Practical Strategies for Implementing Asset Management

The practice of formal asset management is still in the early developmental stages throughout North America, and to most the concept is relatively simple and the need for it is clear. The reality is that a fully functional and sustainable asset management practice is a complex “eco-system” involving the finely tuned integration of knowledge, skills, people, processes and data/information systems across multiple organizational boundaries. This complexity can overwhelm an organization making it difficult to know where to start.

This presentation will take a look at the essential elements of an asset management framework, and examine several practical strategies for public sector organizations to consider in order to kick-start their asset management implementation.

Speaker

Tom Liang is the Asset Management Practice Lead for Pacific Alliance Technologies (part of the StarDyne group of companies.)  At Pacific Alliance, Tom is responsible for developing asset management strategies and programs for municipal clients, as well as implementing and integrating asset management systems involving GIS, data inventory, work/maintenance, and financial software applications. Prior to joining Pacific Alliance, Tom worked extensively with a large number of municipal, federal & provincial organizations across North America doing infrastructure asset data collection & analysis, development of automated data analysis software, system implementations and project management.  Tom has a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Civil Engineering and Environment Engineering, and he is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).