Our People

Steve Engel, RLA
President/CEO/Managing Director

Steve Engel is the founder of Vista Design, Inc. and serves as its president, CEO and managing director. Mr. Engel is a Registered Landscape Architect (RLA) licensed in Maryland, and Virginia, with more than twenty years of design and project management experience. In addition, Mr. Engel is certified by the Maryland Dept. of Natural Resources as a Forest Conservationist, holds a "Green Card" for Sediment and Erosion Control issued by the Maryland Dept. of the Environment and is certified by the Delaware Dept. of Natural Resources & Environmental Control as a Construction Reviewer for Sediment and Stormwater Management. Professional affiliations include memberships in the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), as well as the Maryland and Pennsylvania/Delaware chapters of ASLA. Mr. Engel is a graduate of West Virginia University with a BS in Landscape Architecture.

Richard F. Polk, PE
Director of Engineering

Richard Polk, PE, a Professional Engineer registered in Virginia, Delaware, and Maryland, is Vista Design's Director of Engineering. With over 20 years of management experience in land planning, engineering design, project management and real estate development, Mr. Polk has established an extensive track record of achievement while serving in senior management positions with some of the region's preeminent engineering and development companies, including Dewberry & Davis, Caldera Properties, Davis, Bowen & Friedel, Inc., and Carl M. Freeman Communities, Inc. Mr. Polk has also served as a consulting Town Engineer for several jurisdictions in Delaware. His diverse design and project management experience was gained through the successful management of a diverse mixture of commercial, municipal, residential, and resort destination developments throughout Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, DC, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. Mr. Polk is a graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering.

Larry Mann, PLS
Director of Surveys

Larry Mann, Vista Design's Director of Surveys, is a licensed surveyor in Maryland and Delaware with over 25 years of surveying and project management experience. Mr. Mann's professional accomplishments include effective supervision of a large surveying division staffed by more than 100 people, in addition to heavy involvement in hydrographic surveys of Virginia Beach, VA and layout of the Washington, DC Metrorail system. Professional affiliations include memberships in the Maryland Society of Surveyors and Delaware Association of Surveyors. Mr. Mann holds degrees in Business from George Mason University and in Surveying from Old Dominion University. He has continued his education with specific courses of study in boundary law, GIS and GPS.

Michael Goldberg
Director of Marketing

Michael Goldberg, Vista Design's Director of Marketing, comes to us from the commercial real estate lending industry with more than 25 years of experience in interim, permanent and construction lending, real estate asset management, loan workout, loan administration, project management, property analysis and site inspection. Mr. Goldberg has served at the executive level in both regional and major national banks, as well as leading real estate asset management firms. Most recently, Mr. Goldberg was a consultant and close advisor to several prominent investment banks regarding due diligence for securitized commercial real estate transactions. Mr. Goldberg is a graduate of Richland College with a degree in Construction Management & Technology.

Brian Zollinger
Project Manager

Brian Zollinger joined Vista Design, Inc. immediately following his graduation from West Virginia University where he earned a BS in Landscape Architecture. With a total of eleven years of landscape architecture and project management experience, Mr. Zollinger diligently worked his way up through Vista Design’s ranks to his current position of Project Manager. While a student at WVU, Mr. Zollinger was awarded the bronze medal in the National Student Design Competition sponsored by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). He maintains his active membership in ASLA today.

Richard Blasey, EIT
Project Manager

Richard Blasey, EIT, joined Vista Design, Inc. immediately after receiving his BS in Civil Engineering from Tri-State University, from which he graduated with a 3.7 GPA, earned placement on the Dean’s List and was a member of the National Honor Society. Since joining Vista Design, Inc., Mr. Blasey has been involved in the engineering and design of multiple commercial, residential and public works projects in Maryland, Delaware and Virginia, which have included road, parking lot and trail design, sanitary sewer design, water distribution system design, stormwater management design, storm drainage design, erosion & sediment control design, site grading and state DOT-compliant highway entrances and stormwater retention ponds. In addition to his Engineer-in-Training (EIT) registration, Mr. Blasey is also registered in Maryland as Certified Responsible Personnel in Erosion & Stormwater Management Control, and holds a Delaware Sediment & Stormwater Management Certification.