Buddy Cleveland Email and Phone Number

Buddy Cleveland is a Independent Consultant at Johns Hopkins University. He possess expertise in program management, .net, sustainability, engineering, knowledge management and 45 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "I was very lucky to meet and work with Buddy Cleveland during that last half of my 16 year career at Bechtel and later at Jacobus Technologies. Buddy is one of those people you meet in life that you feel privileged to have been associated with. At Bechtel Buddy was a driven visionary and leader -- a true entrepreneur in a large corporation. He constantly amazed everyone by leveraging the latest technology concepts to create a new paradigm for engineering and construction productivity. Buddy sought and gained executive support and spearheaded a team (starting as a skunk works) of engineers, designers, and software developers to realize his vision for new leading edge CADD/CAE Plant Design applications. The dedication, loyalty and productivity of this development team was a testament to Buddy’s easy going management style and most likable personality. Utilizing the latest hardware and IT concepts of the time, Buddy always pushed past functional limits, finding the resources to develop totally new applications required to achieve his vision for a totally integrated Plant Design solution defining and enabling new EPC industry productivity metrics. Buddy always had the “big picture” in his head and was thinking out 3-5 years past everyone else. As one of the top industry experts in Plant Design automation, Buddy led the development of many of the first successful integrated engineering applications of their kind. (including: specification driven 3D modeling; interference detection; drawing extraction; real-time 3D walkthroughs with construction simulation; integration of 2D schematics with 3D models; integration of analysis applications with 3D CAD; new construction and project management deliverables; and later change control and PLM concepts.) The CADD/CAE software applications Buddy’s team brought into production at Bechtel (and later from Jacobus Technologies, Inc.) typically set the bar for much of the Plant Design CAD industry. The achievements and successes led by Buddy Cleveland not only benefited Bechtel and our clients, they also had a dramatic positive impact on the emerging Plant Design software industry, setting the foundation for major software applications now common place today. Final note: During the years mentioned above, I enjoyed occasionally playing guitar at basement/garage R&B jam sessions accompanying Buddy who played harmonica. During this period is when the now forgotten “We’re CAD – We’re BAD” sessions took place (as documented by Maryland law enforcement authorities for noise ordinance complaints). Since those early times, Buddy has stepped free from the tacky floor of the garage and gone on to make his mark in the world of Rhythm and Blues as the lead song writer, singer and harp player in the Voodoo DeVille band. www.voodoodeville.com Highly recommended."