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Contributors

Valerie J. Amor, LEED AP BD&C, associate AIA, is a Green Building Certication Institute

(GBCI)-trained LEED certication and educational reviewer with over 35 years of combined expe-

rience in architecture, real estate, and business, including involvement on LEED-NC registered

projects. She is the CEO/president/founder of Drawing Conclusions, which is engaged in sustain-

able design, LEED consulting and certication, and owner and principal broker of Eco Logical Real

Estate + Community Builder, focused on sustainable real estate community building and marketing.

Currently under development is a “mini-city” that will serve as an economic, environmental, and

social living research model that will include a sustainability leadership educational and research

facility along with a unique mobile educational outreach program. Actively participating in sev-

eral local, county, and national organizations and committees, she currently serves on the Green

Environmental and Energy Committee for the Town of Davie, the Workforce One Green Think

Tank, and is a member of the USGBC, South Florida Chapter, Architecture 2030 and 350.org.

Writing both locally and nationally, she teaches students around the country to prepare for the

LEED Green Associate and the LEED BD&C designations.

Anthony DiGregorio, CPP (critical infrastructure/terrorism and design for explosive resistance),

after 28 years as a military police ofcer in the U.S. Army, continued his contributions to the

security and law enforcement career eld as a civilian. Mr. DiGregorio performed duties as secu-

rity operations ofcer with Sverdrup Corporation and was given the responsibility of hiring and

managing a security force of 100 persons to safeguard State Department overseas construction

projects. On completion of this project, he performed duties as a project ofcer, reviewing the per-

formance of Postal Service facility designs and electronic security system designs for the Federal

Bureau of Prisons. Mr. DiGregorio joined Applied Research Associates, Inc. in 1996, where he

served as the principal technical security advisor. Projects experience includes services for BATF

in constructing their new headquarters building, the design and construction of the U.S. Institute of

Peace, and designing the new headquarters of DHS at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital complex. He retired

after 14 years with ARA in 2010 to establish his own rm, Loss Prevention Unlimited, LLC, in

Fairfax, Virginia. The American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS International) awarded him

the President’s Award of Merit at the Annual Seminar and Exhibits in 2010.

W. Douglas Fitzgerald, CPP, CFE, CHS-III, has over 27 years of experience in physical and elec-

tronic security and countermeasures design. He has been involved in all aspects of assessments,

design, development of construction documents, and reliability testing. He constantly shares his exper-

tise and methodologies with others in a wide variety of educational venues and courses. Fitzgerald is

a former chairman of the American Society for Industrial Security’s (ASIS) Security Architecture

and Engineering Council and currently a council vice president. He has also served on the Threat

Advisory Systems Guideline Committee and has been involved in the development of the Physical

Security Professional (PSP) examination and Private Security Company Operations and Business

Continuity standards. His extensive background in antiterrorism and counterterrorism for government

and corporate facilities around the world provides him with an understanding of security issues on a

global level. He is a sought-after lecturer on terrorism, black-hat exercises, vulnerability assessments,

countermeasures design, operational policies, and procedures and training. Fitzgerald is a certied

protection professional, a board-certied fraud examiner, and is certied in homelandsecurity.