Speaker Profiles

David B. Bartlett
Vice President
IBM Smarter Buildings

David Bartlett leads the IBM's Smarter Buildings initiative, helping clients create more green, cost-efficient cities, campuses, corporate offices, commercial sites, casinos, hospitals and neighborhoods worldwide. As IBM's "Building Whisperer", he is a vocal advocate at industry events and in media for using data analysis to better control buildings' function and tame wasteful energy practices.

Dave brings a unique set of capabilities to his function, stemming from his professional experience and academic training. In his nearly three decades at the IBM company, he has led teams in autonomic computing, software development and internationals roles.

His academic work melds ecology, biology, computer science and policy studies—integral to the interdisciplinary Smarter Buildings area. Mr. Bartlett attended the Graduate School for Computer Science at the University of Minnesota, the Graduate School for Business at the University of North Carolina, the Graduate School for Project Management at George Washington University, and the Undergraduate School for Life Sciences at the State University of New York.  He currently holds Project Management Industry certification.

You can follow Dave on twitter at @davebart and on IBM's Smarter Planet Blog at http://asmarterplanet.com/.

Paul Bonington
Vice President Media
Publisher, Engineering News-Record
McGraw-Hill Construction

Paul Bonington is vice president of sales for McGraw-Hill Construction's media, a portfolio that includes Architectural Record, Engineering News-Record, GreenSource, Constructor, and the Regional Construction Publication brands. In this role he develops and manages the MHC media sales organization; and he drives transformation of the media business to an integrated service model which leverages MHC's research and information services, and optimizes digital, print and events delivery platforms for customers.

Prior to joining McGraw-Hill, Paul was vice president, worldwide marketing & product management for Globix Corporation, a data center and Internet service provider specializing in Web hosting, streaming media, and high-speed Internet access for enterprise customers in the U.S. and Europe.

From 1994 to 1998, Paul was senior vice president, group publisher for Mecklermedia, publisher of Internet World, Web Week, and Internet.com, and producer of the Internet World and ISPCon trade shows. At Mecklermedia Paul launched five media brands online and in print and championed the emerging need for media companies to adopt an integrated approach to the delivery of content and marketing services.

Prior to Mecklermedia Paul was director of national accounts for the International Data Group, publishers of Computerworld, CIO, PC World, MacWorld, and Network World, where he managed corporate accounts for IDG's media network. Paul has also held media sales and sales management positions with Fairchild, Penton, and Ziff-Davis publishing companies.

Throughout his career, Paul has been a leader, spokesperson, and advocate for driving Internet and digital transformation in the media and information markets. Paul earned a New York State Regents Scholarship and attended SUNY College at Oneonta, where he earned a B.S. degree in Business Economics and European History.

Stephen Jones
Senior Director
McGraw-Hill Construction

Leading McGraw-Hill Construction's initiatives in Building Information Modeling, Interoperability, and Integrated Project Delivery is a high priority for Stephen A. Jones. As MHC's senior director of business development, Steve also creates alliance relationships in technology and content with major corporations. Steve speaks widely on the implications of these new technologies and processes and in 2007 co-authored MHC's SmartMarket Report on Interoperability, which has been distributed to over 200,000 industry professionals. He also co-authored the SmartMarket Report on BIM, titled Transforming Design and Construction to Achieve Greater Industry Productivity, which was released in December 2008.

Before joining McGraw-Hill, Steve was a vice president with Primavera Systems, a leading project management software provider to the construction industry. Earlier in his career, Steve spent 19 years in a variety of design and management roles with architecture firms. Most recently he was a principal and board of directors member with Burt Hill, one of the largest architectural/engineering firms in the U.S.

Steve is on the Board of Direction of the buildingSMART Alliance, represents MHC on the Process Transformation Committee of CURT (Construction Users Roundtable), and represents MHC on the AGC (Associated General Contractors) BIM Forum.

Kimon Onuma, FAIA
President & Founder
Onuma, Inc.

Kimon Onuma, FAIA, has been practicing architecture for three decades; building informed environments, ecosystems and cities. He has been using Building Information Modeling (BIM) for nearly two decades. His firm's award winning BIMStorms are cloud-based collaborative tools and processes used for city planning and design to enable real-time collaboration of specialists, architects, planners, programmers and the community. Kimon serves on the Board of Direction for the buildingSMART alliance and is on the American Institute of Architects (AIA)Technology in Architectural Practice (TAP) Knowledge Community and serving AIA's 2013 TAP Chair.

John Roach
Executive Director, Technology Services
Foundation for California Community Colleges

John Roach is the Executive Director of Technology Services at the Foundation for California Community Colleges. A personable leader and communicator, he is passionate about building teams and strategic partnerships. John has twenty years' experience integrating work processes and data flow to improve business decisions and develop information systems of lasting value.

In 2012, in partnership with the California Community College System and Onuma, Inc., John's team from the Foundation was the co-recipient of a Fiatech Celebration of Engineering & Technology Innovation (CETI) Award, which recognize significant achievements in technology research, development and implementation.