Ed Shim is a principal at HLW and the managing director in the NYC office. Shim knew he wanted to go into Architecture when he was young. Having had the opportunity to take architecture class in High school strengthen his will to move into the field as an architect and study architecture at Carnegie Mellon University.

Soon after his educational career ended, Ed, came back to NYC in search for work. Fortunately, he was able to find work as soon as he came back. Years after working up his experience in architecture, he joined HLW around 2005 which then allowed him to become the director manager of the NY office.