Background
Ethnicity:
Father is of Irish, Scottish, English, and German decent. Mother is of Welch decent.
Glen was born 1957 May 9 in Burley, Idaho, United States; a fourth generation Idahoan, and a descendent of working class British isle and German immigrants. Glen’s mother, Hazel Marlene Williams Berry (known as Marlene), was a gifted artist, and studied art education. Glen learned from his mother at an early age, how to draw, paint, and sculpt. These skills set the foundation for his career in Architecture.
Glen married Laura Ann Chillog in 1979. They have 4 married children and 4 grandchildren.
Education
At the age of 4, Glen moved with his family to Provo, Utah, where his mother, Marlene, studied and graduated in art and english education, and his father studied and graduated in accounting, both at Brigham Young University. When Glen was age 13, his father finished his college studies, and obtained employment in New York City with Ernst & Ernst. Glen, with his two younger brothers and parents moved in 1970 to Yorktown, New York. Glen attended middle school at Yorktown Middle School, and high school at Yorktown High School, graduating in 1975. His interest in art and design continued through high school. Glen was very active in the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts of America, and achieved the rank of Eagle Scout at age 13, before moving to New York.
Upon graduating from high school in 1975, Glen returned to Provo, Utah, to pursue his undergraduate studies. He studied art and design at BYU, mentored by design professor, Alex Darias; and art & architecture history professor, Mark Hamilton, Ph. D. After graduating from BYU he pursued his Master of Architecture degree at the University of Utah from 1984 to 1988.
Career
Upon graduating in 1988 from the University of Utah, with Master of Architecture degree, Glen obtained his first post education employment at Research Facilities Design (RFD), in San Diego, California. RFD is a laboratory design consulting firm which provides lab design consulting to architects worldwide. While attending architecture school at the University of Utah, Glen obtained his first architecture job for Fowler Ferguson Kingston Ruben (FFKR) Architects in Salt Lake City, in June of 1986. His first work assignment was to build a full scale lab mockup of a 600 square foot biomedical research lab for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Eccles Genetics Research Center at the University of Utah. The experience of working on a $25 million life science research center, while still in graduate school, was simply too valuable to pass up. Glen decided to delay his Master of Architecture program for one year, so that he could work full time on the HHMI/Eccles research center during 1986 and 1987. Glen was able to work full time on the Schematic Design, Design Development, and Construction Documents phases of the HHMI/Eccles building project.
Since 1988, Glen has worked as a Laboratory Design Architect for the three major lab design consulting firms in the US, namely, RFD in San Diego (1988-1990; 1993-1997); Jacobs Consultancy (formerly GPR Planners, 1997-1999) in Costa Mesa, CA; and HERA Lab Planners in St. Louis, MI (2018-2021). From 2000 to 2019 Glen was the sole proprietor of Design for Science, LLC, a laboratory design consulting firm that provided lab design consulting to architects worldwide.
In July of 2021 Glen started working for Gensler in the San Francisco studio. Gensler is the largest architecture firm in the world, with 50 offices worldwide, and over 7000 employees.
In February of 2022, Glen was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects, a distinction held by only 3 percent of all architects in the United States.
In August of 2025, Glen returned to independent lab design consulting, as sole proprietor of Design for Science II.
