Speakers
Speakers
Krista Barbour
Consultant at The Collaborative Way®
Krista Barbour
Consultant at The Collaborative Way®
Ian Edwards and Krista Barbour are consultants at Lloyd Fickett & Associates, Inc. They support companies to adopt The Collaborative Way®, an intentional and designed way of working together that harnesses the collective intelligence, imagination and spirit of a company’s workforce. When put into practice, this unique methodology offers a critical strategic advantage, even in highly competitive markets and against companies with more funding and greater resources.
Krista Barbour is a senior consultant and executive coach with over 15 years of experience specializing in supporting individuals, teams and organizations to work together in an effective and collaborative manner and supporting executives and other key leaders to elevate their leadership skills. Krista also specializes in skill development to achieve greater diversity, inclusion, and gender equality in the workplace. Clients include: Genentec, APTIM, Strategic Coach, HCSS, Litigation Services, Allan Myers, Mentor Leadership Team, City of Boulder, and has played a key consulting and coaching roles for many start-ups and entrepreneurs.
Mike Vorster
Equipment Management Expert
Mike Vorster
Equipment Management Expert
Mike Vorster is the President of C.E.M.P. Central Inc. and the David H. Burrows Professor Emeritus at Virginia Tech. He is a consultant to various companies in equipment management and has presented a number of seminars and short courses focusing on the management of construction equipment. Mike is the author of Construction Equipment Economics and leads in the design and presentation of the Construction Equipment Management Program. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering, a MBA from the University of Cape Town, and a PhD from the University of Stellenbosch. Mike is also a member of the National Academy of Construction.
Mike Williams
Senior Project Controls Engineer
Mike Williams
Granite Construction, Inc.
Mike Williams has been working in the Heavy/Highway/Civil construction industry since the early age of 16. Over the years, this has led to a wide variety of job titles and experience – everything from laborer, equipment operator, mason, carpenter, foreman, Superintendent, General Superintendent, Project Superintendent, and Project Engineer.
In 2006, Mike became part of a four person team tasked with the implementation of HeavyJob for their entire company. During a 2 ½ year period, this team traveled to each company location and worked through the setup and initial training of HeavyJob. With the training of more than 1000 foremen, and hundreds of Engineers/Superintendents/Project Managers behind him, Mike continues in his role as Senior Project Controls Engineer, primarily training and supporting HCSS Applications, including HeavyJob, HCSS Safety, Forms, and HCSS Plans.
Eugene Eshbach
Director of Information Technology
Eugene Eshbach
Director, Information Technology at Allan Myers
Eugene Eshbach currently serves as the Directory of Information Technology with Allan Myers. From this position, he and his team work with various business leaders throughout the entire organization to identify and implement opportunities for process improvement through the expanded use of business technology. Eugene and his team also acts as a liaisons between the user community and the internal IT teams to ensure the business technology needs of Allan Myers’ user community are met and that the link between business processes and IT strategy is strong.
Eugene brings more than 17 years of construction management and expertise to his current position. During his time in field operations, he held the roles of Project Engineer, Superintendent, and Project Manager, on some of the largest infrastructure projects in the Mid-Atlantic states.
Arthur Nix, P.E.
HeavyBid Expert & Estimating Consultant/ Senior Civil Engineer
Arthur Nix
Montverde Engineering, Inc.
Arthur Nix worked in the heavy/highway construction industry for 11 years before starting an engineering firm serving the development market in central Florida. He has a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Florida and is registered as a professional engineer in California and Florida.
Hugh McCulloch
HeavyBid Expert & Estimating Consultant
Hugh Mcculloch
RednyB Consulting, LLC.
With over 25 years in the infrastructure construction industry, Hugh is the longest tenured HCSS HeavyBid trainer. He has trained/consulted with hundreds of companies throughout North America, including 10 of the ENR Top 100 Contractors. Hugh has worked in many facets of infrastructure construction, including grading, drainage, underground utilities, and wastewater treatment plants both with HeavyBid and HeavyJob.
Hugh has run the gamut with HCSS. He was the second customer user of HeavyBid in Canada, was employed by HCSS as a design consultant and trainer in Houston for 9 years, and currently runs a consulting company in North Carolina specializing in HeavyBid training and database development. He continues to consult with HCSS on regular basis on the continued design of HeavyBid.
Gary Kercher
HeavyBid Expert & Estimating Consultant
Gary Kercher
Con-ECT, Inc.
Gary Kercher studied Mining and Civil Engineering Technology at Indiana State University while working for an engineering consulting firm in the Midwest. Originally, his job was as a draftsman, but he spent the majority of the time as a surveyor, construction inspector, and material testing technician for DOT projects. From there, he went to work for the local government as the traffic engineering superintendent and then for the County Engineer’s Office as a Bridge Engineer. He eventually became the Assistant County Engineer.
In 1994, Gary went to work for a local heavy/highway construction company as an estimator for DOT and commercial construction projects throughout the Midwest. Other duties included construction layout, job control, and contract administration. Gary started training for HCSS in 1995 while still employed in the construction industry, and in 1996 incorporated his own company (Con-ECT, Inc.) to perform on-site training for HCSS as well as contract estimating, before leaving the construction company in 2000.
As a contract trainer for HCSS, Gary also works as a licensed residential and commercial contractor in Southern Indiana and as a hired estimator for various construction companies.
Jim Goss
Senior Safety Consultant
Jim Goss
OSHA Training Institute Instructor
Jim is a Senior Safety Consultant for HCSS. He has over 30 years of diverse safety expertise and has specialized in Construction Safety for 25 years.
As an instructor for the OSHA Training Institute (Region 1 Outreach Center), Jim is certified in all construction subjects offered, and he teaches various construction subjects to groups throughout North America. He is also a certified NAVFAC (Pacific) trainer for the EM 385.1-1 Construction Safety Hazard Awareness Training for Contractors Course.
Jim is a member of the National Underground Contractors Association National Safety Committee, and he currently serves as the Chairman for Government Affairs on the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) National Safety Committee. He is the Co-Chairman of the AGC Crane Task Force and is a national stakeholder in this subject area. In addition to participating on several AGC safety-related task forces, Jim is also currently part of the national safety instructor’s team for the AGC for various construction topics.
Bob Emmerich
Senior Safety Consultant
Bob Emmerich
Owner at Safe-Con
Bob is the owner of Safe-Con, LLC, a safety consulting and training firm specializing in construction safety. He has been involved in construction project management, operations management, engineering and safety for over 40 years.
Bob provides safety consulting, program development, site safety audits, OSHA compliance consulting, and accident investigation services. He also consults and acts as an expert witness in legal matters.
Bob is a national trainer to construction contractors, public entities, insurance companies, associations, and Associated General Contractors. He is also a consultant to the Wisconsin Transportation Builders Association, an ARTBA chapter.
Bob is member of the Associated General Contractors, National Safety Council, and American Society of Safety Engineers.
Roy Huemer
HeavyBid Expert & Estimating Consultant/ HeavyJob Trainer
Roy Huemer
Huemer Consulting, LLC.
Roy Huemer has held many different positions in the construction industry and in general business, working in his family’s business from age 7 and working in and managing various businesses in subsequent years.
Roy started in construction framing houses while learning plumbing and electrical work. He then worked as a draftsman for a design engineer and as a surveyor in the heavy highway industry. He also worked as a field engineer, project engineer, project manager, and engineering manager. He brings more than 25 years of construction industry experience to his role as a contract trainer for HCSS.
Roy has been a HeavyBid user for more than 20 years and a HeavyJob user for more than 15 years. He was selected to be a member of the HCSS President’s Advisory Board in 2012.
Scott Jennings, P.E.
HeavyBid Expert & Estimating Consultant/ Senior Civil Engineer
Scott Jennings
SJ Construction Consulting, LLC
Scott Jennings, P.E., has been in the heavy/civil industry as a construction professional for over 25 years. He has worked all across the country and in Hawaii. He started as a field engineer in the Philadelphia area and reached the position of Senior Vice President/Divisional Manager for a large construction company based in Sumner, Washington. He was the sole owner of a heavy/civil construction company for nearly ten years.
Scott has been involved in many disciplines of work including utility, pump station, wastewater treatment plant, bridge, roadway, shoring, and dewatering. He currently serves the industry in training, litigation, support/expert witness, and project support.
He holds professional engineering licenses (civil) in Hawaii, Washington, and California. He holds both a Bachelors and Masters degree in Civil Engineering.
Tony Rolin
HeavyBid Expert & Estimating Consultant
Tony Rolin
HeavyBid Expert & Estimating Consultant
Tony has over 25 years of experience in heavy and vertical construction. He started out hands‐on as a Operating Engineer, open cutting coal in the hills of West Virginia. He has also worked as a Cement Mason, building PennDOT bridges and paving miles of concrete highways, as well as held Project Superintendent and Project Manager roles. Tony received his degree in Civil Engineering from Point Park University in Pittsburgh, PA.
His education and field experience as the Director of Heavy/Highway Estimating for a large civil and commercial construction company in Pittsburgh has given him the ability to adapt HCSS to multiple markets including industrial, mechanical/electrical and vertical commercial estimating. These specialized codebook databases have given him the ability to bid multiple projects in multiple markets at the same time.
Tony owns a consulting company, G2 Enterprise Solutions LLC. He also is a contract trainer for HCSS and conducts independent contract estimating and constructibility and feasibility reviews.
John Sloat
HeavyBid Expert & Estimating Consultant
John Sloat
John previously served as the Chief Estimator for one of the larger civil/heavy highway contractors in the Delaware Valley. His passion and comprehensive background has allowed him to develop one of the more advanced HeavyBid estimating systems in the industry. He has also assisted in the implementation of HeavyJob which has helped create more consistent results through the use of cost history in estimating.
With 20 years of construction experience, John has held many titles such as Assistant Estimator, Project Manager, Senior Estimator and Chief Estimator. During his time as an estimator, John submitted over 400 bids a year (totaling more than a billion dollars per year) and was fortunate enough to be integrally involved with the successful bid of the largest NJDOT contract ever awarded. Since then, John has worked as a consultant and performed implementations of HeavyBid as well as systems development.
Ian Edwards
Consultant at The Collaborative Way®
Ian Edwards
Consultant at The Collaborative Way®
Ian Edwards and Krista Barbour are consultants at Lloyd Fickett & Associates, Inc. They support companies to adopt The Collaborative Way®, an intentional and designed way of working together that harnesses the collective intelligence, imagination and spirit of a company’s workforce. When put into practice, this unique methodology offers a critical strategic advantage, even in highly competitive markets and against companies with more funding and greater resources.
Ian Edwards is a senior level consultant with over 30 years of experience in helping clients succeed. Ian has assisted individuals, teams and organizations to be more effective through designing and facilitating initiatives, coaching, as well as consulting on processes and systems. Ian was a managing partner with FranklinCovey for 17 years and an independent consultant for 12 years, leading client engagements throughout the US and Europe, Eastern Europe, Canada, South America, Asia, Middle East, and Africa. Clients include: Microsoft, UNWomen, Prudential, EDS, Accenture, AON, Dell, Ernst & Young, HP, Zendesk, HMS Host, ZS Associates, Oracle, Fairmont Hotels, Pearl Izumi, numerous small to medium organizations as well as start-ups and individuals.
