Building Diplomacy: Exploring OBO's Global Impact, Initiatives, and Opportunities

A registered architect, designer, and active member of SAME, Sal currently serves as Client Development Lead for HDR. Within SAME, Sal is Vice Chair of the YP COI, an active member of the Architecture COI, and serves locally on the Resiliency Committee. At HDR, Sal is responsible for leading, managing, and overseeing projects within the Federal Business Group of HDR’s Architecture Practice. Additionally, Sal facilitates new client development and prospecting initiatives within emerging markets and core sectors of the firm. With 12 years of AEC-industry experience, Sal has served as a ‘seller-doer’ leveraging both technical roles as well as marketing and business development, pursuit leader, and manager. Sal’s Federal project experience includes clients such as USACE, Defense Counterintelligence Security Agency, Washington Headquarters Services, Dept of Veterans Affairs, Defense Health Agency, and GSA.

Ms. Leedom has over 20 years of architecture and urban design experience, both domestic and abroad. she currently manages the design of New Embassy projects in Latin America and Africa - ensuring our U.S. diplomats are in safe, secure, and resilient facilities to perform our diplomatic missions abroad. She managed new embassy projects in Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Windhoek, Namibia; Mérida, MX; and Lilongwe, Malawi and currently serves a dual role as acting division chief for projects in the Western Hemisphere.

Mr. Davis is a professional engineer with experience on a variety of private and public sector projects. He is currently a Department of State Foreign Service Specialist managing the construction of diplomatic facilities located around the world. His background includes structural engineering design, forensic engineering and analysis, and construction management assignments on commercial, institutional, manufacturing, residential, nuclear, and specialty structures. Specialties: Civil & Structural Engineering, Construction Management, Federal Construction Contracts, Claims Analysis and Negotiation.