Dan Rawlins is a Principal and Project Manager with InterDesign, and architectural and planning firm located in Indianapolis, Indiana. The firm specializes in educational facilities, long-term healthcare and public libraries. Dan, an architect with over three decades of experience in planning educational facilities, has developed an expertise as Owner’s Representative and Design Criteria Developer for Public Sector Design-Build projects. He is passionate about creating a collaborative environment among Owners, Design-Build Teams, regulating agencies and other project stakeholders that bring out the best that Design-Build delivery can offer, resulting in win-win-win projects that achieve joy in the journey.

Dan earned both is Bachelor & Master’s degrees in Architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is licensed as an Architect by the State of Indiana, is a designated Design-Build professional with DBIA and is involved with The Council of Educational Facility Planners International (CEFPI), The Association of School Business Officials (ASBO) and Engineering Ministries, International (EMI).

William (Bill) Shepler is a Registered Engineer whose career as a planner, designer, contractor and manager has provided him with a wide range of extensive experience in developing, designing, financing, managing, constructing and closing out a multitude of public and privately owned projects. He utilizes his unique management skills to analyze the existing conditions, to evaluate the project needs and to sort through the conflicting points of view in order to firstly, establish a foundation that defines the criteria for the project’s program, design, budget, schedule and proforma and secondly, to forge methods that

delivers the desired results. Bill’s entire professional career has been focused on serving project owners by providing them with the assurance that their needs are addressed, their interests are protected and their project risks are being managed. His planning and management skills and procedures have led to many successful projects. Bill’s projects are always cost effective and completed in a timely manner, and his clients are satisfied.

Bill has extensive planning, development, management and implantation experience of projects ranging from governmental, justice, educational, medical, religious, corporate and commercial facilities. As the President and CEO of PMSIinc, he takes pride in the

professionalism, integrity and success that PMSI brings to a project and to his client’s capital investments.

J. Mark Taylor has been active in the field of construction and construction education for over 40 years. Currently Mark is on the faculty of the McWhorter School of Building Science at Auburn University teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in the areas of construction law and contracting business. Previously Mark has taught in the areas of construction estimating and scheduling, project management, project delivery, design-build and LEED certification.

Mark has previously served on the faculties of the University of Denver (16 years), Auburn University in the Department of Building Science (12 years), Clemson University in the Department of Building Science (1 year), and Texas A&M University in the Civil Engineering Department (3 years). He has been active in the Associated Schools of Construction, having served as regional director, national officer, and on the national board of directors, has been a member of accrediting teams for the American Council for Construction Education, and a national officer and board member for Sigma Lambda Chi, the nationally recognized construction honor society.

During his academic associations, Mark has remained active in the construction industry through his extension, consulting and extramural activities. Mark has worked in the area of construction law with his own firm, Law Office of J. Mark Taylor, P.C., has been a partner in a general practice law firm, LaVigne and Taylor, P.C., and served as Director of Field Operations for a commercial general contractor, DRG and Associates, Inc. Mark also has experience in residential construction, has provided detailed construction estimates and schedules for commercial projects, has performed claims analyses, has served as an arbitrator for construction disputes, has served as an instructor for

over 30 short courses and written instructional manuals for the training of project managers, superintendents and masons.

Mark's educational achievements include a Bachelor of Building Construction from Auburn University, a Master of Building Construction from the University of Florida, a Doctor of Philosophy in civil engineering from Texas A&M University, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Alabama.

Mark is a member of the American Bar Association, the Alabama Bar Association, and the Colorado Bar Association. He is married and has two adult children.