LFI Program Day: Infrastructure & Energy (January 22, 2015)
Team:
Denene Burke (LFI ’15), Asher Kotz (LFI ’15), Tanya La Force (LFI ’15), Beatriz Duque Long
(LFI ’15), Charles McCaffrey (LFI ’15), Jeff Thomas (LFI ’15), Sharon Wingrove (LFI ’15)
Advisors:
Oanh Henry (LFI ’11), Jeff Fraley (LFI ’14)
Location:
Fredrick P. Griffith, Jr. Water Treatment Plant
9600 Ox Road, Lorton, VA 22079
Leadership
Competency:
Systems Awareness
Systems awareness is focused on seeing our part in the context of a whole
organizational system and understanding ways in which we can avoid
misunderstandings and interact more productively across organizational lines. We will
explore the relationships within an organizational system and learn some techniques to
enable to be more effective in any type of system/organization. Having real
understanding about organizations and recognizing predictable patterns can accelerate
the impact we as leaders have on critical change initiatives.
Program Day
Topic:
Fairfax County’s critical infrastructure – roads, bridges, water and sewer, gas
distribution, electrical distribution, telecom – varies in age, usage, and investment
levels. The county residents, businesses and Federal Government rely on the
infrastructure for quality of life, competitive advantage and resiliency of mission. Newly
developed or re-developed areas in the county have new infrastructure, but more
established areas are served by legacy systems that require more investment and
upkeep.
Objectives:
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Increase awareness of the major systems (both hard and soft) that make up the
Fairfax County infrastructure.
Highlight some of the economic and infrastructure challenges related to a balancing
the needs of various stakeholders while pursuing economic development efforts.
Show how innovation is playing a major role in the future of Fairfax County’s
infrastructure.
Provide participants with ideas that they can support infrastructure projects and
economic development within Fairfax County.
8:00-8:30AM
Arrival, Check-In (Get your water bottle!) & Continental Breakfast
8:30-8:35AM
Welcome Remarks: Joel Thompson, Director, Production Division, Fairfax Water
8:35-10:05AM Leadership Competency: Systems Awareness
Debbie Eshelman, LFI ’01, Korn/Ferry Leadership and Talent Management Consulting
10:05-10:20AM Break
10:20-10:30AM Table Discussion – “What is Infrastructure?”
Charles McCaffrey, LFI ’15
10:30-11:45AM Panel Discussion: Many Parts, Many Players, Making It Work Together
Beatriz Duque Long, LFI ’15
Moderator: Phillip W. Allin, LFI ’89, Chairman, Fairfax Water
Panelists:
Jeff McKay, Lee District Supervisor
Nancy-jo Manney, Executive Director, Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce
Janyce Hedetniemi, Member-at-large, Fairfax County Planning Commission
11:45-12:15PM Urban Planning/Infrastructure Team Game – City By Design based on National
Building Museum Youth Education Program (Part I)
Charles McCaffrey, LFI ‘15
12:15-1:00PM Lunch (Get your pedometers!)
1:00-1:10PM
Leadership Competency Review
Debbie Eshelman, LFI ’01, Korn/Ferry Leadership and Talent Management Consulting
1:10-1:55PM
Case Study: Redevelopment in Fairfax County – Lessons Learned for Springfield
Jeff Thomas, LFI ’15 and Tanya La Force, LFI ‘15
Speaker: Mark Looney, Cooley LLP
1:55-2:15PM
Urban Planning/Infrastructure Team Game (Part II)
Charles McCaffrey, LFI ’15
2:15PM
History & Future Use Planning of Fredrick P. Griffith, Jr. Water Treatment Plant & Tour
Asher Kotz, LFI ‘15
Speaker: Jamie Bain Hedges, Director of the Planning and Engineering Division, Fairfax
Water
2:30-2:55PM
Tour of Griffith Facility
Joel Thompson, Director, Production Division, Fairfax Water
John Hanchak, Manager of Water Production, Fairfax Water
2:55-3:10PM
Break
3:10-3:30PM
Urban Planning/Infrastructure Team Game (Part III)
Charles McCaffrey, LFI ‘15
3:30-4:30PM
Rotating Table Discussion – Energizing the Modern City
Sharon Wingrove, LFI ’15 and Denene Burke, LFI ‘15
Speakers:
• Phillip Sandino, LFI ’14, Director of Customer Solutions, Dominion Virginia Power,
• Melissa Adams, Division Head, Sustainability and Business Development,
Washington Gas
• Michael Mondshine, VP Sustainability and Energy, WSP Environmental
• Michael Blackwelder, Facility Manager, I-95 Energy Resource Recovery Facility,
Covanta Fairfax, Inc.
• Richard Caperton, Director of National Policy and Partnerships, Opower
4:30-4:45PM
Leadership Competency Review
Debbie Eshelman, LFI ’01, Korn/Ferry Leadership and Talent Management Consulting
4:45-5:00PM
Wrap-up & Call to Action
Video: “How to Start a Movement”
(http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movement?language=en)
5:00PM
Happy Hour – Yard House, Springfield Town Center
6791 Springfield Mall Drive, Springfield, VA 22150
Joel L. Thompson, Director of Production, Fairfax Water
Mr. Thompson is the Director of the Production Division for Fairfax Water. Before his appointment to
this position he was Director of Maintenance and Asset Management. Mr. Thompson came to the
Authority in 2005 after serving 21 years with the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission most
recently as Group Leader. He holds a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Maryland. He is a
member of the American Water Works Association and the Water Environment Federation.
Debbie Eshelman is Principal in Korn/Ferry’s Leadership and Talent Management Consulting practice,
based in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Ms. Eshelman brings over twenty-five years of
experience to Korn/Ferry in the areas of human capital management, organization development,
strategic planning, and executive consulting. In her current role, Ms. Eshelman advises senior leaders in
both the private and public sector on organizational strategy, employee engagement, performance
improvement, and leadership development. She has developed and taught leadership skills globally,
working with people in a variety of different countries. Having worked in leadership positions herself,
she draws upon her own experiences and those of the participants to make important concepts and
behaviors applicable to the needs of the participants.
Philip W. Allin serves as Chairman of the Board from
Fairfax Water since 2006, and has served on the Board of Directors since 1992.
Mr. Allin also serves as Chairman & CEO for Systems Furniture Gallery,
Chairman & CEO for Office Outfitters, and Treasurer for Barrel Oak Winery. In
1984, Mr. Allin began his involvement with Land Use and Transportation issues
working on the revitalization of the Downtown Springfield Business District. Since
1992, Mr. Allin has served on Fairfax Water Board of Directors. Mr. Allin has
been involved in several de novo banks in the Northern Virginia area as an
organizer and founding shareholder. Mr. Allin earned a Bachelor of Science
degree in Business Administration and Finance from the University of Maryland,
College Park. Mr. Allin was born in Washington, DC and is lifetime resident of the
area.
Jeffrey C. McKay was first elected to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors
in 2007 and began his second term on January 1, 2012. Supervisor McKay chairs the Fairfax County
Board’s Transportation Committee, Legislative Committee, and co-chairs the Board’s committee on
Community Revitalization and Reinvestment. He is a former board member of United Community
Ministries (UCM) and the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Committee on Reapportionment.
Supervisor McKay is a sworn Reserve Deputy Sheriff for Fairfax County. Supervisor McKay earned a B.A.
in Public Administration from James Madison University and is a graduate of the Sorensen Institute of
Political Leadership at the University of Virginia. He lives in Lee District with his wife Crystal, daughter
Leann, and son Aidan.
Janyce N. Hedetniemi, Member-at-large, Fairfax County Planning Commission
Janyce Hedetniemi is a consultant in community relations and constituency development. She is the
founding Director of the Office of Community Liaison at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an
agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Ms. Hedetniemi established the Office of
Community Liaison in September of 1994; she retired from that position in June of 2002.
In her eight years as Director, Ms. Hedetniemi created what is acknowledged as a national model for
Federal/Community collaboration. Her work is credited with successful conflict resolution between the
NIH and its community on issues ranging from environmental and transportation management to design
and implementation of an award winning master plan for the agency’s Bethesda campus.
Prior to this position, Ms. Hedetniemi served three Institutes of the NIH in progressively responsible
positions involving planning, evaluation, and development. Ms. Hedetniemi was instrumental in the
development of two major national biomedical research programs as Coordinator of the 1991 Hunt
Valley Conference to Establish a Research Agenda on Women’s Health and of the 1993 Conference to
Establish the National Action Plan on Breast Cancer.
Ms. Hedetniemi is a Member At-Large of the Fairfax County Planning Commission, a position to which
she was appointed in January, 2013. Prior to that, she served as a Member At-Large of the Fairfax
County Park Authority Board. She is a member of the Fairfax County Community Revitalization and
Redevelopment Advisory Group. Ms. Hedetniemi was the Braddock District representative to the
Fairfax County Transportation Advisory Commission for 9 years and chaired the Commission from 2008
to 2010. She was a member of the Tysons Land Use Task Force and Vice-Chair of the Task Force Steering
Committee which helped formulate comprehensive plan language for Tysons. She represented
Braddock District on and chaired the 2006 and 2007 Fairfax County Bond Referendum Committees. She
has been President of the Oak Hill Citizens Assocation since 1997. Ms. Hedetniemi also served as
President of the Braddock District Council for two years. She is a graduate of both Leadership
Montgomery and Leadership Maryland programs.
Ms. Hedetniemi holds a B.S. degree from Carnegie Mellon University where she majored in psychology
and English Literature and a M.S. degree from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana where she
majored in counseling and guidance.
Nancy-jo Manney, Executive Director, Greater Springfield Chamber of
Commerce
Nancy-jo Manney is the Executive Director of the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce. A
graduate of Western Maryland College, Nancy-jo spent ten years in the hospitality industry before
joining the Chamber in November 1998. She's a member of the Virginia Association of Chamber of
Commerce Executives, the Northern Virginia Coalition of Chambers of Commerce, Virginia Chamber of
Commerce and the US Chamber of Commerce. Nancy-jo serves on the Board of the Transportation
Association of Greater Springfield and on the Springfield Days Festival Board and Planning Committee. A
lifetime resident of the Baltimore-Washington metro area, she now lives in West Springfield.
Mark Looney is a partner in the Real Estate practice group and a member of
the Cooley Business department. He joined the Firm in 2000 and is resident in the Reston, Virginia
location.
Mr. Looney's practice includes representing major developers and national, regional and local
companies in all areas of land use, including office, retail, industrial, mixed-use, residential, healthcare,
hotel and large planned community projects. Mr. Looney counsels clients concerning all aspects of the
land planning, zoning and development process, including obtaining necessary zoning and permitting
approvals from public bodies and agencies, as well as presenting proposed zoning changes to affected
community groups and the local media. Mr. Looney has been recognized as one of the region's
preeminent land use/zoning attorneys by The Washington Business Journal ("Young Gun" - 2008; "Top
Zoning Lawyer" - Finalist, 2009), The Virginia Business Journal ("Legal Elite - Virginia's Best Lawyers"),
Richmond Magazine ("Rising Star"), Best Lawyers in America (2013-2015) and Chambers USA (named as
an "Up and Comer" in 2009, Band 2 in 2011, 2012 and 2013 and as a member of the #1-ranked Real
Estate practice in Northern Virginia from 2008-2014).
In 2010, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors appointed Mr. Looney to the Reston Master Plan Task
Force, which is charged with recommending changes to the Fairfax County Comprehensive Plan
necessary to guide development of properties adjacent to the three Silver Line Metrorail stations under
construction along the Dulles Corridor in Reston, Virginia. Mr. Looney received his J.D., cum laude,
from the George Mason University School of Law. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from James
Madison University, with majors in Political Science and Public Administration.
Mr. Looney currently
serves as Chairman of the Northern Virginia Transportation Alliance and is a former Chairman of the
Board of Directors of the Greater Reston Chamber of Commerce, where he remains a co-chair of the
Chamber's Public Policy Committee. Mr. Looney is a member of the Virginia Bar.
Among the rezonings, concept plans, development plans and special exceptions on which Mr. Looney
recently has worked are: See full list at http://www.cooley.com/mlooney
• Reston Town Center - 450-acre, 7+ million sq. ft. mixed-use Town Center District located along the
Dulles Toll Road in Fairfax County:
• Springfield Mall – Conversion of 85-acre suburban shopping mall into transit-oriented, mixed-use
development containing up to 2,800 residential units, 1 million sq. ft. of office, 450 hotel rooms and
2 million sq. ft. of retail.
• Dunn Loring/Merrifield Metro Station – 720-unit transit-oriented, mixed-use development, including
125,000 sq. ft. of ground floor retail & commuter parking, in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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Fairfax Circle - Redevelopment of suburban shopping center into a mixed-use community of 400
residential units with grocery-anchored, ground floor retail in Fairfax City, Virginia.
Bozzuto Reston Station – Redevelopment of mini-storage and warehouse site into transit-oriented,
mixed-use development of 400 residential units and ground floor retail adjacent to the Reston East
transit station in Reston, Virginia.
Greensboro Park Place – 480-unit, transit-oriented, mixed use development in Tysons, Virginia.
Jamie Bain Hedges, P.E.
Director of the Planning and Engineering Division
Fairfax Water
Ms. Hedges has been with Fairfax Water for over twenty-five years. She has held engineering and
managerial positions and for the last nine years has served as the Director of the Planning and
Engineering Division. In that role she has responsibility for the planning, design, and construction of
Fairfax Water’s facilities; source water management and planning; system hydraulic modeling and
analysis; site plan review, and GIS. Ms. Hedges has a B.S. in Civil Engineering and a Masters of Business
Administration, both from Virginia Tech. She is a licensed professional engineer, a member of the
American Water Works Association, and serves on the Board of Directors of the George Mason
University Civil Engineering Institute.
PHILLIP SANDINO’S BIOGRAPHY
Phillip Sandino is the Director of Customer Solutions for Dominion Virginia
Power. He is responsible for the key customer experience with Dominion’s
electric utility in Northern Virginia. Additionally, Phillip leads the Dominion Data
Center Services team which is responsible for growing the data center industry in
Virginia. Phillip is on the leadership board of NVTC’s Data Center and Cloud
Infrastructure Committee and 7x24 Washington DC Chapter, as well as a
member of the Arlington County Community Energy Plan Implementation
Review Committee.
Prior to work at Dominion, Phillip worked for NRG Energy in Long Beach, CA, as
an operations supervisor and for General Electric in various roles and locations
around the world.
Phillip has a BS MET from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX, and an MBA from
the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA.
Phillip works to strengthen the community in Northern Virginia with work on the
board of The Equal Footing Foundation and the Virginia Latino Higher Education
Network. Phillip is a student Mentor at Oak Hills Elementary School in Herndon,
VA, and a volunteer leader of Cub Scout Pack 873 in Annandale, VA. Phillip is
a past Volunteer of the Year for Dominion and a 2014 Alumnus of Leadership
Fairfax.
Phillip lives in Annandale, VA, with his wife, Kim, and three sons.
Melissa E. Adams, Division Head, Sustainability, Sales & Economic
Development, Washington Gas
Ms. Adams holds the post of Division Head for Sustainability, Sales and Economic Development
at Washington Gas where she leads the company’s carbon reduction initiatives, including
internal sustainability, customer efficiency programs, utility sales and new growth initiatives.
Before assuming this role, Ms. Adams led the investor relations functions of WGL and other
Fortune 500 energy companies.
She serves on a number of appointed regional commissions and task forces devoted to reducing
the carbon footprint of the Washington Metropolitan Area –She is a charter board member of
the Association of Climate Change Officers, Chair of the Sustainable Growth Committee for the
American Gas Association, an Executive Board member of the Greater Washington Region
Clean Cities Coalition, and a member of Leadership Greater Washington. Ms. Adams is a
frequent presenter at conferences on topics including Utility 2.0, distributed generation, and
sustainability. Ms. Adams is a graduate of The George Washington University.
Michael Mondshine, WSP Environmental, VP
Sustainability and Energy
Michael Mondshine is an internationally recognized expert in the fields
of energy, sustainability and climate change, with 22 years of
experience in greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting, policy development
and mitigation. An experienced consultant with passion for solving
complex problems, Mr. Mondshine currently leads WSP’s Climate
Preparedness practice, and is relied upon for strategic advisory by
Fortune 50 corporations, utilities, municipal, state and national
governments. Mr. Mondshine has been recognized by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) for his contributions to their receipt of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and serves as
Board Chair of the Association of Climate Change Officers (ACCO). A sought after speaker, he
has participated in panels and provided technical presentations at more than 40 conferences,
workshops and webinars in the U.S. and abroad. He has served as a lecturer for such educational
“bootcamps” as Materiality Assessment and Climate Risk Disclosure and Establishing GHG
Reduction Goals and Management Structures.
Richard W. Caperton, Director of National Policy and
Partnerships, Opower
Richard W. Caperton is the Director of National Policy and
Partnerships at Opower. Caperton leads the company’s
engagement with all branches of the federal government,
including Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency,
Department of Energy, and Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission.
Prior to joining Opower, Caperton was the Managing Director for Energy at the
Center for American Progress, where he worked on energy tax and finance and
electric utility issues. He has also worked in government relations at the National
Rural Electric Cooperative Association and served as a policy fellow at the Alliance
for Climate Protection.
Caperton has testified in front of the U.S. House of Representatives and is regularly
quoted in the press on these issues.
Caperton is a native of rural America, growing up in Virginia and Missouri. He
received his M.B.A. from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business
and a B.A. in politics from Pomona College.