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 avoidmisunderstandings 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:
- 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 stakeholderswhile 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.
8:00-8:30AMArrival, Check-In (Get your water bottle!)Continental Breakfast
8:30-8:35AMWelcome Remarks: Joel Thompson, Director, Production Division, Fairfax Water
8:35-10:05AMLeadership Competency: Systems Awareness
Debbie Eshelman, LFI ’01, Korn/Ferry Leadership and Talent Management Consulting
10:05-10:20AMBreak
10:20-10:30AMTable Discussion – “What is Infrastructure?”
Charles McCaffrey, LFI ’15
10:30-11:45AMPanel 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
JanyceHedetniemi, Member-at-large, Fairfax County Planning Commission
11:45-12:15PMUrban Planning/Infrastructure Team Game – City By Design based on National Building Museum Youth Education Program (Part I)
Charles McCaffrey, LFI ‘15
12:15-1:00PMLunch (Get your pedometers!)
1:00-1:10PMLeadership Competency Review
Debbie Eshelman, LFI ’01, Korn/Ferry Leadership and Talent Management Consulting
1:10-1:55PMCase Study: Redevelopment in Fairfax County – Lessons Learned for Springfield
Jeff Thomas, LFI ’15 and Tanya La Force, LFI ‘15
Speaker:Mark Looney, Cooley LLP
1:55-2:15PMUrban Planning/Infrastructure Team Game (Part II)
Charles McCaffrey, LFI ’15
2:15PMHistory & 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
2:30-2:55PMTour of Griffith Facility
Joel Thompson, Director, Production Division, Fairfax Water
John Hanchak, Manager of Water Production, Fairfax Water
2:55-3:10PMBreak
3:10-3:30PMUrban Planning/Infrastructure Team Game (Part III)
Charles McCaffrey, LFI ‘15
3:30-4:30PMRotating 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
4:30-4:45PMLeadership Competency Review
Debbie Eshelman, LFI ’01, Korn/Ferry Leadership and Talent Management Consulting
4:45-5:00PMWrap-up & Call to Action
Video: “How to Start a Movement” (
5:00PMHappy 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
JanyceHedetniemi 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
•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.
•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