Derek O’Hara joins Canopy Team with over 10 years of architecture, project management, and sports experience. With a unique work history across adaptive reuse, technical historic preservation, and baseball operations, Derek is a hands-on design and project manager across every dimension of a project. Derek first started working with Janet Marie Smith in 2017 and was the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Project Director on the centerfield renovation at Dodger Stadium from design through the finish of construction in 2020. Derek has worked on a wide range of projects through his career ranging from a LEED Platinum science museum to the redevelopment of a historic television studio lot.

As Managing Director for Canopy Team, Derek is responsible for leading an internal and external team to define, plan, and execute complex projects for clients. Though his days as a scout for the Los Angeles Dodgers are over, Derek still loves minor league and amateur baseball and exploring all scales of local sporting events around the world. Derek has a degree in Architecture from UC Berkeley with a minor in Sustainable Design. Derek lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.