committee

Bob Bell

Stantec
BILT Chairman Emeritus

Robert began working for Stantec when his former company was acquired. He immediately became part of an international team of BIM experts across the organization. He is involved in firm-wide practice integration, primarily focused on MEP engineering, training and education, development of best practices, and multi-discipline BIM collaboration with internal and external clients. Robert promotes the importance of working with truly collaborative teams to improve the overall building construction process and using technology appropriately to remove barriers.

Tammy Adolf

Stantec
Data Day Chair

Tammy is a Business Solutions Analyst in Stantec’s Buildings Digital Practice team, who specializes in integrated design data management, project processes, and procedures. She’s been in the AEC industry for 16 years and resides on Pender Island in British Columbia. Tammy has spent most of her career focused on large P3 and Design-Build Healthcare projects throughout Canada. As part of the corporate Digital Practice Team, Tammy helps oversee data standards and the implementation and use of various tools to aid in project data management and to help project teams leverage BIM.

Robert Manna

dRofus
DTS Chairman, Americas Executive Committee Member

Robert works for Stantec out of their Boston MA office. As a member of the Buildings Group Digital practice team Robert is a leader in the implementation and support of new processes and technology throughout the organization. Currently his key responsibilities include: management of custom software development, management of the migration and integration of Design Technology for individual acquisitions, interactions with technology vendors, liaison with IT for configuration and deployment of software and technology as well keeping pace with technology trends. Robert has worked on a variety of building design projects of various scales and at all stages. He has also spoken at a number of events and conferences over the years, including AU, RTC, and BIMforum. When not running around the globe and helping teams he enjoys his family and enjoys skiing, swimming and biking. You can find him on Twitter @rpiboy.

Mike Collins

Global Product Data
Chairman - BCS NA

Mike has over 20 years of technology sales experience within the building product manufacturer community. In 2006 Mike Co-Founded BIMWorld, a company focused specifically on the development and distribution of BIM ready product models for the design community. In December of 2008 Autodesk Inc acquired BIMWorld as the foundation of the now well know Autodesk Seek content platform. Mike’s team lead the sales strategy to bring Seek to market. In April of 2013 Mike Co-founded Global Product Data, developing applications for building product manufacturers and the audiences they serve.

Craig Barbieri

EwingCole
DTS Committee, DBWa Marketing Manager

Craig Barbieri is an international Design Technology leader and drives the use of technologies to enhance the practice of design and construction. With more than 15 years of experience with information modelling in practice, management, and leadership he has managed some substantial advancements in the use of design technology. Craig has broad insight into the challenges AEC BIM firms face. He has played a key role on the success of some of the largest and most complicated BIMs ever created and the first Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) project in New England. He is an advocate for maximizing the potential of current and new technologies on projects and monitors the effective use of the benefits BIM provides.
Craig holds a Masters of Architecture and Masters of Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Business from the University of California. He is an associate member of the AIA.

Chad Clary

Studio A Architecture
BCS Committee Member

Chad is a Project Manager and BIM Manager at Studio A Architecture in Louisville, KY. Over the last 10 years with Studio A he has worked on a wide variety of projects ranging from small tenant renovations to 100,000 SF assisted living facilities. He can often be found at RevitForum.org where he is a moderator and regular contributor.

Anthony Hauck

Hypar
BILT Committee & Global Chairperson, DBEI Hackathons

With more than 20 years working in architecture, engineering, construction, and IT, followed by 10 years of innovative software development leading the Autodesk Revit + AEC Generative Design groups, Anthony has always sought to improve building practices through the strategic application of advanced technologies. Now a Founder and President of Hypar, Anthony is focused on developing technologies to distribute and apply AEC expertise through generative design and scalable computation to help project stakeholders make better decisions faster.

Nicholas Kramer

LPA Inc.
BILT Program Manager

Nicholas M. Kramer, LEED® AP, is the Director of Design Technology for LPA Inc, a fully integrated practice focusing on all areas of the built industry based out of Irvine, California. He has been using Revit since version 8.1 on projects ranging from 400,000sf to 600sf and from medical to libraries to commercial and office buildings. Nicholas has actively run projects day to day as well as helped to implement Revit and new technologies along with the development of standards, processes and best practices for worldwide architectural companies. Additionally, he is currently working with some of the largest construction companies in the world to implement these practices and new technologies.

At LPA, Nicholas provides strategic direction for BIM and new technologies, spearheads the company’s research and development group and overseas the company’s Technology department. In addition to LPA, Nicholas is currently serving as the chairman for the South Coast Revit Users Group (SCRUG), has guest lectured on BIM and sustainability at UCLA, Autodesk University and other forums.

Alice Leung

Brick and Mortar Ventures
BILT Committee

Alice started her career in the AEC industry with DPR Construction in the San Francisco Bay Area building UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. She led the Bay Area Skunkworks group and implemented various construction technologies on project sites. In April 2016, Alice relocated to Singapore to help start up the Southeast Asia HQ for DPR Construction as the resident BIM/VDC and construction technology expert and worked on data center projects. She was part of various workgroups led by the Singapore Building and Construction Authority (BCA), was a part-time lecturer for the BCA Academy BIM Management Certification Course, taught BIM courses for RICS and spoke at various conferences in the region. She joined the Digital Built Environment Institute(DBEI) organizing committee whilst in Asia and is now part of the DBEI North America Committee since her relocation back to San Francisco. After realizing the slow pace of digitization in the construction industry, Alice joined the Brick & Mortar Ventures team to work with startups that want to disrupt the way we design, construct and maintain the built world.

Alice holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Brown University where she was on the Formula SAE racecar team and worked in a materials science lab researching lead-free piezoelectrics.

Desirée Mackey

GEI Consultants
BILT Chairman

Desirée has been in the AEC industry since the 1990s. She holds a bachelor’s degree from University of California, Davis and a master’s degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Desiree has worked in construction and as a structural engineer, and now is the Design Technology Practice Leader for GEI Consultants. Desirée is a regular speaker at many conferences, she co-founded the Rocky Mountain Building Information Society, is the Chair of the Structural Engineers Association of Colorado’s BIM Committee, served as an AUGI board member, Treasurer, and Vice President, serves on the AU Advisory Council, and is a member of the BILT North America Committee

Brad Novak

Goettsch Partners
DTS Committee, Assistant Speaker Manager

From the beginning of his career in architecture, Brad Novak has been a leader in CAD / BIM / IT management and a specialist in technology standardization, bringing 30 years of experience weaving technology into the design profession.  Starting with AutoCAD custom programming, through REVIT implementation, and now with software and hardware analysis and deployment, Brad aligns information technology goals, as the 10-year Director of IT at Goettsch Partners, with a focus on the design of beautiful buildings.  He established these goals by assembling and leading teams of like-minded IT staff and consultants from Chicago to Shanghai to Abu Dhabi. The resulting synergy is an IT infrastructure with next-generation ideas, hardware, software, standards and problem-solving to support GP’s global reach.

Phil Read

Read | Thomas
Director, Marketing & Communications

Phil is the co-founder of Read | Thomas – an AECO consulting company focused on connecting designers, builders and owners through cross-discipline technology integration. He has over 23 years experience in Architecture and Engineering including 16 years implementing Autodesk Revit. A frequent public speaker, Phil has presented at Autodesk University and RTC Conferences on topics ranging from “Best Practices and Large Project Management”​ to “Parametric Design Iteration in Architecture”​ and “Business Dynamics of Transitioning from 2D CAD to Building Information Modeling”​. As an writer, Phil helped co-author the official Autodesk Mastering Revit series of books. Among other high profile clients and projects, played a lead role in providing training, implementation and ongoing support for the Architectural, Mechanical and Structural Engineers on the Freedom Tower World Trade Center Initiative in New York.

Mark Schmieding

bKL Architecture
BILT NA Sponsorship Manager

Mark has led BIM design and project delivery for multiple firms on projects ranging from retail interior projects to large-scale commercial towers throughout the world. It is his diverse experience and previous history working at the original Revit Technology Corporation that has enabled him to fully comprehend design method technology.
Mark earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Kansas and held an International Study Scholarship at Universität Dortmund in Germany. He studied Post-Graduate Architecture and International Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
Mark is licensed in the State of Illinois, is a member of the American Institute of Architects, and is a LEED Accredited Professional.
Mark is a Director at bKL Architecture as Technology Practice Leader.

Steve Stafford

AEC Advantage
Region Manager – Americas

Steve is the Region Manager for BILT North America. He has been a presenter at RTC events since 2006 as well as at Autodesk University since 2004. He has been working as a freelance Revit training and implementation consultant since 2005. His company is called AEC Advantage, Inc. Very active in the Revit community at large, he has been participating in online Revit groups since shortly after the product was released publicly in 2000. You can find him serving as the forum manager for the Autodesk User Group International (AUGI) Revit Community and he served a two year term as a member of AUGI’s Board of Directors (2006-2008).

As an author he has contributed chapters to two Wiley/Sybex Revit books and has three Revit focused blogs – www.Revitoped.com, www.revitinside.com and www.revitjobs.com. He currently lives in Southern California with his wife and two children

Randall Stevens

AVAIL
Global Chairman - BCS

An AEC industry veteran with 25 years of software development, and sales and management experience, Randall offers a unique combination of expertise in software and graphics technology — coupled with a background and degree in architecture. In 1991 he founded ArchVision, a software firm specializing in 3D graphics, specifically Rich Photorealistic Content (RPC). Through ArchVision, Randall has built an extensive network with the industry’s leading experts, architectural firms, and visualization software companies, which led him to product development of the AVAIL content management platform.

Melissa Thiessens

Parallax Team
BILT Speaker Manager

Bob Yori

AECOM
DTS Program Manager

Chris Warden

Clark&Enersen
DTS Committee, DBWa Sponsor Manager

Chris developed a desire for Design Technology while attending the University of Kansas and graduating in 2009 with a master’s degree in architecture. While Chris finished his degree later in life, he spent the first 10 years managing various landscape companies and being a stay-at-home dad while his wife Lisa served in the US Navy.

Chris and Lisa finally landed back in Lawrence, KS where he finished his degree and has been working for design firms since 2007. His passion for design technology goes back to his time at school, where he would continually research and experiment with alternate technology methods to refine his studio projects. This passion spilled over into his Architecture career and continues to drive him to continually search for improved workflows throughout the design/construction process. Chris also participates as a committee member for the Design Technology Summit, a conference that brings design technologists together to share experiences, knowledge, and identify opportunities to improve.

Chris’s family is unique, they were blessed in 2001 with triplets, Cassidy, Tommy, and Isabel. Along with watching triplets progress through life, Chris also enjoys fishing, spending time at the lake, and working in the yard.

Zachary Kron

Autodesk

Zach Kron is a Product Line Manager at Autodesk in the Generative Design Group. Since 2007 he has researched and delivered computational design tools and workflows primarily for the Architectural, Engineering, and Construction industries. His team is dedicated to open source tools and community based development for creating better designs with data and performance metrics. Their applications are used for a wide variety of design automation and exploration tasks by hundreds of thousands of people every year.

Moses Scott

Sheehan Nagle Hartray
Data Day Committee Member

Moses is the Digital Technology Applications & Data Analytics Specialist at Sheehan Nagle Hartray in Chicago. Sheehan Nagle Hartray focuses on Mission Critical Facilities, especially large data center complexes in the United States and Europe.

Andrew Cole

Curios Strategies
Data Day Committee Member

Andrew Cole is a founding partner at Curios Strategies, focused on providing strategic planning services for healthcare clients. With a Master’s in Architecture, he has experience providing global healthcare clients with planning support through interactive and dynamic scripts to assist their design decision making. Andrew has also been an advocate for the use of automating simple design tasks to focus energy on solving more complicated and intriguing design problems. He has previously worked with Stantec, BBB Architects, and Base Associates before transitioning to a principal role at Curios Strategies.