Ripple Effect II Green Development Techniques to Protect Our Ozarks
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Ripple Effect II Green Development Techniques to Protect our Ozarks Waterways November 14-15, 2019 Darr Agricultural Center, Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri SPEAKER BIOS John Chiles, a native of Springfield, is excited to support farmers and the local food entrepreneurs of the Ozarks. John worked for four years with E8 Angels, a startup finance group in Seattle that has funded some of the most innovative clean-tech and renewable energy startups in the United States and Canada. He oversaw deal screening and investor due diligence for their funded companies, and coached entrepreneurs on how to make effective business pitches to venture capitalists and angel investors. John Also served as a teaching fellow at Presidio University, a sustainability-focused MBA program in Seattle. Prior to this he ran an off-grid hydroelectric power plant in remote Washington State. He holds an MBA in finance from Presidio University and is a graduate of Missouri State University, where he co-founded Students for a Sustainable Future. He also serves on the Board of Springfield Community Gardens. Mike Chiles is a lifelong entrepreneur who is focused on extending opportunities to young people, veterans, and disadvantaged persons. Mike owns and co-manages Rockspan Farm, while serving as VP of Farmers Market of the Ozarks, and board member on the Springfield Greene County Park Board, and the regional YMCA Board. Mike holds seven patents, and as founder and past president of Watts Radiant developed, manufactured and brought to market products currently sold in Home Depot, Costco, and Lowes. Mike has two Bachelor of Science degrees, an honorary degree from Missouri Institute of Science and Technology, and an MBA in Sustainable Business from Presidio University. Ron Doetch was raised on a working dairy farm in northern Illinois and has worked in food systems his entire career with a bias toward organic, sustainable and restorative agriculture. His skill set includes whole systems integrated agriculture and crop production/marketing. Ron has expansive social and business assets in the agriculture communities of the city, farm, university, and food industry sectors. Currently, Ron is the managing partner for Solutions in the Land, LLC, a for-profit consulting firm offering whole farm and food planning services in both urban and rural environments. Current clients include City of Milwaukee; Palifito Park; Christy Webber Landscaping, Chicago; Kane County, IL; Farmland Preservation, Geneva, IL; Feed Earth Now, Chicago; Alameda County Sheriff’s Farm in Oakland, CA; Herman Miller, Zeeland, MI; Breton Arboretum, Dallas Center, IA; and White Earth Nation, White Earth, MN. Ron served seven years as the Executive Director of the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute (MFAI), a sustainable agriculture research, education and outreach organization founded in 1984. MFAI offered training in all aspects of agriculture production and marketing. Ron opened the first local produce store in the Milwaukee Public Market. Urban Ag design has been a major role both while at MFAI and with SITL. He has served as a sustainable agriculture consultant to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, university of Illinois, EPA – Region 5, City of Milwaukee and City of Detroit. Eric Dove, PE is a Senior Water Resource Project Manager with HDR, Inc. He has twenty-five years of experience in flood control, water quality and green infrastructure design and project management. His diverse water resources background includes urban flood control, dredging, detention ponds, infiltration beds, watershed yield, cost-benefit analysis, watershed protection plans and stream restoration designs. He an extensive modeling background, including HEC- RAS, HEC-HMS, HEC-1, HEC-2BPR, HEC-FFA, HY-8, TR-20, TR-55, WHAT, ECON-1, SITES, Hydraflow, CE-QUAL-W2 and EUTROMOD. Joe Fearn has thirty-plus years of hands-on commercial landscape experience in many different settings and organizations in Missouri, Tennessee and Missouri. He is an ISA Certified Arborist/Municipal Specialist and a PGMS Certified Grounds Manager. He has an AAS in Horticulture Technology, BS in General Studies, MA in Communications, and is a proud tree hugger! Dale Gillespie, the owner of Gillespie Excavating Company, L.L.C., grew up in construction alongside his dad and developed a passion for operating heavy equipment. After graduating from Southwest Missouri State University with a degree in Industrial Management, he decided to continue in the excavating field and established Gillespie Excavating Company in 1982. Through years of experience in residential and commercial construction, Dale has developed the knowledge to foresee the impact of poor design and where LID can bring construction to a higher standard of environmental consciousness. Gillespie Excavating Company was awarded the first environmental excellence award for Stormwater and Erosion Sediment Control from the City of Springfield, MO. Dale and his wife Nicki live in Strafford, Missouri and operate the company with their son, Travis. Jason Hainline is an architect with the progressive design firm Dake Wells Architecture, involved in design and management of a variety of projects. He serves as the firm’s sustainability director, elevating the pursuit of performance with all projects within the fuirmk, and is focused on the elegant marriage of sustainability and design excellence. His experience with a wide range of projects in the US and abroad included federal facilities, public and private institutions, retail developments, low and high-rise offices, laboratories, and educational buildings. Jason is a practices facilitator and a former member of the USGBC’s LEED Faculty. His passion and experience has led to his elevation to LEED Fellow in 2013. Jason received a Bachelor of Architecture from Hammons School of Architecture at Drury University. Finding the study of architecture provide too much free time, he simultaneously pursued a Bachelor of Arts in Art History (emphasis on architectural history). Julie Hawkins, PE has worked for the City of Springfield for three and one-half years in the Department of Public Works. She currently reviews development plans to make sure these plans meet the city’s stormwater requirements. She graduated from Missouri University of Science and Technology with a double major in Civil and Architectural Engineering, and is a Professional Engineer licensed in Missouri. Christina Hoxie With over twenty years of diverse professional experience in interiors, architecture, and community planning, Christina coalesces interdisciplinary teams and works closely with the people of each unique community to build upon their assets, strategize transformational solutions, and fulfill their shared vision. She believes that community planning provides a pathway to greater environmental quality, economic opportunity, and social equity. Christina practices this discipline with an open heart and mind, combining technical expertise with an adaptive community-centered engagement approach. Jerany Jackson, PLA, MBA is a Professional Landscape Architect and Project Manager at Great River Engineering (GRE) in Springfield, Missouri. She earned a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Arkansas, in Fayetteville and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix. She served for eleven years on the Missouri Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Professional Landscape Architects, the State Licensing Board for those professions. In 2015, she served as the President of the Council of Landscape Registration Boards, the international organization that prepares the licensing exam and develops model law for licensing boards in the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada. A Professional Landscape Architect for twenty-seven years, Jerany provides services to develop, enhance or preserve the natural or manmade environment. She specializes in management and team building, low impact development, park and trail planning, and innovative sustainable functional site design for a wide variety of governmental, commercial, industrial, and private client projects. Her career has focused on the design and management aspects of the profession of landscape architecture with much attention to the multi-disciplinary teamwork involved in making projects successful. Laura Lesniewski is a principal with BNIM with thirty years of experience in architecture. She combines a rare blend of attributes that lends a spirit of collaboration and stewardship to her work as an architect and is dedicated to pursuing the highest levels of sustainability to build thriving communities. Laura was team leader for the award-winning Packard Foundation Sustainability Report and Matrix, was project leader on the Omega Center for Sustainable Living (first LEED Platinum and Living Building Challenge certified building in the world), and contributed to the REGEN tool, created with the U.S. Green Building Council in its explorations on the next generation of sustainability. Laura co-led the design team for a zero-carbon community redevelopment in Montreal, Quebec and a zero-carbon rural development in upstate New York. She has also engaged with several disaster recovery efforts across the country as part of the BNIM planning team. More recently, she has managed projects with the U.S. Department of State as part of their Overseas Buildings Operations emphasizing design excellence and eco-diplomacy. Closer to home, she contributed to the Mid-America