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Room: D137-138
Audience: Facilities Personnel
Call to Action:
Abstract: The best-designed school facilities will only work for students and teachers if properly maintained. These valuable assets require database-driven tools for proper operation, care, and maintenance. For a generation, we’ve opened facilities without this critical data in place. Even though everything we need for a good database was selected, collected, installed, and inspected before we open the doors to our new school, the data is not gathered in a way that feeds the operations database. A new methodology is being used during planning, design, and construction which facilitates collection of data in a way that automatically and instantly feeds the operations tools. In this session, you’ll hear from the San Juan Unified School District from the Sacramento, CA area, and Waco (TX) Independent School District about how they are using this methodology to eliminate the costly collection, collating, and re-creating of data that occurs at the conclusion of a project. And you’ll come to understand the value proposition of this method called Asset Centric Project Management.
Learning Objectives:
Nicholas’s career followed the latest technologies. First CAD/CAM, then BIM, then SaaS-based PMIS, and now Kahua’s low/no-code PMIS platform. Nicholas was a design engineer Heery International (now CBRE) before moving to the software business. He’s held leadership positions at Constructware, Autodesk, and Trimble. He twice took two-year working sabbaticals to serve a greater cause. The first with Amigos for Christ, a non-profit serving the poorest of the poor in Nicaragua, and more recently, with the Society of St Vincent DePaul, serving the poor in Georgia. He now has the honor of serving the AEC industry as Kahua’s Chief Evangelist.
Cherie has been with San Juan Unified School District for over 19 years, serving various roles throughout her tenure. Today, Cherie is the Coordinator of Facilities Business & Compliance, overseeing fiscal and purchasing for transportation, construction, M&O and custodial. During her time at the district, she has been responsible for multi-delivery procurement methods, developed and created cash flows for bond tracking and sales for three bonds equating to $1.2 billion. Cherie has been at the forefront of the district’s digital transformation to a project management information system and manages bond and state funding audits. She has two adult children and two grandchildren. Cherie has been living with cancer for the past ten years, but it only makes her stronger and able to cherish life even more. Her goal is to leave behind a legacy and something that people can learn and grow from. She has recently started consulting LLC helping School District develop a Facilities program, transforming their programs, so they have a seamless program and less work with better processes and systems. Helping others is a passion. Cherie has also recently helped train staff in a Furniture Replacement program and build cashflows for a large program.
Gloria’s career includes experience in every facet of the design and construction business. She started in the roofing business, moved into commercial development and owner representation, on-site construction supervision and quality control, facility planning and program management. Gloria has presented at state and national conferences on facility related topics since 2003. She served as CEFPI (A4LE) Southern Region President in 2005.
Educational Facility Implementation, Project Management/Project Delivery
Has a working understanding of how the following areas impact the facility program: regulations and policies; project delivery methodologies; scheduling; preventative maintenance; life-cycle planning; and systems commissioning.