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Alton Parks currently heads Chrysalis Projects, a consulting firm to non-profit research and higher education institutions for which he serves as project representative and advisor to clients such as James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, National Fund for the US Botanic Garden, St. Paul's School, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute at institutions such as Rice University, Yale University, Rockefeller University, Children's Hospital Boston, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University, Mass General Hospital, MIT, UCLA, and UCSD. Currently Mr. Parks is serving as owner's representative for a new $36,000,000 Experimental Sciences Building at Texas Tech University. The total value of these projects exceeds $300,000,000. A licensed architect for thirty years, Mr. Parks practiced architecture and urban design in Houston prior to making the transition to representing non-profit owners and donors. Concurrently with professional practice, Mr. Parks was a member of the architecture faculty at Rice University for eight years.