SPEAKERS
Bob Emmerich
Bob Emmerich
Safe-Con, LLC.
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 37 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 others. Bob is an OSHA authorized instructor for OSHA 10 hour and 30 hour Outreach courses for Construction. He is a developer and trainer for OSHA Susan B. Harwood grant safety training programs sponsored by the Associated General Contractors and others. He is also a consultant to the Wisconsin Transportation Builders Association an ARTBA chapter.
Bob is member of the Associated General Contractors, Associated Builders and Contractors, National Safety Council and American Society of Safety Engineers.
Eugene Eshbach
Eugene Eshbach
Allan Myers
Eugene Eshbach currently serves as the Manager of Construction Information Systems with Allan Myers. From this position, he works with various business leaders throughout construction operations to identify opportunities for process improvement through the expanded use of business technology. Eshbach also acts as a liaison between the user community and the internal IT team 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.
Eshbach brings more than 15 years of construction management 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.
Jim Goss
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.
Rich Holman
Rich Holman
Professor of Construction Management at California State University, Chico
Rich Holman has more than 20 years of estimating experience and an additional 10 years as a HeavyBid Trainer. He is currently a Professor of Construction Management at California State University, Chico. Rich holds a Bachelors of Science in Construction Management and a Masters in Business Administration.
Roy Huemer
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.
Scott Jennings
SJ Construction Consulting, LLC
Scott Jennings 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.
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.
Mr. Jennings holds professional engineering licenses (civil) in Hawaii, Washington, and California; he holds both a Bachelors and Masters degree in Civil Engineering
Gary Kercher
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.
Hugh McCulloch
Hugh McCulloch
RednyB Consulting, LLC.
With over 20 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.
Arthur Nix, P.E.
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 23 states and Dubai. He was an engineer or project manager on projects ranging from land and marine bridges, a railroad intermodal facility, an industrial waste treatment plant, local highway projects, and subdivision developments. Arthur has worked as an estimator for three contractors, estimating for both domestic and international markets, was an HCSS trainer from 1990 to 2001, and started training again in 2010.
Mike Williams
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 the HeavyJob application.
John Sloat
John Sloat
Richard E Pierson Construction Co., Inc
John currently serves as the Chief Estimator for RE Pierson Construction, one of the largest 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. In 2013 he assisted in the implementation of HeavyJob which has helped create more consistent results through the use of cost history in estimating.
With over 15 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 at RE Pierson John was fortunate enough to be integrally involved with the successful bid of the largest NJDOT contract ever awarded (Rt 52 Causeway – Ocean City, NJ 252 Million).
