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Speaker's Bios

Myra Agree

Office of Space and Facilities Planning
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Play Ball! Using Technology and a Common Language to Build a Team

Myra, a member of the VUMC space management team, has been employed for 28 years in the Office of Space & Facilities Planning at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The responsibilities of this office include the planning and project management of new medical center buildings, along with the renovation of current medical center buildings. Myra assisted in the development of the first space inventory conducted from the Office of Space and Facilities Planning 23 years ago. She uses FM:System’s products to track over nine million net sq feet of space.

Along with the efforts of the Office of Contract & Grant Accounting and the Office of Finance, the space management team is instrumental in the acquisition of the financing received from federal grants to help in the continuation of medical research. Myra has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Secondary Education from Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee.

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Tim Anderson

Computerized Facilities Integration

Accurate Space Inventory: Essential for Effective Campus Master Planning

Tim Anderson is Vice President, Computerized Facility Integration for Higher Education and Healthcare Industries. Tim has more than 20 years’ experience helping clients implement solutions that deliver results. Mr. Anderson has spoken at many industry events including, APPA, SCUP, NACUBO, CORENET, and Tradeline.

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David Barnas

Senior Physical Space Administrator
Facilities Planning & Design
SUNY Buffalo

The Business of Systems

David is the Senior Physical Space Administrator, Facilities Planning & Design - University at Buffalo. He has been with the University 7+ years managing the space inventory system. He has a Masters degree in Geography and has developed database and programming skills over the course of his career, which includes SQL and VBA for Access. During that time, he has implemented two CAD-linked database systems. The current system tracks 35,000+ space records and is linked to nearly 800 AutoCAD floor plans. As a data custodian, David manages the collection of space data via a biannual space inventory update through an on-line web survey application, verifies data accuracy, field verifies changes in room geometry due to renovations, organizes and analyzes data for space planning efforts, and provides standard and ad hoc reports for local, state, and federal reporting needs.

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Diane Behling

Educational Facility Planner
Capital Planning and Space Management
University of California, Santa Cruz

Diane Behling has a professional background in facilities management in the private corporate sector (software development in Silicon Valley). She has been a member of the Capital Planning and Space Management team at UCSC for 5 years and had direct responsibility for the campus-wide rollout of the new facilities inventory system.

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Robert Boes

Campus Planning and Design
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Business of Systems

Bob Boes has roughly 30 years of experience managing, marketing, and using computer applications used to address space-related business issues, including inventory databases, CAD, CAFM, real estate systems, and others. Bob became increasingly interested in the space planning, design, and management issues the applications were applied to. He established and managed consulting practices in commercial and non-profit organizations that did implementation and integration planning, analysis of research space, benchmark studies of planning standards and procedures, and policy development for space planning, allocation, and management. Though many clients were postsecondary schools, clients also included hospitals, commercial organizations, and governmental agencies.

He currently works in the Campus Planning and Design division of MIT’s Department of Facilities, and is an end-user of MIT’s Space Management System (SMS). He is a member of SCUP. One day in 2006, he wasn’t paying attention and found he had become the Conference Director of NCFMTC 2007.

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Campus Planning and Design
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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