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Ralph Vasami, Esq has been the BHMA® Executive Director for more than 15 years. Ralph has a broad background in engineering, business management, operations, finance, strategic planning and law. He is actively involved with leading clients’ efforts to modify and enhance national building codes, and is regularly called upon to facilitate client strategic planning meetings.

Ralph is a pioneer in the vinyl window and door industry. As chairman of the Vinyl Window & Door Institute, he was responsible for gaining model building code acceptance for vinyl as a fenestration product. He was also instrumental in setting up testing and standards for the products as well as the current industry certification program.

Ralph received a Bachelor of Science degree from New York University and a law degree from Pace University. He is a member of the New York State Bar.

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Larry McClean joined BHMA® in 2015 as the Program Manager. He now serves as the Membership Manager Larry came to BHMA after working in the field of Intellectual Disabilities, having managed multiple classrooms and staff. He brings to BHMA the valuable skills that he mastered in the educational setting to help classrooms run effectively and to meet expectations set by government guidelines and regulations.

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John Woestman is of Director of Codes & Regulatory Affairs. In this capacity, he provides building codes, advocacy and technical services on behalf of BHMA®. He has almost two decades of involvement in ICC’s codes and standards development processes and over 15 years of involvement in NFPA’s codes and standards development processes. Advocacy on behalf of BHMA has resulted in revisions and updates to locking arrangements in the means of egress and corresponding requirements in the ICC IBC and IFC, and in NFPA 101.

John has a mechanical engineering degree from Iowa State University and an MBA from the University of Iowa. He is a member of the International Code Council (ICC), the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and ASTM International.

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Karen has extensive technical and managerial experience in the commercial openings industry. Before joining BHMA®, Karen served as a senior engineer for product certification, development and testing at the Allegion Hollow Metal Group.

She also served as a senior engineer for new product development at Steelcraft. Karen has held leadership roles at several associations, including Steel Door Institute and National Association of Architectural Metal Manufacturers, among others.

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Tony joined BHMA in 2024. Previously working in door hardware manufacturing, he focused ‎mainly in the areas of product testing and development. During this time, he was also a ‎BHMA member, participating and chairing in the development of new and current ‎standards. In addition to the door hardware industry, Tony has also worked in the ‎standards driven industries of military and medical. Bringing along knowledge of their ‎approach to standardization.‎

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Tim started his association management career with Associated Builders & Contractors and Independent Electrical Contractors in various executive-level positions, including leading membership campaigns, board strategic planning, and procurement of industry partners and sponsorships.    He holds a BA in speech communication from Frostburg State University and graduated from the United States Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for Organization Management (IOM) certification program.

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Heather Currier has worked with a variety of building, design and construction clients during her 17+ years in association marketing and communications. The depth and variety of her experience means she can create innovative solutions for her clients’ communications programming. As Director of Communications, Heather manages marketing strategy, annual meeting promotion, website strategy and redesign, rebranding and logo designs, and social media strategy and implementation. She has extensive experience in editorial and publications management, antitrust related issues and statistical data collection. Heather graduated from Illinois State University with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. She currently lives in Chicago with her husband, and dog Ferris.