Dr. Lisa Barron
Professor Barron is Professor of Organization and Strategy at the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine. Her principal research and teaching interests focus on negotiation and organizational behavior. She has consulted with large and small organizations and has taught negotiation techniques to executives, career counselors, and educators. Her research focuses on negotiation. In particular, she is interested in salary negotiation, and her work focuses on differences in the way men and women approach salary negotiation and on the centrality and meaning of money in memos and omens lives. She has received numerous grants in support of my work.

She is currently working on several projects regarding salary negotiation and the meaning of money. Her research has been published in the journals Human Relations and Career Development International. Her research on gender differences in salary negotiation has been written about or recognized in The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and the Orange County Register. In addition, she has appeared on radio programs for WBUR, KNX, CBS and NPR. She has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in organizational behavior and negotiation at the Anderson School at UCLA, Pepperdine University, and UCI. She has taught Executive Education at UCLA for the past three years.

Professor Barron is a member of the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Association, the Western Academy of Management, the International Association for Conflict Management, and the Association for Psychological Types. She is a reviewer for leading journals in the fields of Management and Psychology. Her doctoral work is in Organizational Behavior from The Anderson School at UCLA. In addition, she has an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA and a BA in Psychology and English from Stanford University.

Sarah M. Cunningham, P.E
Since joining Microdesk in 2004, Sarah has been teaching classes, providing technical support, and developing strategies to help architectural, engineering, and construction firms implement technologies to streamline the design-build-operate process.

Prior to joining Microdesk, Sarah served as a project engineer for private consulting firms and public agencies throughout Massachusetts. She has worked on a wide range of projects, including highway reconstruction, landfill management, as well residential and commercial land development. Her technical experience includes construction management and inspection for a variety of projects, including historic building renovations, as well as urban water, sewer, and drainage rehabilitation.

In 2000, Sarah co-founded of Global Village Engineers, a non-profit initiative that recruits scientists and engineers to advise international aid groups about the impact of large-scale construction projects. She has been invited to speak about her international work at various universities and professional organizations throughout the Northeast, including Smith College, Brandeis University, and the Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors of California.

Sarah holds a Bachelor's degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an MBA from Northeastern University. She has been a Licensed Professional Civil Engineer in Massachusetts since 1999.

David P. Dapper, Esq.
Mr. Dapper is a graduate of University of Southern California Law School and alumni of the University of California at Los Angeles.  He currently has over twenty five years of professional legal experience in the construction industry.  He is a senior member of the Akerman Senterfitt | Wickwire Gavin legal team in Los Angeles.  Mr. Dapper’s practice is devoted exclusively to the representation of public and private owners, construction managers, contractors, subcontractors and design professionals. His experience includes construction litigation, arbitration, and mediation of construction claims, defect, and collection matters; construction-related insurance coverage issues; prosecution and defense of surety claims; and drafting and negotiating complex construction and design contracts.

He is a nationally recognized lecturer and presenter on construction law topics and legal practices.  His clients have included a number of prominent municipalities and Fortune 500 companies.

Dr. John Keppler
Dr. Keppler is nationally recognized as a leader in the field of professional development. He has over twenty years of experience working with public and private construction projects. He has designed and conducted numerous educational programs for Federal Agencies, and State and local government. He has completed his doctoral studies in strategic managerial policy at the graduate school of policy sciences at the University of Maryland. In addition, he holds a bachelors degree in engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and a master's degree in business administration. He is currently the west coast regional director of the Center for Adanced Construction Studies at the American Institute for Professional Training and Development in Irvine, California.

He has taught at the College of Notre Dame Executive MBA Program, University of Baltimore, Baltimore City Community College and Dundalk Community College. He has designed, developed, and conducted several hundred professional workshops, executive development sessions, and leadership training programs.

He is currently responsible for overseeing the curriculum development, planning and implementation of the institute's professional development and certification programs. He has authored numerous articles on project management, ethical leadership, creative thinking, and strategic construction management. His research interests include developing leadership skills, experiential learning, and exploring the human creative potential. He currently serves on several national certification boards, he is the senior editor of the leading edge newsletter, and chair of the committee for advanced project management studies.

Michael J. Linehan, AIA
Michael Linehan is currently the Director of Architecture and Planning at the Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health. In this position and as Director of Facilities Management for the School since 1988, he has been responsible for the management and oversight of all programming, master planning, design, furnishing and construction activities during a period in which both the physical size and population of the School more than doubled.  Today it is both the oldest and largest School of Public health in the country with 2,000 students and approximately 1.2 million square feet. During the last 10 years, new construction totaled $105 million with an additional $30 million in renovations.

Before joining the University, Mr. Linehan was a partner for 13 years in the Baltimore architecture and planning firm, Verkerke, Boyles and Linehan. During this period, he was the principal in charge and design architect for a number of projects for higher education and institutional clients. These included, at Johns Hopkins University, the Space Telescope Science Institute and renovations and major additions to Homewood Student Housing; campus master planning and architecture for the first four academic buildings for the new campus of Capitol College in Laurel Maryland; a Teaching and Visitors Center for Shephard Pratt Hospital in Baltimore and new Student housing for the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California.

Mr. Linehan studied architecture and liberal arts at Notre Dame University and the University of Detroit where he received a Bachelor of Architecture professional degree in 1968. He maintains active architectural registrations in Michigan and Maryland and is a member of the American Institute of Architects and Construction Specification Institute.

Bryan Payne, PE, Esq.
Mr. Payne is a registered professional civil engineer, a certified cost engineer, and licensed attorney, and brings 15 years of experience to his leadership of Carter & Burgess’s construction claims engagements in Southern California.  Mr. Payne leads a team to assist clients in claims avoidance, mitigation, and resolution of construction claims, including quality of performance and delay issues.  He also serves as a project manager and troubleshooter on problem projects, and as a claims analyst and expert witness on significant claims assignments

Mr. Payne’s experience includes project engineering and construction management in the aviation, light rail, highway, hospital, and education sectors as well as construction litigation and mediation. 

Mr. Payne is a member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Panel for the Superior Court of Los Angeles County and he has served as the mediator on over 40 litigated cases.  Mr. Payne is also an active member of the Governmental Affairs Committee of the Construction Management Association of America’s Southern California Chapter, and is past president of the Southern California Section of the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering, International. Mr. Payne received his B.S. from the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering, and his J.D. from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles.

Thomas F. Peters, PE
Tom Peters is a Certified Forensic Claims Consultant, registered Civil Engineer in the State of California and Senior Consultant with PinnacleOne in Los Angeles, California. Mr. Peters has provided expert analysis on a wide variety of complex construction claims. He has more than 26 years of experience in the industry and is a nationally recognized expert in CPM scheduling.

Mr. Peters is a contributing author for AACEI’s Recommended Practice on Forensic Schedule Analysis and has received special recognition for exemplary contribution to the creation of the AACEI Planning and Scheduling Professional Certification Program. Mr. Peters lectures nationally and has been a featured speaker at the National CMAA, AACEI, Public Construction Superconference and the Primavera User Conferences. He has authored numerous articles on the topic of delay and is an expert in the preparation of delay analyses and the assessment of concurrent delay events.