2006 speakers' bios What's New?

 

 

Chancellor Brady DeatonBrady J. Deaton - University of Missouri Chancellor
Chancellor Brady J. Deaton became the 21st chief executive officer of the University of Missouri-Columbia on October 4, 2004, bringing 15 years of service to MU and 33 years of experience in public higher education. Dr. Deaton holds leadership roles in many university, community and national organizations. He currently serves as chair of the Academic Affairs Council of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC), participates in advisory roles with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and maintains active membership in the American and International Agricultural Economics Associations. He has authored over 100 articles, presentations and book chapters in his career in addition to co-authoring three books.

 

Gregory J. Alevras - ARCHIBUS
Gregory J. Alevras joined ARCHIBUS, Inc. in 1991 as a Regional Sales Manager in the Sales division. Responsibilities include managing sales for United States and Canada, Client Relationships, and Business Development. Before joining Archibus, Greg spent 10 years as a Facility Manager for a Fortune 500 firm on the East Coast.

 

Tim AndersonTim Anderson - CFI
Tim Anderson is Vice President, Computerized Facility Integration for Higher Education and Healthcare Industries. Tim has more than 20 years’ experience helping clients implement solutions that deliver results. Mr. Anderson has spoken at many industry events including, APPA, SCUP, NACUBO, CORENET, and Tradeline.

 

Kate BallKate Ball - Saint Louis University
Kate Ball has 20 years' experience designing technology solutions that streamline business processes. With a focus on not-for-profit organizations and higher education settings, she has managed projects of many shapes and sizes, including quality assurance training and certification programs, database designs, simple website creation, technology infrastructure installations and server deployments, and user support for all types of desktop applications. Ms. Ball is the Space Utilization Coordinator at Saint Louis University and charged with fulfilling the Facilities Management and Civic Affairs divisional goal of an enterprise-level CAFM system. Ms. Ball is a Mizzou alumna.
Saint Louis University is a Jesuit Catholic university ranked among the top research institutions in the nation. The university fosters the intellectual and character development of 11,800 students on campuses in St. Louis and Madrid, Spain. Founded in 1818, it is the oldest university west of the Mississippi and the second oldest Jesuit university in the United States. Through teaching, research, health care, and community service, Saint Louis University is the place where knowledge touches lives.

 

Kirk BanksKirk Banks - University of Iowa
Kirk Banks is the Space Information Manager at the University of Iowa (Iowa City), where he is responsible for the management of the campus’ master space records, including collecting, organizing, and interpreting space information and integrating space data with the university’s GIS system and electronic floorplans. Before joining the Campus and Facilities Planning Department, he served in a similar capacity at the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics where he implemented and managed the web-based facilities management information system that includes the space inventory, electronic floor plans, and engineered and life safety system plans. He has also performed duties of a similar nature in position at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of Virginia Health System during the past 16 years.

 

David BarnasDavid Barnas - University of Buffalo
David is the Physical Space Administrator, Facilities Planning & Design, University at Buffalo. He has been with the University at Buffalo for 6+ years managing the space inventory system. He has a Masters degree in Geography and has developed database and programming skills over the course of his career, which includes SQL and VBA for Access. During that time, he has implemented two CAD-linked database systems. The current system tracks 35,000+ space records and is linked to nearly 800 AutoCAD floor plans. As a data custodian, David manages the collection of space data via a biannual space inventory update through an on-line web survey application, verifies data accuracy, field verifies changes in room geometry because of renovations, organizes and analyzes data for space planning efforts, and provides standard and ad hoc reports for local, state, and federal reporting needs.

 

Brian BrinkmannBrian Brinkmann, University of Missouri - Columbia
Brian is the Support Systems Administrator for the Office of Space Planning and Management (SPAM) at the University of Missouri - Columbia. He maintains the applications and data that drive the Space Management, GIS, and Document Management systems that SPAM uses. He also supervises the GIS and Archive functions of the office.

 

Kreon CyrosKreon L. Cyros, President & CEO - INSITE
Kreon Cyros is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received the degrees of Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering in 1956 and a Master of Science in 1962 concentrated in the Sloan School of Management. From 1966 to 1970, he pioneered the development of computer-aided facilities management software by designing and implementing the INSITE™ asset management information system for MIT. In 1973, he was asked to establish the MIT-sponsored Consortium for sharing both the INSITE™ technology and the expertise for its effective use. Consortium members represent academic, health care, and government institutions from North America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim.
In 1976, Mr. Cyros was appointed Director of the newly founded MIT Office of Facilities Management Systems (OFMS). His responsibilities included the use of the INSITE™ system to manage MIT’s 10 million gross square feet of space and to maximize MIT’s indirect cost recovery activities for the sponsored research use of its physical assets. OFMS was also tasked with the continued development of the INSITE™ suite of systems and support of the MIT-founded Consortium of INSITE™ users. In 1996, he was named President and CEO of a nonprofit Consortium doing business as INSITE, to further the dissemination and development of the INSITE™ system. The INSITE Consortium continues to be active under his direction, with headquarters in Peabody MA and a European office in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Cyros began teaching facilities management courses in 1973 for the MIT Summer Session Program, and in 1981 he established an MIT Summer Session course for senior facilities executives. From 1984 to 1996, he developed and managed an international facilities management conference at MIT, reflecting the Institute’s educational and global commitments.
Internationally acknowledged for his major contributions to the FM field, Mr. Cyros founded the International Society of Facilities Executives (ISFE) on behalf of MIT in 1989. ISFE, an organization fostering global exchanges of facilities management information and ideas among senior managers, remained active through 2004 with Mr. Cyros as Chairman. He has a long history as a keynote speaker at international events in North America, Europe, and Asia, sharing his perspective on the ever-changing world of facilities management.
Kreon Cyros has been active in a number of activities including MIT’s program “Facilities Management for the Japanese Professional” as co-director; founding director of Cambridge Facili-ties Technology, an international consulting firm; Standing Committee member of the Building Owners and Managers Institute (BOMI); and Advisory Council member of Michigan State University’s graduate program in facilities management. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of a Massachusetts cooperative bank with nearly $200 million in assets and is Chairman of their EDP and Audit committees. In 1991-1992, he was Subcommittee Chair of the Working Group for the building and area definitions in the 1992 Facilities Inventory and Classifications Manual (FICM) published by the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) in Washington DC. In 1995, he was appointed by NCES as National Chair of the Working Group to produce a new FICM for the U.S. Government. He was asked by the NCES Project Director to continue as their industry expert until the draft 2006 FICM editing process is completed.

 

Clyne CurtisClyne Curtis - Brigham Young University
Clyne Curtis is the CAD Manager for Brigham Young University in Provo UT. A CAD user since 1982, he has been using and training with Revit since Autodesk acquired the company several years ago. He is also the President of NURUG (Northern Utah Revit Users Group) and drives his family nuts as he is constantly mumbling, "I could do that in Revit!" under his breath whenever the family goes on an outing.

 

Mark DuewellMark Duewell - University of Missouri
Born into a military family in Wichita KS, Mark—a geographic information systems specialist—called many places “home” during his childhood. In July 1975, he embarked on his own career with the U.S. Air Force, serving in Virginia (computer operations), Florida (space surveillance), California (low altitude satellite and shuttle programs), and Hawaii (Intelligence Center Pacific, IPAC). He retired in Missouri from Whiteman’s B-2 program after a tour at Khamis Mushayt, Saudi Arabia, in support of a F-117 Stealth unit deployed for Desert Storm/Desert Shield.
His first exposure to GIS came in 1988 while assigned to a joint service command under the Commander-in-Chief (CINC), Pacific at Pearl Harbor HA. Maps of air defense systems and targets were required on a daily basis to brief aircrew and forces under CINC’s command. As an aside, Mark also participated in mapping the security force locations for the Seoul Olympics.
After military retirement, Mark joined what was then the Missouri Department of Health’s Bureau of Environmental Epidemiology. Initially he provided computer and networking support for the Childhood Lead Poisoning and Prevention Program, later providing in-house support to the Division of Environmental Health and Communicable Disease Prevention in which the Bureau was located. In 1997, at the request of the then Bureau Chief Daryl Roberts, Mark extended his GIS background by attending a series of trainings, including ArcInfo training at Redlands CA. Mr. Robert’s intent was build GIS analysis and mapping capability within the bureau and eventually within the division and department as a whole. As requests for services increased, Mark began the expansion of the Technical Services unit that eventually numbered nine staff members who provided GIS services to most of the department. These services included conducting geospatial exercises in support of emergency response, mapping disease, superfund sites, health services, and assisting in risk analysis studies. In his initial years with the department, he also provided GIS training classes in-house as a means of increasing GIS usage in the department.
In 2003, Mark accepted a position with the Missouri Spatial Data Information Service (MSDIS) within the University of Missouri’s Geographic Resource Center (GRC), Department of Geography. As MSDIS Program Manager, Mark coordinates the program’s activities with the GRC’s other activities. He can draw on the assistance of a small but highly competent staff whose contributions include server administration, web services, and database design and management. He is constantly looking to make improvements to the state geospatial data clearinghouse and services that MSDIS provides to its customers. Additionally, as a co-pi, he is responsible for writing and coordination of the FGDC/USGS MO Cooperative Agreement Program (MOCAP 2004) and (MOCAP 2005), providing geospatial training and help desk services to Missouri local governments, contributing data layers to the USGS national map. He also “ramped up” and coordinates the Geospatial Training Center, utilizing existing university facilities and a regional remote classroom to provide Missouri GIS training locations. Mark focuses much of his time on MSDIS, local government initiatives, and education and outreach activities.
As part of this effort and as a CAP grant deliverable, Mark became an ESRI Authorized Trainer of ESRI’s “Intro to ArcGIS I” in December 2004 and Introduction to ArcGIS II in December 2005. Since becoming “authorized,” Mark has conducted numerous classes for the GTC, the Missouri Associated Councils of Government, and the Heartland HAZUS Users Group (HHUG) with class sizes varying up to 20 students.

 

Ira FinkIra Fink - Ira Fink and Associates, Inc.
Ira Fink, Ph.D., FAIA, is President of Ira Fink and Associates, Inc., University Planning Consultants, Berkeley. Dr. Fink is a licensed architect in five states and a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects. He has been continuously involved in higher education since 1964. Dr. Fink has both a Master’s and a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley.
Before starting Ira Fink and Associates, Dr. Fink spent 14 years with the Office of the President of the then nine-campus University of California System, including 11 years as one of two senior planning officers of the University. In 1978, he started a national consulting firm that provides services to colleges and universities seeking innovative ways to determine the need for and the best use of their lands and their facilities.
Dr. Fink is a prolific author, with more than 40 books and articles on higher education facilities. His newest book, "University Space Analysis, Management and Planning" will be published by SCUP and APPA in 2006.

 

Bruce Kenneth ForbesBruce Kenneth Forbes, IFMA - Archibus
Mr. Forbes is the Chairman, President/CEO, and founder of ARCHIBUS, Inc., the developer of ARCHIBUS/FM, the #1 FM Automation and Infrastructure Management solution in the world. With 3,000,000+ users, the annual expenditure for ARCHIBUS/FM related products and services exceeds $1 billion.
Mr. Forbes is also the Chairman, President/CEO, and founder of Facilities Management Techniques, Inc., the world’s leading provider of integration and implementation services for FM Automation, Infrastructure Management, Enterprise Resource Planning Systems, TIFM, RE/FM and e-FM™ solutions.
Mr. Forbes is also the Chairman, President/CEO, and founder of ARCHIBUS Solution Centers International, Ltd., the #1 support and services network for CAFM, CIFM™, VIM™, and FM Cyberspace™ and TIFM™ in the world.
Mr. Forbes has made investments in, serves as a Director, and/or is a shareholder of more than 60 companies.
He has been involved with a wide variety of business activities, including business divestitures; mergers and acquisitions; corporate and institutional management turn-around activities; technological development, deployment and support; marketing and sales; and corporate communications. He has also been involved with FM Best-Practices and FM Benchmarking; Facilities TCO Frameworks™ development, financial and managerial audits and reviews; strategic planning, human resources; and rapid growth management.
Mr. Forbes was the first person in the world to simultaneously receive both a Bachelor of Architecture degree (first professional degree) and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer and Information Science. He also received a Master of Science degree in Computer Graphics/Computer Science from Cornell University and a Master of Architecture degree (second professional degree) from Harvard University. He has recently completed an Executive Management Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management.
As a pioneer in the development of automation tools and methodologies for architects and facilities managers, Mr. Forbes has received numerous national and international awards. In 1976, Mr. Forbes conducted the world’s first Survey for Computer Applications in Architecture. The American Institute of Architects first published results of this work. Mr. Forbes identified and created the world’s first integrated CAFM system; the world’s first artificial intelligence based expert system for facilities management (AIBES/FM™), the world’s first CIFM Enterprise Solution™; the world’s first FM Cyberspace Universe™, the world’s first TIFM™ solution, and the world’s first e-FM™ solution. Mr. Forbes and his companies hold hundreds of patents, trademarks, and copyrights. Some of these include ARCHIBUS™, ARCHIBUS/FM™, FM Knowledge Worker™, CIFM™, FM Cyberspace™, FM Best Practices™, FM Benchmarks™, e-FM™, e-Space™, FM Value™, and FM Cybrarian™. In a single year, Mr. Forbes has made presentations to more than 20,000 facilities and allied professionals from 70 countries. Mr. Forbes was a co-founder of the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI), which currently has more than 8,000 members worldwide. Mr. Forbes has also assisted in the forming and/or expansion of over a dozen IFMA Chapters around the world.
Previously, Mr. Forbes has been an Institute Scholar and a Communications Research Fellow for the American Institute of Architects, National Science Fellowship – Cornell University, Graham Foundation Fellow – Harvard University, National Endowments for the Arts – Entering Designer Fellow, Teaching Fellow at Cornell University, and Director of the Design Automation Project at Harvard University.
Mr. Forbes serves on the Board of Directors for numerous organizations and has recently served on the International Board of Directors of the International Facility Management Association. Mr. Forbes was recently involved with the creation of Park Street Kids™, a Christian Nursery School located in downtown Boston MA. He is currently the Chairman of the Park Street Church’s Millennium Missions Projects and Partnership Fund and involved with the creation of Park Street School – a Christian Elementary School located in downtown Boston MA.
Professionally, Mr. Forbes has been involved with FM automation technologies since 1976 and is considered to be one of the profession’s leading authorities. Mr. Forbes is the creator and co-author of ARCHIBUS/FM, the #1 AutoCAD-based FM automation solution in the world, which currently has more than 100,000 enterprise solution customers who manage more than one million buildings.

 

Ray FoxRay Fox - USGS NSDI Partnership
For four years, Ray Fox has been the USGS National Geospatial Data Liaison for Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma, with his office in Rolla MO. Ray has been a liaison for the past ten years, though, working with Wisconsin, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Kansas, and Kentucky. Ray has more than 30 years of experience as a cartographer with the USGS with a variety of assignments from map compilation and editing to research and development.

 

Scott FriendScott Friend - Michigan State University
Scott is the CAD Manager & Document Management Administrator for the Engineering and Architectural Services office of the Physical Plant at Michigan State University. He has been with Michigan State University for 5 years and is responsible for the coordination, development, and administration of the Document Management System. Currently the CAD operation has more than 100 seats of AutoCAD and keeps floor plans for 566 buildings totaling 22,223,172 sq.ft. Scott joined MSU following the 2000 NCCC conference. Before that, Scott worked for 7 years in the Information Technology Division at the University of Michigan as senior draftsman for the ITComm department Cad operation. He also attended Eastern Michigan University in the CAD/CAM Program and has been an AutoCAD user since 1989 and a Document Management Administrator since 2002.

 

Chris FulcherChristopher Fulcher - University of Missouri, Columbia
Christopher Fulcher is the Director of the Community Information Resource Center (CIRC), housed in the Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) at the University of Missouri - Columbia. Dr. Fulcher received his B.S. in Agricultural Engineering at Texas A&M University in 1984 and his M.S. in Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M in 1985. He completed his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics at the University of Missouri in 1996. Dr. Fulcher also serves as the Co-Director of the Center for Agricultural, Resource and Environmental Systems (CARES). He also serves as a Research Assistant Professor in the Harry S Truman School of Public Affairs and the Department of Agricultural Economics. Dr. Fulcher’s research focuses on integrating emerging computer technologies, including geographic information technologies, data visualization, and Internet accessibility that help communities, policy makers, and vulnerable populations (i.e., people with disabilities, rural residents, elderly, and minority populations) make more informed decisions regarding access, equity, and allocation of resources.

 

Scott GardnerM. Scott Gardner - Michigan State University
Scott Gardner is the Civil Engineer, Records/GIS/CADD Administrator, at Michigan State University, Physical Plant Division. He has a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Michigan Sate University, Professional Engineers License, and more than 19 years of experience in construction, management, and design. Scott has managed the Records/CADD/GIS Department (which includes Construction, Mapping, and Utility Records for the Campus, Surveying, Utility Staking, Department Technologies [CADD/GIS/DMS] and Software, Geotechnical Surveys, etc.) at Engineering and Architectural Services since 1990. He hosted the NCCC 2000 and is currently the Secretary of the NCCC Executive Board and Steering Committee Member.

 

Art GlickArt Glick - Texas Tech University
Arthur N. Glick has a diverse background. He earned a B.S. in Landscape Architecture at Michigan State University, then went to work as an open-space planning coordinator for a 3-county planning agency (Tri-County Regional Planning Commission) while supplementing his formal education with graduate studies in urban and regional planning.
In the summer of 1970, Art went to Texas Tech University (TTU), where he was tasked to lead the curriculum development for and the accreditation of a new program in Landscape Architecture. During this time, he participated in research for several state and federal agencies and worked for the Campus Landscape Architect, Elo J. Urbanovski.
Subsequent to the retirement of Professor Urbanovski, Art was asked to return to TTU as the full-time Campus Landscape Architect. He served as such for 16 years until he was conferred the title of Assistant to the Vice President for Operations and now serves in the capacity of Executive Associate to the Vice President. His accomplished background has shaped him as an excellent selection for this position, and because of his longstanding relationship with TTU, he has made a significant contribution to the beauty and functionality of the Campus.
Art is now involved in making TTU one of the leading institutions in using CAD and GIS technology for planning, design, construction, maintenance, and management of university campuses.

 

Carole GroveCarol Grove - University of Missouri, Columbia
Carol Grove has a doctorate in art history from the University of Missouri-Columbia, where she also teaches courses in landscape studies. She works to promote preservation of historic architecture and landscapes as an executive board member of the Missouri Alliance for Historic Preservation and as a board member of both the Missouri Parks Association and the Missouri Scenic Byways Program. She has been published in the Journal of New England Garden History Society and the Encyclopedia of Gardens: History and Design. Her latest publication is “Henry Shaw's Victorian Landscapes: the Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower Grove Park,” published by the University of Massachusetts Press in association with the Library of American Landscape History (2005).

 

Mike HakbazMike Hakbaz - Advanced Technologies Group
Mike is the President of Advanced Technologies Group.  For the past 19 years, Mike has been involved in developing policies, procedures, and methodology definitions related to computer-aided facility management. He has played a key role in developing FM solutions for more than 100 million square feet of facility space. He is a frequent speaker on integrated FM technology at national conventions, including the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP), International Conference on Facility Planning, Design and Construction, the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) Annual Conference and Technical Exhibition, and others. He has also authored or been featured in numerous articles on FM applications and innovations in such publications as Health Facilities Management and AutoCAD Magazine. Mike received his masters in Structural Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and is a member of APPA and ASHE.

 

Paul KappPaul Hardin Kapp - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Paul is the Campus Historic Preservation Manager and Historic Architect at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During his 4-year tenure, UNC has rehabilitated more than 25 historic buildings on the oldest public university campus in the nation. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University, and he received his Master of Science in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a lecturer in the Department of City and Regional Planning at UNC.

 

Deborah LottDeborah Lott - City University of New York
Deborah Lott is the Associate Director for Space Management at The City University of New York (CUNY). She is responsible for managing the University’s space inventory database of 26.2 million square feet and providing overall university reporting of space utilization. She manages the campus software and hardware upgrades, training, and procedures for the installation of Archibus FM at 20 campus locations.
Before joining CUNY, Deborah worked as a vice president for J.P. Morgan & Co. for 14 years. She was responsible for the design, implementation, and management of the enterprise-wide facilities management system based on Archibus FM. This included lease administration and strategic planning support, such as space allocation, intercompany chargebacks, and managing the CAD drafting groups.
Deborah’s prior positions were as a product support engineer for Computervision Corp., responsible for service programs of CAD/CAM systems. She also worked for General Dynamics as a supervisor of CAD Data Operations for 300+ CAD stations and for Cini-Little Associates as a Design Associate where she implemented and managed the CAD system. Deborah graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Design & Environmental Analysis.

 

James MooreJames Moore - JumpStart Wireless Corporation
Jim joined JumpStart Wireless in 2002. He is originally from Vicksburg MS and graduated from Mississippi State University and has an MBA from George Washington Univ. Before JumpStart Wireless, Jim held senior management positions with several software companies. He also worked for IBM and GTE in various senior management positions in sales and marketing. He currently lives in Boca Raton FL.

 

James NilesJames Niles - Virginia Commonwealth University
James is the University Space Manager at VCU.  He has created and designed a state-of-the-art intranet system, linked to a live database, that allows departmental heads and outside consultants to access floor plans and the room inventory database. With the implementation of a secured intranet (FMD-online), the customer response time has been reduced from an average of 4-8 hours turnaround to just several minutes.
Mr. Niles has also been instrumental in implementing a GIS system for the university that allows for needs analysis to be done on the exterior environment. This includes linking all of the university’s floor plans—more than 600 individual floor plans combined—to the space inventory database providing a graphical representation of the database. He has also implemented an electronic planroom (ePlan) for all of the as-built drawings that A/E consultants can access and download the needed drawings from their own office.
Before joining VCU, Mr. Niles was the co-owner of a software development company that provided customized CAFM systems for clients including universities, Fortune 100 companies, and nonprofit organizations. He also offered software training to personnel around the world at U.S. embassies. Mr. Niles is an active member in the Society of College and University Planning (SCUP).

 

Nancy NusbaumNancy Nusbaum - Texas State University, San Marcos
Nancy Nusbaum is the Assistant Vice President for Finance and Support Services Planning at Texas State University-San Marcos. She is a career Texas State employee, working her way up to Assistant Vice President with responsibility for space management, real estate, capital planning, campus maps, division strategic planning, and division assessment. Her contributions to the campus include the development and implementation of a 10-year, $400 million capital program that incorporated faculty, staff, student, and community input to produce a transformative set of projects. Nancy has worked in the offices of Institutional Research, Human Resources, and the Vice President for Finance and Support Services during her tenure at Texas State. She also served as Interim Director of Business Services, supervising Telecommunication Services, Transportation Services, Print Shop, and Mail Services. Nancy is a member of SCUP, NACUBO, and APPA. She is currently Communications Coordinator for the SCUP Southern Region and has presented at AIR, SCUP, NACUBO, NCCI, and AAHE. Presentation topics include Campus Master Planning, importance of accurate building/room inventories, classroom utilization, quality improvement, effective meetings, and strategic planning/institutional effectiveness. She also has served on different committees for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.

 

Katie PoindexterKatie Poindexter - Ayers/Saint/Gross Architects + Planners
Katie is an Urban Designer at Ayers/Saint/Gross Architects + Planners (ASG) in Washington DC. Since joining ASG in 1999, she has worked on planning projects around the world. Her experience includes schematic design charrettes, urban plan development, schematic building design, and architectural guidelines. As part of the ASG team, she has developed a process that efficiently produces high quality graphic images as required, to propel a master plan, and reliable calculations to confirm its feasibility. Her work for the Texas State University-San Marcos involved the development of a long-term planning framework that tested the responsible capacity of the 200 acres owned by Texas State. The Master Plan addresses academic needs, campus housing, parking and transportation, land use, and natural systems, giving both immediate and long-term solutions.

 

Jim PughJim Pugh - Evans, Mechwart, Hambleton & Tilton
Jim is a GIS Project Manager and a 20-year veteran of the digital mapping industry. At EMH&T, his unique combination of technical skills and professional experience is put to use for staff mentoring, project implementation, continuous improvement, and proof of process testing.
Jim started his professional career in the early 1980s as a PC Specialist at a small college just when computers were being introduced to the classroom. Since then, he has become extremely involved with digital mapping and facilities management using CAD, GIS, GPS, and remote sensing in the engineering, environmental, archaeology, utility, and government settings. In addition to project and quality management proficiency, he is most enthusiastic working with digital mapping needs assessments, process automation, staff training, and data development. Through the years, he has worked on large and small digital mapping projects that have taken him across the United States and to dozens of countries on five continents.
He has presented at several national and regional conferences, most recently the 2006 "GIS in Transportation" and 2005 "Ohio State GIS" Conferences and has been published in a national digital mapping trade journal and book. Jim is a Certified Geographic Information Systems Professional (GISP), conferred by the GIS Certification Institute.

 

Kevin RhodesKevin Rhodes - Woolpert
Kevin Rhodes, PE, is Manager of Woolpert, Inc.’s Energy Utilities Group. Rhodes has extensive experience in planning, design, and implementation of district energy utility systems largely serving college and university clients. Kevin served as Deputy Project Manager for The Ohio State University Infrastructure Master Plan. Rhodes can be reached at 513-272-8300.

 

Glenn SeehausenGlenn A. Seehausen, Chief Executive Officer, ACAD-Plus, Inc.
Glenn is the founder and CEO of ACAD-Plus, Inc., a firm specializing in Computer Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) and Electronic Data/Document Management (EDM) solutions since 1986. He has used AutoCAD since version 2.0 in 1984. Under his direction, ACAD-Plus developed CAD-based software solutions and managed implementations for customers totaling more than 400 million square feet of more than a decade, Glenn has designed and implemented document management solutions in the facilities environment with a specific focus on universities. His customers use this solution to store and manage millions of CAD drawings, scanned images, and related documents. He is a returning NCFMTC speaker, presenting at his first conference in 1999.

 

Scott Shader - University of Missouri, Columbia
Scott Shader is the Director of Space Planning and Management at MU, with more than 15 years of facilities/space planning and archive management experience in higher education. Scott is responsible for determining space needs at MU and is the Director of the MU Building and Infrastructure Archives, which is a collection of historic and current documents pertaining to all buildings at MU dating back to the mid 1800s.
Scott has been nationally recognized for his planning and archive management efforts in higher education. Scott has presented at numerous conferences during the last ten years and recently presented at the 2005 National Collegiate CAD Conference at Iowa State University, at the 2005 Tradeline New Management and Operations for Technically Complex Facilities Conference, and at the 2005 CAPPA Conference for Physical Plant Administrators.
Scott was awarded the 2005 Osmund Overby Award for Historic Preservation and has recently been selected to receive the 2006 Dean’s Distinguished Service Award for his planning efforts at MU. Scott has also recently been named the Director for the National Collegiate Facilities Management Technology Conference, which will be held on the University of Missouri – Columbia campus in August 2006.

 

Paul SherwoodPaul Sherwood - Facilities Design and Construction, The Ohio State University
Paul Sherwood is a Director of Projects at The Ohio State University. He has a B.S. in Architecture from The Ohio State University, a Masters in Engineering from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and more than 18 years of experience in design, management, and construction. Paul has been working with CAD and mapping software in the collegiate environment throughout his career, emphasizing data standards and data sharing across departmental boundaries. He is the co-founder of the National Collegiate FM Technology Conference, Inc. (National Collegiate CADD Conference, Inc.).

 

Katherine SlickKatherine Slick - State Historic Preservation Officer
Katherine Slick was appointed State Historic Preservation Officer by then newly elected Governor Bill Richardson in 2003 after 30 years of community involvement in historic preservation. Ms. Slick has been a part owner of an historic hotel, has consulted on for-profit and not-for-profit preservation projects, and has written numerous publications about preservation. She chaired several local preservation organization boards and was a founding member and chair of the board of the New Mexico Heritage Preservation Alliance. On the national level, she served as a citizen member of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, both as trustee and advisor to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

 

Kristina Seyer-SmithKristina Seyer Smith - Stanford University
Kristina is the Manager of Maps and Records at Stanford University. She is a graduate of UC Davis in Environmental Design and is in the process of completing her masters in Geography with an emphasis in GIS at San Jose State University.

 

Cole WoodcoxCole Woodcox - Truman State University
Cole teaches English, art history, and architectural history at Truman State in Kirksville MO.  As a board member for the Missouri Alliance for Historic Preservation, he chairs the committee that works with Most Endangered Historic Places in Missouri.

 

Royce YeaterRoyce A. Yeater AIA - National Trust for Historic Preservation
Royce, the Midwest Director, acquired a professional degree in Architecture from North Dakota State University in 1969 and a Masters in Architectural History from the University of Virginia in 1975. He practiced architecture with a regional firm specializing in educational facilities in the upper Midwest from 1975 to 1983 and then established his own firm, now known as YHR Partners in Moorhead MN. Over 18 years, he built a practice focused on community institutions, including extensive service for public and parochial school clients. For seven years through the 1990s he also taught Educational Facility Planning in the graduate program of Minnesota State University – Moorhead and conducted annual workshops on school planning for school board members about to enter facility planning processes.
In September 2001, he left his practice to head the Midwest office of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Chicago. There he focuses on building the capacity of state and local preservation organizations and develops strategies to confront new and emerging threats to historic resources in eight Midwestern states. Large among those are many historic schools throughout the region now facing demolition from large-scale school facility improvement programs that tend to assume old is bad and new is somehow perfect. Royce has the experience to know that is not the case.

 

Todd ZiegerTodd Zeiger - Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana
With a degree in historic preservation from Roger Williams University and a minor in business from Indiana University, Todd Zeiger has built upon his love of historic buildings with 18 years of historic preservation experience ranging from museum management to building restoration and relocation. In his twelfth year with Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana, he is currently the director of the Northern Regional office, providing a range of consultation and project development services to grass roots organizations, historic preservation commissions, and private building owners. His unique approaches to ownership, restoration, and re-use of historic buildings have resulted in the saving of hundreds of historic structures.

 

July 25, 2006