Garth Willis Email & Phone Number

Sherwood Park, Ab, Ca

Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada

Extensive experience in detailing steel buildings & structures for oil & gas industries, forestry & mining industries, schools, shopping malls, commercial buildings in USA & Canada.Steel platework projects include tar sand handeling equipment, conveyors, hoppers, chutes,slurry mixboxes, wood chip conveyors, log handeling conveyors, debarkers, chippers, municipal and pathological waste incinerators, heat recovery equipment, gasifiers, scrubbers, refractory lined stacks and furnaces. Miscellaneous Steel drafting such as spiral stairs, curved stairs, guardrails, cable rails, gates, embedded steel, ladders, platforms, stair towers, tubular space frames.

Senior Detailer on large industrial projects: Tar Sand crushers and conveyors, ALPAC pulp mill log and chip conveyors, industrial buildings and platforms, coal mine conveyors, chutes and hoppers, large pulp mill buidlings.

Design and detailing of large rigid frame buildings for commercial and industrial applications, development of company drafting standards, worked closely with owners in the development of new products, checked all structural drafting work prior to production.

Edmonton

Detailed road bridge girders, expansion joints, DOT railings, and even helped detail a ferry boat. (This company later built the Edmonton Queen).

Edmonton

Detailed cool railroad bridge girders and some highway bridge girders as well as tar sand conveyor hopper cars.

Spruce Grove, Ab.

Helped design, detail and manage the production of solid waste incinerators of massive scale. I gained experience in estimating and purchasing as well.

Edmonton

they gave me pipe wraps to do because I was good at it. All by hand on the board.

Edmonton

Worked for the legendary Bill Kerr.Detailed ladders, platforms and stairs for the Shell Scotford Refinery.

Edmonton

Helped with detailing bucket wheel extractors for the tar sands.Helped with detailing West Edmonton Mall.Helped with detailing Manulife Place.Helped with detailing the Northlands Agricom.

Bolton, On.

The first 3 months I cut and punched steel angle and plate from blueprints for the fitters. Occasionally worked on site building forms and pouring concrete.I got promoted to work in the office after 3 months due to my math skills and love of drafting. The company put me through a 2 year apprenticeship then I bolted to Edmonton. ha.

Engineering Technology

Night Course, Architectural Drafting And Design

Structural Drafting And Design, Structural Steel

General Structural Drafting

High School, Engineering, 13

Activities and Societies: artist