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April 2016

SAN FRANCISCO POST NEWSLETTER

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

FAREWELL TODD WIMMER

HOLIDAY GALA 2015

SAME NEWS RELEASE

UPCOMING PROGRAM UPDATE

COMMITTEE MEMBERS WANTED

STREAMER CRITERIA

PMP EXAM PREP COURSE

SCHOLARSHIP NEWS

FEATURE FIRM PERKINS EASTMAN

UPCOMING EVENTS

YOUNG MEMBERS

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John is the Operations Manager for Martinez Services Inc, an 8(a) General Contractor located in San Rafael, CA. John is a SAME Fellow and has been a member of SAME since 1995 serving as president for both the Guam and San Francisco Posts in the past. John has been working in the federal government market since the mid-1990’s both in the mainland US and overseas.

PresidentJohn Jones

Operations ManagerMartinez Services, Inc.

415-310-7799John.jones@

martinezservicesinc.com

Welcome to the first newsletter for 2016. Hard to believe the first quarter is already over, but time does fly.

I’d like to first wish Lt. Commander Todd Wimmer a great and rewarding move to Honolulu. We’re sad to have to lose him to his new post

so quickly and will miss his presence around the San Francisco Post, but I’m sure Todd and his family will be enjoying the Hawaiian weather much more than our wet and cold winter here in the Bay Area. Todd’s been an active member of the post and his leadership and enthusiasm will be sorely missed.

As we take on the new year, I’m looking forward to continuing all the great work that LCMD Wimmer and Past President Tony Petroccitto have done with the San Francisco Post. We can be proud of how the post has grown and been successful over the past few years and I’ll work to keep that momentum going!

As you’ll see in this month’s edition, the Post has had plenty of recent successes. We just completed our scholarship program and have awarded five new scholarships to students graduating from high school this year. Scholarship Chair Ed Curran has done a bang-up job working with San Francisco State to administer the program and to identify the talented students that received scholarships this year.

The San Francisco Post was also recognized as the Honorable Mention, Top Middle Post from SAME National this year. The Virginia Peninsula Post was recognized as the Top Post, but we came in right behind them. This is a testament to our great work, great programs and great participation of our members.

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FAREWELL TODD WIMMER

Lt. Commander Todd Wimmer was a valuable member of the San Francisco Post for four fantastic years. He came to the San Francisco Post in 2012 from the Hampton Roads Post. At the Hampton Roads Post, Todd was active in Readiness and served as the Readiness Director and was also heavily involved with the young member group. With the San Francisco Post, Todd served as Young Member Director from 2013 to 2015 and while in that position organized many young member events and forged relationships between young and “mature” members. He also was very active in promoting engineering camps, in particular the Air Force Academy Engineering and Construction Camp in Colorado. Because of Todd’s efforts, the San Francisco Post sponsored several high school students to attend the camp over the past few years, and in 2014, Todd attended the camp himself as a mentor, as he did in 2010.

Todd mentored Lt. Rachael Love as well and she took over as Young Member Director, when Todd was elected President of the San Francisco Post. However, shortly after being elected Todd was informed that he was rotating out of the Bay Area and moving to Hawaii. What a bummer for Todd! Todd is currently serving in Hawaii as the Commanding Officer of Coast Guard Civil Engineering Unit Honolulu on Oahu. His unit provides engineering and construction support for the Coast Guard for all of the Pacific Islands, including Hawaii and Guam.

Todd was nominated for the prestigious SAME 2015 Oren Medal and received an Honorable Mention. He was also nominated for the medal in 2014 and 2013.

Todd and his lovely wife, Denise, are now enjoying the Hawaiian life and culture. Mahalo, Todd, for all of your contributions to the San Francisco Post and to SAME in general, and Good Luck!

Farewell and good luck, Todd!


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Vice Admiral (Ret.) Jody A. Breckenridge, former Commander, Coast Guard Pacific Area, delivered the keynote address at the SF Post’s annual Holiday Gala fundraiser held 9 December 2015 at the Marines’ Memorial Club in San Francisco.

Introduced by Mr. Zack Bedford of MacDonald-Bedford, VADM Breckenridge focused on the fact that the engineers and leaders within the military engineering community are well-suited to step forward to help society solve the infrastructure challenges of today. She extolled the benefits of public-private partnerships and encouraged the attendees to apply their scientific minds and creative talents, to think outside the box, and to derive solutions that not only meet the challenges we face but also improve our quality of life.

Lieutenant Commander Todd Wimmer, PE, USCG, SF Post President, expressed his gratitude to VADM Breckenridge by presenting her with a SF Post coin as well as an SAME picture frame.

Other Special Guests who delivered holiday greetings from the podium were Captain T. Wade Gesele, PE, USCG, Commanding Officer of Civil Engineering Unit, Oakland; Lieutenant Colonel John C. Morrow, PE, USACE, Commander and SF District Engineer; Lieutenant Colonel James S. Duke, USAF, Commander, 60 Engineer Squadron, Travis AFB; and Lieutenant Commander Ning L. Yuan, PE, USN, Resident Officer in Charge of Construction, Travis AFB.

The Gala started with an elegant reception within the festively decorated Marine’s Memorial Club and included the opportunity for the guests to have individual pictures taken with VADM Breckenridge, with voluntary donations going to The Wounded Warrior Project.

The program began with a stirring trumpet solo of the National Anthem performed by Mr. Tony Petroccitto, PE, GHD, and SF Post Past President, followed by the Invocation delivered by Ms. Dawn Antonucci, Towill, Inc., and SF Post Past President. Mr. John Jones, PE, LEED AP, F.SAME, Martinez Services and SF Post Past President, led the toasts; and, LT. Rachael Love, PE, USCG, chair of the SF Post Young Members group, and Cpt. Caleb Bury, USAF, delivered the Fallen Soldier Table tribute. MAJ James Boyette, Deputy SF District Commander, USACE, served as Master of Ceremonies.

VICE ADMIRAL JODY A. BRECKENRIDGE, USCG, RETIRED, HIGHLIGHTS SAN FRANCISCO POST’S HOLIDAY GALA


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Special awards of the evening went to Ms. Sheila Higgins, Towill, Inc., SF Post Secretary; Mr. Arvind Acharya, Gilbane, SF Post Programs Chair, and Mr. Tony Petroccitto, GHD, SF Post Past President and Golf Tournament chair; all for their outstanding contributions to the SF Post.

Sponsors for the evening were:

TITANIUM: MacDonald-Bedford LLC

GOLD: GHD; Gilbane; Pacific States Environmental Contractors, Inc.; Perkins Eastman; The Dutra Group; Weston Solutions

SILVER: Alta Vista; AMA Diversified Construction Group; Anvil Builders; Consolidated Engineering Laboratories; Cornerstone Concilium, Inc.; Towill, Inc.

BRONZE: GEMS Environmental Management Services, Inc.; Martinez Services; Moffat & Nichol; PeroxyChem; RIM Architects; Sustainable Group; The Thier Group

COPPER: Cascade Drilling L.P.; RORE, Inc.

Proceeds from the Gala benefit from the Post’s charitable efforts that include the Nicholas Scholarship Fund that provides financial assistance for SF Bay Area high school graduates who plan to study engineering, environmental sciences or architecture; the Bentley Scholarship Fund that provides financial assistance to support the professional development of the Post’s Young Members; and the Wounded Warrior Project. In addition, the Post collected toys for Toys for Tots and held an exciting Raffle with proceeds going to the

chosen charities.

For more information:Susan E. Bedford

SAME SF Post Holiday Gala ChairDirector of Public Relations

MacDonald-Bedford LLC Email: [email protected]

(510)/ V: 521-4020 F: 521-8712 C: 846-4658


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HOLIDAY GALA 2015

Dear Friends of the SAME San Francisco Post:

On behalf of the SF Post and LCDR Todd Wimmer, PE, Post President 2015, I would like to extend sincere thanks to those whose efforts and contributions led to the success of the annual Holiday Gala 2015.

� To our Keynote Speaker, Vice Admiral (Ret.) Jody A. Breckenridge, USCG; to our Service Chiefs, Captain T. Wade Gesele, PE, USCG; Lieutenant Colonel John C. Morrow, PE, USACE; Lieutenant Colonel James S. Duke, USAF; and Lieutenant Commander Ning L. Yuan, PE, USN, for your most generous gifts of encouragement, verve, and wisdom.

� To the Sponsors, for your substantial patronage, in-kind assistance, and ever-loyal support.

� To all Attendees, for your festive, convivial spirit as well as for your charitable contributions.

� To the Marines’ Memorial Club staff for its ready assistance.Specifically, I would like to thank all of our Volunteers for their selfless gifts of time, energy, and wholehearted help…you made it happen!

Renée Remillard and Alvina Chu, GraphicsAlicia Nowaczyk and Mike Wottrich, Website Linda and Rick Drake, AIA, Nari Mobdy, James Elliott, PE, Sheila Higgins, and Frank Cannizzaro, PE, Registration Desk Nancy Barnes, Denise Adamic, Nari Mobdy, and Federico Gili, PMP, DecorationsZack Bedford, Program MAJ James Boyette, USACE: Master of Ceremonies Dawn Antonucci and John Jones, PE, LEED AP, F.SAME, Invocation and ToastsLT. Rachael Love, PE, USCG and Cpt. Caleb Bury, USAF, Fallen Soldier Table tributeLT. Love, Young Member coordination Ginger Kelly and Alicia Deschamps, Wounded Warrior Photo AreaSheila Higgins, Raffle ...And, Tony Petroccitto, PE, LEED AP for a rousing trumpet solo of the National Anthem!

Some though, deserve special recognition for their inestimable and substantive efforts:

LCDR Wimmer, Leadership James Elliott and Sheila Higgins, Registration Frank Cannizzaro, Accounting The entire SF Post Board of Directors and others, i.e.; Arvind Acharya, PG, CHG, Rick Drake, John Jones, Roger Wykle, and Pat Payne, Securing Sponsorships

It was definitely a heartwarming, delightful, and successful evening!

Sincerely yours, Susan E. Bedford, Holiday Gala Chair


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SAN FRANCISCO BOARD POSITION COMMITTEE MEMBERS WANTED

The Program Director arranges for guest speakers at the monthly post meetings and coordinates presentation logistics for each meeting. Speakers are selected to appeal to both military and civilian employees and contractors who represent SAME’s membership; therefore, topics showcase engineering trends and project developments from around the region as well as upcoming contract opportunities with the various agencies. Past presentations have included: San Clemente Dam Removal Project, Flood Risk Management Activities in California’s Central Valley, USACE San Francisco District Overview, Engineers without Borders, USACE Emergency Response and Hurricane Sandy, USCG Energy Initiatives/ Transformation, GSA, VA, EPA, and Travis AFB. Topics are also selected to assist the post in obtaining Streamers.

The Program Director prepares the annual presentation schedule, including providing logistical information to the speakers, coordinating dates with the planned venue, providing laptop and projector for the speakers, and notifying the food service personnel of the number of planned attendees for each meeting. The description of the topic is obtained from the selected speaker,

along with his or her biography for introduction by the Post President. If warranted, alternative venues may be proposed with the input of the Board. Also, the Program Director coordinates with the webmaster to post the monthly meeting announcements and sends out the notification and announcement of each meeting and topic to the post membership and distribution, usually with reminders throughout the month to encourage attendance, prints attendee list for security and the hospitality director, and sends a confirmation to the speaker during the month of the meeting. At the end of each meeting, the Program Director obtains a copy of the presentation and coordinates with the webmaster to post the presentation on the website for others to view.

This is a fun position that provides many networking opportunities with both members and potential speakers, as well as interaction with other organizations. It also allows for the introduction of new events and topics to our SAME members.If you are interested, please contact:Arvind [email protected]

The Webmaster is responsible for:

� Posting luncheon meeting updates once per month

� Opening new month’s on-line registration � Generating and distributing meeting attendee

/ payee list once or twice per month � Closing on-line registration when notified by

Programs Chair � Infrequent edits/updates to contact page /

landing page / registration categories and/or amounts

� Uploading newsletter once per quarter

� Uploading presentations once per month � Attending monthly board meeting

teleconferences to report on website status � During the November/December timeframe,

updates to web page are more frequent as we prepare for the annual holiday gala

� Maintaining domain registration/coordinating payment

This person ideally should know WordPress. An average of 8 hours per month is anticipated for this position.

Programs Director

Webmaster


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The Hospitality Chair is responsible for: � Coordinating with Webmaster and Programs

Chair to obtain monthly luncheon attendee lists, including paid status of attendees

� Coordinating with Webmaster and Programs Chair to ensure on-line registration is closed on time prior to meetings

� Bringing check-in materials to monthly luncheons (i.e.; several printouts of attendee lists, pens/markers, pre-printed or blank name badge stickers, etc.)

� Staffing the registration table at monthly luncheons and special events (including Golf and Holiday Gala), checking in attendees

� Making change from cash box as-needed for any on-site payments

� Providing receipts to attendees as-needed � Noting on attendee list what method of

payment was used and what amount was received for any on-site payments

� Directing attendees as-needed with meeting logistics

� Scanning annotated version of attendee list after meeting; e-mailing annotated list to Secretary and Treasurer

� Coordinating with Treasurer on any payment questions

� Storing check-in materials between meetings, ensuring adequate quantities are on-hand

� Occasionally procuring additional check-in materials as-needed (you will be reimbursed by SAME Treasurer)

� Being the main point of contact for Holiday Gala registration and meal selections, fielding questions, cancellations, etc.

� Maintaining attendee list (including meal selections) for Holiday Gala

� Maintaining sponsor list for Holiday Gala � Assisting with outreach to promote Holiday

Gala

� Assisting the Golf Chair with preparation and printing of name badges and table signage

� Assisting the Holiday Gala Chair with preparation and printing of name badges and table signage

Optional/As-needed:

� Assisting the Holiday Gala Chair with selling raffle tickets at the event

� Assisting the Golf Chair with selling raffle tickets/mulligans at the event

� Taking photos at events, coordinating with Newsletter Editor for use in newsletter articles

Are you interested in helping SAME SF Post and doing something FUN at the same time? If so, this job is for YOU!

The Event Co-Chair will be responsible for assisting the Event Chair with the management of all elements of the SAME SF Post Holiday Gala, ensuring deadlines are met and budgets, maintained. Excellent computer skills, particularly in Excel, required.

This job does involve a commitment of time that increases as the event day draws near. This commitment is estimated at two to twenty hours per week depending upon the time of year...but it is for a good cause!

Responsibilities include assistance with the following areas:

� Budget � Sponsorships � Venue and Security � Food and Beverage � Program and Protocol � Registration � Graphics and Media � Decorations

Hospitality Chair

Holiday Gala Event Co-Chair

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The Secretary is responsible for: � Scheduling and coordinating monthly Board

conference calls, providing call-in info � Drafting meeting agendas for approval and

finalization by board President prior to each call/meeting

� Distributing final meeting agendas prior to Board conference calls/meetings

� Taking minutes during Board conference calls and any in-person meetings

� Distributing draft minutes for comments � Finalizing and distributing final minutes � Ensuring previous month’s minutes are voted

on and accepted by board during current conference call/meeting

� Following up with board members on their action items in-between conference calls, as-needed

� Maintaining records of minutes � Maintaining records of luncheon or other event

announcements � Maintaining records of luncheon attendee lists � Maintaining and distributing Board master

contact list � Coordinating with Treasurer to obtain copies of

Financial Reports and Tax Records, keep on file � Along with the Programs Director, updating

and maintaining the master e-mail distribution list

� As back-up to the Programs Director, sending out e-mail blasts to the master list on various topics (luncheon announcements, requests for sponsorships, USACE meeting announcements, topics of interest, etc.)

� Sending out meeting announcements to the master e-mail list on behalf of the Young Member Chair

� Working with the Streamers Chair to collect and furnish information needed to document

streamer goals, and to provide final review of assembled streamer submittals prior to submission

� Maintaining records of submitted streamers and streamer status

� Storing Post coins, bringing to each meeting, notifying President when stock runs low so they can be re-ordered

� Providing Status Report to Board at annual board planning meeting

� Accessing the CLAS on SAME National’s website to download latest membership lists; adding new members from these lists to the master e-mail list

� Accessing the CLAS on SAME National’s website to post and submit Change of Officer form, yearly

� Periodically reviewing Post website for identification of necessary edits/updates (e.g., logos and names of Sustaining Member firms, names and contact info for Board members, etc.), coordinate with webmaster to implement

Optional/As-needed:

� Distributing e-mails from National to Board � Accessing the CLAS on SAME National’s website

to post and submit Change of Address form, if Treasurer changes or moves location

� Providing guidance to Membership Chair and/or President on how to access the CLAS

� Backup to the Hospitality Chair for special event (golf fundraiser and Holiday Gala) on-site registration/check-in

� Assisting the Holiday Gala Chair with preparation and printing of name badges and table signage, raffle oversight (provide tickets, raffle table signage, coordinate with raffle donors, transport donations and set up donation table, sell tickets at the event and run the raffle drawing at event)

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UPCOMING PROGRAM UPDATE

In 2016 planned programs include

� Scheduling co-hosted events with ASCE San Francisco

� US Army Corps speakers from San Francisco and Sacramento

� Joint ‘Meet the Chiefs’ event in August 2016 with SAME Sacramento

� Resilience and Infrastructure seminar in October 2016 sponsored by the SF Post

� Joint ‘Travis AFB’ event in November with SAME Sacramento

� Mixer events and speakers from multiple federal agencies (GSA, VA, EPA, USCG)

Mr. Arvind Acharya is a Sr. Program Manager with Gilbane with over 27 years of successful Program and Project Management experience in construction and environmental projects.

As a CA certified Professional Geologist (PG) and Certified Hydrogeologist (CHG) he has served a wide range of federal customers including DoD (Navy, AF and USACE), EPA, DOE and the US Forest Service.

Arvind has served as a mentor/partner for several emerging small businesses, HUB/Zone, SDVOSB/VOSB and 8(a) businesses for expanding opportunities in the federal sector.

Arvind is the Program Director of SAME SF Post, please contact him for more information about projects at 925.946.3206 or [email protected]


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MacDonald-Bedford LLC to receive Small Business Award

The Society of American Military Engineers selects MacDonald-Bedford LLC for Small Business Award

ALAMEDA, California, 1 May 2016 – MacDonald-Bedford LLC (M-B) is pleased to announce that it has been selected by the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) to receive the Robert B. Flowers Small Business Award. The annual national award honors the eminent contributions to SAME by a Small Business Sustaining Member. The award will be presented at the annual SAME Joint Engineering and Training Conference (JETC) to be held in Phoenix, Arizona from May 23rd to the 26th.

M-B has been an active member and staunch supporter of SAME since its founding. Not only has it been a reliable participant in post meetings and special events but also has attended annually the Small Business Conference and exhibited at JETC; in addition, M-B has attended the majority of the regional conferences on the east and west coast exhibiting at those events proximate to its regional offices. M-B also has been noted for its participation in the Society’s Continuing Education Program with its instructorship in project and construction management training around the world, in Germany, Korea and throughout the United States.

Mr. J. Zachary Bedford, president of MacDonald-Bedford, stated that he is “both delighted and humbled by the Society’s selection. With so many deserving SAME small businesses, that work so hard and honorably, day-in and day-out, to serve clients and employees, we accept this selection as a representative of the Society’s small business community. We will strive as always to be worthy and never forget that a major strength of our great nation is its volunteerism.”

M-B has been a Sustaining Member of six SAME posts: Hampton Roads, Jacksonville, New York City, Northern Virginia, San Diego, and San Francisco Posts; and, has been a member of the SF Post since the firm’s inception. In addition, M-B provides individual memberships for employees who work close to other posts, e.g. the Cape Fear, Carolina Midlands, and Washington, D.C. Posts. Of special note, the Jacksonville Post honored M-B as Small Business of the Year in 2015.

MacDonald-Bedford LLC (M-B) is a small, maturing firm in its fifteenth year, working in over 20 states, that offers to private, as well as public clients, specialized expertise in architectural, engineering and environmental services as well as the management of Programs, Projects, Construction, and Facilities. M-B has worked in 48 states, 3 Territories and the District of Columbia. M-B is proud to employ certified professionals demonstrating cutting edge performance in planning, commissioning, design-build delivery systems, energy enhancements, fire protection engineering, project controls, risk management and value engineering. The firm’s federal clients include the Departments of Defense, Energy, Homeland Security, Transportation, and the General Services Administration. M-B, a proven and reliable Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, is a Global Registered Education Provider for PMI® and a certified Commissioning Authority with the AABC Commissioning Group.

COMPANY PROFILE

MacDonald-Bedford was founded in 2002 with the intent of applying years of

leadership experience, business acumen, management know-how and moral values to the success of

private enterprise, public agencies and non-profit institutions.

MacDonald-Bedford LLC is a professional architectural, engineering, environmental

and construction (A/E/C) management consulting firm capable of managing a project phase, a project or a full portfolio or program of

projects. We also design and deliver custom training of professional disciplines such as the elements of project,

design, risk, and construction management.

CORPORATE OFFICE

MacDonald-Bedford LLC

2900 Main Street, Suite 200 Alameda, CA 94501 Tel: 1-877-521-4020 Fax: 510 521-8712

www.macdonaldbedford.com

REGIONAL OFFICES

Jacksonville

New York City

San Diego

PROJECT OFFICES

Oakland

Virginia Beach

Professional Managers, Strategists & Trainers


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STREAMERS....WHAT ARE STREAMERS?Streamers are a way for individual SAME posts to receive national recognition from SAME for their efforts in a variety of categories. These categories are as follows:

� Education and Training � Leadership and Mentoring � Emergency Preparedness and Infrastructure Resilience � Relationships and Recognition � Membership

These awards, envisioned as ribbons, harken back to the Romans who flew strips of ribbons on their flagstaffs to represent successful campaigns. This fostered team spirit and inspired a sense of camaraderie amongst the ranks. In the United States, the concept of campaign streamers came to prominence in the Civil War when U.S. Army organizations embroidered the names of battles on their organizational colors. Today’s SAME streamers have past pins attached to them.

How do we get streamers awarded to our post?

Each year, SAME Posts compete for Streamer Awards in recognition of outstanding performance and achievement in the above-listed categories. The Post Streamer Awards are presented at the Post Awards and Leadership Transition breakfast meeting at the Joint Engineer Education & Training Conference and Expo held the following calendar year for which the Post met the criteria for the award.

SF Post is proud to have been awarded Streamers for all categories in 2015, three out of four with distinction. We attribute our success to careful planning of our annual program so that we can meet the criteria that have been established for each category. Following is a list of criteria we must satisfy, by category. The number desired depends on the size of the Post. As a Medium-sized Post, we must meet the number of desired criteria listed below, by category.

Leadership and MentoringRequired:

� Send a Post Board member to a Post Leaders Workshop held in the Calendar Year. � Conduct K-12 Outreach to promote careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) � Provide leadership opportunities for Young Members in Post programs.

Desired (4 of 6): � Post provides funding for one or more NCOs or Young Members to attend the annual JETC or other

education or training event hosted by a Post or other professional association. � Conduct one or more mentoring sessions or activities for Young Members and NCOs, utilizing SAME

Fellows and other experienced professionals. � Implement a Post Program to welcome and mentor new members. � Nominate a high school student or Mentor to a SAME Engineering and Construction Camp. � Utilize Post Education and Mentoring or Operating Funds to support the education and professional

development of one or more of the following groups in STEM Careers: K-12 Teachers and Students, College Students, Young Members or NCOs

� Send a Young Member or NCO to a Post Leaders Workshop held in the Calendar Year.


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Education and TrainingRequired:

� Provide education forums that award a minimum of eight (8) Professional Development Hours(PDHs) for Medium Posts in support of members who require continuing education credits for their professional registrations or certifications, consistent with SAME Guide to Continuing Professional Competency

� Assist Members in obtaining professional licensure and certifications.Desired (3 of 5):

� Plan and execute a Small Business workshop or training session geared towards helping small businesses successfully participate in DOD programs (can co-host with another Post).

� One or more Post members submit an article for publication in TME or other professional magazine or journal.

� Conduct at least one community service project. � Assist veterans and wounded warriors with transition assistance through mentoring, credentialing

and job fairs � Conduct a Continuing Education course, seminar or Webinar or co-sponsor a course or webinar with

SAME HQ.Relationships and RecognitionRequired:

� Conduct one or more meetings that provide information on future programs, projects, and contract opportunities for Department of Defense and other Federal, State or local programs relevant to the Post membership

� Promote diversity on Post Board of Directors by having Small Business, Young Members, and public and private sector representatives, and when feasible, a Noncommissioned Officer

� Maintain communications with Post members by having an updated Post website (information on Post leadership and events current as of January 1, 2015) and through either periodic emails or newsletters

� Establish and implement an annual Post Awards Program to recognize Post membersDesired (2 of 4):

� Conduct a joint meeting with another professional society that fosters the goals of SAME � Conduct outreach to support wounded warriors and their families, families of deployed engineers, or

families of fallen warriors � Nominate a Post member for a RVP Medal, National Award, National Board of Direction. (Note: To

receive credit, the Post must nominate the individual or company for the award; self-nominations, endorsements for nominations from other Posts and selections made by SAME HQ without nomination will not receive credit.)

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Emergency Preparedness and Infrastructure Resilience Required:

� Sponsor an educational session to share information on technology and tools related to emergency preparedness, response, recovery, and infrastructure resilience with public and private sector organizations.

� A minimum of two Post members complete a minimum of four hours (equivalent of 0.4 CEUs or 4 PDHs) each of EP&IR training in the calendar year from TISP recommended online courses or locally sponsored events. [Indicate name of Post members, name of course and number of hours for each]

Desired (2 of 4): � Conduct or participate in an Emergency Preparedness or Infrastructure Resilience exercise with

regional, state or local organizations. � Post member makes a presentation on Emergency Preparedness or Infrastructure Resilience at a

SAME or TISP event, or other organization’s meeting, workshop or conference. � Send a Post member responsible for Emergency Preparedness and Infrastructure Resilience to a TISP-

sponsored national or regional event or attend a TISP sponsored webinar. � At least one Post Member participates in one or more TISP committee teleconferences and provides

knowledge gained to other Post members [Indicate names of Post members who participated, dates of participation and how information was shared]

As a member of the San Francisco Post, please keep these in mind as you plan the remainder of 2016. Individuals can support especially by helping to promote K-12 outreach in STEM careers; submitting articles to The Military Engineer or other professional magazine; conducting (and planning and reporting them through SAME) community service projects; mentoring and teaching courses; and assisting veterans and wounded warriors. Also don’t forget to be involved in our many programmed events.


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FREE PMP EXAM PREP COURSE FOR VETERANS

SAME’s Ed Curran is conducting a free exam preparation course for veterans interested in obtaining their Project Management Professional (PMP) certificate.

About the Exam:

The PMP Exam is reportedly more difficult than the California Bar.

The PMP Exam is 4 hours long and covers a myriad of topics based, in part, on the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK), and in part on “general knowledge of Project Management”.

PMBOK has over 500 authors (!), thus very difficult to follow.

“General knowledge of Project Management” is up to the individuals who write the PMP Exam questions.

It is no wonder that people find it very difficult to pass this exam.

(Commercial instruction companies charge as much as $2500 per person to take a course similar to this one).

About the Course:

The PMP Exam Prep course is 8 weeks long, 2 hours per session, usually Tuesday nights (5:30 PM – 7:30 PM) held at the offices of a SAME member firm. The next course is scheduled to start on 2 May 16.

The tuition is free. Each participant has to pay only for textbooks (approx. $55)

The Course covers each of the ten PMBOK knowledge area plus the PMI Code of Ethics.

Special emphasis is given to PMP Exam questions and strategies for dealing with them.

About the instructor:

Ed Curran is a navy veteran. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy, he served as a naval aviator aboard the USS Enterprise in the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean.He has a Master of Science from Columbia University and an MBA from Golden Gate University.Ed has over 40 years experience in the Architect-Engineering/Construction Management professions, mainly as a project manager and operations manager.For the past four years he has been teaching Project Management at Golden Gate University Graduate School of Business.


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As many of you know, I recently became the YM Chair when LCDR Todd Wimmer transitioned to the San Francisco Post President role. I moved to the Bay Area from Washington D. C. in 2014 upon being assigned to the U.S. Coast Guard Civil Engineering Unit in Oakland. I am currently a Construction Manager for U.S. Coast Guard projects in California, Oregon, and Washington.

Having transferred from Washington D.C. Post as a young member, I look forward to sharing my experiences and continuing an active role in the San Francisco Post. One of my best experiences while serving as the Education Co-Chair in the Washington D.C. Post was promoting the SAME Engineering Camps; which I hope everyone has a chance to be involved in.

Since joining the San Francisco post, I have enjoyed participating in monthly luncheons, young member get-togethers, and the SAME Gala. I’ve met several of you at these events and look forward to meeting more in the events to come.

The first event I organized as the new YM Chair was a Happy Hour event at Smuggler’s Cove in San Francisco in December where we had a great turn out. In February, I organized another Happy Hour event to say farewell to Todd at Plank in Oakland where we played a few games of bowling and corn hole. And in March, we planned a special event with CBRE and Google for a job fair specifically targeting our YM group. The YM group also participated in volunteering for the MATHCOUNTS competitions that occurred in February. I look forward to organizing more happy hours, volunteer events and potentially a couple of construction tours alternating locations between East Bay and San Francisco. Please let me know if you have any ideas for upcoming events to keep our young member network a thriving part of our San Francisco Bay Area Post.

LT. Rachael LoveSAME SF Post - Young Member Chair

Smuggler’s Cove YM Event: (left to right) David Adams, James Elliott, Rachael Love (YM Chair), Alicia Deschamps, Andres Luai (Membership Chair), Jennifer Diep, and Tom Hart. (Photo courtesy of Todd Wimmer)

Plank Event: On Left, Andres Luai recruiting more members. On right, past and present YM Chairs Todd Wimmer and Rachael Love (Photo courtesy of Sheila Higgins)


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Kelyn is an aspiring mechanical-environmental engineer off to an impressive start.

It seems that it all got going when he read Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore in Elementary School. Since then he became focused on multiple projects on environmental science from science fair projects to writing and editing the school’s science magazine. He spent a summer studying oceanography with a Stanford graduate student and completed an independent research project on wind power, investigating the optimum geography for Savonian scoops. [Savonian scoops, invented in 1922 are vertical wind vanes, whose technology date back to the 17th century]. His research determined the geometry for nonlinear drag profile for the Savonian scoop, and will most probably result in a more efficient means of producing wind power.

Keyln’s enthusiasm for science has lead to his becoming President and Captain of the school’s Science Olympiad Club and Team. He managed to take a team of 15 totally inexperienced in science competition to where it eventually placed seventh (out of 28) in the State competition. His other achievements include:

2nd Place in the Meglev section of the Science Olympiad3rd Place in a competition of the National Ocean Sciences Bowl1st and 2nd Places in the Synopsis Science and Technology ChampionshipOn top of this, Kelyn has become an established musician playing the flute. He is now the Principal flutist with the California Youth Orchestra. He will be attempting to complete the Level 8 Exam given by the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music (ABRSM) later on this Spring. Meanwhile he has been assisting the ABRSM in the production of class curriculum and student aid.

Keyln’s other volunteer work includes being an assistant coach for the American Youth Soccer Organization, and as an assistant supervisor with the Science Olympiad Institute where he co-developed and presented training materials. He has also served as a science fair judge for the Springer Elementary School’s STEM Expo and /Science o Rama.

Keyln will be attending Stanford University, majoring in Mechanical Engineering.

Kelyn WoodMountain View High School

GPA: 4.70 SAT: 2350Award: $9,000

Every year the SAME San Francisco Post awards multiple scholarships to graduating seniors around the Bay Area, Kelyn Wood, Sofia Brown, Megan Mc Candless, Anya Kulikiv and Howard Coffin are this year’s recipients. Stay tuned for the next issue to hear what these students are up to.


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In addition to academics, Sophia’s accomplishments in extracurricular activities are indeed impressive.

She served in the school’s student body organization, eventually getting elected President.

She was also elected Class President her Sophomore year.

Sophia has been quite active with the Girl Scouts of America where she was awarded the Ambassador Community Service Bar Award for her services (and hard work) in serving the Community. Among many other projects, she helped in the planning, organizing, fund raising, and building a garden for senior citizens at the Eden Village Assisted Living Community.

Sophia has proven herself to be formidable on the athletic field. As a member of the Pleasanton RAGE Girls’ Soccer Club, she has been the starting goal keeper since she was (get this!) ten years old, and of course, she is now Team Captain.

That’s not all. She is Captain of the Varsity Basketball team.

That’s not all. She is Captain of the Varsity Lacrosse team.

On top of her community service activities with the Girl Scouts, Sophia has been active with the National Charity League where she has served as Vice President of Philanthropy and Treasurer. The National Charity League is a mother–daughter philanthropic organization committed to community service, leadership development, and cultural experiences.

Sophia’s other volunteering activities are amazingly extensive:

She was appointed youth member of Pleasanton’s Parks and Recreation Committee, volunteered at the Pleasanton Public Library, assisted in the Special Olympics, worked for the Kids Against Hunger group, and volunteered as a Vacation Bible School counselor.

Finally, Sophia is an accomplished pianist. (Her favorite composer is Johan Sebastian Bach).

Sophia will be attending Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in the Fall where she will major in Aerospace Engineering and compete in Division 1 soccer.

Sophia BrownFoothill High SchoolGPA: 4.47 SAT: 2070Award: $8,000


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Megan is from Livermore where she has been attending Granada High School.

Megan is Captain of the Track team and of the Cross Country team. In Cross Country, she placed 18th in the national cross country race held in Portland, Ore. She was also named Athlete of the Week 2014 and 2015 on local Television Channel 30.

She took her experience as a track and cross country star and applied it to planning and organizing a 100-mile relay for her team to raise over $3,000 for Camp Orkizu, a week-long camp for children with cancer, or for siblings; weekend programs for families, or teens and siblings.

Megan, showing her cross country skills, participated in a Philmont high adventure scout camp on a 12-day backpacking trek with a Boy Scouts of America Venture Crew.

Her volunteer efforts include helping out at the Livermore Public Library, participating in the local Fertile Groundworks (growing food for a food bank), and working at the Veterans Hospital where she talked with and read to Alzheimers patients. She has also tutored students in math and physics.

Keen in mathematics, Megan was given Sandia National Laboratory’s Women’s math award in her Junior Year.

Megan is an avid participant in the school’s robotics club where she has been President both her Junior and Senior Years. Her fascination with robotics came at an early age. To quote from her essay:

“I am seven years old, [ I like chocolate cookies] I begin thinking of [designing] a robotic system that would [automatically prepare and produce chocolate cookies.

I am now 15 years old. Having matured a little bit from wanting to mass produce cookies, I now think beyond myself. My grandmother has been having a hard time walking, so I am thinking about wheelchairs. I design (in my head) a chair that easily transfers the person sitting it to the bed and back again…I am now 17 years old. I find myself using a 3D printer to prototype my ideas and am designing pieces for the machine shop students to fabricate…

I want to design useful equipment, and a mechanical engineering degree would provide many opportunities to learn skills to bring my dreams to life.”

Megan will be attending MIT in the Fall. She intends to major in Mechanical Engineering.

Megan Mc CandlessGranada High School

GPA: 4.35 SAT: 2320Award: $5,000


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Anya’s parents immigrated from the Ukraine 20 years ago and proceeded to become prominent scientists in local research institutions. Naturally she leaned Russian, but she also mastered Spanish when she spent an entire summer at the Spanish Language Intensive Studies at the University of Guadalajara.

Along with being tri-lingual, Anya is a talented ballerina. Among other performances, she was a soloist and ensemble dancer with the Dance Connection of Palo Alto Youth Ensemble (a non-profit organization dedicated to community outreach).

More of her volunteer efforts are with Art in Action which is another non-profit, only this time dedicated to art education. Another where she is quite active is the Project Read at Redwood City Library, which is a program connecting student-tutors (such as Anya) with K-8 students in need of academic and social help.

Anya became fascinated with science when she participated in the Large Hadron Collider research program. Note: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest, most complex experimental facility ever built.

Anya traveled to Geneva and then down 500 feet underground to work at the facility. Her program consisted of two parts. For the majority of it, she worked through junior year on a research project on muons which she then presented at Cal Poly. Then in the summer, for the last two weeks of August, she was at the LHC, where she continued helping develop a basic particle analysis program using the Python software.

Anya was also active in the summer COSMOS Program at UC Davis, concentrating in the math program. Another summer she participated in the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth.

Anya is very interested in entering the software engineering profession. Last summer she became “immersed” in the Girls Who Code organization which she founded, and became President of her school’s Girls Who Code Club. Her experience with Girls Who Code led her in developing an app for very important, though mundane, problem impacting our environment. Titled “Grow Green” the app allows a user of recyclable material to type into the app the material they are discarding. Grow Green will then instruct the user what to do with it. Ultimately this will lead to developing a bar code program for the entire waste recycling industry.

Anya will be attending UC Berkeley on a Regents scholarship.

Anya KulikivMenlo-Atherton High SchoolGPA: 4.42 SAT: 2260Award: $4,000


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As an understatement, Howard thinks outside the box.

As such, he has an intense interest in Robotics and has made great strides in this area. He commits as much as 14 hours a week with the Robotics Team (as Lead Engineer), as well as considerable time with the school’s Math Club and Programming Club. He spent last summer teaching himself to program projects involved with machine learning. Also in his free time, he learned how to apply the software, Solidworks to create models for 3D printing.

Howard volunteers as a Teacher’s Assistant for the computer science courses at his school. As a Teaching Assistant, he helps students “de-bug” their computer programs, and helps explain to them logic that was introduced in class.

Howard extends his volunteering in computer science to outside the classroom where he has donated time to the Resource Area For Teaching (RAFT) group in San Jose. RAFT is a non-profit organization which has as its primary focus “to inspire, engage, and educate children through the power of hands on teaching”.

His volunteer work extends beyond robotics, computer science, and software. More humbly, he donates his time for the San Jose City Team which provides hot meals, safe shelter, showers, and clean clothing to the City’s homeless population.

In Howard’s words, “My dream job is to become a position at NASA-perhaps designing a rover that could survive other planets besides Earth and Mars”.

Howard has applied to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, MIT, UC Berkeley, and UC Davis. He has been accepted at Cal Poly.

Howard CoffinArchbishop High School

GPA: 4.57 SAT: 2210Award: $4,000

Congratulations to all the recipients!


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Hospital design and construction are considered by many industry experts to be too complex for design/build much less P3 delivery models. The technical demands of the building’s systems combined with evolving models of care and the latest generations of equipment present significant real time challenges to successful project delivery regardless of provider or location. The project’s a moving target. Those challenges, however, are not the only ones facing the VA. Of even greater concern to the Department is its commitment to provide greater access to care for all Veterans, a commitment that demands rapid delivery of new facilities at new locations. Speed to market is essential, but so are cost and quality control. In response, the VA has developed a P3 pipeline for major capital, outpatient facilities. When it opens this month, the Kernersville Healthcare Center in North Carolina, at 400,000 GSF, will be the largest of its type in the VA system. Valued at more than $130 million, the fast track, LEED Gold for Healthcare project was led by international developer/builder Lend Lease using a design team headed by Perkins Eastman Architects. Relying heavily on natural light and on local references from the Smoky Mountains to the Outer Banks, the facility is meant to be a place of respite as well as focused care. Specialty clinics include Women’s Health, Cardiology, Radiology, Dialysis and Rehabilitation among others. In addition to a green roof, side porch and outdoor dining, sustainable highlights include:

� 30% savings in potable water use, � 75% of waste diverted from landfill, � 31% energy savings over AHSRAE, � 40% of building materials sustainably sourced and � green cleaning and maintenance programs.

The success of the project is due in great measure to the VA’s vision in adopting a developer led P3 delivery model as well as to Lend Lease’s leadership of the D&C Team within that model. Because of its complexity and speed, the project benefitted continuously from the integrated approach the VA and Lend Lease implemented together, an approach fully supported by the A/E Team. The building was fully modelled using Revit and similar building information softwares, and cost and schedule were aggressively managed with no sacrifice of quality. Kernersville should put to rest any questions that may linger about the suitability of P3 for the delivery of technically demanding, urgently needed federal facilities.

KERNERSVILLE VA HCC – P3 ALIGNS FEDERAL HEALTHCARE NEEDS WITH ALTERNATIVE DELIVERY

Developer: Lend Lease Builder: Lend Lease Architect: Perkins EastmanCivil Engineer: LittlejohnLandscape Architect: LittlejohnStructural Engineers: LRS & GPLABlast Engineer: WeidlingerMEPFP Engineers: R. G. VanderweilMedical Equipment Planner: Shen Milsom Wilke

Project name: VA Healthcare Center, Kernersville, NC Project type: Developer Led Leaseback, Outpatient MedicalProject size: 400,000 GSFProject cost: $130 millionProject award: 1 June, 2013Structural dwgs issued: 1 October, 2013Remaining dwgs issued: 1 March, 2014Building handover: 1 December, 2015First patients received: 1 May, 2016


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PresidentJohn JonesOperations ManagerMartinez Services, [email protected]

1st Vice PresidentLTC John MorrowUSACE(415) [email protected]

Past PresidentTony PetroccittoGHD, Inc.(415) 283-4970 [email protected]

Special thanks to our contributors:

Ed CurranJohn JonesSusan BedfordLt. Rachael Love

Jay LinSheila HigginsTony PetroccittoArvind Acharya

SAN FRANCISCO POST NEWSLETTEREditorRenée RemillardGHD, [email protected](707) 523-1010

DATE TOPIC LOCATION

May 23-26, 2016 SAME Joint Engineer Phoenix Convention Center Training Conference Phoenix, AZ

August 17-18, 2016 SAME Sacramento & San Francisco Post Harper Alumni Center 2016 Training & Business Opportunities California State University Symposium Sacramento

December 8, 2016 SAME Holiday Gala Marines’ Memorial Club San Francisco, CA

The San Francisco Post has some exciting programs lined up through the year. We look to present timely and interesting topics for our members. If you have any program questions or ideas, please contact our Programs Director, Arvind Acharya, Gilbane, [email protected].

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