ALN Newsletter 20 July 2021

Posted on July 20, 2021July 20, 2021 by mbordenaro

This is the 1-year anniversary of our ALN Th@4 pm ET web program. The casual chat format has become a very popular format for making asset management personal while still getting out excellent information, creating a dialogue with our audience of top management, and addressing critical issues to organizations, governments and society at large. Thank you to all of our guests and to our very engaged attendees. This week’s ALN Th@4 on July 22 will feature a chat between Ron Regalado who will be...

Yvonne Carney – ALN Th@4

Posted on July 20, 2021July 20, 2021 by Nick Knoke

https://youtu.be/F8Brl1MbxXk https://youtu.be/xC1VdOV-2jw 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 w...

Robert Kaehler – ALN Th@4

Posted on July 14, 2021July 14, 2021 by Nick Knoke

https://youtu.be/EQ6EGzjSl24 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 ...

Carrie Heishman – ALN Th@4

Posted on July 1, 2021July 1, 2021 by Nick Knoke

https://youtu.be/OudW85FHOkc 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...

Tim Ingram – ALN Th@4

Posted on June 25, 2021June 25, 2021 by Nick Knoke

https://youtu.be/5tjlQBsLHqU 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 Atkin...

ALN Newsletter 22 June 2021

Posted on June 22, 2021June 21, 2021 by mbordenaro

This week’s ALN Th@4 on June 24th will feature a chat between Tim Ingram, Chair of the UK Mirror Committee and Jim Dieter, ALN CEO. As always, see more below in People and register at this link. People 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 1st Honors from the University of Liverpool and has been a consultant with Thornton Tom...

Jessica Dzara – ALN Th@4

Posted on June 17, 2021June 18, 2021 by Nick Knoke

https://youtu.be/s62dsTVyYYI 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 ...

Tom Smith – ALN Th@4

Posted on June 11, 2021June 11, 2021 by Nick Knoke

https://youtu.be/8czY_KOWssE https://youtu.be/ghVpfacrAug 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...

Gary Merrow – ALN Th@4

Posted on June 4, 2021June 4, 2021 by Nick Knoke

https://youtu.be/rqOPivXnZEk Gary Merrow, MBA, has been Vice President of Facilities for the Atlanta Airlines Terminal Company for more than four years. During that time, he led the organization achieving an ISO 55001 certification for critical electrical infrastructure and expanded the scope to include more facility assets for a recertification process. Mr. Merrow was an Adjunct Professor for College of Architecture's graduate program for Integrated Facilities...

2021 National Asset Leadership Strategy

Posted on April 14, 2021April 14, 2021 by Nick Knoke

It became obvious that in order gain benefits from a proven, international asset management structure, the U.S. would need a template National Asset Leadership Strategy for legislators and agency executives to adapt in support of their goals and mission success. With the strong support of ALN Organizational Member Grant Thornton, the ALN published a document and presented it to the Biden-Harris Transition Team, just as it presented asset management recommendations to the Tru...