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Meet Your Facilities Area Managers
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Joseph Atkinson
Joseph joined LBNL in late 2019. Before joining the lab, Joseph spent over a decade in various leadership roles in the food and beverage manufacturing industry. Joseph has a passion for reliability centered maintenance and utilizing data and strategies to reduce asset downtime and improve equipment efficiencies.
Fun Fact: Joseph enjoys spending his time outdoors with his Boxer dog Axel. This includes camping, barbecuing, catching local sports events, or beer tasting at nearby breweries.
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Carlos Escobedo
Carlos has over 15 years experience in the repair, installation and construction management of large Security, Access Control and Fire Life & Safety projects. He has worked with LBNL Facilities since 2015. Prior to joing the team of Facilities Area Managers, Carlos has served the lab as a Facilities Fire Alarm Electician and a Facilities Maintenance Planning Specialist. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in law from his native country, is NICET and CA DIR certified.
Fun Fact: Carlos enjoys spending time with his family.
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Cannon Faasse
Cannon is a Certified Facility Manager (CFM) with over 17 years of Operations/Facilities Management experience. Prior to joining the lab in May 2021, Cannon worked in the Biotechnology/Medical Device and Healthcare industries. He has extensive experience in construction, facilities/equipment maintenance, compliance and environment, health, and safety.
Fun Fact: Cannon enjoys mountain biking and experiencing the great outdoors. Improvisational cooking is another passion that allows him to get in touch with his creative side and spread the joy to his loved ones.
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Samuel Phillips
Sam Phillips provides leadership for the team of Facilities Area Managers (FAMs) and Work Scheduling. Sam came to LBNL in 2013 as a plumber and advanced into positions in work planning and control and Facilities Management. Before coming to LBNL, Sam worked in maintenance and construction at Diablo Nuclear Power Plant, Kaiser hospitals across the Bay Area, and Levi’s Stadium. Sam is a Certified Facility Manager (CFM) and has a technical mechanical apprenticeship certification in Plumbing and Pipefitting. ____________________________________________________________________________________________
Richard Reisinger
Rich has 30+ years experience in maintenance and facilities management and began working at LBNL in early 2019. He began his career as a nuclear mechanic on a fast attack submarine and Quality Assurance Supervisor in the US Navy. He then moved into facilities management in the bio-pharmaceutical world where he spent the next 20 years until he joined the Facilities Operations team at LBNL as a Facilities Area Manager.
Fun Fact: Rich enjoys getting away from it all on the weekends with his wife Jennifer and his little dude Vincent. He also coaches youth sports, including baseball and football, loves to golf, and BBQing on his smoker.
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Darren Finger
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Adam Shervanian
Adam is a Certified Facility Manager (CFM) with over 15 years of experience supervising and managing facility operations in a wide range of industries and complex facilities. Before relocating to the Bay Area, he was the Facility Manager with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT, and has worked at CBRE, Global Workplace Solutions in New Hampshire, and with the University of Maryland, School of Public Health. Adam enjoys developing collaborative working relationships with faculty, researchers and operational staff and has extensive experience in operations and maintenance, budgeting, project management, strategic planning, safety, and improving work processes.
Fun Fact: Adam enjoys hiking, biking, trail running, exploring nature and traveling.
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Eric Tafoya
Eric joined the LBNL Facilities team in March 2020. Prior to that, he worked in the BioPharma/BioTech industry as a Maintenance Lead. At Boehringer Ingelheim in Fremont, CA, Eric was a Lead Mechanic over utility maintenance activities. At Illumina, Eric was a Maintenance lead involved in commissioning and developing maintenance processes for a brand new facility.
Fun Fact: Eric is also a new Father to Eric Anthony Tafoya JR! Eric enjoys traveling to different areas for fishing, usually ends up in Alaska every year with his wife and soon with his son.
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Hector Rodriguez
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