Shawn O'Keefe

Dr. Shawn O’Keefe is a New Orleans, LA, US native living in Dublin, Ireland as the BIM Development Director of BIM&Scan®, MMA Consulting Engineers, and Headcount Engineering. He implements Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) practices through industry practice, and shares that learning with future Irish BIM leaders through his position with the Construction IT Alliance (CitA) and the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT). He has over a decades experience in the AEC/FM in the US and now in the EU implementing BIM/VDC for: semiconductor, pharmaceutical, private and public commercial, real-estate, etc. Dr. O’Keeffe is also PI of R&D at BIM&Scan® and has approximately two dozen publications. He taught over a decade at the University of Southern Mississippi, USA, and conducted AEC/FM best practices research and developed novel BIM applications for the United States Army Corp of Engineers (USACE-ERDC Vicksburg, MS, USA).