ADAMS - Key Persons
Ginger Adams has more than 40 years of experience, including 32 years managing and facilitating problem solving, issue resolution, partnering, consensus building, and value engineering workshops. Focused predominantly on construction industry and governmental agency processes and projects, her experience includes a variety of business processes, building types, infrastructure, and transportation elements. Ginger has been formally recognized on eight different occasions for the outcomes of her VE workshops, including receiving Commanders' Coins for two projects for the USACE Alaska District.
Randy provides focuses on the development of products, processes, projects, individuals, and user group interaction and documentation. His experience includes transportation, water/wastewater, governmental and municipal building projects, K-12 schools, higher education, military, private sector clients, and group interaction issues. Randy's experience in value engineering spans more than 20 years. Over this period, he has been part of more than 100 workshops, having facilitated over 50 of them. Randy has been an instrumental value engineering team leader for award-winning contracts from the State of Washington and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He currently serves on the SAVE Certification Board.
As a registered Professional Engineer, Randy brings a more technical perspective to assignments. While maintaining his position as facilitator, he is able to question teams for opportunities to challenge beliefs, assumptions, and criteria, where real opportunities for improvement lie. Additionally, in his role on the SAVE Certification Board he has been a part of the team that is transitioning from recertification of the Certified Value Specialists to renewal through a Core-Competency-based professional development model. In reviewing new CVS applications and those for recertification, he has witnessed the lack of understanding and proficiency in function development and FAST diagramming, critical aspects of value studies. He has used that experience to sharpen his own skills in those areas.
Randy has an innate ability to bring out of teams the out-of-the box perspectives that result in innovations that meet project and study goals. He asks the questions that only rare facilitators think to ask in order to achieve his clients' goals for the VE study. Randy is also a professional development coach, certified in the Frame of Mind coaching methods. An excellent active listener, he utilizes that training in relating to team members and agency representatives in challenging beliefs about projects and their requirements, to determine what is actually true and what is perceived to be true. He has excellent skills in pressing teams for the purpose of achieving results.
Randy's brain works best in the world of possibilities. ‘What if' and ‘Why not try this' are two of the areas where he excels. As a facilitator, he respects the ‘power of the pen,' and doesn't bring his own beliefs or agenda to an assignment. He is known for asking leading questions, involving team members before, during, and after a workshop, and seeking feedback from both clients and consultant teams for the purpose of refining his skills.