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  • 1. Robs Amazing Journey
    • Early Years 1976-1980
  • 2. HCYU Years 1980 to 1993

3. GRGV Years (Now X'Nth) 1993 to 1996 4. The Latter Years 1997 to Now 5. Some Reflections

  • Someone asked once, if I knew what I was doing?

6. And, I answered, I did not know it was ok not to know! 7. Another said He Doesn't sound like an Elec Engineer 8. GOOD!

  • Heros

9. Walt Disney Brilliant Business Man, Amazing Human, Talent, talent talent! 10. HC YU Brilliant 11. My Mom Get up and make it work! 12. The Early Years

  • Roache Mercer Faison
  • HVAC/Elec Drafter

13. Mentored by Gil Faison 14. Tons of Schools

  • Hankins Anderson
  • Met HCYU

15. Mentored by Keith Baigent 16. Hospitals, Labs and VCU 17. N Stafford High School

  • Mentors Richard Herman Elmer Diehl Gilbert Faison

18. A Joe Ciucci AIA project MR Virginia School Architect 19. 18 Months, 16 hour days! Enough OT To Cruise to Bemuda 20. BUT not enough for wardrobe, Borrowed the bosses Tennis Outfits 21. The HCYu Years

  • The Most Amazing HVAC Engineer I ever met!

22. Participated in the Creation of Thermal Ice Storage Systems 23. If it doesn't exist, create it!! HCYU

  • Hospitality

24. Education 25. Labs 26. Museums 27. Air Ports 28. Management 29. Associate 30. West Falls Church Station Ancillary Spaces

  • 22 Years Old! Project Mgr!

31. Learned Traction Power from Tom Collins after hours 32. Dave Van Cott Reviewer Oh, the question isn't on his script 33. The multi-million dollar tree!

  • Traction Sub Stations

34. Parking areas 35. Kiss and Ride 36. HCYU And Associates 37. American Engineers 38. Perkins and WillMario Schack AIA Created The Tanner Cornel Counselor Lab Fixture The R2 D2 Courtyard Bollard! Laboratories, Fume Hoods And, Ralph Bacon! 39. Mandarin Hotel

  • Mandarin Design 1997 Fairmont Design1988

40. Richard Swig Legendary Hotelier upon my bragging about working on a Hilton 41. Slumming that year? 42. Virginia Air and Space

  • Michel Giurgala Arch

43. Rankcorn Wildman Brezinski Architects 44. Va Consulting Engineering Honor Award 45. ICE!! 46. FIRST Smart Panel Control System 47. Frank Florentine 48. Howard Brandston

  • Marked drawings at the Beach

49. Sand fell out on Mondays 50. Drafters not at all pleased! 51. GRGV/X'nth Years

  • A Dream was to be a Disney Imagineer

52. At GRGV I was one of the guys who made Imagineers Ideas Work! 53. Met Gary Vanderweil Don't let them push you around Priceless!

  • Theme Parks

54. Museums 55. Hotels BIG 56. Construction Oversight 57. The Bills! Weinaug and Beckman 58. TERMINATOR

  • The most fun I ever had!

59. Excellent designers 60. Morris Architects 61. Sherry Blount 62. The Bills! 63. Ray Clarke 64. Orlando Science Center

  • The Project Inherited!

65. First Task Deal with a 1million dollar change order 66. Success Down to 70k! 67. Owners quote Where have you been hiding this guy? 68. The Bill Uh, on a much bigger project? 69. Walt Disney Coronado Springs

  • Graham Gund AIA

70. Smith Bode Arch 71. Peter McDonnell! 72. The Bills! 73. 180 Acres 74. Chips Lighting 75. 80 plus hr weeks 76. Disney Coronado Springs

  • Best Moments/Quotes

77. How to do you keep up with all the panels? 78. Gary Vanderweils Day Long Review Session 79. Scary! 80. Can you scrunch the project into 2 resume lines? 81. Seuss Landing

  • The Team

82. Jim Good!! 83. Zoe Taylor 84. Bill Weinaug, Ray Clark 85. HKS Amazing! 86. The Universal folks 87. The Latter Years 97 to Now

  • Lighting for The Hotel Jefferson

88. Met Frank Becker -GHT, Roger Frechette, Daren Shumate Vanderweil 89. Complex Structures _ THE Jefferson at Penn Quarter 90. Met Linda Palmer AIA with Esocoff Totally Intelligent Totally Smart! 91. Jimmy G :) 92. Restoreing 1890s Victorian

  • Created RDA

93. GHT 94. Vanderweil Consultant 95. Wiley Wilson 96. RTKL = LEED 97. EAC Embassy 98. Security! 99. Hotel Jefferson Richmond

  • Reunited w/ Eddy Smith MWCS

100. My best lighting occurred when Eddy was in the Room 101. An amazing Architect! 102. Jefferson @ Penn Quarter

  • Seven YEARS!

103. Not a typical Condo in the place 104. Phils Facade Efforts AMAZING 105. Walk the street, and you feel still in 1890s 106. Million SF Plus

  • Esocoff Architects

107. GHT Ltd Engineers 108. Craig Eichenlaub 109. Linda Palme r 110. Australian Ambassador DC

  • Picked up in the middle

111. Historic renovation 112. Rob Gudz 113. Jim/Ketan 114. Vanderweil 115. QUINN EVANS!!! 116. Oceans Exhibit NHM

  • Quinn Evans

117. Carl Elefante!!! 118. Vanderweil 119. Jim Good 120. Joe Keohane 121. Wicked electrical 122. Vertical Swbd Creation

  • Best Quote Why Can't All Electrical guys do that!

123. Bldg 58 Washington Navy Yd

  • The WNYReviewer

124. The Specially built Switchboard 125. The Killer Switch 126. Challenges! 127. Jim Goods Calcs

  • Wiley Wilson

128. Judge Advocate General 129. Intensely Tight Strucure 130. John Reichart Lighting 131. DISA

  • LEED Certified

132. 1 Million SF 133. RTKL Architects 134. MC Dean Elec 135. RTKL Elec

  • Favorite Moments

136. Mech Guy Excel Spread Sheets Uh, this number goes in the big electrical thingy? 137. Elec Guys Circuit extraction efforts called Poof and its magic the number is in the panel 138. RTKL DC Offices

  • Favorite Quotes

139. The Air is Crisp! 140. I don't have afternoon headaches 141. Our Choc Chip Cooky order went down!

  • Awesome TEAM Collaboration!

142. LEED Platinum 143. Kim Heartwell, Irwin Gueco, Pat Kazinski, Jason Chewing, Gabe Getzie, Antrone Winkey, June Parks, Neal, Paxson 144. HITT Construction 145. EBAY S Jordan

  • Issues

146. Neutral Sizing 147. Harmonic Analysis 148. Fault concerns 149. Neutral Deriving Transformer 150. Fault remediatio n 151. LEED GOLD!!!!

  • RTKL Arch/Eng

152. Entered the process during construction 153. Brain Sessions with Daren Shumate, Brad Mahon, Gabe Getzie 154. 400 volt system 155. Favorite Quote

  • Because its Mealoaf!

156. Recommendation

  • Rob has been a project manager, senior electrical engineer, mentor, co-worker, client, and friend during the 14 years that I've know him. He is by far one of the most talented electrical engineer and project manager I've known in my career. He specializes in complex architectural projects with fast track schedules and highly technical systems. I've said many times that if I wanted to construct a building I would want Rob to design it. You can't hire a better person and engineer. His design and mentoring skills are an asset to any firm, more especially one with young engineers and designers that need development. His code knowledge is without a doubt exceptional and he remains a resource to me even today. Rob's unique skills really show up during client design meetings. I've watched him sketch many a details and drawings explaining a concept or constructablitly method and observed the expressions of understanding show up on the faces around the table. One architect even stated "why can't all engineers do this - this was the best design charette and coordination session I've done in years." Those that have worked with Rob can attest he is an A-team player and they would love to work with him again."

157. Jim Good PE Chief Electrical Engineer Henry Adams Consulting Engineers 158. Closing Thoughts

  • Most Fortunate Guy!

159. Have sat with some of the most creative people in the US 160. Humbled by the excellence of so many 161. Have Fun 162. Create 163. Try to be patient

  • Design is collaborative

164. Good design is deliberate 165. Great design is the willingness to push the envelope 166. Looking forward to the next project 167. And, meeting more incredible folks