Manager of Planning: Lewis Morgulis

It’s World FM (Facility Manager) week and to celebrate we are giving a few DCM Inc. clients the spotlight! Grab a coffee and learn more about Manager of Planning Lewis Morgulis behind the scenes. You may just be planning your next adventure after you read his Q&A!

Tell us a bit about yourself?

I’m a Planner by education and trade and have worked at the Durham Catholic District School Board for 8 years following 27 years with the Durham and York District School Boards. I’m an avid reader. Our family loves camping, hockey, and soccer. I have a wonderful wife who is my best friend, three amazing daughters, a daughter in law and a granddaughter. I have been a coach in four different sports over a 35-year coaching career, have volunteered with my professional association and with four minor sports organizations. Life is amazing and brings new challenges each day, and my goal is to see as much of this world and have as many amazing experiences with my family that one full lifetime will allow.

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What’s the farthest you’ve ever been from home?

This year we traveled to Vietnam at March break, and so far that is the farthest I’ve been away, but my daughter is at school in New Zealand, and in December we will likely travel there to see her. We have traveled to China, Morroco, Greece, Italy, and France in the last 3 years and travel will be a large part of our retirement as well.

Pitas, Tacos, Sushi or Pizza? What do you like and how do you like it?

I have a life long love of great food, and the answer is all of the above! But…. If I have to pick just one, I’d say a simple ham, and prosciutto pizza with buffalo mozzarella on a thin crust served with a very cold beer in Amalfi Italy. At 8 euros and with a spectacular view of the Mediterranean it was about the best pizza experience ever.

How has DCM helped you?

We have transformed the way we look at our facility drawings from using a simple cluttered storage room, with an inventory that was not complete, and at times duplicated or missing to a much more usable system where online access makes all of our drawings available to users without risking the integrity of the originals. Over the last 3-4 years, DCM has transformed how we give access to architects and staff, how we manage our drawings and related documents, and how we integrate new drawings into our system. With our missing drawings, we are able to know what we do and don’t have, and what to look out for or reach out to architects to get. We have added an upload of all drawings electronically as part of the requirements from architects and going forward as new staff take over from older ones we will have all of the underlying data preserved permanently in a readily searchable manner.

How has your education prepared you for your career?

In my current job, I do less traditional urban or regional planning now, than before in my other jobs. My formal education helped me with a body of knowledge that got me my first job. After that, creativity, inquisitiveness, restlessness and wanting to make things better helped shape what I did and with whom I got to work. What my education taught me was how to build processes to identify and solve problems, not just for planning problems but for a great range of issues. Like any excellent education it didn’t stop as I left the school, I wanted to learn more at work, in the field and in new areas of interest. My informal education continues and will continue the rest of my life forever.

We finish the interview, and you step outside the office and find a lottery ticket that ends up winning $10 million. What would you do?

$10 million is the kind of money that makes you think… maybe I don’t need to go to work tomorrow. I’d have a lot of fun finding new adventures every day.

Thank you, Lewis, for sharing your story and for letting us feature you in our client spotlight! If you’d like to be featured contact your account manager today! #We❤ToSupportFacilityManagers

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