Our Personnel

AIA, NCARB

Principal

Mr. Popovic’s work includes some of the world’s largest medical complexes, as well as highly successful corporate projects such as Mobil Oil’s Administrative Headquarters building in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, and the U.S. headquarters building for Banco Santander in New York City. His experience includes a wide variety of corporate headquarters projects for the securities and financial, investment banking, real estate, and airline industries. Mr. Popovic’s unique background enables him to bring fresh new design approaches that are responsive to his clients’ specific goals and objectives, respectful of the need for functional efficiency, and based upon an immediate knowledge of successful design solutions worldwide. 

In addition to leading RBSD’s design on projects such as the Banco Santander building, Mr. Popovic has led the design for corporate office projects in New York City for clients such as Baring Securities, Inc., Baring Brothers & Co., Inc., Concord International L.P., Highpoint Realty, and SEEDCO.  

Internationally, he directs the firm’s design on a variety of healthcare projects, which have included the Hospital of the Heart (Dar Al Fouad) project near Cairo with The Cleveland Clinic; the Madinat-Yanbu Al Sinaiyah Medical Center in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia; and the King Fahd Medical City in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In the U.S., Mr. Popovic is responsible for overseeing the design of the firm’s major healthcare projects, which have included the St. Charles Hospital & Rehabilitation Center Major Modernization Project in Port Jefferson, NY; the award-winning Sound Shore Medical Center Suren and Virginia Fesjian Pavilion for Ambulatory Surgery in New Rochelle, NY; and the Jersey City Medical Center New Replacement Hospital in Jersey City, NJ. In addition, Mr. Popovic has been responsible for the design of numerous high-end residential projects in the U.S. and abroad.

AIA

Senior Associate

Mr. O’Leary has over 40 years of experience in architectural design. He has worked on a variety of projects, including office space planning and design, educational facilities design, housing, medical facilities, and museums. His experience includes the design of new facilities, renovations, and historic preservation and restoration. He has particular expertise in developing construction details that support design decisions, code requirements, and resulting construction requirements for fire and life safety. As a project manager, he is responsible for coordinating the development of the design, orchestrating the contributions of a multi‑disciplinary team of professionals and sub-consultants, and meeting quality, budget, and schedule targets.

RA

Senior Associate

Mr. Rives has over 30 years’ experience in the architectural profession, including design, document production, and contract administration activities. His project experience includes multi‑unit housing complexes, office interiors, and healthcare projects. Part of his experience includes zoning and building code analyses for a number of projects, landmark preservation work in conjunction with historic building renovations, disciplines coordination during contract document preparation, construction administration, including field and shop drawing review, and construction conflict resolution.

AIA, NCARB

Senior Associate

With over 45 years of architectural experience, Mr. Fink enjoys the challenges of managing the development and execution of complex projects, from multi-phased renovations and expansions of occupied facilities to brand-new additions and replacement facilities. From the beginning years of his career up to the present, Mr. Fink has played an integral role in some of the largest new facility projects in the Northern New Jersey and New York Metropolitan region, including the two-and-a-half-million-square-foot AT&T corporate headquarters building in Basking Ridge, NJ, which was one of the largest corporate office complexes to be constructed in the U.S. at that time, as well as the recently completed $125-million New Medical Center and Ambulatory Care Center for Jersey City Medical Center. 

Mr. Fink has focused on healthcare facility design for more than half of his career, and he has proven his ability to successfully manage large, complex multi-building healthcare facility complexes through his work on the 13-building, $121-million Madinat-Yanbu Al Sinaiyah Medical Center in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, which was completed on time and within budget. Working with the program and construction management firm, Ralph Parsons Ltd. from Pasadena, CA, Mr. Fink remained on-site to provide advisory services throughout the construction period. His noteworthy healthcare projects in the U.S. have included the design of new patient towers for hospitals such as the St. Elizabeth Hospital in Elizabeth, NJ, and the Lower Bucks Hospital in Bristol, PA. 

Mr. Fink offers significant recent experience in the design of facilities for behavioral healthcare. He was responsible for the design and construction administration for the new Behavioral Health Building at Kings County Hospital Center, part of the major redevelopment, phase IV, at the hospital campus in Brooklyn, NY. The design philosophy and layout for this new building promote the process of helping patients become healthy enough to return to the community. His experience also includes the “basis for design” for the consolidation and replacement of Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in Morris County, NJ, which involves the restructuring of the entire facility to consolidate the 670-acre site into 250 acres to accommodate 400 beds. Other similar experience includes his work as Project Manager for the Psychiatric Crisis Center as part of the $25-million Consolidated Patient Services Project at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, one of the largest and most active emergency departments in the region.