-: My name is Jon Clark Teglas and I'm the chief of staff
to the associate vice president and chief facilities officer
located in the facilities department here at Virginia Tech.
The overall goal of my position is probably
to support the needs of both the chief facilities officer
and the department as a whole in making sure
that we're taking care of the facilities, the construction
projects that are working through at the university.
We have several ongoing renewal projects
for academic buildings.
We have buildings that date back to the 20s and 30s
that we're trying to get back up, renovated
and pushed forward and turned around for
the next academic year.
We have three of those ongoing.
Lots of improvements to our residential halls.
We have two or three renovations currently
ongoing on that front and then several other
larger scale classroom buildings that we're
trying to bring online and things like that.
From day to day we're working through some
communication issues, we're working through
scheduling issues for the department,
we're working through human resources,
finance type items, everything kind of that can
flow through an operation of 450 employees
is coming up to our office to be able to facilitate
and to push out to the units that it needs to go to
and really making sure that we're doing
all of this in a consistent manner.
We probably have around half a billion dollars
in construction or renovation projects
planned on the capital side and so all of that's
determined based on the dollar threshold
and the square footage threshold.
But those would be planned or in progress
that we put before the state on a two-year basis,
so that we can kind of provide them with what
our plan is and then they provide some funding
for that or we have to show them how we're
raising private funds for it.
So I have the interesting role too that I control
the org chart and I don't decide what the org chart
looks like I just design it and help facilitate
the units themselves to develop that
and so that's a very interesting role that
I really didn't expect to be engaged in
immediately in coming into the role,
but something that I've enjoyed because
you have your impact on the organization
and you can really work with the different
stakeholders to make sure that each unit
is resourced in the right way.