Experience

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  The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

  • Washington, DC

  • Senior Program Officer

    • May 1988 - Jul 2021
    • Washington, DC

    Directed the Building Research Board (later renamed the Board on Infrastructure and Constructed Environment); served as consultant and then staff senior program officer with the Transportation Research Board. Worked on institution-wide program development initiatives in urban and infrastructure technology policy, agency strategic planning, and knowledge management.

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  American Public Works Association

  • Committee member

    • 1990 - 2015

    I actively support this important organization. I have served in several leadership positions such as the Leadership and Management Committee, Transportation Committee, Public Affairs Committee, Engineering and Technology Committee, and Education Committee and have represented the organization in national forums dealing with such matters as development of the GASB 34 accounting standard and international infrastructure asset management principles.

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  Matrix Group, LLC

  • Washington, DC & Baltimore, MD

  • Owner

    • Sep 1986 - Dec 2012
    • Washington, DC & Baltimore, MD

    My group practice in infrastructure asset management and urban development, with assignments in China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Canada, and the United States.

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  Lambda Alpha International - Baltimore Chapter

  • Chapter board member, president

    • 1996 - 2009

    Among other activities, I planned and organized the chapter's one-day symposium on "Technology, Smart Growth, and Future Form of the Baltimore Region,"held in April 2004 and sponsored in part by grants from the Loeb Fellowship Association of Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and LAI's Land Economics Foundation.

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  Alan M. Voorhees & Associates; Planning Research Corporation

  • Group Vice President

    • Oct 1971 - Apr 1986