An environmental entrepreneur, green consultant, green "start-up" expert, and marketing-PR specialist, John D. Wagner is the award-winning author of 12 books on green building, construction, the supply chain, and corporate management. (His full CV is below; scroll down.) He has also written more than 1,500 periodical articles about home building and commercial construction, among many other topics. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Asian Wall Street Journal, the LA Times, Green Builder Magazine (which he co-founded and edited), Popular Science, LBM Journal, Newsday, Chicago Tribune, Fine Woodworking, The Journal of Light Construction, Tools of the Trade, and many other magazines and newspapers. His commentary has been heard on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.

John currently runs WagnerPR, a boutique media-relations and marketing firm, serving a-list technology clients in the construction sector. John's list of clients currently includes Berkshire Hathaway's MiTek, Berkshire Hathaway's Heat Pipe Technology, BuilderMT, Sales Simplicity, and GreenWizard. WagnerPR's clients include or have included a "who's who" of elite building technology companies.

John is currently managing director (with direct P&L responsibilities) of Certified Green Dealer, LLC, a national online training and certification company that he co-founded. John was also co-founder of Green Builder Media (a venture capital-funded operation), and he was the founding editor-in-chief of Green Builder Magazine, the first national trade magazine focused on green practices for home builders. (John resigned his position in Nov. 2006.)

John was also executive director of corporate communications and investor relations for a well-known dot.com, BuildNet, and in 1999 was a leading member of the team that raised $147 million in multiple rounds of venture funding from Credit Suisse First Boston, SSB, and other investment banks. He has since authored multiple private placement memorandum and helped raise venture funds for other client start-ups.

Among other current activities, John is the green editor/columnist for LBM Journal (40,000 circ.), the leading voice of the lumber and building material dealer community, and the green content contributor to the national Green Dealer Certification program, a web-based distance learning company that trains and certifies dealers for green building. John is also the green building columnist for Qualified Remodeler magazine (90,000 circ.), the green building columnist for Residential Design & Build magazine, and the green building columnist for Granite State Builder and Bay State Builder magazines. John also was on the launch team that created the TV show “Today’s Homeowner with Danny Lipford,” (John served as the host’s ghostwriter), which is broadcast nationally. John’s most recent book is called Green Remodeling (Creative Homeowner Press) and it is available in all 1,800 Lowe’s stores and all 2,000 Home Depot stores.

John is also the inventor of the Vibe-All concrete vibrator, a Sawzall attachment that can turn any Sawzall or recip saw into powerful concrete vibrator. It is design for small pours: footers, forms, stairs, pads, and ICFs. Purchase it online at www.Vibe-All.com

John D. Wagner's CV

Skills Highlights

• Environmental entrepreneur, green consultant, and marketing & PR expert, with a start-up and venture-funded focus.
• Extensive knowledge of how to introduce green, environmental, and technology products to markets worldwide.
• Widely published author, journalist, columnist, with 12 books and more than 1,500 articles in print.

Work History

Currently:

• Managing Director and Co-founder (Since 2007), with direct P&L responsibility, of the Certified Green Dealer Program, CertifiedGreenDealer.org, a web-based, distance-learning company that trains and certifies lumber dealers for green building knowledge. Created and produced all the videos and written content for the Program, which now has 6,000 participants. In charge of all operations, sponsor sales, and relations to other green organizations.

• Green Building / Green Product Consultant
With a special focus on residential homebuilders and the companies that serve them; clients include a who’s who of manufacturers, wholesalers, and distributors which serve the U.S. homebuilding markets.

• Green Building Columnist for multiple trade publications (collectively representing 180,000 monthly readers), in LBM Journal, Qualified Remodeler, Residential Design & Build, Bay State Builder, and Granite State Builder magazines. Topics of coverage include green business strategies and green products and practices.

2004-2006 Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Green Builder Media; Editor-in-Chief Green Builder Magazine

After preparing the company valuation and fund-raising private placement memorandum documents, raised $1 million from venture capital sources for this national, monthly green building magazine (circ: 100,000). Served as managing partner with direct P&L responsibility. Also served as editor-in-chief in charge of all start-up operations, HR, and ongoing magazine operations.

1999-2001 BuildNet, Executive Director of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations

Generated worldwide press and substantial brand equity for BuildNet, a privately-held, $147 million internet and software company, with $85 million in annual revenue. Through increasing levels of a responsibility – brought on by BuildNet’s 11 acquisitions, record private fund raising rounds and revenue that increased from $3.5 to $85 million in 18 months – oversaw all corporate positioning, public relations, investor relations, media relations, and analyst relations as BuildNet grew to 11 constituent companies and 1,200 employees.

• Guided the company’s media and public relations through two record-setting fund-raising rounds, the filing of an SEC S1 document, withdrawal of the S1 and highly publicized multiple work force reductions.

• Briefed investors, potential investors, bankers (SSB, CSFB, Robertson Stephens) and strategic partners on the value of BuildNet, as the company prepared for its IPO “road show.”

1991-1999 Managing Director Wagner Literary, Inc.,

Established and headed up all business development for WL, Inc., a corporate presence for independent work as communications consultant, corporate ghost writer, author, journalist and literary agent. Published work appearing in The Wall Street Journal, The Asian Wall Street Journal, Popular Science, Computer World and numerous industry trade magazine; spoken commentary heard on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.

Pre-1999 Senior Editor, Multiple Publications

For Times Mirror property Today’s Homeowner (paid circ. 1,000,000+) as Senior Editor, I performed all aspects of producing a monthly publication (paid circ. 1,000,000+), including budgets, staffing, editorial planning, article acquisition, writing, and line-editing. Previously served similar senior roles at The Journal of Light Construction and Tools of the Trade.

EDUCATION

MFA, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

BA, St. Michael’s College, VT

PUBLICATIONS Books (as Author or Ghostwriter)

1. House Framing, Creative Homeowner Press 2009 (updated Green Edition).

2. Green Remodeling, Creative Homeowner Press, 2008

3. Smart Guide: Painting Step by Step, Creative Homeowner Press, 2008.

4. Yard and Garden Sheds: Plan, Design, Build, Creative Homeowner Press, 2006.

5. Barns, Sheds and Outbuildings: Plan, Design, Build by John D. Wagner and Clayton DeKorne, Creative Homeowner Press, 2005.

6. The Interactive Marketplace, (ghostwritten for Keith Brown), McGraw Hill, 2001.

7. Drywall: Pro Tips for Hanging and Finishing The Complete Book of Drywall, Creative Homeowner Press, 2000.

8. House Framing, Creative Homeowner Press, 1998.

9. Mission Furniture You Can Build, Houghton Mifflin, 1997. (Reissued by Dover Pub. 2007)

10. The Builders' Revolution, (ghost written for Keith Brown), Sun Forest Systems Publishing, 1996. 



11. Building Adirondack Furniture: The Art, the History, The How-To, Williamson Press, 1995.

12. Building a Multi-Use Barn, Williamson Press, 1994. 





Books (as Editor / Contributing Editor):

1. No Fear Remodeling, Creative Homeowner Press, 2007



 2. Home Repair and Improvement, Creative Homeowner Press, 2006

3. Advanced Framing, The Journal of Light Construction Press, 1992. (Editor) 



4. Around the Yard: 750 Essential Tip & Projects, Today’s Homeowner/Creative Publishing, 1999



 5. Essential Home Tips: 500 Solutions … Today’s Homeowner/Creative Publishing, 1998

Chapter Contributions:

1. The Adirondack Chair, Harry N. Abrams 2008 



2. Adding On ("Heating and Cooling" chapter), Rodale Press, 1994

Feature & News Articles:

More than 1,500 articles/columns published in such magazines and newspapers as The Wall Street Journal, The Asian Wall Street Journal, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Popular Science, Computer World, The Journal of Light Construction, Today’s Homeowner, Fine Woodworking, Residential Design and Builder, Qualified Remodeler, and LBM Journal, among many other trade and popular publications. Spoken Commentary: National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.

Awards, Recognition, & Fellowships

* Teaching Writing Fellow, University of Alabama, recognizing the finest writer at the distinguish University of Alabama Master of Fine Arts program.

* Best Teacher Award, University of Alabama English Department, recognizing the best English professor at the University.

* Bread Loaf Waiters' Fellowship, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, recognizing the 25 most promising young writers in America.

* Individual Fellowship: Creative Writing, Vermont Council on the Arts, recognizing just two of Vermont's best young writers each year.

* Special Merit Award, Non-Fiction, Vermont Book Publishers Association, for Building a Multi-Use Barn (Wagner's first book) (Williamson Publishing).

* Featured Selection, Business Week, recognizing the nation's best business books, for The Interactive Marketplace (McGraw Hill).

* Independent Weekly's Poetry Prize, First Place, yearly recognizing the best poetry & poet in the Raleigh-Durham area.

* Vigil Honor, Order of the Arrow.

Teaching History

* Currently. Norwich Univ. Adjunct Instructor of Architecture and Business, Norwich Univ. School of Architecture + Art, Northfield, VT. Courses taught: Building Materials, Interdisciplinary Environmental Entrepreneurship, and a graduate seminar, Global Issues in Design.

* Guest Day-Lecturer (1999 & 2002): Kenan Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina; Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, and, NC State University’s MBA Program, Raleigh, NC.

* Suan Suannatah College in Bangkok, Thailand, (1990-91) taught as visiting faculty in the English Department. Courses taught included Introduction to English.

* Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, (1988) taught as an Assistant Professor in the English Department. Courses taught included Freshman Composition, Introduction of Literature, and Romantic Literature.

* St. Michael’s College, Colchester, VT, taught three years (1986-1988) as adjunct faculty in the English Department. Courses taught included Freshman Composition, Introduction of Literature, Romantic Literature, and History of the English Language. Also during this time, taught as an adjunct at Vermont Community College (State of Vermont system) and Burlington College (Burlington, VT).

* University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, taught three years (1983, 1984, 1985) as a graduate teaching assistant in the English Department. Courses taught included Freshman Composition, Introduction of Literature, Romantic Literature, and – as the Teaching Writing Fellow in 1985 – Creative Writing Workshop.

Other notable aspects of his personal history: John has traveled widely in India, Vietnam, Nepal, Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Bali, and Lombok. He lived in Bangkok from 1990-91. He has also traveled and/or lived in Mexico, France, and the Netherlands. He has spoken conversational French, Spanish, and Thai.

In 2008, John climbed an 18,192 ft peak in the Himalayas (Mt. Kala Patar). In 1979, John scaled “The Nose” route of Yosemite’s El Capitan (at 3,000 ft, the most continuously vertical face in North America). He has climbed inside the smoking calderas of two semi-active Indonesian volcanoes (Mt. Bromo and Mt. Batur) and booked a winter ascent of Mt. Washington, NH

John is an avid player of traditional American blues guitar; he also collects rare, first-edition/signed copies of the books of John Cheever, Vladimir Nabokov, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.