Doug Gatlin
Vice President, Market Development
U.S. Green Building Council

As the Vice President for Market Development at the U.S. Green Building Council, Doug Gatlin has oversight for deploying the family of LEED rating systems in all the major commercial market segments and for managing overall customer relations for LEED and the Council’s new pilot initiative, the Portfolio Program.

Doug has 15 years experience in energy and environmental policy and has worked on climate change response strategies and voluntary pollution prevention programs for most of his career.  He has authored publications on climate change mitigation strategies, energy efficiency program design, and energy efficiency project financing.

Prior to joining USGBC, Doug served as a Senior Advisor to the Deputy Associate Administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where he worked for nearly 10 years.  From 1997-2004, he served as Team Leader for the EPA’s ENERGY STAR Commercial Buildings program, spearheading numerous activities including the launch of the first vertical sector marketing strategy, a new public sector program for governments, K-12 schools and universities, an energy efficiency financing initiative, and later the launch of new partnership program with service providers, utilities and regional energy efficiency programs.

From 1992-1996, Doug served as a project manager at the Washington, DC based Climate Institute, where he managed the Energy Smart Cities campaign, an effort to promote energy efficiency as way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.  During this time he also helped the U.S. Department of Energy launch the Rebuild America program and was hired to manage the first round of Rebuild America Partnership Workshops.

Doug holds a bachelors in political science from Duke University and a masters in public policy from Georgetown University.  He lives with his wife and two children in Silver Spring, MD.

Teresa Magnus, CPA
Construction Contract Strategy Manager
Southern Company

Teresa Magnus is the Construction Contract Strategy Manager for the Southern Company, one of the largest generators of electricity in the nation, serving both regulated and competitive markets across the southeastern United States, with more than 41,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity.  Teresa joined the Southern Company in 2002. 

Teresa’s work experience has been focused on planning and management of major construction programs and the prevention, as well as, resolution of complex claims.  Prior to joining the Southern Company, Teresa was a consultant with both Price Waterhouse and Arthur Andersen in dispute resolution services, focusing primarily on large, complex construction disputes for contractors, subcontractors, and owners. 

She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accountancy from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and is a CPA licensed in Ohio.  She is a Juris Doctor candidate at Samford University Cumberland School of Law, graduating in May 2008.  She is a member of the Construction Users Roundtable (CURT), the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC), and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).

Kurt Maldovan
Design and Construction Visualization Coordinator
Jacobs Architecture and Engineering Practice

Kurt Maldovan is a Design and Construction Visualization Coordinator with Jacobs Architecture and Engineering Practice. Kurt has a Bachelors of Architectural Engineering with an emphasis on Construction Management from the Pennsylvania State University. He is also pursuing a graduate degree with research focused on “Optimizing the Design and Review Process with BIM and Interactive Workspaces”. Kurt was a member of the Computer Integrated Construction Graduate Research team at Penn State where he was responsible developing practical industry case studies and coordinating operations of the Immersive Construction (ICon) Lab.

Kurt has extensive knowledge of BIM, information technologies, 4D modeling, and advanced visualization facilities. In his role at Jacobs’, Kurt spans the gap between A/E projects designed in house and from designers on ongoing PM/CM projects. In the design group Kurt uses his construction background to help designers design for construction. With the PM/CM group, Kurt helps identify Virtual Design and Construction opportunities and define the base BIM scope of work including 4D modeling, collision detection, and simulation.

Kurt is also responsible for designing and constructing Jacobs’ mobile and in-office Visualization Labs. Kurt is a Young Member at the SAME, Blue Ridge Post and involved with the AGC BIMForum VDC Taskforce and the CMAA Emerging Technologies Committee.