Résumé

Military service, World War II.

Military service, Korean War. Hobbs was awarded a Silver Star, a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart for service in both wars.

Draftsman / Architect, G.W. Galloway Company, Arcadia, CA, unknown dates between 1956 and 1964. For Galloway, he produced architectural drawings for a missile-testing facility.

Project and Resident Architect, Northrop Aircraft Corporation, Hawthorne, CA, likely after 1957. He worked on the design of an environmental test building for Northrop.

Architect, Burge-Roach Architects, Montebello, CA, unknown dates between 1956 and 1964. Hobbs "managed multiple-contract projects, five years." (See Hobbs résumé contained in court case: Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles, Central Capital Development, Plaintiff Vs. Vinnell-Pauley, etc., et al., Defendants, Case No. C 444869, 07/10/1987, p. 32.)

Partner, Hobbs-Gougeon, Architects, Pasadena, CA, unknown dates between 1956 and 1964. This firm focused on the design of convalescent hospitals.

Project Architect, C.F. Braun and Company, Alhambra, CA, 1967-1969.

National Architectural and Construction Director, International Industries, Beverly Hills, CA, 1969-1971.

Principal Architect, Marion J. Varner and Associates, Pasadena, CA, 1972-1979.

Vice President / Executive Vice President, RTA Architecture Planning Interiors, Pasadena, CA, 1979-1982.

Senior Architect, O'Leary, Terasawa, Takahashi and De Chellis, Architects, Los Angeles, CA, 1982- .

Teaching

Lecturer, "Shop Drawings--The Architects's Responsibility," California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona), Pomona, CA, 11/29/1984 and 03/05/1985.

Lecturer, "Shop Drawings--The Architects's Responsibility," Woodbury University, Los Angeles, CA, 02/07/1985.

Member, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona), School of Environmental Design Advocacy Council, Pomona, CA.

Professional Activities

Registered Architect in the State of CA, 1957- c. 1985.

Corporate member, American Institute of Architects (AIA), Pasadena / Foothill Chapter, 1959-c. 1985.

Corresponding member, AIA, National, Codes and Standards Committee.

Regular and corresponding member, AIA, National, Architecture for Justice Committee.

President, AIA, Pasadena / Foothill Chapter, 1977.

Co-author, Seismic Design for Police and Fire Stations, (Washington, DC: American Institute of Architects Research Foundation, 1978), financed in part by a National Science Foundation grant.

Director, AIA, California Council (AIACC), 1978-1979.

Member, Construction Specifications Institute (CSI), 1974-

Certified Construction Specifier of the CSI, 1981- .

Vice President, Professional, CSI, Los Angeles Chapter, 1983-1984.

Speaker, "Shop Drawings--The Architects's Responsibility," AIA, Los Angeles Chapter, Professional Practice Sub-Committee, 10/25/1984.

Member, American Arbitration Association, National Panel of Arbitrators, 1983-c. 1985.

Between 1983 and 1985, Hobbs had been a legal consultant for over 30 construction industry abritrations and litigations.

Member, Ad Hoc Study Committee for the New Fourteenth Edition of General Condition of the Contract, AIA Document A-201, AIA, Los Angeles Chapter, 1984.

College

Coursework, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

B.A., University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Berkeley, CA, 1951.