Asset Leadership Network

Speakers include: - James Downs, Asset Management Executive at Definitive Logic - Jim Dieter ALN CEO; Senior Expert AM Consultant, Jacobs; Chair, US/TAG to TC/251 - Mike Bordenaro, ALN Executive Director - Jack Kelly ALN Board and Senior Fellow; 36 years at OMB; ISO TC 251 Working Group 3, Deputy Convener - John Wyatt, Professor, Cal State Poly Univ. Pomona, Attorney at Law, Consultant Contract/Acquisition Management, Author - Kris Goly, IIoT, Plant Asset Reliability and Performance, Asset Management. Former Chair of US TAG to ISO55000 Asset Management Standard

Speakers include:

Speakers include:

Jim Dieter, ALN, CEO; Head of US Delegation for TC/251; Jacobs, Senior Expert Asset Management Consultant;

Jack Dempsey, ALN Board of Directors; Definitive Logic, Director

Jack Kelly, ALN Board and Senior Fellow; 36 years at OMB; ISO TC 251 Working Group 3, Deputy Convener

Brandon Kriner, CGI Federal, Director, Consulting

From "A Culture of Asset Leadership - Sustainable Infrastructure" at the National Academy of Sciences

Featuring discussions with people who attended “A Culture of Value – Sustainable Infrastructure,” and what can come next to continue highlighting the universally understood value that can come from a structured approach to asset management.

Richard Dietz runs the Capital Asset Replacement Scheduling System at DC Government Office of the Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Dietz has presented to the ALN in the past and has presented at GFOA, AWWA, and is pending acceptance for a presentation the IAM Annual Event in Denver. He will be talking about the culture of asset management established at DC Government Office of the Chief Financial Officer.

Jennifer Zach is Chief Marketing Officer at Mentor APM and Uberlytics; and Asset Leadership Network Board Member.

Jack Dempsey, Director, Definitive Logic; Member, National Academy of Sciences Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment; ALN Board of Directors Member, ALN Senior Fellow.

David Totman, Innovyze Thought Leader Strategy

Paul Shmotolokha, CEO & Chairman of the Board, New Use Energy

A live presentation of results from the Interactive Workshop. Michael Hardy, Bureau Veritas, Asset Management Leader, Buildings & Infrastructure and ALN Senior Fellow, provides expert commentary. Art Kurland, ALN Senior Fellow and University Health Director, Capital and Asset Management also comments. Focus is on observations and recommendations for ways of achieving mission success.

Digital Twins representing microgrids can be created on your computer and “landed” in Ukraine to help model restoration of power. Combine that with the coordinated input of expert participants who have been pre-planning for the workshop, and meaningful microgrid asset management planning can be established. Kimon Onuma, President, ONUMA, Inc., an ALN Patron Organization, and William Heegaard, President of Footprint Project renewable microgrid provider to Ukraine.

- Dr. Dorothy Robyn, Senior Fellow at the Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy; National Academy of Sciences Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment, Board Member;
- Dr. Tony McGrail, IEEE Asset Management Committee Chair;
- Jon Arnup, CEO Trent Port Services, Singapore, an ALN Member Organization;
- Moshe Nelson, ALN Senior Fellow, Principal, Grant Thornton Public Sector, an ALN Member Organization;

Bonneville Power Administration and Energy Australia present case studies of their asset management successes, challenges, and lessons learned.

Speakers:
- Glenn Schumacher, Head of Engineering, Energy Australia
- Stacy Webster-Wharton, Acting Asset Manager, Bonneville Power Administration
- Peter Kohler, Director of the Asset Management College, Australia
- Sally Nugent, Managing Director at Salyent Pty Ltd

Moshe Nelson - ALN Th@3

Melissa Osborne discusses the tremendous success of Windsor, Ontario’s asset management initiatives, in this next installment of the Municipal Asset Leadership Web Series. Melissa Osborne is currently Director, Development Services, Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada, but was recently Senior Manager, Asset Management for Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Ashay Prabhu, Founder and Managing Director of Assetic (a Brightly Company)

Dharmen Dhaliah, Asset Management Author and Senior Manager, Climate Change and Asset Manager, City of Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada, joins us this week to discuss his previous work with Toronto's asset management, his books, his approach to asset management training and more.

Part of the Value and Benefits of Asset Management web series with our Australian colleagues Peter Kohler and Sally Nugent of AM Reflections, this web program is a discussion on why value matters and how to address value in terms of asset management. Joining Mr. Kohler and Ms. Nugent will be the ALN’s Jack Kelly and Mike Bordenaro.

Peter Kohler, Director of The Asset Management College, joins ALN Th@3 pm ET this week to focus on why the co-hosted web series matters and why next week’s A Global Discussion on Value from Asset Management is so important at this juncture in the evolution of asset management around the world.

Special Open Invitation discussion on “Ways to Socialize a Draft Asset Management Executive Order.”

It is common for organizational leaders to say, “Our people are our most important assets.” While well-meaning, assets are things – tangible and intangible. The contributions of people are the intangible assets that are being referred to in the misguided phrase above. The patents, copyrights, and other intellectual property of people are assets, not the people themselves.  Speakers: - Dr. Monique Beedles - Author, Asset Management Consultant,  - Marty Rowland - ALN Senior Fellow, - Dominic Townsend - President of ALN Patron Member ABS Quality Evaluations;  - Cecilia Mowatt - President Strategies In Site, ALN Organizational Member, - Nick Shepard - Author, Consultant - representing the 6 Capitals perspective on AM

Jack Kelly, ALN Board of Directors, ALN Senior Fellow, and Yvonne Carney, Strategic Performance Director, WSSC Water; Both are members of the TC 251 Work Group and Members of US TAG Mirror Committee 3, Communications, which Ms. Carney leads. They discuss an extensive communication plan for the US TAG, which is launching its own website for the first time.

Kimon Onuma, President, ONUMA, Inc., an ALN Patron Member, will discuss the California BIMin’, the Summer 2022 BIMStorm that will feature the Los Angeles Community College and others who use a web-based Building Information Modeling approach to asset management. This “digital twin” approach to asset management captures planning decisions and information in cloud databases to be used throughout the life of a project – and all the assets in it. Mr. Onuma has led award-winning public BIMStorms since 2007 and has used the same processes for clients for almost 30 years. Learn what owners need to know to get started on digital twin approach to asset management.

Daniel Ortiz Plata, is an ALN Senior Fellow and the Manager of Ortiz Ruiz Consultorres, which provides asset management consulting with a focus on risk-based approaches to maintenance, inventory of spare parts, and other services. Mr. Ortiz is active in ISO 55001 certification programs in the U.S., Central America, and South America. He is working in water and wastewater, mining and other markets. He advises on energy savings based on ISO 55001, plant shutdown, Life Cycle Cost Evaluation, root cause analysis, and more. Mr. Ortiz will be speaking about what he sees in ISO 55001 certification in many countries.

Jesse Rothkopf is now Vice President Asset Management at Stellar Services, which is based in New York City and serves clients around the country. Mr. Rothkopf will be talking about the value of the “big picture” concept of drafting an Asset Management Executive Order, the key role of technology in asset management, and how culture plays a critical role in the success of an asset management initiative. All of these are issues that were prevalent in the Summit last week.

Jim Dieter, CEO, ALN; Rich Culbertson, ALN Board of Directors; and Mark Knight, Senior Managing Consultant, 1898 & Co., discuss the ALN Winter Summit.

Roundtable - Transportation Asset Leadership - ALN Summit Winter '22

Panel - Learning from International Infrastructure Asset Leadership Success - ALN Summit Winter '22

U.S. GAO - ALN Summit Winter '22

National Academy of Sciences - Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed - ALN Summit Winter '22

Interactive discussion with State and Local Executives - ALN Summit Winter '22

Keynote Presentation by the Michigan Infrastructure Council - ALN Summit Winter '22

Michelle Walker, City Manager, City of Greater Geelong, Australia will discuss balancing municipal needs with restricted federal, state, and local resources to achieve maximum value for citizens. Ms. Walker has focused on municipal asset management for the past 14 years after being a Senior Engineer in the Australian Department of Transport and Main Roads. She will discuss the success achieved with intentional federal and local asset management integration.

Ashay Prabhu, Founder and President of Assetic by Dude Solutions, will describe and model proven infrastructure asset management strategic approaches that maximize financial value in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States and elsewhere. The U.S. can consider this model when addressing IIJA fund distributions.

ALN Board of Directors and ALN Senior Fellow

This Roundtable of noted experts will discuss ways to frame proven asset management best practices to ensure long-term value from the historic infrastructure funds to be expended in the United States of America.

Included in the Roundtable discussion will be:
- asset leadership and asset management process insights from experienced U.S. Federal Agency leaders;
- candid comments and suggestions from former federal executives;
- Association contributions to wide-scale education and training; and more.

This Roundtable is the second prelude to the 2022 Q1 ALN Summit “Sustainable Value Creation from Infrastructure Asset Leadership” March 15 & 16.

Roundtable Participants

- Sita Egan, Infrastructure Investment and Management Branch Supervisor, Asset Management Division, at Bureau of Reclamation
- Peter Dodgion, Asset Management Program Manager, USACE, Civil Works;
- Chris Roberts, PhD, Principal, Infrastructure and Projects Advisory KPMG; President, Institute of Asset Management; Board Director of the Global Forum for Maintenance and Asset Management.
- Dan Mathews, Head of Federal Sales, WeWork; Former GSA Public Building Commissioner
- Jack Kelly, ALN Board of Directors, ALN Senior Fellow; Retired after 36 years with OMB
- Jim Dieter, ALN CEO - Facilitator

Jack Kelly, ALN Board of Directors Member and ALN Senior Fellow, is on the ISO TC 251 Working Group 7 Committee which is writing the ISO 55011 guidance for development and application of public policy to enable asset management. Mr. Kelly sees a very close alignment of ISO 55011 with the ALN National Asset Leadership Strategy and understands how these documents can help the U.S. gain the most value from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Mr. Kelly will talk with Jim Dieter, ALN CEO about these issues and how they will be further addressed in the ALN February Roundtable on February 28 at 2 pm Eastern.

Robert Radovanovic, PhD., is an Adjunct Associate Professor at University of Calgary and an engineer at McElhanney. He is developing a proposed curriculum in Asset Management for Sustainable Infrastructure.

Hugh Sinclair, Division Manager, Enterprise Asset Management at WSSC Water, is one of the most active authors on LinkedIn in the ALN Community. Recent posts address lead in drinking water, the 161% increase in U.S. water, wastewater, and trash removal services since 1997, his recent Sustainable Water Infrastructure Management Award, and the importance of Black History Month. Mr. Sinclair is always articulate on any topic, so look forward to a wide-ranging conversation for this week’s ALN Th@3.

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:

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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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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