Nicholas Chen
Business Manager/Shareholder at Kimley-Horn
- Role
- Business Manager at Kimley-Horn
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Nicholas Chen
Nicholas is a community planning associate and urban designer at Kimley-Horn and Associates. His focus in practice is land use planning and design, entitlement and due diligence work, and public and private specific plans.He collaborates with community members, planners, developers, landscape architects, and engineers around the country to bring innovative solutions to the communities he works in. Nicholas is passionate about the responsible revitalization and growth of communities and combines his knowledge of urban design and policy planning in his every day work. Prior to Kimley-Horn, Nick contributed to work done in both the community development and landscape architecture departments at Michael Baker International in the Santa Ana office. This work ranged from multiple components of General Plan updates for cities across southern California to various Vision and Master plans all over the nation. He also frequently did graphic work for both departments in a variety of programs. This varied from conceptual diagrammatic exhibits to more realistic final renderings. Previously, Nick worked as first an entry level planner and then a project manager at The Galloway Group. There he was responsible for overseeing the completion of Specific Plans for various new communities around Southern California, along with site planning different housing product mixes for greenfield development work. He also worked as an Architectural Assistant at San Diego Zoo Global, where he helped to master plan new exhibits, as well as coordinate weekly meetings with staff and outside consultants.
Experience
Business Manager
Jan 2026 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Education
UC Irvine
Master's, Urban and Regional Planning
2013 — 2015
California State Polytechnic University-Pomona
Bachelor of Science, Landscape Architecture
2007 — 2011
Skills
- Parks
- Hand Rendering
- Indesign
- Site Planning
- Urban Planning
- Sustainable Design
- Community Design
- Microsoft Excel
- Photoshop
- Sketchup
- Sketching
- Autocad
- Landscape Architecture
- Adobe Illustrator
- Land Use Planning
- Illustrator
- Urban Design
- Landscape Design
- Rendering
- Model Making
- Illustration
- Specific Plans
- Community Master Planning
- Sustainability
- Zoo Exhibit Design
- Drawing
- Comprehensive Planning
- Zoo Master Planning
- Design Research
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