Mike began his career with Turner on the NYNEX Corporate Center Project and then in 1988 moved on to the People’s Bank Headquarters Project. In 1989 Mike transitioned to the Cost Department and in 1990 began a Construction Management assignment at the Yonkers Microsociety School #19. In 1991, Mike commenced a 6-year engineering assignment at the $140M, 625,000 sq ft Yale-New Haven Hospital Children’s Hospital / Facilities Renewal Project. He was promoted to Project Engineer in May 1994. In 2001 Mike was promoted to Project Manager and in that capacity was responsible for the new $45M, 200,000-sq. ft., Roger Ludlowe Middle School in Fairfield, CT, and the new $38M, 171,000 sq ft Plainfield High School, Central Village, CT as well as several other school projects in the Fairfield County area. In 2004 Mike transitioned into his current role as Purchasing Manager where to date, he has been involved with over $1B in Subcontract Awards. In 2008, Mike earned his LEED AP Certification.

Mike resides in Connecticut, enjoys biking and spending time with Family. He is married and has one son who will be attending PSU in the Fall ‘09.

Jonathan taught for six years in the Penn State AE Department where he received both the College of Engineering and Penn State University's Graduate Assistant Award for Outstanding Teaching. During his time at Penn State, he also worked for the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence and taught the Penn State Course in College Teaching for new faculty.

He currently serves on the advisory board of the Penn State Wilkes-Barre campus and is a trustee for the Francis L. Greenfield Laborer's Joint Training Fund of Washington, D.C. A member of the Penn State Alumni Association, Jonathan resides in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Megan Hawk

Megan has performed investigative surveys and condition assessments of facilities around the country. She played a key role in a comparative assessment of over 100 roofs at U.S. Air Force bases in order to develop a prioritization schema for maintenance and capital planning. Dedicated to responsible implementation of sustainable initiatives, Megan is a founding member of several task forces that seek to integrate green practices into business operations, building design, and facility maintenance. She is a LEED Accredited Professional and has delivered presentations focused on life cycle cost and the triple bottom line at conferences in the U.S. and Canada.

Karen joined Turner Construction Company in 1980 as a Field Engineer in the Pittsburgh Business Unit upon her graduation from Penn State with a Bachelor of Architectural Engineering degree. Currently she is Vice President and General Manager of the Maryland Business Unit in Baltimore and has been in that role since 2005. As such, she has overall responsibility for the activities of both office services and project operations. She provides business development and operational management direction to the construction team as the project develops and monitors its progress through her operational teams, monthly reports and periodic site visits.

Current board and advisory positions include: ULI Executive Committee, Baltimore Chapter; Greater Baltimore Committee, President’s Advisory Council, and Transportation and Built Environment Task Force; In Counsel With Women, Founding Member, Cleveland Ohio; Penn State Engineering Society Board (PSES); Penn State College of Engineering Industrial and Professional Advisory Council (IPAC); and Penn State Architectural Engineering Alumni Board.

Bill is now with Del Ciotto Architects, Inc. in North Wales, PA and operates their engineering department. The firm is multi project type firm for small to large projects in the residential, retail, institutional (health care) markets. The firm’s president is Joseph Del Ciotto, Jr. who has both AE and Arch degrees from PSU 1967.

From 1967 to 2000 Bill was part owner of J. E. Biro and Associates, Inc. and designed many (1000+) public educational and some health care facilities. That firm closed in 2000. From 1984 to 1994 he also had a small winery, grew grapes and made and sold wine, which required licenses from the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board. Is a Life member of the Penn State Alumni Association, board member of the Alumni Blue Band Association, member of ASHRAE, and the National Fire Protection Association; past board member of APEC (Automated Procedures for Engineering Consultants) a group of engineering firms that wrote and provided computer software to its’ members for HVAC load calculations, lighting calculations, duct design, piping design and energy simulation calculations-prior to the DOE software. He also operates a small engineering consulting firm TRACH Cellars, Inc.

Jonathan Williams is the owner and principal of Real Projectives, LLC. Applying more than 15 years of real estate industry experience, he provides flexible and professional project/construction management and objective real estate consulting services. Considered a Real Estate Enhancement Expert™, Mr. Williams is adept at assessing, strategizing, designing, improving and constructing commercial office, retail, health care, institutional, and multi-family properties throughout the United States. He has been instrumental in projects ranging from $20 thousand to $200 million. Mr. Williams excels at orchestrating jobs that have seemingly impossible constraints and challenging logistical concerns, especially those demanding minimal impacts to ongoing business activities and neighbors.

Mr. Williams graduated with a professional Bachelor’s degree of Architectural Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University with dual emphases in construction management and structural engineering. He was the recipient of the John J. Brinjac Memorial Award for 5-years outstanding AE performance. He was an officer of Penn State’s student NAHB chapter for four years. He earned Certified Construction Contract Administrator (CCCA) and Construction Documents Technologist (CDT) credentials from the Construction Specifications Institute. He expects to complete a Master of Science in Real Estate development from the Johns Hopkins University in May 2010.

He is currently a member of the Urban Land Institute, International Council of Shopping Centers, Green Building Institute, Construction Specifications Institute, and National Institute of Building Sciences. Mr. Williams has been active in the development and application of Building

Information Modeling (BIM) standards through the International Alliance for Interoperability. Additionally, Mr. Williams has led volunteer teams over many years in Rebuilding Together/ Christmas in April community improvement projects.

Before starting Real Projectives, Mr. Williams was the Director of Construction Management for the Atlantic Realty Companies where he led a department through improved service practices and managed a variety of office and retail projects. Prior to that, he formed a project management group and improved MEP engineering integration as Senior Vice President of Metropolitan Engineering, Inc. where he was also instrumental in synchronizing a merger with Shapiro-O’Brien Associates. Previously, he was a project manager and owner representative for the former office REIT, CarrAmerica Realty, in the development, construction and property operations divisions. During that affiliation he specialized in complex capital improvements and  effectively guided the preparation of more than 350 properties across the U.S. for unique risk concerns.