Left to Right: Ky, Lisa, Elsa, Brian, Ramsey, and Steve
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Ky Koitzsch, has had over 20 years of timber framing experience, both
owning Alces Post & Beam, and apprenticing with other timber framers.
He originally came to the Mad River Valley to coach alpine skiing
and teach math and science at the Green Mountain Valley School.
He attended the University of Vermont where he received a B.S. in
Biology and an M.S. in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology. His graduate
work focused on moose habitat and ecology in Vermont. His primary
interest in wildlife is predator/prey interactions and he has worked
in Yellowstone National Park and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
studying gray wolves and their prey. In his free time, he
enjoys Nordic and backcountry skiing, cycling, deer hunting, backpacking,
and tracking & photographing wildlife. Ky lives in Fayston with
his wife, Lisa, and their dog Elsa. |
Brian Mack, a native Vermonter who was raised
in Sharon, came to Alces Post and Beam in 2002 with a formal education
in Civil Engineering and a Professional Engineer license. He graduated
from the University of Vermont, where he and Ky were college friends.
Brian worked for engineering firms in Albany, NY, and Burlington,
VT, before coming to work in Waitsfield. He now resides in an
Alces Post and Beam home in Northfield. In the winter, Brian likes to ride
the large network of VAST snowmobile trails. He also likes to hunt and spend time with friends. |
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Ramsey Orr joined the Alces crew in the summer of 2010 after working for himself as a carpenter in the Mad River Valley. He is a native Vermonter and lives in Fayston with his wife Lauren, and their two-year-old daughter Elladaye. Spending time with his family and enjoying all that the Vermont outdoors has to offer is a huge part of life for Ramsey. He spends time in the winter hunting, racing snowmobiles, snowshoeing, and downhill skiing with his friends and family. |
| Brian Joslin is a graduate of the University of
Vermont in Biological Sciences and an 8th generation Waitsfield resident.
A talented guitar player and master gardener, he has traveled extensively
throughout the U.S. and in Australia, New Zealand, S. America and
the Caribbean. Brian is an avid photographer and is interested in
wildlife, sustainable agriculture and alternative energy sources.
He enjoys downhill skiing, hiking, mountain biking and scuba diving. He and his wife Tracy, an accomplished marathoner, live in Warren. |
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Steve Robinson, a native of Brattleboro, Vermont is the newest member of the Alces team. He graduated from Paul Smith's College with a Forest Technician Degree and worked as a lumber inspector for 12 years. He is a graduate of the National Hardwood Lumber Association and has been in the lumber industry for over 15 years. Steve's passion has always been working with wood, especially furniture making. He loves the outdoors, sports, skiing, mountain biking and hunting. He currently lives in Waterbury Center. |
| Thomas Littlehales has been designing custom homes
for over 20 years and has been working with Alces Post &
Beam from its inception. Tom came to Vermont in the early 80's in
pursuit of winter sports and spent several years at a major ski resort
in central Vermont serving in many capacities from teaching skiing
to area operations. He went on to work in the civil engineering
field and started designing timber frames homes for a local timber
framer. From there, in pursuit of his desire to get back to his love
of architecture, Tom took on a design position at a central Vermont
architectural firm, working there for a decade before starting his
own design firm. Tom
first started designing at age 5, and in retrospect has been designing
since that time. When Tom is not "at work" he can be found
in the back woods of his home in Rochester, Vermont, skiing, biking,
hiking and generally enjoying the great outdoors with his wife Jennifer,
sons Erik and Jeremy and the family dog, Luke. |
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Lisa Osborn Koitzsch was raised in Switzerland
and moved to Norwich, Vermont when she was 12. She received a B.A. from Johns
Hopkins University where she studied International Relations and French.
She has worked on several bird research projects in the U.S. and Central
America, and spent a number of years working on wildlife conservation
issues for Defenders of Wildlife. She is an avid bird watcher, gardener
and reader and enjoys her time outdoors running, hiking, biking, skiing
and adventure racing. She manages the Alces Post & Beam
office and spends time each year working as a biologist for
the Yellowstone Wolf Project. She is also a Justice of the Peace in the town of Fayston, where she lives with Ky and Elsa. |
| Elsa Osborn-Koitzsch, an eleven-year-old ridgeless
Rhodesian Ridgeback, is the official greeter when visitors come to
the Alces Post & Beam office. She loves to hike, eat,
ski at Blueberry Lake, chase chipmunks, look for moose antlers, burrow
under warm blankets and sleep in late. She is frightened of fly swatters,
air compressors, thunder, and Christmas stockings.
Elsa is a very sweet, quiet, gentle and loyal old girl. |
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Our Team