Gerald is a licensed registered architect and has served in various facilities related positions at the University of Missouri over the past 30 years. He began his career at MU as the ADA project manager in Design Services, then did Construction Management for 16 years before joining Space Planning & Management as a Director in 2015. SP&M provides quality space solutions for the MU campus, negotiating space assignments and reassignments with Deans, Directors, Vice Chancellors and other administrators on campus. In 2017, Gerald led his team in a Space Reduction and Strategic Relocation Initiative that to date has saved the university more than $4.7 million in annual operating costs and eliminated more than $145 million in deferred building maintenance and capital improvement needs through divestment or demolition of poor performing buildings. MU SP&M also provides project programming efforts to coordinate with campus guidelines developing scope and order of magnitude budgets for future project implementation, manages the annual Space Utilization Inventory campus survey and maintains and updates the MU building and infrastructure database and the building document archives. SP&M also generates and updates the official MU campus map. Gerald is currently collaborating with the university registrar on classroom centralization and with the SP&M master planning consultant on revision of campus office, classroom and teaching lab space guidelines.