Sheryl received her BS in Civil Engineering from Santa Clara University and her MS and PhD from Stanford University. She has several years of industry experience on building and infrastructure projects in the United States. Much of her experience over the past decade has focused on implementing, evaluating, and promoting the use of 3D and 4D Building Information Modeling (BIM). She has over 15 years of consulting and research experience studying the technological, organizational, and procedural issues of BIM implementation. She is actively engaged with industry to advance BIM adoption, currently serving as a member of the Education and Research Committee of the Canada BIM Council (CanBIM) and the Technical Advisory Committee for the Institute for BIM in Canada (IBC).