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The Facility Dynamics Team
Here is the heart of the site and our company; our people. This page provides summary information on the exceptional people that provide their talent and industry to make this company tick and provide world class services to our clients. Remember that any service company is only as good as its current pool of talent. We are fortunate to be composed of this team of individuals, most of who have been with us for much of our history. Please note the seniority of the staff. When comparing us to the other firms, be sure to compare the quality of the experience, and not the quantity of people. Most any one of our individuals could be in senior management positions with the big multi-tiered organizations; directing several junior individuals who actually do the work. The reason they fit in with Facility Dynamics is that they have a passion for the work itself, and not the management of it.
E. Lon Brightbill, P.E.
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Lon is a Cofounder and Principal. Lon oversees all engineering and software development. He has 28 years experience; 19 with us, 2 with an ESCO and 7 with a M/E consulting firm. Besides developing most of our software , Lon has completed many of the projects for NIH, GSA, UPS, Senior Campus Living, Marriott, GM, Johns Hopkins University and Medical Institute, PEPCO, BASF, IBM, Pentagon, Abbott Labs, DIA, Boeing, Flexilon, HEC, etc.
J. Jay Santos, P.E.
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Jay is a Cofounder and Principal. Jay is involved in DDC Master Planning, Controls and Commissioning Training, and Controls Design and Commissioning projects. He has 29 years experience; 19 with us, 2 with an ESCO and 9 with the Air Force. Jay has developed and teaches DDC courses for the University of Wisconsin, Iowa State University and North Carolina State University. He has also developed a "hands-on" commissioning course and teaches this for Iowa and PECI. Jay has overseen DDC/Control Master Plans for the University of California - Davis, American University, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Fairfax County - VA Public Schools, Lawrence Livermore Labs and DC Government. He has managed controls design efforts for NIH, GSA, Aerospace Corporation and Wake Forest University.
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Scott D. Stoutenborough, P.E.
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Scott is one of our original engineers. Scott is a Senior Controls and Mechanical Engineer. He has 27 years experience, 19 with us, 2 with an ESCO, and 7 with a facilities engineering group. Scott has completed many of the projects for NIH, Univ. Of MD, Intelsat, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Montgomery County, U of Min., Mayo, BASF and NCI.
Tom E. Melton, P.E.
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Tom is a Senior Controls and Mechanical Engineer and Commissioning Specialist. He has 24 years experience, 13 with us, and 11 with a A/E consulting firm. Tom has completed projects for Wake Forest University, Virginia Department of Mental Health, Virginia Tech, University of Virginia, William and Mary College, American University, Longwood University, University of North Carolina, GSA, Boston Athenaeum, Hewitt and many others.
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Tim Scruby, P.E, LEED AP
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Tim is a Senior Controls, Commissioning, and Mechanical Engineer. He has 27 years experience, 13 with us, and 16 with other engineering firms. Tim is a registered professional engineer in VA, NC, MA, CA, AZ, OH, WI, WV, GA and HI. Tim's range of projects include museums, laboratories, educational, residential, health care/hospitals and central heating and cooling plants.  The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, The University of Virginia, Harvard, Saint Mary's College, Federal Reserve Bank, DMH of VA, Wake Forest University, Medical College of VA, VCU, Canon, John Deere, General Motors and Hewitt are among clients he has worked with.
Tom Allin
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Tom is a Senior Controls and Mechanical Engineer and Commissioning Specialist.. He has 27 years experience, 12 with us, 8 with controls contractor, and 8 with a mechanical contractor He has performed or is actively working on multiple projects for a number of clients including; Rush University Medical Center, Cedar-Sinai Medical Center, MD Anderson Cancer Center, St. John's Health Center, University of Southern California, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Constitution Center and the Commonwealth of Virginia.     
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Stan Stough
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Stan is a Senior Electrical Engineer. Stan has 38 years experience, 15 with us and 23 with M/E consulting firms. Stan has worked on projects for NIH, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, Intelsat, University of Maryland, Federal Bureau of Prisons, University of California - Davis and Berkeley, William and Mary College, Harvard  University and the University of Virginia.
Kevin Dukes
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Kevin is an Energy Engineer and Commissioning Specialist. He has over 15 years experience and has been with FDE for 10 years.  Kevin's energy background includes building energy surveys and facility assessments, evaluation of energy conservation projects, contract procurement and energy savings monitoring and verification.  As a Commissioning Specialist, Kevin has performed facility assessments and remediation engineering, controls design/design review and Cx/ReCx of schools, offices, labs, BSL3/BSL4 facilities and the preparation of high containment lab spaces for certification.  His experience includes Montgomery County Public Schools, National Institute of Health and John's Hopkins Medical Institute.
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Brian Russell, P.E.
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Brian is a Controls, Commissioning and Mechanical Engineer. He has 13 years of experience, 7 with us, 4 with a controls contractor, and 2 with a government M/E contractor. He has developed DDC standard specifications and control drawings for Montgomery County (MD) Public Schools and Clark County (NV) School District.  His commissioning projects include: the Bloch Building addition to Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the renovation of the Williamsburg Lodge and Sprint World HQ.  He is providing LEED commissioning services for projects with the Commonwealth of Virginia and St. Mary's College of Maryland. Other projects include: American University, Christiana Care Hospitals, County of Henrico (VA), East Carolina University, FAA, FBOP, GSA, NIH, UC Davis, University of Virginia and Virginia Tech.
Jim Hottel
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Jim is a Senior Project Manager and Mechanical Engineer. He has 35 years experience, 9 with us, and the rest with various contractors, and mechanical service firms generally with the service manager responsibility. Jim has worked on projects for GM, NIH, American University, VA Dept of Mental Health, Montgomery College and Montgomery County.
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Phil Engers
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Phil is a Senior Project Engineer and Commissioning Specialist. Phil has 20 years experience, 5 with us, 3 as a facility manager, 5 as a consultant, and 7 as a mechanical contractor. Phil has worked on projects with PEPCO, Montgomery County, MD, University of Maryland Medical System, FAA and Johns Hopkins University.
Larry Lister
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Larry is a Senior Mechanical Engineer with 22 years of experience, 7 with us and 15 with the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory.  During this time, he has also been a consultant to Argonne National Laboratory, The Department of Energy and The World Bank.  Larry has served as adjunct faculty member to the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, teaching thermodynamics and heat transfer.  His projects with FDE include managing and conducting the GSA Region 9 Retrocommissioning Program, various PACRAT implementation and training, developing design and content for the DDC Online controls project and developing/conducting new commissioning projects in the Midwest.  Larry also has experience with chemical /biological threat assessment and hardening of facilities and transportation infrastructure.
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Mark Arney, P.E.
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Mark is an Energy and Mechanical Engineer with over 25 years of experience. He has been with FDE for 7 years. He spent ten years as the energy engineer for a local government and another ten with an energy consulting firm. His current and past clients include: GSA, Southern California Edison, PG&E, EPA, Honeywell, NREL and DOE.  Mark is a certified Energy Manager.  His specialties are retro-commissioning and energy management.
 
  Steve Briggs, PhD
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Steve is a Controls and Electrical Engineer.  He has 15 years of experience, 3 with FDE and 12 with Construction Engineering Research Laboratory.  Steve's primary focus is on PACRAT software development.  In addition, he has worked on the DDC Online Manual, various PACRAT implementations, and projects for Abbott Labs, GSA and MCBH.
  Clay Johnston
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Clay is a Senior Designer with 40 years of experience.  He joined FDE in 2000 after 33 years with a Consulting Engineering firm.  He has provided all phases of HVAC design for Industrial, Commercial and Government projects.  Clay has worked on various projects for E.I. Dupont, Quad Graphics, Canon, Medical College of Virginia, Colonial Williamsburg, various museums and State and Federal Governments.

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  Kevin Shortt
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Kevin is a Controls and Mechanical Engineer.  He has 15 years of experience, 5 with FDE, 4 as an Engineering Manager, 4 as an Operations Manager and 2 as a Sales Engineer.  Kevin has worked on various commissioning jobs including the Environmental Protection Agency, University of North Carolina, East Carolina University, University of Virginia, Mary Washington College, Medical College of Virginia, Wake Forest University, Harvard University, Arlington County Schools, Colonial Williamsburg, North Carolina Department of Mental Health and Virginia Department of Mental Health.
 

 

  Mark Porter
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Mark is a Controls Engineer with 26 years of experience.  He joined Facility Dynamics in March of 2003.  He has 4 years of experience working on shipboard Propulsion Control Systems, 5 years as a stationary engineer at a university and 16 years with a controls contractor.  While at FDE, he has worked on GSA Projects in Sacramento, Los Angeles and Fresno, California.

 

 
  Jay Schaefer
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Jay is Senior Field Engineer with 20 years experience, 4 years with FDE, 2 years as a controls, training and commissioning consultant, another 6 years in facility management in health care and over 6 years as a stationary engineer at a museum. He has worked on projects at the University of Maryland Medical System, NIST labs, GSA - Pacific Rim Region (involving sixty facilities) EPA and the Marriott Corporation.

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  Donald Kuney
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Don is a Senior Project Engineer and Commissioning Specialist.  Don has 21 years of experience, 4 with FDE and 17 years of facility engineering experience with the Federal Government as a facility manager/engineer mostly on large government facilities and district heating and cooling plants.  Don has worked on various projects at the National Institute of Health, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, District of Columbia, EPA, Montgomery County (MD) and GSA.

 

Jamie Nickels
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Jamie is a Controls Engineer with 12 years experience. 5 as a systems engineer, 4 as an operations manager and 3 with FDE. He has worked on various controls and commissioning projects for University of Virginia, William and Mary College, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Arlington County Schools, Richmond Airport, EPA, GSA, NIH, Virginia Department of Mental Health, Virginia Information Technologies Agency and Virginia Department of Corrections.

 

David Mullinix
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Dave is a Marketing Manager with 8 years of experience.  He joined FDE in May of 2003.  He has worked with various Government Contractors in Marketing and Business Development.  Dave is responsible for all marketing efforts at FDE including; proposal support, marketing research and development and other office duties.

 

 

Eric Young
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Eric is a Controls and Mechanical Engineer.  Eric has 11 years experience, 4 with FDE,  4 with a controls contractor and 4 years as a controls/mechanical consultant. Eric has worked on projects for:  Adobe Systems, Applied Materials, GSA and Kaiser Permanente Hospitals.

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Gary Kawabuchi
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Gary  is a Controls and Commissioning Engineer.  Gary has over 28 years experience with four controls contractors and has been with FDE for 3.  He is actively working on multiple projects for a number of clients including: GSA, St John's Health Center, Department of Mental Health - Metro State Hospital, University of Southern California, UC Berkeley and Clark County School District.

 

 

 

David Rush, P.E.
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Dave  is a Senior Controls and Mechanical Engineer.  He has been with FDE for over two years and has 28 years experience, 5 with an M/E consulting firm, 15 years in the design and construction of facilities for the University of Maryland and 6 in the HVAC manufacturing industry.  Dave is currently working on several projects for: Archdiocese of Baltimore, Trammell Crow, NIH and the State of Delaware.  He is also assisting with marketing, proposals and project development. 

 

Larry Voltin
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Larry  is a Senior Operation and Controls Specialist.  Larry joined FDE in 2005 and has over 30 years experience, 7 with another commissioning firm and 23 at a major control manufacturer.  Larry is currently working on projects which include:  University of Maryland Baltimore, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute and Penn State University.

 

David Sellers, P.E.
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David  is a Mechanical Engineer.  He is a recent addition to FDE with over 30 years experience working all sides of the fence in the buildings industry.  This experience includes over 24 years performing commissioning, design work, project engineering and training, 4 years in mechanical and control system contracting and 2 years as the HVAC and fire protection facilities engineer at a silicon wafer fab.  David's recent projects include: retrocommissioning work for Marriott, new construction commissioning for GSA and developing and delivering training and infrastructure support for the commissioning industry via various utility programs.

 

Dave Stabler, P.E., RCDD
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Dave is an Electrical Engineer and has over 29 years of experience. He joined FDE in the summer of 2006.  Dave's background covers the full range of electrical design activities as well as project management experience for electrical and MEP design teams.  A significant portion of his experience was in the healthcare field with projects involving operating suites, radiology suites, MRI facilities, in-patient wards, complete hospital facilities, assisted-living facilities with dementia wings, medical lab spaces etc.  Recently Dave has worked with our commissioning teams on our Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Hershey Medical Center Cancer Institute projects.

 

Tony Pierce, P.E.
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Tony has over 25 years experience in the design, construction and commissioning of building systems.  He joined FDE in 2006 and is located in Southern California.  He has previously worked for Southern California Edison Co. principally promoting sustainable building design practices and energy efficiency standards and HMC Group, an architectural-engineering firm where he was the Director of Mechanical Engineering. Tony's current projects include the University of Southern California's Galen Center, the Los Angeles Police Department's new Police Administration Building and the State of California's Retro-commissioning program.

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