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REGION X DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS (DL'S)
Tracey Jumper, CCP
Tracey Jumper is a Certified Commissioning Professional with 25 years of experience that began in design, advanced to the technical specialty of commissioning, and evolved to leadership in launching quality-driven departments and companies. Raised in a single-parent household in Scranton, Pennsylvania (Anthracite Chapter), Tracey was the first in her family to graduate from college, earning an Architectural Engineering degree from Penn State University while working various construction jobs.
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In 2023, Tracey accepted her current role as a Global Director of Data Center Commissioning at Microsoft. There, she launched a new team to oversee first-of-kind data center projects. She previously supervised the Commissioning Division for EMCOR, a division she co-founded. In addition to founding her own firm, Jump-Start Building Commissioning, Tracey has been instrumental in establishing multiple successful commissioning enterprises. Her clients span notable organizations such as the NFL, NASA, NBC, Estée Lauder, Verizon, General Atomics, Boeing, Schwab, Anthem, Frontier, JLL, and Geisinger, among others.
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Tracey's early achievements include a feature in USA Today Money (Feb '11) and being named in Consulting-Specifying Engineering Magazine's 40 Under 40 ('20) as well as Engineered Systems Magazine's Top 20 Women to Watch in HVAC. She is a credited subject matter expert in The Building Commissioning Handbook and inaugural publication of ASHRAE Standard 230 - The Commissioning Process for Existing Buildings. Her greatest accomplishment, however, is seeing her mentees achieve similar high honors and credits.
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Over her 20-year membership with ASHRAE, Tracey has held leadership positions in four different regions. She was the first female president of the Anthracite Chapter (PA - US), has held chair positions with Student Activities, Society and Regional Conference planning, Research Promotion, and Chapter Technology Transfer. She currently is Regional Vice Chair of the Government Affairs Committee (RVC-GAC) for Region X.
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Outside of work, Tracey's passion extends to community resilience planning and disaster response. Her outreach efforts include educating, serving as an ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer, advocating for Government Affairs in AZ, CA, HI, and NV, and fundraising and volunteering for numerous frontline climate action and conservation initiatives, including Cool Earth and the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.
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Additionally, she is a motorsport enthusiast, is building an experimental aircraft with her partner, and recently became a certified mountaineer after summiting Mr. Kilimanjaro in September 2024.
TOPICS
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AI in Action: Daily Tools Transforming Engineering and Construction
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Data Center Commissioning: The Top 5 Management Strategies You Need to Know Right Now
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How to Launch Your Decarbonization Efforts: Achieving Milestones using the Existing Building Commissioning Process (ASHRAE Standard 230)
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How to Navigate Uncertainty: Consulting and Contracting Strategies for Existing Building Commissioning
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ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 230-2022/Commissioning Process for Existing Buildings & Systems
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Overcoming Challenges: The Practice of Existing Building Commissioning & Facility Enhancements
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How to Upgrade and Re-Commission Existing Buildings for Infection Control
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Decarbonization: Lessons from the Amazon Rainforest
KARINE LEBLANC
Karine Leblanc received her bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Ecole de Technologie Superieure, a public engineering school in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, who was founded in 1974 and that is part of the University of Quebec. She was awarded an honorary medal as part of the 50th anniversary of the University of Quebec for her exceptional contribution to the institution.
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She is the West Modular Solutions Sales Manager for Daikin Applied and has been an active member of ASHRAE since she was a student.
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She has served on the ASHRAE Society Board of Director from 2014-2017 and became the first female Region X Director Regional Chair since 1959. In 2009-2010, she was the 2nd female and youngest President of the chapter of Southern California which was founded in 1930.
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She has received the Louise & Bill Holladay chapter Distinguished service award, the Region X Director’s Cup award, the Regional Award of Merit and the Distinguished Service Award.
TOPICS
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How to use Emotional Intelligence to become a better leader professionally and personally
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Everyone Communicates, Few Connect
Daniel Hahne
Daniel Hahne began his HVAC industry career in 1985 when he accepted his first position working as an estimator for the HVAC representative organization, Norman S. Wright Co. SW, Phoenix. After years of estimating, Dan’s profession transitioned into contractor sales before he accepted a position at a newly established representative company in 2000, Air Specialty Products (ASP), currently known as ThermAir Systems. At ASP he learned how to support and sell to design development projects for large commercial and institutional buildings.
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In 2008, Dan lobbied for and became ASP’s Engineering Salesperson. Leading industry manufacturers provided the educational resources for him to learn about high-performance building and types of equipment available to increase mechanical system efficiency as he became a regional resource for projects designed with decoupled active and passive hydronic systems, thermally stratified environments and 100% outside air systems.
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Gaining market share through his educational approach, Varitec approached Dan to join the firm as a corporate “educator”, a role he accepted and advanced in the Desert Southwest as Varitec’s Director of High-Performance HVAC Solutions. During the pandemic, Dan created a webinar series based on ASHRAE’s Position Document on Infectious Aerosols. These webinars drew significantly from ASHRAE’s Epidemic Task Force website and other industry resources to address the nature and behavior of infectious aerosols in occupied zones and what protocols and products are available to reduce the risk of infection.
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In 2019, two professional engineers invited Dan to co-author two articles for Engineered Systems (ES) Magazine, “Debunking the Myths of Chilled Beams.” This unique opportunity allowed him to expand his educational platform nationally by co-authoring and authoring five more articles of various topics for ES Magazine.
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Dan has been an active member of ASHRAE since 2009. During his membership years, he has served as Chair of Sustainability for ASHRAE’s Central Arizona Chapter, and was a featured speaker for his local chapter on Fan System Effect, Debunking the Myth of Chilled Beams and on Thermally Stratified Environments. He was also a voting member on ASHRAE’s Standard 200-2015 committee on Methods of Testing Chilled Beams and is currently a member of ASHRAE’s T1.7P Committee for ongoing commissioning.
In December of 2021, to more effectively advance MEP solutions for high-performance buildings, he joined the AIA-Arizona Chapter as an Allied member and became an AIA CES accredited provider to encourage architects to become more involved in dialog with their mechanical engineers. Dan currently has fourteen AIA CES accredited presentations on a variety of topics..
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As a Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate of the Slade School of Art, University College London and holding a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Sculpture from Boston University and taught fine art courses part-time for the Maricopa County Community Colleges. Dan’s educational background is uncommon in the industry and gives him a uniquely creative perspective within the HVAC mechanical engineering realm.
TOPICS
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ASHRAE Standard 241: Control of Infectious Aerosols
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Psychrometrics Deconstructed Part #1
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Psychrometrics Deconstructed Part #2
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Fundamentals of HVAC Systems
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100% Outside Air Systems – The Importance of Ventilation & Design Considerations
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Optimizing Laboratory Operational Efficiency with Chilled Beams
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Health & Well-Being: One Breath at a Time
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Toward Healthier Buildings: Humidification
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Thermally Stratified Environments
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Medium Pressure Variable Air Volume (VAV) Systems
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100% Outside Air Systems - Passive Radiant Cooling & Heating Technology
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100% Outside Air Systems: Variable Refrigerant Technology
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100% OSA Systems – Active & Passive Chilled Beams
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Underfloor Air Systems – Principles, Design and New Technology
Shona O'Dea
SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL (SOM)
1 MARITIME PLAZA, SUITE 500
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111
(415) 352-5829
Shona O’Dea is the Director of Sustainability for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), based in the San Francisco studio.
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Throughout her career, O’Dea has been dedicated to energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality, providing innovation and technical excellence in sustainable building design and operation. She advises clients about sustainable goal-setting and uses building simulation to help designers quantify energy savings and understand the interactions of building design with the mechanical systems and with the environment. Beyond building simulation, O’Dea brings her passion to holistic building performance master planning with a focus on reducing the carbon footprint and water use of building portfolios, while also ensuring occupants can thrive in healthy spaces. Shona holds a BS in Building Services Engineering and an MS in Sustainability, Innovation and Technology from the Dublin Institute of Technology as well as an MS in Technology from Purdue University.
TOPICS
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Finding Vision through IAQ
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Considerations for Continuous Air Quality Monitoring
Peter Rumsey, P.E., ASHRAE Fellow, AEE Fellow
Peter is widely recognized as a global leader in energy efficiency and sustainable building system
design. Peter founded Point Energy Innovations in 2014 and is its CEO and Chief Design Innovator.
Before that he founded Rumsey Engineers in 1998 which was acquired by Integral Group in 2009.
He served as Integral’s West Coast Director and Chief Technology Officer.
He has consulted to venture capital firms, successful start-ups and has worked worldwide: in North
and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He has directed the design of 41 LEED Platinum
projects, 10 COTE Top Ten projects, 3 Living Building Challenge projects, and 22 Net Zero projects.
Peter has been responsible for many key innovations in energy efficient design and analysis,
including pioneering the use of chilled beams, efficient outside air systems that eliminate reheat,
radiant cooling systems, low pressure drop distribution systems and the use of guaranteed
performance contracts for HVAC systems.
His designs include the world's highest scoring LEED Platinum CI, the first certified Net Zero
project, the world's first LEED Platinum pre-certified data center, the first Net Zero laboratory, the
first LEED Gold microchip manufacturing plant, the first radiant cooled building in India for Infosys, the high-profile greening of The Empire State Building, and the largest Zero-Energy public building in the U.S. One of his major areas of innovation is making green affordable - creating prominent examples of green buildings that are affordable and practical. In 2012 the Association of Energy Engineers named him “Renewable Energy Innovator of the Year.” His design of the Packard Foundation Net Zero HQ won ASHRAE’s prestigious Award of Engineering Excellence --only given 4 other times in ASHRAE’s 100-year history.
Peter is a graduate of UC Berkeley and has taught a graduate level engineering course on low energy buildings at Stanford for over 15 years
TOPICS
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Building Decarbonization
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Energy Efficiency, the Vast Untapped Potential
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Making Sustainability Affordable
DEVIN A. ABELLON, P.E. (HONORARY REGION X MEMBER)
Devin Abellon, P.E. is the Vice President of Engineering Sales for Pac West Sales. He has 25 years of experience in the HVAC and plumbing industries with a focus on high-performance and sustainable building design and construction. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara and is a registered professional engineer in California and Arizona. He is an active member of both ASPE and ASHRAE, and serves as an ASHRAE Vice President, ASHRAE Region X Representative, Programs Subcommittee Chair for ASHRAE TC 6.5 and as an ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer. He is also a member of ASHRAE’s Conferences and Expositions Committee.
TOPICS
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Embedded Tube Radiant Systems to Maximize LEED Points
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Specifying Radiant Heating and Cooling Systems
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The (un)Ethical Engineer: a study in principle and practice
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Hydronic Piping with PEX: Pros and Pitfalls