­der­wood & As­so­ci­ates, LLC in Ana­cortes. Over the last four years, she has de­vel­oped and ex­e­cuted a wide range of pro­ject types in­clud­ing Res­i­den­tial, Med­ical, and Re­tail through­out Sk­agit and Is­land County. She is cur­rently pur­su­ing li­cen­sure.

 She has a love for giv­ing back to the com­mu­nity. Through vol­un­teer­ing in the city of Oak Har­bor and pro­duc­ing plans for the Sk­agit and Is­land County Habi­tat for Hu­man­ity af­fil­i­ates over the last 4 years. By giv­ing pre­sen­ta­tions to Ana­cortes High School se­niors and ju­niors that were in­ter­ested in STEM ma­jors in col­lege Kelly is show­ing them what an early ca­reer in Ar­chi­tec­ture could look like.

Kelly brings to HKP Ar­chi­tects her strong or­ga­ni­za­tional, prob­lem-solv­ing, and com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills. Her abil­ity to work as part of a team shows in her flex­i­bil­ity to sup­port mul­ti­ple pro­jects when nec­es­sary. She is ex­cited to join the team and work at cre­at­ing high-value de­signs and min­i­miz­ing en­vi­ron­men­tal im­pact.  Cur­rent pro­jects in­clude Fri­day Har­bor High School STEM Art Class­room, Re­spect Nurs­ing Care ESF, and sev­eral res­i­den­tial mas­ter plans.