Bill East
Owner at Prairie Sky Consulting
Urbana-Champaign Area United States
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Top SchoolBill East is a civil engineer-turned-technology consultant and founder with decades of experience improving design and construction outcomes through standards, cloud tools, and AI-driven processes. Licensed as a Professional Engineer and holder of a PhD from the University of Illinois, he led national research programs at the Engineer Research and Development Center before founding Prairie Sky Consulting to help owners and teams meet COBie contract requirements using open-source and free technologies. He has taught construction informatics internationally, directed The COBie Academy, and helped author open standards that increase data efficiency across project lifecycles. Practical and standards-focused, Bill pairs deep field experience—negotiating change orders and deploying early construction management software—with a long-term commitment to collaborative solutions that reduce cost, time, and risk.
10 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
MS Civil Engineering, MS Civil Engineering at Virginia TechPhD Civil Engineering, PhD Civil Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (23)
leiningen10
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sketchup10
ifc9
spec9
orientdb9
schema9
ids9
crud6
google-sheets6
mhealth6
specification6
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
billeast/Sample-Test-Files
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Sample files of various formats and schema versions for testing implementations
Contributions:1 PR, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
implementationsbeautifiertestingformatssketchup
buildingSMART/Certification-datasets
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Sample files of various formats and schema versions. Used for certification purposes.
Contributions:1 review, 7 commits, 8 PRs in 8 days
ifcopenbimstandardsleiningenspecorientdb
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