Thomas A. Baker, Esq.
Mr. Baker practices in the Baltimore law firm of Thomas A. Baker, P.A., where he concentrates in the practice of construction industry litigation representing owners, contractors, subcontractors, material suppliers and design professionals. He has served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Maryland and has served as chairman of the construction cases committee of the Litigation Section of the Maryland State Bar Association. He is also a member of the Construction Industry Panel of Arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association and is a graduate of Georgetown University Law School. He is included in The Best Lawyers in America in its 2004-2005 edition.

Eric Bowman, RA, MCSE
Eric is a registered Architect in the State of New York, he holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from City University of NY, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. He has over 26 years of progressive management and implementation experience in AEC Corporate Environments; he has served as Director of Information Technology for JCI Architecture in Hartford, CT.

Eric is a recognized industry leader in AutoCAD, Architectural Desktop and Revit for construction documents, prepared presentations, animations and renderings. He is also a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, a Certified Novell Administrator and holds certification in CompTIA Hardware as well as Microsoft Professional+ Internet. He is currently an Architectural Applications Engineer at Micro desk; he is responsible for providing technical support, training and system implementation for architectural products. He has conducted numerous technology workshops and has been a presenter in a variety of conferences and national industry events.

James E. "Bud" Brown, Jr, P.E.
Mr. Brown is currently Vice President for Construction Management of Huitt-Zollars, Inc. a Texas-based engineering/architectural firm. Bud hold a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from the University of Georgia and a Civil Engineering Master's degree from the University of Florida. Bud has served in the United States as the Deputy Commander for the Southwest Division Corps of Engineers. His experience includes the design and construction of major Civil works projects and construction management of many military capital projects. He has taught as a Professor Of Military Science at East Central University in Oklahoma; held warrants as a Federal Contracting Officer and conducted a number of formal claims review boards. The most notable assignment was as the Resident Engineer of the South Base Camp for the 1980 Camp David Peace Accord between Egypt and Israel. His construction management activities include projects in transportation, urban development; municipal and institutional sectors as well as private industry projects.

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.

Richard E. Campbell, M.B.A., P.E.
Mr. Campbell is a principal at Pacific Construction Consultants, Inc. (PCCI) . He holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Grove City College and a Masters of Business Administration from Duquesne University. He specializes in the preparation, analysis and management of contract dispute issues for owners, contractors, law firms, architects, engineers and insurance companies. His practice includes providing technical scheduling and claim management support to public and private construction projects. Mr. Campbell provides expert testimony for arbitrations, depositions and litigations, and is currently a member of a Disputes Resolution Board for the LA Metro.

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.

Lee Davis, Esq.
Mr. Davis is a partner in the law firm of Griffin, Cochrane and Marshall. He has over sixteen years of experience working for owners, engineers, architects, contractors and subcontractors. An honors graduate of Williams College and a member of Emory University's School of Law's Order of the Barristers, Mr. Davis has represented clients in arbitrations and both bench and jury trials in a number of states throughout the country, including one jury trial that lasted over seventy days. Mr. Davis has lectured on construction law and claim avoidance throughout the United States and abroad at the American Law Center in Moscow, Russia. He has also co-authored publications on construction law and claims avoidance.

Michael D. Dell'Isola, P.E., C.V.S.
Mr. Dell'Isola has over 30 years of construction experience. He has worked on over 300 major national and international projects in excess of $500,000,000. His experience includes educational, commercial, industrial and environmental projects. Mr. Dell'Isola has also served on Vice President Gore's National Performance Review to provide cost and value input to the team studying real estate and facility management.

Harry L. Griffin, Jr., Esq.
Mr. Griffin,'Buck', has practiced construction law for 35 years. He is a founding fellow and member of the American College of Construction Lawyers and is recognized as one of the nation's leaders in the field of construction disputes. He has tried cases for contractors, owners and others around the country and has recently become more active as a neutral arbitrator and mediator. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Duke Law School, where he served as Managing Editor of the Duke Law Journal. Mr. Griffin is the Senior Partner of Griffin, Cochrane & Marshall.

John Keppler, Ph.D.
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 organizations. 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, a master's degree in business administration from the University of Phoenix. 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.

Curtis Martin, Esq.
Mr. Martin is President of Construction Resolutions, LLC in Houston, Texas, where he provides risk management and dispute avoidance services to Contractors, Owners, and Designers. He blends experience as President of an ENR 400 construction firm with 20 years of construction litigation in private law practice to help people analyze project needs and proactively manage disputes. He is a graduate of Duke University and Harvard Law School.

Daniel V. Murphy, E.E.
Mr. Murphy, Executive Vice President of JMI Solutions, LLC has almost thirty years of experience in design, construction, and dispute resolution. He has worked on over $35 billion of projects. His experience includes building, environmental, transportation, power, process/industrial, shipbuilding, computer, and commercial projects. He is an expert in the areas of project management, contract management, cost engineering, and scheduling. Mr. Murphy is an accomplished lecturer, having provided seminars and in-house training on project management and dispute avoidance to international audiences and professional organizations, universities, equipment manufacturers, hotel owners, and public agencies.

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.

Mark D. Petersen, Esq.
Mr. Petersen is a member of the Farella Braun & Martel law firm. He has worked extensively on construction matters and successfully defended construction managers, private owners, public agencies and contractors. Mr. Petersen holds a bachelor's degree from the U.S. Naval Academy and served as a nuclear engineer on a submarine with the US Navy. He obtained his J.D., cum laude, from Hastings College of Law, University of California in 1983, where he was Editor-in Chief of the Hastings International and Comparative Law Review.

Philip Sharpe R.A., DBIA, CSI
Mr. Sharpe is president and CEO of SHARPE Architecture, an architectural and interior design firm specializing in consulting on design-build projects. With over 14 years of design-build experience, Mr. Sharpe is well versed in the various ways that design-build is practiced. Drawing on this experience he has developed management plans for architectural project management as well as overall project management for design-build projects. With offices in Atlanta and Wilmington, NC, he has seen the fast proliferation of design-build in southeastern North Carolina and it's current emergence in the Atlanta market area. Mr. Sharpe has consulted with some of the top design-build/construction and development companies in the southeast to develop their international design-build programs and with building owners to develop performance-based design criteria. As a practicing architect he has designed and managed a broad range of project types with design-build or negotiated construction contracts. Mr. Sharpe is a founding director of the Design-Build Institute of America's Southeast Chapter and serves on DBIA's national Education and International committees.

Charles M. Sink, Esq.
Mr. Sink is a member of the Farella Braun & Martel law firm. Mr. Sink works extensively with local and national architectural firms, governmental entities, general contractors and subcontractors. He has represented plaintiffs and defendants in delay and extra work claims, breach of contract actions, design disputes and claims arising out of access for disabled persons. Mr. Sink has served as an arbitrator on approximately fifty construction claims in California and Nevada. He is an instructor for the American Arbitration Association, and was recently named its commercial arbitrator of the year for Northern California. Mr. Sink graduated cum laude from Harvard University, and received his JD from Hastings College of Law, University of California.

Sam Suhail, Ph.D., PE, PMP
Mr. Suhail is a principal at California CPM a consulting firm specializing in planning, developing and managing construction schedules. Mr. Suhail has over twenty years of professional scheduling experience. He is a recognized expert in the analysis of construction delays, impacts, productivity and efficiency claims. He has worked with general contractors, owners, consultants and subcontractors. He has also worked as a construction project manger and project controls engineer. Mr. Suhail has published several articles in a variety of professional journals.

Joe Tinervia
Joe Tinervia has over 25 years of experience managing writing projects and publications.  He has served  as managing editor with the Macmillan Company, as editor in chief with ITT Publishing, and as editorial director with the McGraw-Hill Book Publishing Company.  

He currently conducts professional training programs and teaches organization, communication and dynamic presentation classes.  He has taught at Irvine Valley College, Santa Ana College, and the University of California, Irvine.  In May 2006 he was named Professor of the Year by Saddleback College's Business Division. His clients have included Disney University, 3M Dental, 3M Surgical, Toshiba, Motorola, Orange County Fire Authority and Irvine Ranch Water District. 

In addition, he has conducted  train-the-trainer workshops nationally at institutions such as Baylor University, the University of Alabama, Michigan State University, the College of San Mateo, and Saddleback College. He has written numerous articles and has coauthored a number of textbooks.

David E. Zofko, PE
Mr. Zofko is a licensed professional engineer in multiple states with over thirty years of experience in the construction industry. He holds a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and has served as the City Engineer for the City of Niles, Ohio. He is currently the Chief Building Official in Trumbull County, Ohio. He was the owner and managing director of his own general construction firm which was involved in both national and international projects. He has served as an expert witness in a number of engineering and construction disputes and lectured on a variety of construction topics throughout the country. He has prepared, filed and successfully negotiated numerous construction claims for various clients.