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Dr. Annie Pearce is an Assistant Professor in the Myers-Lawson School of Construction at Virginia Tech specializing in sustainable facilities and infrastructure systems. Throughout her career, Annie has worked with practitioners in both public and private sectors to implement sustainability as part of building planning, design, construction, and operations. As a LEED Accredited Professional, Annie brings the latest in green building methods, technologies, and best practices to the classroom. Her specific areas of interest include metrics of sustainability for built facilities, green building materials and systems, cost modeling to support sustainability implementation, and in situ performance of sustainable facility technologies. |
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Here is my individual SWOT Analysis:
STRENGTHS
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WEAKNESSES
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- I have over ten years of experience working with public sector owners and understand many of the challenges they face - I've trained over a thousand federal and state employees on sustainable facilities.
- I have a good ability to empathize with and listen to clients and frame their problems and potential solutions in a way they understand.
- I am a prolific writer, and my background as an editor means that I am good at the details of report and paper writing.
- I have a strong understanding of both theoretical and applied sustainability.
- I have a fairly strong understanding of decision theory and organizational behavior as well as human-technology interaction.
- I am naturally curious.
- When frustrated or annoyed by a task, I tend to look for ways to make it interesting by undertaking a creative solution.
- I tend to seek out synergies in solutions and tie tasks together.
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- As the things for which I'm responsible grow in scope, I have become disorganized to the point of becoming dysfunctional.
- I continually overestimate the number of things I can get done in a given time period.
- I take things from others intending to read them, and they get lost in my office.
- I don't always immediately contact others who are depending on me to let them know I'm going to be late with a deliverable.
- I'm not always that good at being concise in my writing.
- I am presently quite close to being overcommitted.
- I want to give students my full attention when I meet with them, and I end up spending more time than I can afford.
- Sometimes my efforts to make a task interesting can take far more resources than I have to give.
- Sometimes when I couple tasks together, I end up messing up both when one isn't completed as expected.
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OPPORTUNITIES
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THREATS
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- This course represents an opportunity to meet the Cycle 1 sophomores and learn more about their skills and interests.
- This course is an opportunity to study alternative types of building systems in a holistic fashion with which I may not be deeply familiar already.
- This course is and opportunity to explore how communication of ideas and formulation of arguments can affect the outcome of a discussion.
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- This course requires management of a complex schedule and set of tasks that must happen on time. If they don't, we won't meet the goal of being done with team projects by Thanksgiving break.
- This course requires adaptation of course exercises to a large group of students in a team-based learning environment. Some exercises that worked well with a six teams may be more of a challenge with twelve.
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