People

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: 29 years

• 2007 to Present – President & Chief Operating Officer (COO)
  Southeastern Elevator Consulting LLC
• 5 years – Regional Manager
  Lerch Bates & Associates, Inc. – Florida & Caribbean
• 3 years – New Construction Sales Manager
  KONE, Inc. – Tampa and Miami, Florida
• 5 years – Service Sales Manager
  KONE, Inc. –Tampa, Florida
• 5 Years – Service Sales Engineer
  Miami Elevator Company – Tampa, Florida
• 2 Years – Engineering Assistant
  DS&N Engineers – Gainesville, Florida

Education:

• University of Florida – Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (BSCE)
• University of South Florida – Masters in Business Administration (MBA)

Professional Qualifications and Registrations:

• State of Florida Professional Engineer (#76952)
• ASME QEI-1 Certified Elevator Inspector (#C2437)
• State of Florida Certified Elevator Inspector (#0082)

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: 23 years

• 2016 to Present – Senior Consultant
  Southeastern Elevator Consulting LLC
• 2 years – Modernization Manager
  Schindler Elevator – South Florida
• 2 years – Modernization Manager
  Otis Elevator – Miami, FL
• 3 years – Modernization, Open Order Supervisor
  Otis Elevator – Shelton, CT
• 3 years – Service Operations Manager
  ThyssenKrupp Elevator – College Park/Washington DC
• 2 years – District Service Operations Manager
  ThyssenKrupp Elevator – Charlotte, NC
• 2 Year – Service Manager
  ThyssenKrupp Elevator – Knoxville, TN and Fort Lauderdale, FL
• 1 Year – Repair Manager
  ThyssenKrupp Elevator – Fort Lauderdale, FL
• 7 Years – Elevator Apprentice/Mechanic
  ThyssenKrupp Elevator – Miami, FL
• USMC 05/1982 – 01/1992
  Military Police Sergeant – Honorable Discharge

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS AND REGISTRATIONS:

• ASME QEI-1 Certified Elevator Inspector
• State of Florida Certified Elevator Inspector

To serve the needs of owners, developers, and managers, as well as architects and design professionals by
utilizing my 16 years of elevator field and office experience.

EXPERIENCE:

Senior Consultant, Compass Elevator Company – Southwest Florida (2022)

Responsibilities: Provide customers with solutions to their elevator needs

• Provide maintenance condition audits, acquisition, and due diligence reviews
• For modernization projects: schematic design, bidding assistance, submittal reviews, progress reviews,
  and final installation reviews
• Review existing maintenance contracts and consult on new maintenance contracts

Modernization Superintendent, Otis Elevator Company – Tampa/Fort Myers (2022)

Responsibilities: Coordinating multiple crews during various stages of an elevator modernization

• Successfully turned a profit in a division that had only shown losses for years
• Surveyed numerous elevators to determine their continuing reliability or candidacy for modernization
• Coordinated the ordering of entire elevator packages, door packages, and hoisting machines

Service Mechanic, Otis Elevator Company – San Diego (2019 – 2021)

Responsibilities: Troubleshooting, Repair and Maintenance of a variety of elevators

• Successfully implemented omitted software updates, through troubleshooting, across numerous systems and assisted in rolling out office wide
• Reduced call backs on a defined service route by 80%
• Retained customers by improved customer service and response follow up with the key account contacts

Construction Foreman/Mechanic, Otis Elevator Company – San Diego (2013 – 2019)

Responsibilities: Installation of elevators, completed state mandated testing, coordinating crews

• Coordinated several large projects encompassing the installation of elevators and escalators with multiple crews
• Installed, wired and successfully safety tested over 50 Gen 2 elevators with state inspectors
• Surveyed building, machine room and hoist way layouts to coordinate crew dispatching

Assistant Mechanic, Schindler Elevator Corporation – San Diego (2011 – 2013)

Responsibilities: Assisted mechanics with the modernizing of elevators and major repairs

• Assisted with completing over a dozen hospital modernizations on time and on budget while
  overcoming challenging schedules due to constrictive hospital environments
• Completed many prestigious Class A high-rise building modernizations
• Trained new mechanics on large re-cases and re-ropes

Assistant Mechanic/Apprentice, Reliable Elevator Company – San Diego (2006 – 2011)

Responsibilities: Worked with multiple mechanics on load tests, re-ropes, re-cases, MG sets,
fabricating, hanging travel cables, five-year tests, and state mandated testing guidelines

• Received the first and only ‘Helper of the year’ award

EDUCATION/TRAINING:
NEIEP, Certified Elevator Mechanic Apprenticeship: 2010
Certified Welder: 2010
Forklift Certified: 2008 to present
OSHA 10 Certified
OTIS Safety Training – Hoisting and Rigging, Crane Signal Person, Fall Protection, Scaffolding Safety
Orange Coast College, Associate of Arts: 1987 – 1990

SKILLS:

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: 2 years

• 2016 to Present – Technical Writer
  Southeastern Elevator Consulting LLC

EDUCATION:

• East Bay High School – Graduated in 2007
• Southern Methodist University – Technical Writing Certification
• Hillsborough Community College (Currently Taking Classes)