Architect Looking to Transition to Development - Any ADVISE?

[Aaron Vanderpool]

Greeting BP Network,

Long time listener first time (writer), but I have a life-transition question that I thought I would throw out to the community for advise. I am a licensed architect who's spent the last 10-years doing the traditional architecture thing. But in the last 4 years or so, I've been bitten by the real estate bug. Now, I've spent those four years consuming hundreds of hours of podcasts, youtube videos, I've read BRRRR/Multi-Family Millionaire etc, but I want to build on my knowledge by leveraging my skills as an architect to get a foot in the door at a developer.

What I don't know is how to sell that skillset "swap". How to sell the value I can bring to a developer in pre-construction, deal analysis (zoning, building codes, etc) and construction management on company projects in order to learn more about the $$ side of the equation for a commercial developer. 

Currently I live in Portland OR but I am planning to move back to my hometown of Kansas City in the next six-months, and aside from cold-emailing top developers in KC, any advise on this proposition? I appreciate the wealth of knowledge, and if you've read this far THANK YOU!