Andy McMillan
President & CEO of Teletrol Systems, Inc.
President of BACnet International

Andy McMillan is president and CEO of Teletrol Systems Inc., a leading supplier of BACnet-based, IT-friendly building automation solutions.  He is also the President of BACnet International, an industry organization serving the needs users and suppliers of BACnet.  Andy’s background includes broad open systems marketing and industry development experience as well as strong technical knowledge of distributed automation and information management systems.  Andy has been a featured speaker on open systems and automation-IT integration at conferences in North America, Europe, Japan and Australia.  Andy has co-authored a book on open systems networking and holds a dozen patents.  He has MBA and BSEE degrees from the University of Michigan and is a member of ASHRAE, AEE, PRSM, and IEEE.

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Jeff Seewald
Intelligent Building Systems Engineer
Building Intelligence Group

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H. Michael Newman
Cornell University
Manager, Department of Utilities & Energy Management Computer Section

Mr. Newman graduated "with distinction" from Cornell University in 1965 with a bachelor's degree in Engineering Physics. A year later he was awarded a master's degree in the same field and subsequently did post-graduate work in astrophysics at the NASA Center for Radiophysics and Space Research. Following 10 years as a pilot and flight instructor, during which he assisted in the design and maintenance of aircraft electronic installations, Mr. Newman returned to Cornell to take charge of the installation and development of the University's computerized energy management and control system. The system now serves over 130 buildings with more than 200,000 sensor and control points, features extensive graphic display and plotting capabilities, and was one of the first such systems to make use of multiuser, multiprotocol computers in an integrated, multivendor field panel environment. Mr. Newman is presently Manager of the Utilities Computer Section at Cornell University.

As a member and, since February 2000, a Fellow of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Mr. Newman has served on the Research and Technical Committee that supervised the Society's research program and its technical committees, was an officer of TC 1.4, the technical committee on control theory and application, was the chairman of Standard Project Committee 135P which developed the BACnet® building automation and control network communication protocol and was chairman of the follow-on standing standard project committee, SSPC 135, responsible for interpreting and extending BACnet, up until July 2000. He recently served as convenor of the committee's XML Working Group that published the BACnet Web Services addendum, BACnet/WS, in the fall of 2006. He is a member of the Board of Directors of BACnet International, the successor group to the BACnet Manufacturers Association. He has contributed to the development of the Professional Development Seminar on "Automatic Temperature Control," and served as a speaker for the PDS on "DDC for HVAC Monitoring and Control" for 12 years. He has contributed to several revisions of the ASHRAE handbook chapter on "Automatic Control." In 1999 he co-authored the "GSA Guide to Specifying Interoperable Building Automation and Control Systems Using ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135-1995, BACnet" that was published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He is the author of an award-winning book from Wiley Interscience entitled "Direct Digital Control of Building Systems - Theory and Practice." In June of 2003 he received ASHRAE's Standards Achievement Award.

Mr. Newman has served as a consultant to the Architect of the Capitol, the National Institute of Building Sciences, and NIST in Washington, DC, as well as to several private companies. He was a member of the United States delegation to the International Energy Agency's Advisory Review Board on the subject of the use of microelectronic control systems for energy conservation in buildings. He has served as a U.S. expert to the International Organization for Standardization's TC 205, Building Environment Design, at meetings in Harrogate, Berlin, Brussels, Canberra, Tromsø, Copenhagen, Key West, Seoul and Paris and is currently Vice-Chairman of the U.S. Technical Advisory Group. In April 1998 he was a presenter at the "Forum Home and Building Automation" in Paris and in May participated in the formation of the BACnet Interest Group - Europe in Frankfurt. In September 1999 he was the keynote speaker at a BACnet seminar in Sydney, Australia. At the Congress Building Performance in March 2000, again in Frankfurt, he presented a paper entitled "BACnet - Past, Present and Future." In August 2001 he was a member of a 3-person delegation to Beijing and Wuhan, China, that presented BACnet to businessmen, academics and government officials of the Ministry of Construction. The same delegation visited Tokyo and Osaka in August 2002 to make presentations at the "International BACnet Symposium" sponsored by the Institute of Electrical Installation Engineers of Japan. In 2003 he visited Seoul to present a BACnet update to the Intelligent Building Society of Korea. In 2004, he attended the launch of the BACnet Interest Group - Middle East in Dubai, UAE and then went on to Moscow to speak at SHK 2004.

In April 1999 Mr. Newman was selected by the Twin Tiers Chapter of ASHRAE to receive its Engineer of the Year Award and, in February 2001, received an award of the same name from the Broome Chapter of the New York State Society of Professional Engineers.

Mr. Newman has been a member of the Association of Energy Engineers, the Cornell Society of Engineers, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and is a senior member of the Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society.

Michael R. Olson
Manager - HVAC Applications
ABB, Inc.

"Mining BACnet Data - More than just energy optimization (or how to use the information provided for pro-active decision making)" will be described by Michael R. Olson, Manager – HVAC Applications, ABB, Inc. Automation Technologies, Low Voltage Drives.  Tremendous amounts of data are available in most BACnet installations.  This data may be used to pro-actively generate service requests, accomplish preventive maintenance, prevent emergency breakdowns and trigger predictive strategies / decisions.  In this session Mr. Olson and other speakers will discuss ideas on how to better use the data collected.

Mr. Olson has extensive experience in the HVAC, Water/Wastewater Treatment, and Chemical markets.  He has been applying adjustable speed drives for over 25 years.  Mr. Olson has been published numerous times in trade journal articles discussing energy savings and the proper application of adjustable speed drives and has been a contributing editor to several books on the subject.  He has an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Illinois, and a Masters of Science in Engineering Management degree from the Milwaukee School of Engineering.  He is a Member of ASHRAE and BACnet International.  He also attended the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs for two years.

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Paul Ehrlich, PE
President
Building Intelligence Group

Ehrlich is a well-known industry stakeholder and advocate of integrated and intelligent buildings. In 2004 he formed the Building Intelligence Group LLC, an independent consultancy, whose primary purpose is to help system suppliers as well as building owners and managers, maneuver their operations through the vast changes prompted by open systems, convergence and enterprise building management. Clients include developers, property management firms and major manufacturers of Building Systems and associated technologies.

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Robert Beverly
Editor
Engineered Systems Magazine

Robert joined Engineered Systems in 1998 and has served as its editor since 1999. He combines his HVAC editing tenure and previous experience editing lifestyle/entertainment magazines to every issue of ES, delivering practical engineering info in a readable, accessible package. Robert especially enjoys bringing first-time authors and consulting firms to the pages of ES to share their successes and perspectives.

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Roy Kolasa
Open System Solutions Manager  
Honeywell

Roy Kolasa manages the development of Open System, Integrated Solutions for Honeywell's Enterprise Building Integrator (EBI) and ComfortPoint platforms. In addition to recommending how to specify, design, implement and maintain interoperable systems Roy devotes time to educating customers and industry organizations on current technology and the benefits of integrating Building Automation, Fire Life-Safety, Security and Access Control, Digital Video, and Energy Management solutions.

Roy actively promotes the Value of Integrated and Intelligent Building solutions as member and Past-President of the Kansas City Chapter of ASHRAE, member representative of BACnet International, and Vice-Chair and Board member of Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA) currently serving as Chair of the Intelligent & Integrated Buildings Council.

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Steven Bushby
NIST

Mr. Bushby is the leader of the Mechanical Systems and Controls Group in the Building and Fire Research Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He is responsible for overseeing research activities related to extending the capabilities of BACnet, automated fault detection and diagnostics for HVAC system components, automated commissioning tools for HAVAC systems, and developing a testbed for studying the interaction of multiple building control systems in "cybernetic" buildings.

As a member of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and has served on several technical committees, including a term as chair of TC 1.4 Control Theory and Application. He provided a leadership role in developing the BACnet communication protocol and is a past chair of ASHRAE SSPC 135, the committee charged with maintaining the BACnet standard. Mr. Bushby created and managed the BACnet Interoperability Testing Consortium, a cooperative research and development agreement between NIST and 22 private sector partners, whose work between 1993 and 2000 led to the establishment of an industry run testing and listing program for BACnet products in the United States and Europe. He has led international standardization activities for building control systems, serving as convenor of ISO TC 205 WG 3 Building Control System Design, which has developed ISO standards for various aspects of digital control systems, including communication protocols.

Mr. Bushby has provided technical assistance to several high profile BACnet technology demonstration projects including the world's first large scale multi-vendor BACnet system in the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco, the General Services Administration Energy Maintenance Network (GEMnet) linking federal government office buildings in four states, the Iowa Army National Guard Smart Building Demonstration Project linking control systems in twelve buildings across the state, the Advanced Measurement Laboratory complex at NIST, and the renovation of the Capitol Hill building complex in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Bushby has published numerous technical papers and articles about BACnet and building control systems, and has taught professional development seminars on the subject. He has been an invited keynote speaker on BACnet topics in Australia, Asia, Europe, and the United States. In 2001, at the request of the Chinese Ministry of Construction, he led a delegation of BACnet experts on a technical visit to China presenting BACnet to business, academic and government officials. He led similar delegations to Japan in 2002, to Korea in 2003, and to Dubai and Russia in 2004.

Mr. Bushby has received several awards including the Department of Commerce Bronze Medal in 1992 for his work in developing the BACnet protocol; a Hammer Award from Vice-President Al Gore in 1996 for his work applying BACnet technology in government buildings; and the NIST William P. Slichter Award in 1996 for outstanding work to improve NIST's ties to industry; and the ASHRAE Distinguished Service Award in 2004.

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