{"id":860,"date":"2024-01-25T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-life\/?p=860"},"modified":"2024-01-25T11:52:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T17:52:04","slug":"product-manager-forma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-life\/inside-autodesk\/product-manager-forma\/","title":{"rendered":"How a passion for sustainability led to a career with Autodesk Forma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/160\/Ellis-Herman-and-Team-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/160\/Ellis-Herman-and-Team-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/160\/Ellis-Herman-and-Team-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/160\/Ellis-Herman-and-Team-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/160\/Ellis-Herman-and-Team-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/160\/Ellis-Herman-and-Team.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m a product manager for Autodesk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/forma\/overview\">Forma<\/a> and our embodied and total carbon analyses, and I\u2019m a hybrid employee based in Boston, Massachusetts. We\u2019re working on developing capabilities for Forma that allow our users to understand the carbon impact of their designs at the earliest stages \u2013 when they\u2019re making the fundamental decisions that have the most impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our focus is on bringing embodied and total carbon analysis into Forma. For context, embodied carbon is the carbon emitted in producing, transporting, and constructing the materials used to build a building, whereas operational carbon is the carbon emitted in running the building (lighting, heating, cooling, etc.). Because up to 80 percent of a building\u2019s embodied carbon comes from its structure and fa\u00e7ade, the decisions made in the earliest stages of design are crucial; a building\u2019s form and primary materials are the most important decisions designers make and are difficult to change as the project progresses, but embodied carbon tools for early-stage design are uncommon \u2013 especially ones that target non-carbon-expert users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also run the sustainability guild within the Forma team and am a member of our diversity and belonging group. In the sustainability guild, we organize talks related to sustainability on a variety of topics and scopes; we\u2019ve had industry veterans talk to us about the general problems and solutions being worked on in architecture, engineering, and construction, as well as members of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.research.autodesk.com\/\">Autodesk Research<\/a> teams explain the projects they\u2019re working on (for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/en\/news\/ai-powered-sustainable-housing-phoenix\/\">using a special kind of mushroom to create carbon negative building materials<\/a>!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the diversity and belonging group, we address ways to increase our hiring of underrepresented people, as well as understanding how to make sure their voices are heard within our organization \u2013 if you want to build better cities, you need to do it with all the people who live in them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>My journey to Autodesk<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I graduated with my master\u2019s degree in mechanical engineering and found a Spacemaker (now known as Forma) job posting on LinkedIn. It appealed to me because it was advertised as a way to work across different areas with a multidisciplinary team, and I was excited to join a company that was still \u201cstartup-y\u201d enough that I could wear a few different hats. I also saw Spacemaker as a great way to improve sustainability in a historically unsustainable industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the main selling points of Forma is that it helps users make informed changes at the beginning of the design process when they can have the most impact for the least cost; this idea applies to sustainability concepts like thermal comfort and operational and embodied energy, too. I wanted to be part of making early-stage evaluations like this standard in the construction industry. I was impressed with the fact that \u2013 even though it didn\u2019t bill itself as such at the time \u2013 Forma already was a sustainability product! We often focus entirely on more \u201ctraditional\u201d green areas like solar power and energy efficiency and forget that improving living conditions is now a crucial part of sustainability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Spacemaker was acquired by Autodesk, I saw Autodesk and our transition into Forma as a way to level up our impact. It\u2019s great to make tools that can help designers lower their carbon footprint, but in the end, you need to get lots of people to use them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will soon be releasing embodied carbon into the product, which is a big milestone as it\u2019s been something I\u2019ve been working on for years. Joining Autodesk has enabled me and my team to get to this next level \u2013 having easy access to many subject-matter experts has helped us create an analysis that is both accessible to non-experts and scientifically accurate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/160\/Carbon-Analysis-Team-1024x390.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/160\/Carbon-Analysis-Team-1024x390.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/160\/Carbon-Analysis-Team-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/160\/Carbon-Analysis-Team-768x292.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/160\/Carbon-Analysis-Team.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Autodesk Forma&#8217;s carbon analysis team<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Moving on up<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Since joining the company, I\u2019ve moved from being a machine learning engineer to working in product management. 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