Roger Grant, Vice President, Building Technology with the National Institute of Building Sciences, has focused on developing and delivering information products and services to support design, construction and management of the built environment for more than 30 years. As a member of AEC industry associations, Mr. Grant is extensively involved in technology and standards development nationally and internationally. He has been involved in many ALN events and sees the role Asset Management Governance has in guiding the use of Digital Twins and Building Information Models.

We welcome his discussion with Kimon Onuma, President of ALN Patron Member ONUMA, Inc., who is leading a delegation of ALN Member Organizations presenting at the NIBS Digital Twins 2024 Conference.

A panel featuring U.S. Federal Agency Asset Leaders will discuss their recent successes and upcoming initiatives. - Peter Dodgion, Asset Management Program Manager, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Civil Works - David Shelby, Agency Property Management Officer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Robin Blair, Agency Asset Manager, Bonneville Power Administration - Stacy Webster-Wharton, PE, Operations Performance Administrator, Bonneville Power Administration

Annemarie Kin, Strategic Asset Manager, Ennatuurlijk (Netherlands) Jack Dempsey, ALN Board Member Senior Director for Asset Management at Lindahl Reed, Inc. General Partner of his Asset Management Partnership

ALN Board of Directors Member and ALN Senior Fellow

Now that legislation is in place to provide funding for infrastructure improvement, what do federal, state and local leaders need to do to ensure investments are made for the holistic lifecycle of assets?

Speakers:

• Amelia Shachoy, Asst. Dir., Infrastructure, U.S. GAO;
• Peter Dodgion, Asset Management Program Manager, USACE, Civil Works;
• Lou Cripps, II, Senior Manager, Asset Management, Denver Regional Transit District;
• Ben Clark, Group Manager Assets and Infrastructure at Town of Walkerville, South Australia;
• Mildred Chua-Ulger, ALN Board of Directors Member, IAM Knowledge Leadership Group, Chair;
• Iain Cranston, Infrastructure Asset Management at icInfrastructure;
• Michael DeMers, Director, Public Sector, Grant Thornton;
• David Totman, VP of Asset Management, Innovyze; Member, US TAG to ISO TC-251/55000; ALN Senior Fellow;
• Michael Bordenaro, ALN Executive Director will facilitate

Moshe Nelson, Principal, Grant Thornton, Co-Publisher of the ALN National Asset Leadership Strategy and the Law Enforcement Sector Asset Leadership Strategy.

Mr. Nelson will be talking about trends that are shaping federal, state, and local government in general and federal law enforcement specifically on this week’s ALN Th@3 pm ET web discussion program.

Lindsay Ziegler, President, Andrew James Advisory Group

This special program with Lindsay Ziegler, President, Andrew James Advisory Group talking with a graduate of the ALN A55K Professional Certification course and A55K certificate holder.

Cecilia Mowatt, Esq., Owner, Strategies In Site, Inc.

Jim Dieter will be talking with her about a range of topics including equity in asset management.

We are starting our 2022 ALN Th@3 pm ET discussion program series with Dominic Townsend, President, ABS Quality Evaluation, and ALN Board of Directors member, who will be talking with Jim Dieter about ALN increased programming in 2022.  

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Speakers included: Lisa Cooley, Better Building with Data and Technology - Vice President, Federal Solutions at Gordian; Art Kurland, Director of Capital and Asset Management at University Health; Jim Dieter, ALN CEO; Jack Kelly ALN Senior Fellow; Nick Knoke, ALN Director of Technology;

Jesse Rothkopf, was with IBM for 10 years prior to his current position as Managing Principal at LCE. At IBM, Mr. Rothkopf headed the North American Public Sector sales team and was heavily involved in a solutions-oriented approach to federal, state, and local governments. At LCE, Mr. Rothkopf leads transportation and non-manufacturing sectors with an asset-intensive approach that leverages advanced technology solutions and ISO 55000 to provide dramatic benefits to owner organizations. He has a background in logistics and supply chain management and likes to be a volunteer crew member on the tall ship Spirit of South Carolina when he has time. He will be talking about his upcoming White Paper on Resiliency co-published with the Asset Leadership Network, and other topics.

Laverne Deckert, Lead Chameleon at her business imaChameleon, is a driving force in the Facilities Management world, with extensive international experience in standards development and professional certification. Working for IFMA (International Facilities Management Association) and as a consultant, she has led and supported numerous committees, work groups, and advisory groups of ISO TC 267 Facilities Management, including the development of the ISO 41001, the Management System Standard for Facilities Management. Laverne will be sharing thoughts on the standards development process, the intersections of ISO 41001 and ISO 55K, and perhaps the origin of her tag line “Passion: To bring value to every encounter.”

Mark West, ABS Group Senior Director of Reliability Services, first served 8 years in the U.S Navy involved in nuclear power plants and nuclear power training. Since then, he has served in a several key reliability and maintenance positions developing processes and controls for dramatically improving productivity and profitability. At ABS Group, he is the key author of two White Papers co-published with the Asset Leadership Network. Mr. West will be sharing his lessons learned from an extensive career in asset management and how the White Papers are intended to impact the Power and Water Treatment Industries.

Mary Adams founded Smarter Companies to focus on intangible capital management in a way to address what she calls the two mega-trends impacting all organizations – 1) Rise of knowledge economy and 2) the urgency of social and environmental sustainability. Ms. Adams has promoted multi-capital models to bring long-term thinking to the private company market. Ms. Adams is the co-author of “Intangible Capital: Putting Knowledge to Work in the 21st Century Organization” and has been published widely.  Ms. Adams advocates a multi-reporting approach to driving profits and performance, which makes her a perfect fit for the ALN, which wants to increase discussion and understanding about intangible asset management.

Mike Aimone immediately saw the value of ISO 55000 to the nation and began supporting the Asset Leadership Network with no hesitation. It is an honor that such a distinguished person decided to be involved with the ALN. Mike has served the U.S. Department of Defense as an officer, and as an executive at the highest levels. He is still actively involved in helping the U.S. by leading the creation of a National Academy of Sciences Federal Facility Council report that is due out soon.

Kris Goly has been involved in asset management for a few decades. He was actively involved in the creation of ISO 55000 and now has the influential role of Chair of the US Technical Advisory Group contributing to rewriting the series of standards. In 2014, Mr. Goly was quoted as saying, "...those that use ISO 9000 and other management standards and good practices will find it relatively easy to implement and become compliant with ISO 55000. It could take them just a few months, maybe six or 12 months, to be fully compliant." We will learn if he feels this is still true, what key changes to look for in the revised ISO 55000, and how involvement in the US TAG can benefit an organization.

Colonel (ret.) Ronald Bordenaro's extensive career includes more than 30 years of active and reserve service in the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Because of his reserve service, Col. Bordenaro also had a full career as an educator and 8 years as the Village of South Holland Building Code Enforcer. With Masters’ Degrees in both Education and Warfare, he has been a life-long advocate for innovative approaches to asset management long before ISO 55000 standardized best practices.

Jack Kelly, ALN Board of Directors Member and ALN Senior Fellow has been a great value to the ALN – and to any organization he is involved with. It is an honor to have Mr. Kelly’s insights and ability to connect dots between the many issues he is actively involved with after leaving the OMB after 36 years of continuous service. It is an even greater honor that Mr. Kelly credits the ALN with getting him involved in international standards writing. He is passionately focused on communicating a clear message about the benefits of a structured approach to asset management and he is an excellent extemporary speaker.

Shelly Culbertson is a Senior Policy Researcher for the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation, where her focus is on disaster recovery, post-conflict stabilization, innovation policy and more. She has published research on preparing for disaster recovery, which provides insight on how to plan for asset management in non-disaster times. Ms. Culbertson is the author of “The Fires of Spring: A Post-Arab Spring Journey Through the Turbulent New Middle East (St. Martins, 2016). She has contributed opinions and articles to U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, National Interest and others. One of her articles is linked in Sources below. She has a Master’s from the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and many more accomplishments and accolades.

Certified Professional Property Manager (CPPM)  

Author, instructor, speaker and content developer. Over 22 years of direct management experience in the aerospace industry as a Property Manager, Property Supervisor, Team Leader, Change Manager, Process Owner and Common ERP Project Team Leader for Fixed Asset and Government Property tracking systems. Six of the twenty two years were at the sector level and sixteen years were at the business unit level. Have led teams of subject matter experts as a Lean and Six Sigma Black Belt Project Team Leader.  

For the past ten years, have served as a U.S. Government-appointed Plant Clearance Officer. Personally responsible for the reutilization of over $1B in excess Government property over a two year period.  Frequent contributing author to the Property Professional publication of the National Property Management Association (NPMA). In August, 2018, Received a literary award at the 2018 NPMA National Educational Seminar.

Yvonne Carney is Director of Strategic Performance at WSSC Water, a public utility in Maryland that provides water and wastewater services to 1.8 million residents of Montgomery and Prince Georges counties. She is responsible for facilitating the development of WSSC Water’s Strategic Plan and champions the use of data and risk analysis to drive decision-making across the utility. Prior to WSSC Water, she was Director of Performance Improvement at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority in Washington, D.C. Ms. Carney is volunteering on the U.S. Technical Advisory Group to ISO 55001. She has a B.A. in English from the University of Houston and a M.S. in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Texas at Austin. She holds certifications in Enterprise Risk Management, Infrastructure Asset Management and Change Management.

Robert Kaehler - Board of Directors Member of both the National Property Manager’s Association and the Asset Leadership Network. With the NPMA and ALN largely focused on federal asset management, Bob is a volunteer patriot sharply focused on the challenge of helping the United States of American gain increased value from its limited resources to generate greater value for tax payers.  Bob has focused on asset management software through the dominant Sunflower Systems, which was acquired by CGI, where Bob now works in the CGI Federal division.

Carrie Heishman is a Senior Program Manager with Definitive Logic and is SAMP Theme Lead for the ISO Working Group Updating ISO 55001 in the United States. She has worked on U.S. Department of Defense contracts for more than 10 years. For Definitive Logic, Ms. Heishman works on large federal programs for the U.S. Army, Environmental Protection Agency, and Department of Transportation. Early in her career, Ms. Heishman worked at Booz Allen Hamilton for 7 years. She has a Masters from Johns Hopkins University.

Tim Ingram is Atkins’ Technical Director of Strategic Asset Management and the UK Chair of the Mirror Committee to ISO 55000 (AMS/01). Mr. Ingram has a Mechanical Engineering degree with Honors from the University of Liverpool and has been a consultant with Thornton Tomasetti, NUKEM Technologies and others before joining Atkins. He has worked in multiple industries, including Oil & Gas, before focusing on infrastructure at Atkins. As the UK Chair of the Mirror Committee to ISO 55000, Mr. Ingram is helping with significant revisions to make the document even more accessible and meaningful to organizations.

Jessica Dzara, CPPM, CF, Asset Management Program Director at Loudoun Water in Virginia. Ms. Dzara has more than 14 years of asset management experience. Prior to entering the utility sector in 2018, Ms. Dzara was a Senior Manager at Sunflower Systems where she specialized in asset management software implementation and data analysis.

She also developed asset management business processes, documentation, and training programs for federal agencies, government contractors, and law enforcement organizations. Ms. Dzara served on the NPMA Executive Board in various roles for eight years and was the NPMA Property Person of the Year in 2018. Ms. Dzara is a graduate of Clemson University and resides in Potomac Falls, Virginia.

Thomas Smith, MS was a member of the U.S. Delegation to the first ISO 55000 series and continues to contribute to its evolution.

Mr. Smith spoke at the first ALN event in Washington, D.C. and spoke at numerous other events for the ALN and the IAM. He is Faculty Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, where he established a Master of Engineering Professional Practice, contributed to the establishment of the Distance Teaching and Learning program and created a series of short courses on asset management. He has authored numerous White Papers on asset management and has provided asset management consulting.

It is good to be visiting with Mr. Smith again at a time when there is much discussion about asset management and higher education.

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Gary W. Merrow, Vice President, Facilities – Atlanta Airlines Terminal Corporation

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Malak Bahrami, PE, CPPS, comes to governmental asset management with a solid foundation in Civil Engineering, which gives him a very practical perspective on meeting the needs of multiple stakeholders, including a very unforgiving physical world that impacts parks in Fairfax County, Virginia. With 8 years in consulting before joining Fairfax County five years ago, Mr. Bahrami has meaningful experience, yet is young enough to adopt innovation and invention to solve asset management issues with physical and behavioral science. The ALN has already had the pleasure of learning from Mr. Bahrami about the ways he coordinates disparate stakeholders to establish consensus results on park issues ranging from waterway path construction methods to allocation of financial resources to disadvantaged areas. We look forward to learning more real-world solutions to government asset management issues.

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Former Governor of Maryland Martin J. O’Malley, now with Grant Thornton  

Joining in the conversation will be Cecilia Mowatt, Esq, A55K, President of Strategies In Site, ALN Organizational Member and Co-Chair of the ALN's Equity Committee. Also, joining will be Tim Luzano, MBA, MSBA, CSM, CDMP, PMP, Advanced Analytics Manager at Grant Thornton Public Sector, providing a presentation on implementing equity dashboards for Los Angeles Department of Transportation while leveraging an agile implementation methodology.  

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Jennifer and Tacoma Zach, have been long-time supporters of all elements of the ALN. They are both involved in the ALN Water & Wastewater Asset Leadership Board. Their company, Uberlytics, LLC creates and supports risk-based management programs. It’s sister company, MentorAPM, is a cloud-based Asset Management Performance software that extends uptime and delivers on digitization for companies that want to improve mission success.

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Dr. Annette Kampf-Dern, Professor & Entrepreneurial Researcher, Sustainable Management of Built Environments  

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Chris Lyles, VP of Asset Planning and Management, Western Area Power Administration

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Steven Holland - Principal, Asset/Property Management, LMI
Lindsay Ziegler - Principal at the Andrew James Advisory Group
Mike Bordenaro - Director, Communications, ALN

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Dominic Townsend, President of ABS Quality Evaluations, has been director of Independent International Organization for Certification, was a board member for the International Accreditation of Accredited Registrars, and is currently an ALN Board Member. Here he speaks with ALN CEO Jim Dieter on the organizational value of certification.  

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https://www.abs-group.com/ 

http://www.abs-qe.com/ 

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Bill Garrett, GSA, Director, Personal Property Management Policy, Office of Government-wide Policy is a graduate of United States Naval Academy and has held personal property and policy positions with the U.S. Federal Government civilian agencies since 2009.

He has worked with the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. An active NPMA member, Mr. Garrett was the President of the Federal Center Chapter for 2 years. He has been at GSA for just over a year now.

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It became obvious that in order gain benefits from a proven, international asset management structure, the U.S. would need a template National Asset Leadership Strategy for legislators and agency executives to adapt in support of their goals and mission success.  With the strong support of ALN Organizational Member Grant Thornton, the ALN published a document and presented it to the Biden-Harris Transition Team, just as it presented asset management recommendations to the Trump-Pence Transition Team in 2016.  

Learn how the 2021 National Asset Leadership Strategy can allow all relevant stakeholders to participate in resolving asset management problems.  

Panelists include: 

• Jim Dieter, ALN CEO 
• Moshe Nelson, Principal, Grant Thornton 
• Ed Safdie, Director Grant Thornton 
• Jon Schneider, Manager at Grant Thornton Public Sector 
• Jack Kelly, ALN Board of Directors Member, and formerly with Office of Management and Budget for 36 years

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Bill Brodt, NASA Experimental Facility Engineer has been at the august agency for 20 years. There he provides support for the many enabling services and analysis tools that support decision making about NASA’s facilities. For 15 years Mr. Brodt was involved in the National Institute of Building Sciences Facility Management Operations Council, which he Chaired. During his tenure with NIBS FMOC, the National Building Information Modeling Standard evolved dramatically. Mr. Brodt is well versed in the benefits of standards in assisting organizational mission success.

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In 2020, the ALN prepared the Advancing Equity with Asset Leadership position paper to highlight the value of ISO 55001 4.2 – identifying relevant stakeholders and learning their requirements – and the other places stakeholders are mentioned. While it sounds simple, it is very complex to involve all relevant stakeholders. But President Biden started his Administration by signing the “Executive Order on Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.” It calls for the White House Domestic Policy Council and the Office of Management and Budget to consider pilot programs and suggest best practices. Consider reading these documents and joining a discussion on how to assist the U.S. Federal Government achieve this mission. 

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Michael Hardy, A55K, is Asset Management Leader for Bureau Veritas – Buildings & Infrastructure Group.   At Bureau Veritas, Mr. Hardy is providing strategic insights on cross-functional use of ISO 55000 in the national government. He will speak on the value of earning the ALN A55K Professional Certification and how ISO 55000 can be the centerpiece to organizational transformation.

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The ALN Senior Fellow Program was established to provide industry-specific experts a platform for presenting best practices that can be repeated by others in their field – and can be adapted by leaders in other fields.

Learn what ALN Senior Fellows think of the GAO High Risk Report, the ASCE Infrastructure Report Card and how their initiatives can improve issues highlighted in these reports.

ALN Senior Fellow presenters include:

• Tacoma Zach, President, Uberlytics, an ALN Organizational Member
• Jack Kelly, ALN Board of Directors Member and formerly with OMB for 36 years
• Marty Rowland, Primary author of an ASTM Standard on Municipal Asset Management
• Bob Smith, ALN Board of Directors Member, ALN Senior Fellow, ALN PhAIM Board Co-Chair
• Art Kurland, University Health System, San Antonio, Director of Asset Management and ALN Senior Fellow
• Mike Aimone, ALN Senior Fellow

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Mildred Chua-Ulger was with New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority for 34 years before retiring in January 2021. She was CFO of MTA Tunnels and Bridges before becoming Director and Program Executive, Enterprise Information and Asset Management, where she led an organizational transformation, much of which she based on ISO 55000. Learn how Ms. Chua-Ulger leveraged ISO 55000 to dramatically improve mission success, hear about equity in asset management and managing asset digital data from a frontline leader.

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Every 4 years since 2001 the ASCE has issued an Infrastructure Report Card on the state U.S. infrastructure assets. It’s first Report was issued in 1998. This year, experts graded 17 infrastructure asset categories individually and generated an overall U.S. Infrastructure grade. The overall grade improved to a “C-”. Learn why some categories improved, while others did not. And learn why the ASCE sees how improved asset management can contribute to the U.S. continuing to raise the grade.

• Anna Denecke, Director, Infrastructure Initiatives, American Society of Civil Engineers
• Caroline Sevier, Director, Government Relations, ASCE
• David Totman, American Society of Civil Engineers representative as a Voting Member of the US Technical Advisory Group to ISO Technical Committee 251 responsible for the ISO 55000 standard on Asset Management and Vice President, Asset Manager with Innovyze

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Dr. Doug Goetz, President and CEO at GP Consultants LLC, and, Jim Dieter, CEO at the Asset Leadership Network.

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Airports have been at the forefront of digitalization for decades. They are now transforming their asset management processes with advanced, web-based digitalization. Learn repeatable processes from Airport Industry leaders in this special, hour-long ALN Th@3 pm ET panel discussion program with audience interaction. Panelists: - Bryan Oldham, Senior Director, Asset Management, Denver Intl. Airport - Marin Pastar, AIA, NCARB Digital Delivery Director; Jacobs – Americas Cities & Places – Global Technology Leader – Vertical Information Modeling - Janeane Giarrusso, Jacobs, Practice Co-Leader, Strategic Consulting, Asset Management Group - Brian Moore, President, Kahua

Every 2 years for decades, the GAO has issued a High Risk List — those federal programs that are at highest risk of fraud, waste, abuse, or mismanagement.  Federal asset management has been on that list for 18 years in the form of federal real property management. It’s still on the list this year, but it is not a broken record.  This year, GAO removed one of the four areas from the list while another area regressed a little.  What improved?  What worsened?  What does it all mean for asset management? 

• Keith Cunningham, U.S. GAO Assistant Director, Infrastructure
• Amelia Shachoy, U.S. GAO Assistant Director, Infrastructure
• Colleen Taylor, U.S. GAO Senior Analyst

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Peter Dodgion, Asset Management Program Manager, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Civil Works speaking at "ALN Th@4 - Special Federal Asset Managers Session" during the ALN 2020 Asset Leadership Forum - reStructuring America

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Cecilia Mowatt, Esq. has a background in international real estate asset management for McDonald's and Ameritech. Her company, Strategies In Site, Inc., provides community-building economic development for projects in underserved and under-represented markets, for private and government clients.

Inclusion of a broad spectrum of stakeholders has been her mission long before the ISO 55000 structure included this approach. Ms. Mowatt has degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University. And she has helped form ALN Español and the ALN Advancing Equity with Asset Leadership Committee.

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