EMA Board of Directors
President
As the National Cx Director, Tim oversees Cx services for building types ranging from data centers to hospitals, hotels, government buildings, higher education, and many more. With 42+ years in the mechanical engineering field and 18+ directly in Cx, he performs mechanical Retro-Cx projects drive to lower energy costs with 3 years or less payback.
Tim knows how to help make buildings energy efficient as a matter of pride and professionalism.
President - Elect
Emmillee brings specialized experience managing IDIQ relationships with the Intelligence Community, Executive Branch, and facility management programs. The nature of these sensitive, ongoing, and often classified missions requires both expertise and attention to detail.
Emmillee has been able to administer contracts and manage multifaceted project requirements including mechanical, electrical, structural, architectural, fire protection, controls, energy management, raised floor, ATFP, security and communications expertise for surveys, studies, analysis, planning charettes, cost development, demolition, design, design-assist, and design-build/bid requirements.
Treasurer
Kevin Brown is President at KBSquared. I still actively develop opportunities into self-funding solutions for our MUSH and Government clients but I also lead an excellent team of energy engineers and project developers scattered about the USA. I am a Licensed Professional Engineer concentrating on energy savings driven performance contracting.
Our focus is finding that “right” solution that balances a customer’s needs and wants with what can be funded through guaranteed energy savings. We are constantly looking for new energy conservation measures and better ways to bring value to our customers to help them fund their infrastructure needs.
Bob Knoedler is a Vice President at Hanson Professional Services Inc. in Springfield, IL, and serves as the principal-in-charge for building commissioning and energy services both nationally and internationally.
He holds degrees in both mechanical and electrical engineering. His expertise is in the analysis, design and commissioning of mechanical (HVAC, plumbing, fire protection) and electrical (lighting and power distribution) building systems. He is active in EMA training and is currently an EMP Seminar instructor.
With 25 years in the industry, Rick has brought a high level of management experience in the A/E/C industry, specifically in the HVACR sector. Rick has provided technical direction and support of the Commissioning directives, which includes creating standards, training and troubleshooting. He also has provided commissioning and construction services to meet the needs of the clients and supports the design services, and closely works with Project Managers.
Rick is directly responsible for assigning the Cx personnel, following and maintaining the Cx Process, reviewing and maintaining the staff required for projects, and maintaining the Quality of the Cx Process and services provided.
Jim is president of Method Analytics Commissioning Process (MACx) in Gilbertsville, Kentucky. With 16 years of practical commissioning application experience, Jim is a Director and Past President of AABC Commissioning Group (ACG), and co-author of the ACG Commissioning Guideline for Building Owners, Design Professionals, and Commissioning Service Providers. He has 17 years of HVAC Test and Balance experienced and held a certified Test and Balance Engineer (TBE) with the Associated Air Balance Council (AABC).
Paul Raschilla has over 25 years of MEP-FP engineering, field testing, and commissioning management experience honed through direct involvement in operations, facilities management, construction management, R&D, global manufacturing and military sectors.
Paul has been an EMP since 2015, is an EMP Exam Committee Member, and is involved in EMA trainings. Paul is currently Interim Director of Facilities Management for Stamford Health having recently undergone a Joint Commission survey and Storm Ida flood mitigation and remediation. Paul is also the Owner of Acceptance Engineering, a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business.
Santu is the founder and principal in-charge of the MEP engineering services for S&S Engineering, Inc. Santu has extensive computer modeling experience especially for HVAC systems energy analysis and life cycle cost analysis for various buildings and is familiar with simulation and modeling tools such as Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFO) to study the effect of air temperature, velocity static pressure, etc. distribution in critical environmentally controlled spaces.
He has over 20 years varied design experience in educational, mixed-use, healthcare, commercial institutional and industrial projects.
With 42 years of professional experience, Al has worked on a broad range of building types, including educational, healthcare, and commercial facilities. He is well versed in the design and analysis of HVAC systems and providing engineering services, including planning, analysis and construction observation from project inception through construction administration.
His engineering expertise focuses on systems commissioning, energy analysis and energy auditing. He is currently an instructor for EMA’s EMP Seminar and O&M Training course for facility managers and engineers.
Immediate Past President
Executive Director
