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Alana F. Dunoff, ProFM, FMP, IFMA Fellow  has over 30 years experience in strategic facility planning and management in the corporate commercial, healthcare and retail industries.  She has her M.S. in Facility Planning and Management from Cornell University and her B.S in Environmental Psychology from Boston University. She has earned both her IFMA FMP and the ProFM credentials.
Alana started her career as a Space Planning Analyst for Thomas Jefferson University and Hospital. She was responsible for all space planning and management activities for their 4 million square feet of space.  She later joined Pesce Associates as a Strategic Planner specializing in healthcare Merger and Master Planning.  In 1998 Alana was hired as a Project Manager by Little & Associate Architects out of Charlotte, NC to assist in the opening of their Philadelphia Office.  In 1999 she became an Associate of the firm and in 2000 was promoted to Design Principal responsible for all Commercial and Corporate Interior projects for the Philadelphia region.  AFD Facility Planning was launched in October 2002. 
 
Alana has been an active volunteer in the Facility Management community for over 29 years. In 2003-2005 she served as a Director on the Board of Directors of the International Facility Management Association and also served as President of the local Philadelphia Chapter of IFMA in 2001. In 2013, Alana was honored as IFMA's Distinguished Member of the Year and in 2014 she became an IFMA Feloow.  She is an adjunct professor at Temple University in their Facility Management program. Alana is Qualified Instrutor for both IFMA's Facility Management Professional(FMP) Credential course and the ProFM.  She has been invited to speak on a variety of topics at numerous organizations, companies and universities. For over 20 years, Alana was been a speaking on a variety of strategic facility planning and data centric topics at IFMA’s World Workplace, NFMT, at the Professional Retail Store Maintenance Association, IAMC, at the AIA Annual Convention and the Annual APPA conference. In 2001 she was honored at the CCREA Crystal Ball for her volunteer achievements with IFMA and was awarded the IFMA/Dupont Student Scholarship in 1991.
 
Alana is passionate about FM education and creating a new generation of Facility Professionals.