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APPENDIX B
Speakers' Biographies
David L. Bibb is the managing executive of the Office of Government-wide Policy's Office of Real Property at the General Services Administration. His responsibilities include overseeing the development, coordination, and issuance of government-wide real property principles, guidelines, best practices, standards, policies, and asset management principles; evaluating and assessing the effectiveness of policy implementation; and developing and evaluating new real estate tools and techniques. Mr. Bibb has held many other key positions at all levels of government, including deputy commissioner and assistant commissioner for planning in the Public Buildings Service. He is the recipient of the President's Meritorious Executive Award and the President's Distinguished Executive Award. Mr. Bibb is an active member of the International Development Research Council, an association of real estate executives, where he serves on the Global Learning Board and is co-chair of the World Congress Program Delivery Committee.
Lucia E. Garsys is the Capital Program Administrator for Hillsborough county in Florida. She coordinates the county's Capital Improvement Program, which includes establishing cross-organizational policies and procedures for implementing the program and negotiating with developers for construction of public facilities. She also oversees the management of Hillsborough county's Impact Fee Program. Ms. Garsys has 18 years of public sector service and private consulting experience in the areas of planning, development, and capital programming. She holds a bachelor's degree in city and regional planning from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a master's degree in urban planning from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Stanley C. Langfeld serves as director, Real Property Policy Division, Office of Real Property in the General Services Administration's Office of Government-wide Policy. He is responsible for managing the development of real property policies, regulations, and special analytical studies, including such issues as disposal, inventory, workplace, and information management. Mr. Langfeld has held management positions with the Public Buildings Service relating to real property development and real property management and safety. He has also held management positions in the private sector with the Urban Land Institute and the Rouse Company. Mr. Langfeld holds a masters of science degree in real estate and urban planning with honors from American University and a bachelor of arts degree in history and english from the University of Maryland.
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Get W. Moy, P.E., is the chief engineer and director of engineering and base development at the Naval Facilities Engineering Command. As chief engineer Dr. Moy is the final technical authority for the Navy on shore facilities. As director of base development, he provides leadership in the development, planning, and shaping of Navy shore facilities infrastructure. A major duty has been program management of the Global Ashore Plan for the 21st Century Navy. Dr. Moy is the FY00 chairman of the Board of Directors of the CADD/GIS Technology Center for Facilities, Infrastructure, and Environment. This team received the Hammer Award in 1999 for developing and promoting CADD/GIS standards, facilitating government and private sector cooperation, and centralizing CADD/GIS acquisitions. Dr. Moy has extensive experience in the military services, including the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Installations) and in the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Environmental Security). Dr. Moy is a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and a member of the United States Naval Institute and the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society. He received a bachelor of civil engineering degree from Catholic University of America and master and doctor of science degrees in engineering administration from George Washington University. He is also a graduate of the Naval War College.
Robert L. Neary, Jr., serves as the associate chief strategic management officer, Office of Strategic Management at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). This office develops policies and guidance to promote quality facilities that bring the greatest value in fulfilling VA's mission and is charged with promoting the development and use of capital asset management principles, including VA's public-private partnership program for enhanced-use leasing. Prior to his present appointment Mr. Neary was the deputy facilities management officer and served as the principal advisor to the chief facilities management officer and directed the day-to-day operations of the Office of Facilities Management. He has also served as the associate deputy assistant secretary for facilities and the deputy director of the Office of Facilities. Mr. Neary has received the Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Executive and is a member of the Senior Executives Association and Treasurer of the Association's VA chapter. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in political science from the University of Iowa and has done graduate work at George Washington University.
Carol Ó'Cléireacáin was a member of the President's Commission to Study Capital Budgeting. She is an independent economic and management consultant and adjunct associate professor at New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Services. Recently, as a visiting fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, she authored The Orphaned Capital: Adopting the Right Revenues for the District of Columbia. She was finance commissioner, then budget director, of the City of New York under Mayor Dinkins. Dr. Ó'C1éireacáin was the chief economist for the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees District Council 37 in New York. She holds a Ph.D. degree in economics from the London School of Economics and M.A. and B.A. degrees in Economics from the University of Michigan.
Paul L. Posner is managing director for federal budget issues for the U.S. General Accounting Office, where he leads studies on the long-term outlook for the federal
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budget and alternatives for reforming budget structures and processes. He periodically testifies before congressional committees on such issues as the long-term budget outlook, financing of Medicare and other federal commitments, performance budgeting and intergovernmental fiscal relationships. He received GAO's Distinguished Service Award in 2000. Dr. Posner is also adjunct professor in the Graduate Public Policy Program at both Johns Hopkins and Georgetown universities and teaches courses on public policy formulation and implementation. He has published articles on public budgeting, federalism, and tax policy issues in various academic journals and books and is the author of The Politics of Unfunded Mandates, published by Georgetown University Press in 1998. He received his Ph.D. degree in political science at Columbia University and was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He is also the chair of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management, a section of the American Society for Public Administration.
Ronald F. Silva, P.E., assumed his current position as assistant commandant for systems at Coast Guard Headquarters in August 1999. He is responsible for all engineering (civil, naval, aeronautical, electronics); logistics; research and development; and command, control, communications, and computers for the $19-billion capital plant in the Coast Guard. He served in engineering afloat duty on Coast Guard Cutters Escanaba, Mendota, and Sherman, and his staff assignments include headquarters (civil engineering; engineering, logistics and development; and resource directorate) and the fifth and fourteenth districts (civil engineering). Rear Admiral Silva's command cadre assignments included executive officer of Support Center Seattle; supervisor of Shore Maintenance Detachment Honolulu; commanding officer of Facilities Design and Construction Center, Atlantic; commanding officer of Support Center New York; and deputy commander, Maintenance and Logistics Command Atlantic. He has served in several leadership positions in the Society of American Military Engineers and was elected as a society fellow in 1996. He is a registered professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Rear Admiral Silva is a graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and holds a master of science degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois and a master of engineering administration degree from George Washington University.
Lauren E. Uher is the deputy associate administrator for acquisition implementation for the Office of Federal Procurement Policy. Working in the Acquisition Implementation Branch, she serves as the staff procurement advisor to the Departments of Agriculture, Education, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development; Federal Aviation Administration; Internal Revenue Service; the Office of Personnel Management; D.C. government; and the Executive Office of the President. Ms. Uher's additional responsibilities include capital programming; major systems and services acquisition, including information technology; performance-based acquisition management; and information technology accessibility. Prior to her arrival at the Office of Management and Budget, Ms. Uher spent 17 years with the Department of Defense as a procurement officer, contract specialist, and contracting officer, supporting a spectrum of agency acquisition and program requirements from recruiting and advertising services to non-tactical automated data processing systems (now known as information technology) to cruise missile and unmanned aerial vehicle weapon systems development
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and production to base-level support services and supplies. Ms. Uher received her bachelor of arts and master of public administration degrees from Texas Tech University. She is a member of the Department of the Navy Acquisition Corps and is a Level III-Certified Acquisition Professional.
Ronald Woody serves the Architect of the Capitol as the Program Manager for Computer Aided Facilities Management and Technology. During his 12-month tenure on Capitol Hill, Mr. Woody has managed the Computer-Aided Facility Management effort, including work management, asset accountability, space management and benchmarking. The CAFM effort is the office's first enterprisewide undertaking, already encompassing more than 400 staff members ranging from maintenance and operations to property management. Previously, Mr. Woody managed numerous information technology projects within the Department of Navy ranging from general supply and asset accountability systems to strategic command and control world-wide ordnance information systems.
