Home Designers

Exceptional talent is often the melding of innate gifts, seasoned by experience, tempered by challenges, and bolstered by a spirit of innovation. These attributes characterize Todd Hallett’s professional journey which began at a drafting table when he was just 19 under the tutelage of renowned architect Ron Mayotte of Mayotte and Associates. At Mayotte, Todd’s skills and work ethic were rewarded when at age 22 he became the only person in the history of this prestigious firm, except Ron Mayotte, to take on design duties. The quest to more fully understand day-to-day residential homebuilding operations, with the end goal of integrating that vital knowledge into his future architectural designs, provided the impetus in 1996 for Todd to become a member of the team at Delcor Homes in Milford, Michigan. Todd’s construction solutions contributed to the company becoming, in 1999, the first homebuilder in the nation to achieve ISO 9000 certification.

Eric has worked as a construction site laborer, a finish carpenter, a construction materials estimator, an architectural draftsperson, an architectural designer, and co-owner of a residential remodeling and new construction company. “When it comes to home building, I have dug the trenches, installed the shingles, and done everything in between,” says Eric. With each successive position, over more than 30 years in the residential home design and building industry, Eric has expanded his knowledge of every facet of home construction. He has worked previously as a CAD designer and manager with prominent firms such as Pulte Group, Dominick Tringali Architects and Lombardo & Associates Engineers. It is this mix of hands-on, practical, “in the trenches” experience, coupled with a unique talent for understanding and resolving challenges, which Eric brings to his position as Production Director with T.K. Design & Associates.

Bill Frush was hired as an architectural designer with TK Design & Associates in 2013. When Bill joined TK Design & Associates, Todd and Katie Hallett knew what a valuable asset they had added to their design team. Bill’s talents were well known to the couple, as Todd had hired Bill to work with him in the Design Department of Delcor Homes in 1999, and had served as his mentor and supervisor for the next 4 years.

Bill has spent his whole career in architectural design. At the age of 19, he joined an architectural firm in Canton, Michigan. For the next five years, while working full time, Bill attended Lawrence Technological University. After graduating with a Bachelor of Architecture, Bill joined Todd and the Delcor Homes design team.

Most people don’t like complexity. It confuses them and causes them anxiety. Annette Gleason is unique. She thrives on it. She loves the challenge of taking the chaos and organizing it into a cohesive, workable whole. That’s what has made her a superstar residential designer and an expert at construction project management.

Annette has the knowledge to complement her skills, holding a Master of Architecture, with a concentration in Construction Project Management, from Lawrence Technical University. She also earned her Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Lawrence Tech.

Angela Nuveman began her architectural career almost 20 years ago, working as a draftsman with the Spicer Group in Saginaw, Michigan. In those early years, she designed residential home projects as well as commercial and recreational spaces. She did so while simultaneously attending Lawrence Technological University, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture in 2001.

She left Spicer Group after six years to join Delcor Homes as an architectural designer working under the leadership of Todd Hallett. At Delcor, Angela designed and drafted construction documents and executed custom design requests for residential homes. She was also responsible for maintaining documentation for maintaining ISO certification, a hallmark of quality that Delcor Homes was one of the few production residential home builders to achieve.

Payal Swarnkar seamlessly combines two passions, a love of architecture with a love for new technology, adding additional skills and depth of knowledge to the TK Design team.

Payal graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from the National Institute of Technology in Raipur, India, in 2002, and subsequently began working as a project architect for A-Tecture, an India-based company which provided construction documentation for multiple residential construction projects in the United States. After five years with the company, Payal took a position as senior project architect for Vividh Designs in Noida, India. There Payal was the lead designer for buildings and interiors and enhanced her knowledge of green building concepts by working on Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification projects for companies such as L’Oreal.

It takes a team of people, each using their innate talents, to create success. Julie Drury’s talent is in managing a host of activities simultaneously in support of the staff at TK Design. It is a job that she has mastered admirably since joining the firm in 2013.

Her position title might be more appropriately called Chief Administrative Problem-Solver. From fixing a jammed printer, to locating a missing document, to getting a priority mail package out the door on time, Julie works behind the scenes to keep office operations at TK Design running smoothly. Whether the task is big or small, Julie tackles it with efficiency and gets the job done. Her dedication, enthusiasm and energy for her work translate into not only superior staff support, but also great customer service.