Mr. Yarabek holds a Bachelor's in Landscape Architecture from the University of Oregon. There he led a professional design team to create a Sustainable Master Plan for Portland's Washington Park Zoo.

Upon graduation, Mr. Yarabek became a design associate at Miceli Kulik Associates (Rutherford, New Jersey). His most important project was the design of the White Plains, New York Promenade. He established an urban design vocabulary uniting various street elements and introduced raised shrubs and flowerbeds and a complete shade tree program. While at Miceli Kulik, he also completed the Master Site and Landscape Plan for Hewlett-Packard Regional Headquarters (Rockaway, New Jersey) and designs for numerous NYC Playground Parks.

As a project manager at David Simon and Associates (Los Angeles, California), Mr. Yarabek managed the landscape design of Country Park Villas and Philips Ranch in Pomona. He also introduced the concept of a shopping center park with the design of Stonegate Commercial, a seven-acre development built around a park preserve of ancient California Oak Trees in Simi Valley. Due to a reorganization of that office, Bryan Spangle and Stefan Yarabek created Hudson & Pacific Alliance which focused on high-end residential, innovative urban designs, and small-scale commercial account gardens. In 1984, Mr. Yarabek returned to the Hudson River Valley the urgent request by the Village of Tarrytown to develop Landscape Protection Ordinances. After completing residential and municipal projects the company became Hudson & Pacific Designs.

In May 1990 the Czechoslovak Government awarded Mr. Yarabek with a prestigious membership as an architect in its agency for the preservation and reconstruction of historic objects in Prague (SURPMO). This honor was conveyed in recognition of Mr. Yarabek's contributions to Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning to the newly formed democracy.

Mr. Yarabek is a frequent lecturer on the landscape of the Hudson River Valley; he is co-founder of a program in Bioregional Development at Wainwright House in Rye, New York, the Hudson Valley Bioregional Conference, the Long Island Sound Task Force, the Hudson Valley Sustainable Development Forum and formerly chaired the board of Hudsonia, Ltd. He serves on the board of managers for Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area; the property council of the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-kill in Hyde Park, New York; The Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, and Friends of Czech Greenways. He has also served as a Bioregional educator and landscape architect artist-in-residence in Westchester schools on grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and has taught graduate level courses at the University of Oregon, Portland State University, Rutgers University, Columbia University, The Conway School and the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Education has been a passionate pursuit of Stefan’s since he worked as a cottage parent for The Children’s Village in Dobbs Ferry when he realized that healthy environments were essential for children to prosper. He has designed healthy sustainable campuses for corporations and most importantly school and childcare residential facilities.

Hudson & Pacific Designs provides landscape architectural services to its New York City clientele through Mr. & Mrs. Yarabek’s store BLOOM at 255 Murray Street; New York, New York. Bloom is a premier floral and lifestyle establishment.