I work with, in, on, and lead our engineering, estimating, and drafting teams in commercial & industrial HVAC to meet our clients needs.

Working to promote union construction in SE Wisconsin

In my role I worked under the director of engineering to review, design, and layout mechanical systems for our clients across the state of Wisconsin. My projects ranged from office buildings, hotels, multi-use tenants, food & drink production, to education. After project design I worked closely with the project managers and clients to perform submittal review/approval, field condition verification, changes, testing/adjusting/balancing coordination, control sequence coordination, & closeout.

As a project engineer I worked with owners and general contractors to design, layout, estimate, and oversee coordination of commercial HVAC projects. Utilizing my engineering background and project management experience I worked to develop real world solutions to a clients budget. I have HVAC experience in simple office roof top units, large central variable air volume air handling units, high rise heat pumps (vertical/vertical stack/or horizontal), stairwell & elevator pressurization, commercial kitchen ventilation, complex centralized campus chiller plants, large office building hot water heating, steam-to-hot water conversions, school unit ventilators, industrial dust collection, industrial ventilation, and mission critical data centers.

As project manager I began to run between 10-50 small projects ranging from a few thousand to few hundred thousand each. After multiple jobs and a couple years experience I progressed to overseeing fewer, larger, multi-million dollar projects. I was responsible for coordinating equipment & material submittals, purchases, deliveries, and site coordination. Through direct coordination with our superintendent I managed labor to meet project deadlines around client schedule needs. I handled all daily project correspondence, developed client relationships, and managed project warranty calls. My primary project type was design-build projects where I regularly utilized my engineering background to make in-field changes to meet project requirements on a timely basis within the budget. I also specialized as our lead project manager on several multi-trade projects to act as a single point of reference for clients when our company offered HVAC, electrical, fire protection, controls, and/or plumbing services.

Working side by side with project managers and engineers I assisted with submittals, O&Ms, RFIs, CORs, and daily correspondence. I created and updated AutoCAD drawings for general HVAC construction and specialty industrial fabrication. When opportunities arose, I created building energy models for heat gain/losses and assisted in equipment selection. As my drawing & engineering skills developed, I became responsible for duct/pipe sizing and layouts, as well as equipment selection, review, and verification.

Assisted customers in diagnosing injuries and deficiencies in their stride through a gate analysis of their foot and made shoe/equipment recommendations to address. After a couple years I was given a key to the store and oversaw the start/end of shifts and store lock-up.