AirSqare has developed a highly-innovative product that provides enclosures with a clear span of up to 70m. These are primarily designed to provide environmental control for operations within the enclosure and to be easy to relocate.Co-founded the company to develop this unique technology and market it to construction, mining and other companies requiring temporary facilities that can easily be relocated. Significant Contributions:* Refined the product technology and sourced new vendors to cut building costs in half.* Secured a federal government grant of $50,000 towards the funding of research at the University of Victoria to investigate the structure's dynamic behavior under wind loading.

Xacta is an association of project experts who deliver construction consulting and management services to owners, contractors, and financial institutions.Teamed up with a former Bechtel Senior Vice-President to co-found this organization and leverage our design and construction expertise to optimize engineering, procurement, and construction operations. Significant Contributions:After Shell Canada was brought on as a key account, authored construction execution plans that optimize construction strategies and methodologies to achieve successful delivery.

Leveraged additional qualifications as a Structural Engineer to secure this role; oversaw contracts worth over $1bn to design and construct airline offices, catering and cargo facilities, and aircraft maintenance hangars to accommodate Airbus A380s. Significant Contributions:* Championed and participated in the newly-launched ES&H Leadership Training course designed to help project contractors fulfill an important part of their ES&H training requirements.* Compiled the Construction Dept. Resident Engineer's Manual - a comprehensive, centralized information resource that familiarizes and guides each Resident Engineer on the project's scope, their individual work tasks and the plan for completion.* Undertook the added role of Interface Coordination Manager for the entire project to ensure that thousands of physical construction interfaces between each contract were promptly identified and resolved.

Recommended by the Project Manager of the Croatian Motorway for this role during the start-up phase. Part of a select team, tasked with negotiating a signed construction contract with the national government and ensuring that they deployed suitable staff and systems to support the start of construction in mid-2004. Subsequently liaised with the design management team to ensure that safety in construction, constructability and site conditions were properly considered during the design process.

Endorsed by Bechtel's Engineering Manager for this role, originally to address major challenges in working with and motivating subcontractors who had operated in the former communist regime. Significant Contributions:* Part of a cross-functional team that finished this project 1 year ahead of schedule, thereby permitting the client to collect toll revenues much earlier than anticipated.* Successfully liaised with the client’s representatives, local engineering companies, government organizations and landowners to maintain the construction schedule.* Conducted site tours at weekends to benefit the project public relations program and boost the company image.