After being laid off by general contractor W.E. O'Neil Construction in late 2008, Allison Suriano went skiing-professionally. The 1987 University of Arizona College of Architecture graduate plotted her comeback from a resort in northern Arizona, where she took a job as a ski instructor during the early days of the Great Recession. Suriano, a licensed architect, had spent most of her career as an owner's representative for school districts in Arizona, working for O'Neil and PinnacleOne (now Arcadis) throughout the 1990s and 2000s. When faced with an abrupt career change, she decided to join up with friends (and former colleagues) John Kennedyrnand Mark Rafferty, who had launched the development consultancy Kennedy Partners in August 2008. Once there was enough work for all three of them, she joined full-time in January 2009. "I didn't take any pay for the first year," she notes. The Phoenix-based firm now has almost $100 million in projects in the pipeline.
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机译：被总承包商解雇后在2008年底的O'Neil施工中，艾莉森·苏里亚诺（Allison Suriano）专业滑雪。 1987年亚利桑那大学（University of Arizona）建筑学院的毕业生计划她从亚利桑那州北部的一家度假胜地复出，在大萧条初期，她在那里担任滑雪教练。 Suriano是一名持照建筑师，在职业生涯的大部分时间里都是亚利桑那州学区的业主代表，在1990年代和2000年代期间为O'Neil和PinnacleOne（现为Arcadis）工作。面对突然的职业转变时，她决定与朋友（和前同事）约翰·肯尼迪纳德和马克·拉弗蒂（John Kennedyrn）一起加入，后者于2008年8月成立了肯尼迪合伙公司。她指出：“我第一年没有薪水，”她在2009年1月全职工作。这家位于凤凰城的公司目前有将近1亿美元的项目正在进行中。
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