Tim is President/CEO of Aho Architects, LLC, a 10-person firm located in Hoover, Alabama.  Since 2007, the relationship-oriented firm has served clients in 19 states and designed places for education, worship, public service, affordable housing, and commerce throughout the Southeast. 

Tim earned Bachelor of Environmental Design and Master of Architecture degrees from Miami University (Ohio) where he later served as an Adjunct Associate Professor while in fulltime practice.  In addition to serving on various community and civic Boards, Tim is the President-Elect of AIA Birmingham and is the State Disaster Coordinator for the Alabama Council of the AIA.  He also served two years as Co-Chair of AIA’s National Disaster Assistance Committee (DAC).

Having deployed-in or led AIA Alabama’s disaster response efforts since the devastating Tuscaloosa tornado of 2011, Tim has a passion for disaster assistance.  He believes disasters have a way of bringing out the best of people as they rally to help one another and demonstrate the ideals of service, sacrifice, and support.  Serving alongside like-minded volunteers and survivors is incredibly energizing for Tim as we use our gifts and talents as architects to help recovery and resiliency.

Tim has presented on the topics of disaster response, resilience, lessons-learned, and public policy at public administration conferences and holds various disaster response credentials from FEMA, CalOES, ATC, etc. and is an EMC for the Infrastructure Branch of the Alabama Emergency Management Agency.  He is an instructor in both the Cal OES and AIA’s Safety Assessment Program (SAP) as well as an SAP Coordinator and Evaluator.  Tim also has FEMA NIMS Resource Type qualifications as a Post-Disaster Building Safety Evaluation Strike Team Leader (10-509-1447), Technical Supervisor (10-509-1445), Complex Architectural Systems Evaluator (10-509-1448), and Building Safety Evaluator (10-509-1446).