Duane G. Hickling, Managing Principal

Duane G. Hickling has a strong background in strategic planning, asset management, campus planning operations improvement and implementation of facilities management information systems. He has more than 20 years of experience in aligning and executing organizational goals and objectives within organizational initiatives.

Formerly, Mr. Hickling held positions of Associate Vice President at the University of Chicago and Assistant Vice Chancellor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. His responsibilities included facilities operations, planning and construction, environmental health and safety, parking and transportation, capital budget development, and campus planning. Prior to his positions at the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin, he was at the University of Southern California where he was Executive Olympics Administrator for the 1984 Olympic Games before moving into a facilities operations role as Executive Director of Facilities Operations and Maintenance Services.

Consultants:

Hickling & Associates partners with other well qualified consultants to ensure that appropriate expertise is assigned to projects.

Larry Barkley

Mr. Barkley possesses over twenty years of Real Estate and Facility Management related experience. His experience includes Corporate, Healthcare, Educational, and Government markets. He has provided end-to-end technology, organizational and business process consulting services from needs assessment and systems design through implementation support. His experience includes Technology planning, Process review, Staffing review, Systems selection, Systems integration, and Business Case development, Performance Measurement, Outsource Strategy and Implementation.

Michael Benham

Michael Benham has more than 25 years of experience in performance analysis, strategic planning and project management in the facilities and transportation industries. His clients include both public sector and private organizations.

He began his career in Chicago as a city planner and moved on to serve as an environmental specialist with that city’s Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) and later as assistant director of planning for Metra, which operates commuter rail service in the Chicago area. More recently, Michael worked for Spectrum Strategies, a consulting and strategic planning firm in Southfield that specializes in real estate and facilities.

Wayne Buck

Mr. Buck has of 37 years educational, bio-technical, building, industrial, utility, and heavy construction experience, as well as, institutional facilities design & construction departmental administration. Since graduating in 1970 with an engineering degree, Mr. Buck has served in the positions of engineer, quality control manager, corporate quality assurance manager, project engineer, project superintendent, project manager, chief estimator, construction director, and corporate officer for both regional and national general contractors and as a construction management consultant.

Ernest R. Hunter, Sr.

Mr. Hunter brings a strong background in leading change, executive management, strategic planning, process analysis, maintenance and operations management, and application of performance metrics. He has extensive experience leading large facilities management organizations. His management experience includes 26 years as a Civil Engineer Corps Officer with the Naval Facilities Engineering Command achieving the rank of Captain (O-6). He also has eight years in Higher Education facilities management serving as Associate Director and Director of Physical Plant at the University of Texas - Austin, one of the largest universities in the nation.

David M. Koch

Most recently Mr. Koch was Director of Facilities Management at University of La Verne in La Verne, California where he was responsible for maintaining and improving a 38 acre, 45 building campus while also being the liaison to the City of La Verne and City Council, where he was a member of the Sustainability Committee and Emergency Operating Committee.

Previous to his work at the University of La Verne, Mr. Koch successfully reorganized and reenergized many corporate and non-profit organizations. He has 30 years of change experience in asset management, construction project management, facilities maintenance and apartment, retail and office building property management. Clients and employers include: California State Universities, KPMG, Lincoln Property Company, Pepperdine University, The Irvine Company, Trammell Crow Company, University of Chicago, University of Washington, Walt Disney Company and Wells Fargo Bank.

Fredric G. Maupin, Ed.D.

Since 1981, Dr. Maupin has provided training design and delivery as well as organization development interventions in various types of organizations. He is skilled in project management training and coaching to non-construction professionals, and developing standard operating procedures for re-designed work processes. In addition to the training and facilitating functions in these areas, Dr. Maupin has proven skills in assisting organizations to implement re-designed processes in an effective and efficient manner. He has been recognized for his ability to understand the clients’ business, the people and the work environment. As a result, he provides remarkable ability to assess the client’s specific organizational needs as well as excellent service and assistance in getting the job done.