Over more than 21 years of practice, Cade has amassed experience in design, project management, construction management, and construction. He is one of the founding and managing principals of DUST, an Architectural Firm established in Tucson, Arizona, in 2007 with business partner Jesus Edmundo Robles Jr. The firm's work embodies a heightened sensitivity to place and the environment through site-specific design responses, sustainable materiality, good craft, and resilient principles. The work contributes to the discourse and pursuit of elevating the human condition through sensory experiences of spaces and the relationships between architecture and the natural environment.

Cade has served on several national design juries, is a current U.S. GSA National Registry of Peer Professionals member and will act as one of the studio's TTU HCOA H. Deane Pierce Visiting Professors during the fall 2023 semester. He has also taught previous design studios at the University of Arizona, Texas Tech University, and a material fabrication course at the University of Arizona.

Mr. Neal has also lived and worked in Australia and China. While there, he served as design director of multi-national firms and co-director of a design/research studio based in Suzhou, working on projects ranging from the colossal to the tiny. In 2016, Mr. Neal returned to Texas Hill Country to concentrate on his personal studio and preoccupations, border collies, writing, and subversive practice.

Ron received a Master of Architecture from Yale University and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Cincinnati. Recent projects include The Kimpton Pittman Hotel, the Baylor Scott & White Health Administrative Center, Lubbock City Hall, CoverMyMeds headquarters, Singing Hills Recreation Center, and the Fair Park Master Plan Update.