Frederick W. Plant

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Rensselaer, IN 47978

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EDUCATION: Degree in Management; Master level work in Psychology; various

certifications: To name a few, Business Manager's Institute, Certified

Energy Auditor for the State of Indiana, and Hazardous Materials Institute.

MEMBERSHIPS: APPA, MAPPA, IAPPA. Active on committees at APPA and MAPPA

for approximately 20 years; charter member of IAPPA; Past-president of

MAPPA. Hosted the annual IAPPA meeting in the early 1990's and in 2006.

Received APPA's 2005 Pacesetter Award, the 2009 Effective & Innovative

Practices Award and APPA 2010 President's award for a lifetime of

Meritorious Service . (APPA is the national association for facilities

officers in higher education, MAPPA is the 7 state regional association,

and IAPPA the state association). 2008 received the MAPPA President's

Award for Service. July 2010 completed 9 years as a board member for APPA;

in October 2010 completed 12 years on the MAPPA board of directors.

I served with other MAPPA members on a ten year review team the Wheaton

College Physical Plant. I have served on a Physical Plant review team for

Culver Academe in recent months. About 10 years ago I did a review of

Marietta College Physical Plant in Ohio.

I was extremely active in MAPPA not only on committees and an office holder

but as a facilitator, presenter, and panelist at annual programs. In APPA

I have not only served as a committee member but reviewed articles for

publication, assisted with various other programs by recruiting speakers,

reviewing manuscripts, serving as a facilitator and the like.

Over the years I have captured grant money for energy conservation,

rubberized asphalt, co-pi for a Kresge Grant to do a work shop on a green

science building; presently have am a co-pi for an NSF grant; and co-

developed a proposal for a solar-furnace that has been funded.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Purdue University: 72-78:

Physical Plant:

. Construction inspection for 11 buildings

. Work order system management

. Construction accounting on federally funded buildings

. Telephone system and toll charge management.

. While in this department I read the morning police and fire logs

looking for maintenance items or human resources matters related to

employees in physical plant.

Academic administration:

. Fiscal reporting/audits for research grants

. Billings from the computer center to research grants (which withstood

pre and post award audits).

. Veterinary School administration and fiscal reporting/audits for large

and small animal clinics; animal diagnostic center; pharmacy,

photography lab, copy center, farm (grain/stock) operations (these

included a variety of funding sources with each source having its own

set of administrative instructions). The Veterinary School assignment

also included the management of the accounts receivables from the

clinics and diagnostic labs.

. Finally, I was assigned to Human Resources in wage and salary

administration.

Saint Joseph's College: 78-90: (For all of these years I have been a

leader in campus planning and have had a role in the Board of Trustees

Physical Plant and Campus Planning Committee; and chaired or co-chaired all

construction and renovation projects from architect selection to move in.)

. College Business Office audit reporting both to V.P. for Business

Administration and to the Board of Trustees.

. Served as the chief planning person working with the campus community

and the Board of Trustees. This role was to establish business control

procedures for Human Resources, Residence Halls, Dining Services,

Telephone Switchboard operations, Physical Plant, Farms (grain/stock),

Motorpool, and summer conferences.

. It also included establishing a Human Resources Office with

organization charts tied to budgets, writing job descriptions, an

evaluation system, a vacancy posting procedure, and an applicant

control process. Re-established a purchase order process and was able

to enforce it.

. Working with a programmer developed a payroll process that recorded

leave time on the employee pay stub and a computerized work order

system.

. Working with employees and the administration rewrote the hourly

employee handbook and redeveloped a grievance procedure.

. Managed all of the insurance portfolios: auto, building, workers

compensation, health/life/disability and led the college to install a

retirement program for hourly staff.

. Established an energy conservation program, a recycling program, and

an electronic work order system that included a means to track door

key assignments.

. Also helped raise funds for and then executed several building

renovations and a new utilities infrastructure. In the farm

operations we eventually eliminated the stock farm and moved the grain

farm to a cash rent operation.

From 86-90 supervised the physical plant:

. This included a coal fired steam production facility and a well

operation, and a complete set of shop operations.

. Developed a "Facilities 2000 Plan" as a master plan to target

facilities required to meet future needs.

. Established an "adopt a flower bed program" and an "employee garden

plot" program as ways to build relationships between employees and

faculty.

Valparaiso University: 90 to Current: (For all of these years I have been a

leader in campus planning and have had a role in the Board of Directors

Facilities and Campus Planning Committee; and have chaired or co-chaired

all construction and renovation projects from architect selection to move

in.)

. Worked with the IT department to develop a computerized work order

system.

. Developed a 10 Year Renovation and Repair plan that is updated

annually and tied to the budget process and fund raising.

. Developed a 24/7 operation.

. In 97 participated in the development of the university's campus

facilities master plan, which became a working committee on campus and

one at the Board of Director level that connects plans to budgets.

. Advanced energy conservation through grants, renovations, and

performance contracts as well as sharpened operations and maintenance.

. Constructed a performing arts center, library, German cultural center,

meteorology center, parking ramp, a new union, lawyering center, law

school addition, engineering building addition (LEED platinum target),

college of arts and science building (LEED silver target), and a solar

furnace building.

. Renovated 3 residence halls, a building addition for Institutional

Advancement, additions to the athletic facility, a new football field,

space conversion for a mail center and another for a fitness center as

well as numerous interior space conversions and redecorations.

. Completed all new high/medium voltage distribution, a new substation,

new natural gas, water mains, and a voice/data ductbank. We have

constructed a north and south loop drive as well as new parking

lots/garage and rehabilitated 3 older parking lots.

. In 2010 we completed Title IX related updates in our athletic

facilities: locker rooms and softball field upgrades. We also replaced

the game and recreation floor in the main arena.

. Played a role in over 60 major construction/renovation projects

throughout my career, including the ones listed here.

. Our department has also written and been awarded grants for such

things as recycling; the installation of rubberized asphalt (using

ground up tires); and a grant to hold a sustainability workshop to

identify the elements of a "green" science building. I served as co-PI

for an NSF grant application to remodel a biology laboratory; as well

as a DOE grant to partially fund a solar furnace.

. Our operation has included co-generation, a central boiler house, a

full set of trades shops, landscape, in the past a motor pool,

purchase natural gas and account for all other utilities.

. Heavily engaged in preventive maintenance, energy conservation and

recycling.

. Transitioned ourselves from individual trades shops to a two shop

maintenance and preventive maintenance organization.

. Worked with an IT Fellow to move several of our hard copy performance

evaluation process and customer surveys to electronic media.

. In 2007 the former separate Housekeeping Department was joined to our

former Physical Plant Services Department into a new Facilities

Management Department with our staff taking the lead.

. Internal to our department we have the PIC (Positive Improvement

Committee) and a safety committee. We continually bench mark our

performance against 2 nationally recognized standards. We are lead an

electronic time recording system implementation, the evolution of a

camera security system, and access control.

. External to our department I have worked as the facilitator for the

Hourly Concerns Committee; participated in the development of hourly

staff satisfaction surveys; fringe benefit committees; assisted in the

development of a chart of accounts for a new administrative software

system; led the salaried staff concerns committee for a term; co-led

the staff social club; completed the implementation of an electronic

time recording system; and several other committees, taskforces, and

the like. I also have provided my senior personnel the opportunity to

serve on committees outside of our department to broaden their

perspective and to better integrate them into the campus community.

. In 2009 I have worked with Human Resources to update the Hourly Staff;

Salaried Staff Handbooks and updated the Facilities Management

procedures manual.

. I co-led a campus wide emergency notification system installation

completed in September 2010.

. Completed an upgrade to our campus fire alarm system in March 2010

. Co-chair of the university environmental sustainability subcommittee

. Served on a committee to screen the campus "Big Ideas" program.

. July 1, 2011 named Executive Director of a new department: Capital

Planning & Projects and Environmental Sustainability

. July 2011 began the planning for the restoration and addition to the

university chapel in the context of historical preservation,

architectural significance while targeting LEED EB on the existing

building and LEED Silver on the addition

Annual salary $112,575 excluding benefits

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