Associate
Dan brings more than 35-years of facility, maintenance and operations experience to FM Solutions. He managed the facility growth of a pharmaceutical company from medical research, through FDA drug approval, to drug manufacturing facility construction, test, and startup. He achieved a $380K reduction in costs, concurrent with a 350% expansion of these facilities. He implemented numerous Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) including the first ever used by the Federal Government at the United States Geological Survey (USGS). In addition, Dan has assisted numerous clients with detailed studies on operational issues including: benchmarking, best-practices, operating programs, facility life-cycle assessments, facility budgeting, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) assessments, emergency power maintenance evaluation and site security assessment. Dan has served on an Advisory Board for the City of Phoenix relating to life safety and ADA issues. He also served on the LEED-AP Certification Exam Panel, developing the LEED-AP certification exam.
Certified Facility Manager (CFM),
LEED Accredited Professional (LEED-AP)
EGSA IEEE IFMA IFMA-Information Technology Council - Executive Board Member USGBC USGBC LEED-AP Certification Exam Panel USGBC-AZPast Executive Board MemberPast Comm. Committee Chair
ASEE–US Naval IC ‘A’ School Electronics Diploma – De Vry Institute of Technology
Cox Communications, Phoenix, Arizona
Design & Project Management services for Cox Communication’s 70,000 SF 600-seat call center.
Pinnacle West (APS), Phoenix Arizona
Created and validated a corporate master plan for all administrative and field operations including an evaluation of growth projections and work zones, 10-year budgets and cash flows.
Developed concepts to increase efficiencies and reduce operating costs based on benchmarking data and analysis to produce operational maintenance cost savings.
Developed a site-security design for their main campus in Phoenix, AZ in collaboration with Arizona Homeland Security and Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center.
ACUSON, Inc., Mountain View, California
Analyzed and benchmarked facility services contracts for executive board.
Gilead Sciences, Inc., Foster City, California
Wrote FDA-compliant documentation for facilities and operations, process flows, standard operating procedures, CMMS program, preventive / service / predictive maintenance programs, disaster recovery, emergency preparedness, maintenance and calibration procedures. Benchmarked facility outsource contracts, implemented a successful Enterprise Resource Planning System from testing to FDA approval.
US Naval Shipyard, Norfolk, Virginia
Project managed a commission to rewire, upgrade and battle-test 23-level, 6-mile communications systems for the jet refueling apparatus on-board the USS Enterprise.
Performed field testing for David Taylor Model Basin’s Naval telemetric shaft speed and torsion-metering system.
Supervised nuclear weapons storage and nuclear reactor security, warnings, and alarm systems.