Tyler Cain Email & Phone Number

Iowa, United States

Building Performance Consulting, Analytics, & Design

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Manager of energy model services for all new construction projects including residential, commercial, and planning project types in collaboration with multidisciplinary project teams.
• Lead developer of custom software tools and workflows for energy modeling, project management, and building performance assessment.
• Specialist trusted with analysis and presentation of building performance studies including climate, solar radiation, daylight, materials, operational energy efficiency, solar PV systems/storage, and embodied.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Account manager for builders needing third party verification on projects targeting green/sustainable building certifications in Washington State.
• Technical lead for on-site mobile form software integration
• Expert compliance consultant and verifier for IECC, Built Green, National Green Building Standard, Energy Star, & Home Energy Ratings (HERS)

Greater Denver Area

• Specialized in custom energy modeling software and processes for commercial building projects targeting LEED V4/4.1, Denver Green Building Ordinance, Zero Net Energy, and Code Compliance.
• Created training guide for complex energy modeling methodology.
• Implemented early design energy analysis software tools, which created a new service available for clients.
• Developed new indoor air quality ozone testing service and training guide for LEED projects allowing significantly faster training and improved quality control for this service in the future.
• Collaborated internally with adaptive multidisciplinary Sustainability Team and Commissioning Team, in addition to expected job responsibilities, by supporting on-site building commissioning testing, LEED verification.

Greater Denver Area

• Promoted to management after first year of employment, trained four 4 employees on all services, and lead monthly company meetings contributing to key business development and company culture decisions.
• Increased operational efficiency and workflow capacity by redesigning all service procedure guidelines, training manuals, and quality assurance checklists, which contributed to net profit increase of 91% over two years.
• Lead 90% of all client technical meetings and energy design charrettes.
• Improved site inspection report delivery time from 30 - 45 minutes to 5 - 10 minutes and cut out travel time back to office by integrating new mobile field form software for generating technical reports while on site.
• Showed outstanding flexibility in a rapid change environment by successfully integrating 5 new software programs within 2 years at the request of the Principal or based on the shifting needs of business development.

Greater Denver Area

• Verified and delivered 80% of total HERS energy ratings and excelled at taking over Technical Lead responsibilities on all projects, allowing the Principal to increase their time spent on business development by 90%.
• Improved quality assurance by creating procedures/templates for site inspections, services, and technical reports.
• Resolved challenges on a daily basis and operated autonomously as Project Manager/Technical Lead for 20+ builder client accounts.
• Recognized by Principal and co-workers as leading source of knowledge on green program and energy code compliance.

Fort Collins, Colorado

• Showed initiative by identifying optimization improvements for existing internal energy audit and technical report templates within the first 5 months, which increased productivity.
• Ability to adapt proven by taking on extra responsibilities supporting sustainability planning and green program verification (LEED, ENERGY STAR).
• Chosen by leadership for sustainability research projects, which required building and managing client/partner relationships.

Urbandale, IA

• Reliable and efficient source for providing traffic studies, construction inspections and survey level circuits, while working autonomously, which increased intern team productivity significantly from previous year.
• Surpassed expectations at integrating GPS data with ArcGIS, Cartegraph, and MicroStation software.

Ottawa, IL

• Recognized for technical aptitude by senior mentors while operating total base station, GPS rover unit and entered level circuit data into land survey field book.
• Showed leadership and autonomy in the field while performing strenuous physical tasks such as setting benchmarks and temporary locating points, locating survey pins, and marking stations along roadways near high speed.

Master Of Engineering (Meng), Sustainable Built Environments

Activities and Societies: Sustainable Building 2013 Conference (SB13), Portugal: Sustainable Building Contribution to Achieve the EU.

Maxergy: Maximizing Exergy For Materials And Energy Assessment Methodology

Working with Ronald Rovers, Professor at the Research Institute Built Environment of Tomorrow (RiBuilT) and Director of SBS support &.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Civil/ Environmental Engineering

Activities and Societies: Renewable Energy Vehicle Club, Engineers for a Sustainable World Club, Acacia Fraternity, Pages of Promise.

High School Diploma, General Education, 4.0 Gpa

Activities and Societies: National Honors Society, Fine Arts Club, Drama Club, Concert Band, Jazz Band, Soccer, Baseball, Track