OUR PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATES
The current roster of Community Planners, LLC associates represent the full range of facility planning and management services – life cycle analysis, maintenance planning, construction planning, construction bidding, construction management, project administration, and A & E, and property management – our customers require.
Expanded resumes are available on request.
Please know that this team has actively participated in all of the projects cited in previous portions of this RFP response.
Associates are as follows:
Damian Colden (PE): Facility Planning
Damian Colden is a Professional Engineer with over 17 years experience in facilities management. Included is experience in maintenance management, environmental programs, energy programs, construction project management, process automation and systems training.
Prior to retiring, Mr. Colden served as the U.S. Navy's director for facilities management throughout the Western Pacific. His primary focus was assessment of the adequacy of facilities maintenance organizations and capital programs management.
Damian currently provides engineering management consulting services to Public and Assisted Housing Agencies nationally. He has served on several HUD Recovery Teams as both Maintenance and a Modernization Consultant.
David Connell and Associates, Architects (AIA): Project Planning and Design
David Connell has been a Project Manager, Project Architect and Designer of many projects over the last thirty years. His practice has ranged from new construction, renovation work (conventional and historical), and interior architecture. Mr. Connell is currently working on renovations to the City of New Haven Hall of Records, an Adult Day Care facility for the Mary T. Wade Home (New Haven, Connecticut), and a new aquaculture facility for the Sound School (New Haven, Connecticut).
Mr. Connell has been associated with a number CPLLC projects...most recently, window replacement at the New Britain Housing Authority and replacement of roofs at Caswell Cove (Milford, Connecticut).
Mr. Connell provides design consulting work should Owners, or projects, require these services.
Michael Gardocki: Inspection Services
Mike Gardocki has worked in the construction and real estate industry since 1976. He founded ALLSPECT Home Inspection Services – a full service home inspection company based in Milford, Connecticut – in 1984. Mr. Gardocki is a Member of the American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI) and serves as an instructor for ASHI continuing education curriculum. He also holds advanced credentials including a Supervisory Termite License.
Mr. Gardocki provides complete home/property inspections, special testing services addressing (radon/water quality concerns and other suspected health hazards) for CPLLC projects.James K. Grant, P.E
A registered Professional Engineer – Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island - James Grant has been providing engineering services to a diverse client base since 1984. He is Co-editor of the Legal Handbook for Architects, Engineers and Contractors (Published by Clark Boardman Company, Ltd., NY.); and, a former member of the Planning Commission, Canton, Connecticut.
Mr. Grant provides services relative to structural design, structural investigations, and rehabilitation/stabilization of historic buildings for CPLLC and its clients.
James Paul Haynes: Project Management and Inspection Services
Paul Haynes has been involved in project planning/management for over twenty-six years. Paul began his professional life as an Industrial Designer (AA in Drafting Technology, Gaston College (North Carolina), 1973 and quickly moved into full time work in capital projects involving plant modernization/expansion and residential consulting …culminating in Vice President of Project Management Services for Plant Technology International (Burlington, Ontario).Mr. Haynes creates specification/design documents (wage review) as well as handles project management (including Davis Bacon wage interviews) and administrative tasks for our clients. Over the last eighteen months, Mr. Haynes has been the Project Manager for CPLLC projects that exceed $3.5 million in construction costs…including $1.5 million of federally funded work.
Carol Henderson, Desktop Publishing and Project Administration Services
For the purpose of this project, Ms. Henderson will provide all payroll review and administrative support services associated with this contract.
After spending over twenty years as a Project Manager and Publisher Liaison in the publishing industry, Carol Henderson established her own company, Horizon Designs. She provides clients with word processing, spreadsheet, administrative support, and graphic design services.
Ms. Henderson has received HUD training in monitoring/administering Davis-Bacon, Section Three, EEO, and Fair Housing regulations connected with federally funded projects. She performs regulatory administration and reviews/monitors wages for federally funded projects.
Stephen Matyasovsky: Inspection Services
Mr. Matyasovsky has worked in the construction and real estate industry since 1974. He is a Member of the American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI) and currently works as a independent construction/home inspector for realtors, lending institutions, and nonprofit program managers throughout Connecticut.
In addition to complete construction/home/property inspections and reports, Mr. Matyasovsky also provides Labor Interviews for CPLLC clients on federally funded construction/modernization projects.
For the purposes of this project, Mr. Maytyasovsky will provide field supervision/inspection services as needed.
Donald Proto: Project Planning and Design (Energy Specialty)
A trained architect, Donald Proto has worked as a Project Planner since 1981. He currently specializes in planning strategies for short and long term capital improvements and preventive maintenance programs – primarily energy related - for various clients.This includes Needs Assessments, Energy Audits, HUD Uniform Physical Condition Standards (UPCS), and Inspections and Lose Control Reports.
Mr. Proto also provides consulting services for the insurance industry, providing Loss Control and Building Inspection reports, to a number of national insurance companies.
Alan St. George: Project Management and Inspection Services
Alan has more than ten years in Design Development and Construction Documentation for Architectural Firms . . . primarily residential condominiums, schools, corporate buildings, and medical building renovations.
In addition, he is a Licensed Home Inspector (State of CT) radon certified (licensed and insured). Mr. St. George is the sole proprietor of Patriot Home Inspections LLC, offering home inspection services, statewide. He is a member of American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI)Robert Sullivan: Engineering, Inspection, and Project Management Services
Mr. Sullivan, a Yale graduate in Civil Engineering, has been in the construction business for 42 years. During the majority of his career, he operated his own construction company. More recently, he has served as an Owner’s Representative on a number of institutional and federally funded construction projects: – public schools, churches, libraries, and affordable housing developments in excess of $24 million.
Mr. Sullivan provides estimating, specification/plan review, construction/project management, inspection services, and Davis-Bacon interviews.
