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Photography services and fine art photography (Lyntel.com)

Building System Planning is an innovative company, applying advanced technology to real world problems in design and construction. We are experts in BIM and professional developers of software solutions. We develop intelligent software. Construction lags behind other industries in using software to increase productivity. Existing software relies on manual input and correction of all of our systems. We use algorithms, automation and intelligence to achieve better solutions in faster time frames.

IT Manager, Build-LACCD a 2 Billion Construction Program for Los Angeles Community College. Providing IT Services as part of program management transition to the build program.Responsible for Business Development, Management Consulting, & Strategy for new AEC Clients.Gafcon is a premier provider of the full suite of program management construction services to the education sectors.

Program Lead in the delivery of construction management services and information systems to Architectural, Engineering, and Construction industry. SharePoint360 is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, providing SharePoint consulting and hosting services. SharePoint360 has deep experience in managing outsourced IT operations, working with over 150 clients in both the private and public sectors. Our focus on platform and application outsourcing, with a specialty in collaboration, messaging, and reporting technologies, provides our customers with significant cost savings when compared to the capital expense needed to maintain their own infrastructures. Our state of the art SAS-70 compliant datacenters utilize the latest technologies from Microsoft, Citrix, HP, and VMware, and are designed to provide reliable, secure, and scalable foundation for your technology platforms.

Masdar City is the world's first carbon-neutral, zero-waste city, where sustainability is innovation's new frontier. Masdar development is a unique integrated 'Green Community' in the heart of Abu Dhabi; Business planning and technology roadmaps that provide the most sustainable ICT, with the lowest whole life carbon footprint supported by business case life cycle NPV and IRR analysis. Directed design consultants to deliver a state-of-the-art mixed-use converged Internet Protocol (IP) network for 90,000 city residents; this increased service offerings with minimal carbon footprint across the urban landscape.Developed a diverse range of specifications, which includes smart grid, city dashboards, building management, home automation and energy management; issued tenders and evaluated proposals for common-off-the-shelf applications.Integration of all ICT technologies acquired for Masdar ensuring that they fit together as part of the enterprise architecture for the City.Managed selection of system integration partners for delivery of an Enterprise Service Bus for integrating applications. Part of an inter-disciplinary team consisting of architects, civil engineers, energy, environmental, HVAC, economic scientists and facility operations that successfully delivered the design of a green, positive energy building for Masdar Headquarters on time and on budget.Management of design/build contractors for urban infrastructure such as information pylons, audio visual equipment for way finding and energy efficiency displays that deliver the Masdar experience to residents.Other Notable AchievementsProvided strategic leadership to advance sustainable city development to ensure that ICT contributes minimally to energy consumption and maximally to energy management to achieve 75% overall energy use reduction compared with average building in Abu DhabiCompleted conceptual design and IT architecture of the Smart Grid for Masdar

Successfully completed full service management and engineering consulting to justify $100milion initiative to improve City of Los Angeles wastewater process operations. Led strategic planning, business case analysis and total cost of ownership analysis. Developed conceptual design and specifications for vendor bid documents. Continuously supported executive team to build city commitment and successfully obtained board approval to proceed to bid and award.Project Manager for the development of performance dashboard for largest copper mine in USA. The dashboard tracks lost production, helps determine root cause, percentage uptime and tonnage from four grinding lines. The information is used to optimize production using Pareto analysis to focus asset management efforts on a daily basis.Organizational Assessment of the largest advanced wastewater treatment facility in USA. Recommended organizational improvements and changes in decision rights to effect oversight of critical $70million support program that interleaves $1billion capital program. Resolved conflict between IT, operations and engineering resulting in a win-win solution.Assisted large global energy corporation in Australia that required fusion of emerging technologies within traditional methods to become more flexible in a market that is very complex with significant potential and uncertainty (risk) Explored methods of reducing capital expenditure from $12billion down to $9 billion.Project Managed active directory upgrade from Novell for City of Los Angeles with cut over occurring on-time, within budget, and without disruption to operations or inconvenience to users.

Management Consultant and engineer in Global Business Solutions Group, working in US and Internationally.

Specialist automation and management consulting company working with public and private utilities to improve environment by optimizing business processes and IT systems for operations and maintenance.Created event-based electronic business document structure for water and wastewater utilities. Developed common data exchange messages in XML Schema format using Model Driven Architecture. Enabled standardized approach for integrating software applications, reducing complexity and costs of maintenance.Led $1million software development project to demonstrate enterprise application integration, J2EE, and web services solution to City of San Diego that improved part of service value chain and achieved buy-in from City staff.Managed complete automation of City of Lincoln, NE wastewater treatment plants. Project was completed on time, enabled unattended operations, and saved 12 FTE's giving ROI of less than 4 years.Managed multi-year $6million e-Government project for the City of Minneapolis to implement spatial data management system (GIS). Delivered 9 web-based applications and data management servers to support 90% of spatial data service needs across the City.Successfully completed multiple design/build automation and IT projects across the UK, USA, and Canada, for water and wastewater utilities, including; Managed Development of Telecommunications Strategic Plan for Thames Water, UK. Completed survey of telecommunication requirements and performed environmental scan of current technology and emerging market trends. Established a business case and 5 year road map for communication to all remote sites for largest water and wastewater utility in UK, serving 13 million people.Successfully competed $6 million e-Government project for the City of Minneapolis to implement spatial data management system by delivering nine web-based applications and data management servers to support 90% of spatial data service needs across the City.

Systems Engineer for the engineering, design and project management of large-scale systems for utilities, including plant life extension (plex) projects for nuclear power plants.Notable Achievements• Provided technical expertise in automation that resulted in securing two major new clients in nuclear power and one private design consultant in water utility industry.• Succcessfully met requirements of nuclear independent inspectorate (NII) for design and safety of new reactor cooling control system ahead of outage schedule, and then successfully, built, tested and commissioned eight systems for two nuclear reactor restarts (Oldbury Nuclear Power Station (NPS))• Successfully completed design and implementation of Alternative Indication Centre plant monitoring system for Hinkley NPS to meet NII safety requirements.• Successfully completed design of rod position control system plant life extension project for eight NPS for British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL)• Completed specification for Kuwait Brackish Water System, and Jebel Ali ‘G’ Blending Plant, Dubai.

Software Architect and Algorithm Engineer for development of SCADA System for Advanced Process Control (Connoisseur).

Algorithm and software development for programming of Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) microchips for digital signal processing of sonar.