Kimberly Mercier is the Managing Principal of Lighting Design Innovations and is a lighting designer and professional engineer in the United States and Canada. She holds an MBA from SUNY at Buffalo and her experience includes managing electrical departments for consulting engineering firms in Calgary, Alberta and Buffalo and Rochester, NY. Ms. Mercier has assisted businesses as a strategic planning consultant.
Kimberly is a LEED Accredited Professional and a Certified Lighting Efficiency Professional and has worked on a number of design teams achieving LEED rating Certifications of Silver, Gold, and Platinum. She has performed numerous lighting technology comparison reports and presentations including cost-benefit analysis.
Ms. Mercier began her lighting management experience as the President of the Illuminating Engineering Society’s (IES) Western New York (Buffalo) Section and rose to the position of President of the Society. Currently, Kimberly is a Past-President of the IES and currently serves as Chair of the Society’s Appreciate Committee. She is a two-time recipient of the Society’s Presidential Award for her work on Society programs. In 2011, Ms. Mercier received the IES Distinguished Service Award.
Kimberly is a frequent speaker on topics related to the lighting industry, sustainability, and light and human health. Ms. Mercier has been a sessional instructor for Lighting Design for the University of Calgary’s Master of Architecture program, an adjunct instructor of Professional Practice at SUNY College at Buffalo, and currently serves as Vice Chair on the SUNY College at Buffalo Interior Design Department Advisory Board. Kim is the author of lighting design articles published – and referenced – globally. Her most recent work – a collaboration with Paul – is a book entitled “Architecture for Light”.
In a recent presentation, Kimberly summarized the challenges of lighting design as the intrinsic understanding of “Faces, Spaces, and Places”.
