Haydee Chang - CEO
Haydee is our visionary leader at the helm of Trilogy. She focuses on developing the strategy, vision and business operations of the firm. She brings an indispensable perspective and professional reach–culminating in over 15 years experience in international program management, network design and systems architecture, with a specialization in the future design and architecture of advanced data/voice networks. At Accenture, her past clients include Bank of America, SBC Telecom, Time Telecom of Malaysia, Silicon Valley Consortium Project and Marsh and McLennan – New York. During her time at Acccenture, she specialized in advanced technologies, and was part of a founding team that grew their practice to $640 million in annual revenue within the first 4 years. She launched and led the Asian American Diversity initiative which was part of Accenture’s Human Capital, Inclusion and Diversity initiatives.
Transitioning to the nonprofit and education sectors she worked with World Vision, Art Institute of Chicago, and in private education. She was a 2005 Education Pioneers graduate fellow with SchoolWorks, an Educational Consulting firm in Beverly, Massachusetts. Haydee has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from DePaul University and studied at Northwestern University for her Masters in Education and Social Policy with an emphasis on Learning and Behavior.
She has lived and worked on three continents and currently splits her time between her home in Northern California and Trilogy’s Southern California office in Los Angeles. She enjoys spending time with her husband and four boys, adventuring, oil painting, hiking, tennis, and is an avid tea drinker.
Mark Van Denend - Principal Architect
Mark has a Masters in Architecture and twenty years of experience focused on commercial projects including public (DSA) and private schools, public service administration buildings, manufacturing facilities, fire stations, churches and museums. He is a progressive and dynamic leader that loves to work with clients, helps others reach their full potential, knows how to collaborate and solve problems while motivating others to do the same. In addition, is adept at managing interdisciplinary coordination, maintaining quality in project documents, achieving governing agency approvals and working with contractors during construction administration. Mark has experience across all development phases, including programming and conceptual design, schematic design, design development, construction documents, contract administration and closeout.
Mark is a Chicago native and travels between Redding and Chicago. He has been working with Trilogy in the past year on local Redding projects and is passionate about architecture and the built environment to sustain community involvement. He has served as an architectural consultant for humanitarian organizations in Africa and other countries and is an adjunct University professor of teaching the fundamentals of design and architecture. Mark enjoys spending time with his family (Sarah, five sons and one daughter), basketball, coaching high school football, fishing, crossfit, hiking, guitar and reading.
Jen Hocke - Project Designer
Jen comes to Redding with architecture degrees from Texas A&M (Environmental Design) and North Carolina State University (Architecture). She has six years of experience focused on multi-family housing and mixed use projects. She has also been given opportunities to work on smaller community driven design and build projects in Montana and Texas. Jen brings unique experiences working with a diverse range of people and project types. She has a wide range of skills in design and project development, construction documents, construction administration and project management of all phases of a project.
Jen enjoys camping, hiking, being at the lake, playing soccer, board games, and woodworking.
Nicole Voelkel - Business Development & Branding
A University of Chicago graduate with a Masters in Organizational growth and Leadership development, Nicole has a passion for strategic organizational development and vision-casting, often using mediums of graphic design, photography, textile and interior design to convey a message with a meaning. With a background in international development and intercultural communication, she speaks four languages and has traveled to over 22 different nations reaching over 900,000 audience members. For over 15 years Nicole has worked in a variety of non-profit and creative start-ups, leveraging her skills as an award winning designer, campaign strategist, writer, and media advisor to generate memorable branding and organizational growth. Nicole was raised in an indigenous community of Pasqua Yaqui and Tarahumara Indians in northern Mexico, and later worked for Indigenous Alliance without Borders, winning a grant to conduct field research in conjunction with university of Arizona to understand how border issues have affected tribal lands and communities on each side of the border, and designing a 48 page photojournal documentary on these issues.
She loves exploring with her two young daughters. Her hobbies include tea parties, antiquing, furniture redesign. Her recent project was a remodeled vintage camper. She lives an active lifestyle by swimming, cycling and gardening.
Bryan Rheem - Operations Manager
Bryan is a seasoned entrepreneur and business consultant with over 23 years of professional experience. After graduating from Duke University in 1997 with a Mechanical Engineering degree, he immediately joined the internet technology boom, working for a global Fortune 500 company. Since then, Bryan has worked in both the public and private sectors, starting several businesses and consulting to a wide variety of clients and industries, from large federal departments to small start up companies, even including a start-up federal department.
His experience ranges from business development through project and operations management. Bryan’s biggest passion is helping individuals and organizations maximize their potential based on their current staff and resources, and developing strategic plans to help achieve short and long term goals. His vision is to see organizations create a thriving culture as they reach great success.
Joshua Scott Chang - Principal and Chairman
Joshua is a social entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in international business. He has the staying power and resiliency to translate inspired visions into practical reality, for individuals and businesses, all over the globe. He leads the Trilogy Advisory board with a concentration on strategic development, investing and building alliances. He is a seasoned investor and co-founder of multiple startups, as well as having held numerous seats on boards in the nonprofit sector. A graduate of University of Wisconsin-Madison with majors in International Relations and Economics; he received a dual International MBA degree from Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is an accredited business coach and is multi-lingual. When not busy with the high-adrenaline world of international finance and startups, he relaxes with the slightly less intense pursuits of skiing, motorcycling, fencing and is a voracious reader. He resides in Northern California.
Todd McEfee - Architect/Consultant
Todd is a master of many disciplines and yet is always eager to help guide others in honing their own greatness. With 40 years of industry experience and 30 of those as a licensed architect he maintains his team spirit preferring to provide a solid foundation and indispensable support for the firm at large rather than grab the spotlight. Despite his reticence for credit, much is due to him for ensuring every project at Trilogy is executed with impeccability. His belief is that above all else, no matter how beautiful or innovative the ideas are, the plans must work.
Todd has been there from the very beginning—1990, and is a cornerstone of the firm. His insight and guidance is cherished and he drives everyone to produce structural and procedural excellence. He is the ultimate “closer” when it comes to perfecting project documentation, but his designs are equally as exceptional - a perfect blend of skills for the complex projects that are a staple of Trilogy. He resides in Northern California.
Sohui Rheem - Program Assistant
Sohui graduated from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor’s Degree in English and a Master's in Education and has taught in classrooms throughout the US as well as abroad.
Sohui has both a gift and passion to see things be as functional, efficient and effective as possible. This allows her to enter into an environment, assess the situation and not only quickly identify the issues, but also recommend solutions. Whether putting a piece of furniture in the right place, or organizing systems to work in harmony, Sohui is driven to bring order and ease to organizations and spaces. When she is not moving Trilogy programs forward, she is bringing the same vision to her home where her husband and children appreciate her passion for beauty and order. Her other passions span from media and entertainment to music to health and wellness. Sohui also loves spending time with her husband and three children and is a new dog mom.
Josh Cuthbertson - Architect/Consultant
In true futurist fashion, Josh has always been focused on building legacy. In an age when so much of architecture is disposable, he has a passion to innovate how we live, work and engage with environments – to improve their utility, ensuring his buildings stand the test of time. It was something that was instilled in him by his grandfather; a builder in his own right. This sense of familial legacy gives him a “7th generation mindset”; that what we make should be done with care for at least the next seven generations.
His rigorous pursuit of this aim has driven him to constantly refine his design and construction approaches and process. He’s helped Trilogy remove much of the barriers that maintained the siloed approaches to building, of the past. His approach is to further incorporate design and build more seamlessly, so that clients can enjoy a streamlined process, from inception to completion. Part of his secret is that he creates client and vendor support with the latest technologies, such as renderings that can be experienced in real time through virtual reality and smartphone connectivity. Josh has been with Trilogy since 2008 and is Principal Architect . He holds a Bachelor’s in Environmental Design and a Masters of Architecture from Montana State University and sits on the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Interfaith Design Committee. He resides in Northern California.