Aide is a registered Colorado architect and LEED Accredited Professional who has been working in the field of green architecture for over 20 years. She has designed and built at different scales, from neighborhood planning and commercial development, to home and product design. Aide worked for many visionaries in the field of green architecture, including Gail Vittori and Pliny Fisk of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, Doug Farr, author of Sustainable Urbanism, and building researchers at the US Army Corps of Engineers. Aide has a dual Masters degree in Architecture and Structural Engineering from the University of Illinois, and earned a professional firefighter certification. She has hands-on experience in Life Cycle Assessment to track carbon and chemicals through manufacturing and construction, and Energy Modeling.  She worked on a software development project to automate Energy Plus modeling, during which she taught herself to write code in Python, C#, and javascript.  Her consulting company used the tool to provide energy efficiency compliance for commercial and multifamily projects (see condense.cloud). Going way back, Aide painted houses, apprenticed with a master carpenter, and built timber-framed straw bale homes in Washington State as an intern architect at Living Shelter Design. She has come back to her roots in hands-on construction, and is now 100% dedicated to single family home building through her company Harper Lake Homes.