Senior Project Manager

John Michael Spierto, P.E., LEED-AP

Senior Project Manager and New Product Development Engineer

*** ******** ***** 615-***-**** , cell 615-***-****

Franklin, TN 37064 ******@***.***

SUMMARY

Nineteen years professional engineering including mechanical engineering design, project management, new product development, and business development. Won pharmaceutical and medical device work by pursuing projects in Jacksonville (Medtronic, Inc.) and Miami (Schering Corporation) with goal of increasing industrial group revenue from $3 million/year to $6 million/year in the Nashville office of Gresham, Smith and Partners. Khafra Engineering promotion included partnering with principal to supervise Louisville office of eight engineers, technicians, and administrative assistants serving Louisville and Indianapolis clients.

New product design and manufacturing process experience from five years at AREVA, a nuclear service company. Responsible for conceptual development, design, production, and testing of mechanical & robotic tooling to visually inspect US Navy nuclear steam generators and commercial reactors. Supervised design teams, mentoring designers, and led engineers on field deployments performing visual inspections of commercial nuclear plants and Navy vessels. Business development experience through client negotiation, proposal creation, and contract execution. Consulting experience: design, specification, and cost estimation of mechanical systems including pumps, piping, air-handling units, fans, and ductwork for wide variety of markets.

Project management and client development experience acquired through architectural and engineering system design for

• pharmaceutical/medical device manufacturing plants,

• airports,

• electrical substations,

• water/wastewater treatment plants,

• housing authority renovations,

• surgery centers,

• mall specialty shops

• across the US with construction budgets ranging from $50,000 to $20 million.

• Fluent in writing, client agreements, budgeting and work scope.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, 1990

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, GPA 3.1/4.0

Florida Gator Football 3-year letterman

Two years Academic All Southeastern Conference

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society--academic excellence among college scholarship recipients

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Professional Engineer registered in the states of Florida, Indiana, and Tennessee

LEED-AP Professional, Certified with NCEES, Gov. Security Clearance (1993-1998)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

GRESHAM, SMITH, AND PARTNERS, Nashville, TN 2006-2010

Senior Project/Client Manager, Business Development, Construction Manager

Managed multiple projects for Firestone Building Products at several locations including Prescott, Arkansas, Wellford, South Carolina, and Kingstree, South Carolina. In September of 2007, won a $200,000 design contract for new client, Schering Plough Corporation based in Miami Lakes, Florida. Job duties included filling roles as client manager, project manager, and lead engineer for pharmaceutical client working on their $ 4 million renovation to create new powder packaging line at their existing plant. Primary focus in first two years winning and executing more engineering contracts in Florida and to start local engineering presence in Jacksonville office. March through July of 2007, project manager and construction manager for $1 million dollar renovation to establish new vision product line for medical device technology manufacturer, Medtronic ENT in Jacksonville, Florida. Fall of 2006 responsibilities included directing CH2MHILL, SSOE, and contractor on design/build project of new tire plant in Monterrey, Mexico.

KHAFRA ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS, Atlanta, GA and Louisville, KY

Lead Mechanical Engineer, Project Manager, Office Manager 2003 –2006

Promoted to Louisville office with new responsibilities including partnering with principal to supervise Louisville office of six engineers and technicians as we serve our Louisville and Indianapolis clients. Prior duties included project management and design of the nearly one-million square foot new International Concourse Building for the one-billion dollar expansion of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Mentored engineers, performed design calculations, and selected pumps/piping for the upgrade of the central cooling and heating plant in existing concourse. Routed piping and electrical utilities across new connector, and designed HVAC system including 3000-ton chiller expansion and over fifty air-handling units.

GRESHAM, SMITH & PARTNERS SENIOR PM EXPERIENCE

Bridgestone Akron Technical Center, Akron, Ohio. Project manager. Managing two projects one involves preparing a three-dimensional model of structural steel framing of building to support structural design. The second project involves serving the 500 pieces of research and development equipment with utilities including compressed air, cooling water, steam, and gaseous nitrogen. Estimated construction budget of $75 million.

Firestone Building Products, Prescott, Arkansas 2008. Project manager and project engineer. Managing two projects one involves preparing a three-dimensional model and performance specification on a new industrial machine that will apply an adhesive tape on the edge of a 100 ft roll of EPDM rubber roofing sheet. Second project involves studying three methods to move and store efficiently TPO roles.

Schering Corporation MiraLAX Technology Transfer, Miami Lakes, Florida 2007-2008. Project and client manager. Schering Laboratories is a global pharmaceutical company with leading prescription medicines, consumer and animal health products. The Miami Lake facility packages and distributes consumer health care products that include Coppertone, Claritin, and Dr. Scholl’s. Led design team and managed client on a $4 million upgrade/renovation of the clients’ current manufacturing facility that will establish a new powder filling production line to package the product MiraLAX. Traveled to site to win client’s trust, negotiated and executed new contract for our firm, and managed the architectural and engineering design team to produce contract documents in 6 weeks from project kick-off. Awarded construction administration contract to oversee and offer design solutions during construction to minimize delays. Completed construction in June of 2008. Corporate headquarters in New Jersey contacts.

Firestone Dust Collection System Upgrade, Prescott, Arkansas 2006. Project manager and project engineer. Travelled to site and recorded information so that recommendations could be made to client to correct dust accumulation problem around their Z-Calendar rollers. Wrote report and delivered to client, included in-depth concept solutions with estimate of probable construction cost.

Medtronic ENT Manufacturing Facility, Jacksonville, Florida 2007. Project and client manager. Medtronic ENT is a leading developer of products to treat people with diseases of the ear, nose, and throat (ENT) headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. Led design team and managed client on $1 million upgrade/renovation of the clients’ current manufacturing facility that fabricates medical tooling used in surgery and human component replacement for the ear, nose and throat. Traveled to site weekly to oversee construction and present design solutions during construction.

Bosch Brake Manufacturing Facility, South Bend, Indiana 2007. Project manager. Led design team and managed project involving creating of cooling water system to handle plant heat exchangers involved with manufacturing of product. Worked with client on choice of cooling water system design that presented quick payback and low maintenance.

Bosch Brake Manufacturing Facility, Johnson City, Tennessee 2007-2008. Project professional. Conducted three engineering studies to present solutions to provide filtration of the cooling tower water system, evaluate the ventilation system, and re-configure the compressed air and cooling water piping system. Presented studies at site to plant manager, engineering manager, and maintenance engineer.

Bridgestone Monterrey Tire Plant, Monterrey, Mexico 2006. Client project manager. Lead design team consisting of SSOE engineers, CH2MHILL engineers, and contractor in developing design drawings and overseeing construction in this first of a kind new tire production plant as a design/build construction project in Monterrey, Mexico. Responsible for improving design drawings where lacking in detail while making sure construction progress is continuing on schedule.

Firestone Shuttle Car Design, Prescott, Arkansas 2006. Client project manager. Developed new 60’ long, shuttle car that will transport 100,000 lb. rolls of rubber in and out of autoclave. New car will incorporate our improvements to the drive mechanism, lift mechanism, and provide easy access to electrical control panels. Design involves 3-d software (SolidWorks) to produce machine design drawings.

KHAFRA ENGINEERING PM AND OFFICE MGR EXPERIENCE

Veolia Water White River North Groundwater Treatment Plant, Indy, IN 2006. Project Manager and Lead Engineer. Managed design team of 8 Khafra engineers and technicians on joint venture with HNTB Corporation on design of new 12 MGD groundwater treatment plant. Khafra project staff located in Atlanta and Louisville. Coordinated with project manager and design team at HNTB located in Indy, Indiana for electrical, structural, process, HVAC, plumbing, and architectural design issues. Designed HVAC system to control temperature/humidity in new Purification Building.

Real Time Control of Sewer Collection System, Louisville, KY 2006. Project Manager. Joint venture with BPR CSO to implement real time control of four sites within the MSD sewer collection system: SW Outfall In-line Storage Site, CSO 108, Wheeler Basin, and SW Pump Station/Main Diversion Structure. The scope of work included preliminary design of one site and detailed design/construction management of three sites. Project involved piping, junction structures, flow/level sensors, and associated control components to allow automatic control of sites. During rain event, system predicts combined flows in various areas of the collection system, diverts flow by closing/opening gates, and utilizes entire storage system capacity to minimize overflows.

Louisville Gas & Electric Co. Substation Spill Containment, Louisville, KY: 2006. Project Manager. Participated in site investigation at several substations in the Louisville area and supervision of design concepts and construction document production for installation of a containment berm. The berm consists of a CIAgent (a petroleum-based blend of several different polymers) embedded in crushed stone and a dense grade aggregate that immobilizes petroleum to contain the oil spill, but also allows the rainwater to drain from site.

Louisville Regional Airport Authority Terminal and Ramp Addition, Louisville, KY: 2006. Construction Manager. Provided responses to contractor questions on interpretations of design drawings. Performed site visit and directed drawing revision to ensure return air path for two rooftop air handling units. Coordinated shop drawing submittal reviews.

Georgetown Apartments Renovation, Indy Housing Authority, Indy, IN: 2006. Project Manager. Participated in contract negotiation, site visit and supervision of team of 5 engineers and architect located in Atlanta, GA, Indy, IN, and Louisville, KY to produce an environ., arch., structural, civil, HVAC, and electrical site assessment of the Georgetown Apartment complex. Prepared and delivered a Capital Needs Assessment report and Environ Phase I report to the Indy Housing Agency, which is considering purchase of the facility and renovating it for use as two-story apartment complex.

Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport Concourse and Automated Train line Extension, City of Atlanta, Ga: 2003-2005. Lead Mechanical Engineer. Participated in the combined project team of 85 architects and engineers to design a new international concourse complete with 14 gates and encompassing 1.2 million square feet of space. Mentored team of 3 engineers from Khafra during design.

Environmental Noise Assessment for Three Properties, Atlanta, GA: 2005. Lead Mechanical Engineer. Conducted site visit, obtained rail, airport, and ground transportation data from the respective government agencies, and performed calculations as directed by the literature provided by HUD to predict the day/night time weighted average noise levels. Presented the findings in a report including a color-coded noise contour map of the site.

Chenoweth Hills Wastewater Treatment Plant Rehab, Louisville, KY: 2005-2006. Process Engineer and Construction Manager. Participated in site visit and process design to produce construction drawings and specifications required to construct a new sludge holding tank adjacent to the existing Aeration tank, and install new and modify existing process piping to accommodate the new sludge holding tank. Presently, responsible for answering technical questions from the contractor during construction.

Medical College of Georgia Lab Expansion, Augusta, GA: 2004. Project Manager and Lead Mechanical Engineer. Supervised design of lab expansion involving (3) labs producing equipment demolition plans, renovation plans, and new equipment schedules.

PETERSON AND ASSOCIATES PM AND LEAD ME EXPERIENCE

Maria Nathanson Surgery Center, St. Thomas Hospital, Nashville, TN: 2003

Project Manager and Lead Mechanical Engineer. Creation of three million dollar surgery center dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary, endocrine and renal systems for Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville. The project involved the engineering team, contractor, and owner working together during design phase to shorten the design phase and expedite construction. Final construction led to state of the art surgery center.

Nashville Auto Diesel College, Nashville, TN: 2003. Assistant Project Manager and Lead Mechanical Engineer. The 7-million dollar project included (2) two-story building dormitories and a new dining hall/cafeteria building. Challenges involved coordination with the kitchen consultant and routing of the exhaust for the laundry area.

Defiance Dialysis Clinic, Defiance, Michigan: 2003. Project Manager and Lead Mechanical Engineer. The project involved the renovation of an existing video rental store and painting store into a new dialysis clinic. The early phase required site visits by the engineer and architect to assess the architectural, HVAC, electrical, and plumbing systems and determine the best location of the property for the owner.

PDI Medical Center, Charleston, West Virginia: 2003. Lead Mechanical Engineer. Project involved traveling to site to create as-built drawings and access current conditions of MEP. Developed construction drawings in very-timely manner to save budget.

Picture People Mall Specialty Store, multiple projects located across the US: 2003. Project Manager and Lead Mechanical Engineer. These projects involved quick designs utilizing very detailed customer specifications that were to be followed so that the new mechanical, electrical, and plumbing equipment would operate with minimal modifications to the existing building system.

Ashland City Elementary School Expansion, Ashland City, TN: 2002.

Assistant Project Manager and Lead Mechanical Engineer. The current elementary school included 30 classrooms, a gym, dining hall, and library. Our project involved the design of a new building that would house an additional 30 classrooms, library, and renovations of the existing school as project permitted. We chose to utilize packaged direct expansion console units that rejected heat to a new geothermal piping loop that involved drilling multiple 6 inch diameter holes 300’ deep into existing grounds.

Wichita Falls Water Treatment Plant, Wichita Falls, TX: 2002. Assistant Project Manager and Lead Mechanical Engineer. Performed site visit to meet with plant operation team to ascertain wish list for plant upgrade. Met with Wichita Falls government officials to discuss upgrade communication system linking approximately 15 water treatment plants via fiber optics and antennas located across the state of Texas.

Walker Elementary School Renovation, Nashville, TN 2002 – Lead Mechanical Engineer. The project included conditioning air for the gym, renovating the kitchen area, and improving classroom conditioning. Challenges involved coordination with the existing conditions in the gymnasium and routing of the condensate from the classroom units.

Columbia Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Center, Columbia, SC 2002 – Lead Mechanical Engineer. The project involved the renovation of an existing surgery center to create additional surgery/procedure rooms and to bring the existing HVAC, electrical, and medical gas systems up to code. The challenge was the design of the mezzanine mechanical room to house the new HVAC units and medical air compressor.

The Surgery Center of Middle Tennessee, Columbia, TN 2002 – Lead Mechanical Engineer. Renovated existing hospital areas to include new endoscopy procedure rooms and utilized existing HVAC, electrical, and medical gas to the fullest extent possible to decrease owner cost for purchasing and installing new equipment.

St. George Endoscopy Center, St. George, Utah 2002 – Lead Mechanical Engineer. Project involved renovation of entire two-story building to create new surgery center and doctor offices.

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Center, Troy, Michigan 2002 – Lead Mechanical Engineer. Project involved renovation of existing building to create new surgery center and doctor offices. Unforeseen existing conditions allowed engineer to create shop-drawings for contractor.

CH2MHILL PM AND LEAD ME EXPERIENCE

Ocala Wastewater Treatment Plant WRF#3, Ocala, FL: 2002.

Lead Mechanical Engineer and Lead Process Engineer. Twenty million dollar expansion of the city of Ocala’s primary wastewater treatment plant to provide water treatment services for the city to projected population of 2015. Designed Headworks odor control exhaust system, Belt Filter Press Building HVAC, Emergency Generator Building HVAC. Designed biofilter constructed of fiberglass ductwork, grating, and exhaust fans. Hydrogen sulfide odors were captured from the influent wastewater stream, scrubbed with water delivered in fine spray nozzles, delivered underground to a manifold ductwork system, and enveloped with microorganisms in the degrading mulch bed which ingested Hydrogen Sulfide and converted it to an odorless gas.

City of Athens Water Treatment Plant Upgrade, Athens, GA: 2001.

Assistant Design Manager and Lead HVAC Engineer. Construction estimate of $25 million. Scheduled manpower, developed labor hours and managed 20 engineers and technicians. Delivered over 300 drawings and 3 volumes of specs. Responsible for meeting with city officials in Athens, GA to insure proper paperwork was submitted to follow fire protection and other applicable codes.

Alachua County Waste Transfer Station, Gainesville, FL: 2001. Construction Manager, Project Manager, Lead Engineer. Project responsibilities included site assessment of the dust problem, which was caused by the unloading of trash through hole in floor to deposit in truck. Designed a stainless steel piping system with atomizing misting nozzles, a push-button remote control system, and existing pump so that the trash transfer employee could apply misting to the area of the floor that he was working on to eliminate the dust particles and force them down into the truck. Worked with the city employees to implement the system and decide the optimum amount of water to be applied during trash transfer to prevent dust from dispelling into the air.

Rockdale County Water Treatment Plant, Rockdale, GA: 2001. Lead Mechanical Engineer. Rockdale County, Georgia. Utilized heavy cost constraints to provide minimum efficient system that would satisfactorily handle the HVAC for the plant. Primary disinfection: Ozone.

Walt Disney Resort Hotel Indoor Air Improvement, Orlando, FL: 2001. Project Engineer. Traveled to the Grand Floridian Hotel to access situation. Project involved correcting infiltration of moisture into the hotel rooms by pressurizing the building with extensive airflow. This involved determination and implementation of best method of adding 100% outside air unit and distributing to large atrium areas and large corridors at each floor. The highlights were the late change in concept from using a gas-fired desiccant system to using a conventional, modular air-handling unit. The former concept would have required cutting a hole in the hotel roof and use of a crane to lift the unit from the lobby, through the hole up to the penthouse mechanical room. Our last concept utilized a modular, custom, multiple coiled chilled water/hot water air-handling unit that could be carried in pieces up via a service elevator to the penthouse mechanical room.

Missouri River WWTP Renovation of Digester Building, Omaha, NE: 2001. Lead Mechanical Engineer. Project involved replacement and upgrading of existing Digester Building for process improvement and plant safety to meet new regulations. Many of the areas were classified as a class 1 division 1; this imposed a high standard of safety measures such as explosion proof equipment, so care was taken to place equipment outside these areas and to watch pressure relationships between hazardous and non-hazardous areas.

Melbourne Water Treatment Plant Upgrade, Melbourne FL: 2000.

Lead Mechanical Engineer and Construction Supervisor. Participated in full design effort of this project from project kick-off through entire construction phase and accompanied control engineering through start up. Project used new sand-filter technology called AQUAFLOW that took up less area and required considerably less time to filter the water stream. Owner-expressed priority in corrosion protection, thus, there is extensive use of fiberglass-reinforced plastic for exhaust ductwork and exhaust fans. High levels of hydrogen sulfide in OSA dictated externally exposed ductwork of aluminum and outdoor condenser coils were coated with a film of BRONZGLOW, guaranteed to protect against corrosion. Several site visits were made by mechanical and electrical engineers to aid the controls contractor during implementation of control sequences.

Global One Telecommunications Building Upgrade, Reston VA: 2000. Lead Mechanical Engineer. Traveled to Reston to perform 3-day site inspection to develop accurate existing drawings. Calculated pressure drop to size new condenser water pump. Project work involved routing ductwork, adding VAV terminals, and redistribution of air to cool/heat the newly developed area.

Cedar Creek and Tarrant Water Treatment Plants, Tarrant, Texas: 2000. Lead Mechanical Engineer. Designed upgrade modifications required bringing plant up to present codes. Wrote control diagram and sequence that was commissioned as excellent by control contractor.

Fort Pierce Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment Plant, Fort Pierce, FL: 2000. Lead Mechanical Engineer, Fort Pierce, Florida. Designed HVAC system for new admin. building, which included FM-200 fire suppression system in sensitive areas.

Forsyth County Water Treatment Plant, Forsyth, GA: 2000. Lead Mechanical Engineer. Provided heating and ventilation units that utilized propane gas because natural gas service was not available. Plant included chemical building, administration building, and process treatment area.

JAXPORT Troubleshooting, Jacksonville, FL: 2000. Lead Mechanical Engineer. Traveled to site to investigate electric heater problem. First concept involved creating by-pass ductwork. Upon arrival at site determined that baffle plate installed before heater was creating large pressure drop and reducing airflow. Directed contractor to eliminate baffle plate and saved engineer from expensive change order.

Decatur Water Treatment Plant, Decatur, AL: 1999. Lead Mechanical Engineer. Plant renovation involved increasing capacity of plant and providing HVAC system that would eliminate condensation problem in large enclosed filter bay area. Innovative design included (4) large dehumidifiers controlled to keep plant indoor air dewpoint temperature at 3 degrees above the pipe surfaces temperature to prevent condensation.

Florida Keys Aquaduct Association (FKAA) Vehicle Maintenance Facility, Key West, FL 1999 – Lead Mechanical Engineer. Designed heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning systems for a small warehouse used to maintain and repair large trucks that served the region of Key West, Florida. Designed specialty exhaust system with movable trunk exhaust ducts to capture vehicle exhaust and route out of building to prevent hazardous fumes from escalating.

Brierwood and Deerwood Groundwater Treatment Plants, Jacksonville, FL: 1998.

Lead Mechanical Engineer. Conventional chlorine gas disinfection required a chlorine scrubber, but this method was dropped after design was completed. Final design utilized plant generated sodium hypochlorite liquid. Process safety controls included detection and dispersion of any potential hydrogen gas build up due to failure in plant components. Oversaw construction of HVAC systems and traveled to site to view controls and test emergency ventilation system that would be activated if Hydrogen gas was detected.

NEWCOMB AND BOYD LEAD ME EXPERIENCE

Southern Bell Headquarters Telecom Real Time Operations Center, Atl, GA: 1993. Project Manager and Lead Mechanical Engineer. Tenant build out of the 33rd floor of the existing headquarters building. New area included state of the art computer equipment that posed a challenge to existing air-handling unit serving the floor. Project specialties included custom design of the workstations to circulate air through personal computer cabinets to exhaust the high-level heat loads.

Emory Biology Building Renovation, Emory University, Atlanta, GA: 1993. Lead Mechanical Engineer. The project involved the renovation of a 3-story Biology Building that was previously air-conditioned with through the wall packed direct expansion air handling units. Our task was to design a central air-handling unit system to be housed in the attic and serve these new units from the existing chilled water/hot water central plant located across campus. The greatest challenges were the ductwork and piping configuration because of the tight clearance between the existing structure and ceiling.

University of Georgia SPACENTER, Athens, GA: 1992.

Lead Mechanical Engineer. The project involved the creation of a 430,000 sqft. state of the art athletic recreation center for the students of UGA. The facility included a large natatorium, racquetball courts, weight room, locker rooms, gymnastics area, and more. The facility is visited by over 1-million students a year. HVAC system used current state of the art energy recovery technology by utilizing a patented heat wheel media that allowed sensible and latent heat transfer without maintenance nightmares.

Estill Federal Prison, Estill, South Carolina: 1991.

Lead Mechanical Engineer. Project involved the design of multiple buildings for maximum and minimum-security cell buildings to house inmates. The campus of buildings was served by a central plant for heating and cooling with chilled and hot water distributed to each building. Project responsibilities included the HVAC design of several buildings and the coordination/detailed layout of the entire chilled water, hot water, domestic water piping, sewage, and electrical ductbank that were transported in a loop around the campus in a common trench.

PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES

Bill Wood, Rick Wilson, and Steve Branum at Gresham, Smith, and Partners, Nashville, TN 615-***-****

Charles Winkler and Elias Zewde at Khafra Engineering Consultants, Atlanta, GA, Louisville, KY 404-***-****, 502-***-****

Ed Carr at Peterson and Associates, Nashville TN 615-***-****

Jim Parrish, Bruce Cole, and Oscar Duarte at CH2MHILL, Dallas, Texas and Gainesville, FL 972-***-**** and 352-***-****

George Owen, Paul Abbott, & Gary Peters at Framatome Technologies, Lynchburg, VA 434-***-****

Lee Roberson at Newcomb and Boyd Consulting Engineers, Atlanta, GA 404-***-****

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