Executive Leadership
Hobby: Mountain biking & fly fishing
First Car: Datsun 710 Station Wagon
Hails From: Woodland Hills, CA
Dream Vacation: Himalayan mountain bike trip
Mike Fisher
President
Hobby: Golf
Hails From: Scotland
Favorite Part of the Job: Designing solutions
Words To Live By: Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it
Scott Carstairs
EVP, Operations
Words to Live By/Favorite Saying: Come on!
Hobby: Watching sport games
First Car: Fiat
Biggest Lesson Learned: Nothing is impossible in this ever-changing business world
Francis Wong
EVP, Finance
Capital Projects
Favorite Part of the Job: Problem solving
Hobby: Wood working
Superpower: Line picking (actually the opposite, 'picking the wrong line')
Hidden Talent: BBQ smoking
Dream Vacation: 3 months 'on the road'
Greg Conn
VP of Operations
Pete Portesi
Project Executive
Favorite Professional Sports Team: SF Giants
Favorite Coffee Drink: Keep it simple...Grande Cappuccino From Pete’s
Favorite Winery/Wine: Saxum-James Berry
Words to Live By/Favorite Saying: “You can’t wrong by doing right”
Mark Ross
Project Executive
Biggest Lesson Learned: Never think you know everything and never stop learning.
Rather be doing: Hanging out with my daughter.
Biggest Accomplishment: Completing my Bachelors
Best Concert: Def Leppard Hysteria Tour
Jon Litle
Project Executive
Work Theme Song: High Hopes by Panic! At The Disco
Dream Vacation: To tour the football stadiums of Great Britain
Superpower: Off the cuff dad jokes!
Best Concert: Dueling Piano’s Billy Joel & Elton John
Greg Hastings
Project Executive
Favorite Part of the Job: The sense of accomplishment when challenges are overcome.
Words to Live By:“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” - Babe Ruth
Hobby: Golf
Favorite Movie: Sandlot
Felix Gonzalez
Project Executive
Words to Live By: Collaborating with some of the best professionals in the business to overcome challenges.
Words to Live By: Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence. -Vince Lombardi
Hobby: Duck Hunting
Dream Vacation: Argentina
Jay Lambert
Project Executive
Words to Live By: Collaborating with some of the best professionals in the business to overcome challenges.
Words to Live By: Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence. -Vince Lombardi
Hobby: Duck Hunting
Dream Vacation: Argentina
Bill Suttles
Senior Project Manager
Work Theme Song: "Workin' For MCA" by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Turn it up!
Hobby: Live music
Hails from: San Diego...Surf's up, you down?
Superpower: Rock music trivia aficionado
Fred Mulgrew
Safety Manager
Preconstruction
Best Concert:Deftones(1993) at the “Ruthless Inn” (some back-alley club in SF with sawdust on the floor); it was my first concert ever, I was 17 and completely out of my element.
Favorite Movie: Shawshank Redemption – this HAS to at least be in everybody’s “top 3”
Dream Vacation: 4 weeks on a European tour
Steve Conn
Director of Preconstruction
Favorite Quote: May the force be with you
Hobby: Solving puzzles
Superpower: Ability to get along with (almost) everyone
Biggest Accomplishment: My first campus project, which was several hundred thousand square feet
Soniya Chopada
Director of Engineering
Biggest Lesson Learned: Your effort is a reflection of your character.
Words to Live By/Favorite Quote: “Evolve while most revolve”
First Car: 1989 Chevy Cavalier Z24
Hidden Talent Marie Kondo laundry folding
Brian Vaeth
Director of Process Engineering
Biggest Accomplishment: Hike to 18000’ elevation
Work Theme Song: “My Way" by Frank Sinatra
First Car: 1977 Hilman Huter
Dream Vacation: Zermatt, Switzerland
Mehrdad Alipour
Director of Critical Facilities Engineering
Favorite Quote: “Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” - Abraham Lincoln
Hails From: Menlo Park, CA
Hobbies: Woodworking, Cooking, Cycling and Ping Pong.
Dream Vacation: Island Hopping
Russ Forrester
Estimating Manager
Process & Automation
Favorite Quote: There are no shortcuts.
Favorite Part of the Job: Seeing our team succeed and overcome unique challenges.
Hobby: Motorcycling
Hails from: Chicago, IL
First Car: '67 Roadrunner
Kerry Coltun
VP Process Systems & Industrial Controls
Service
First Car: Ford Ranchero
Hobby: Anything involving dirt bikes
Biggest Accomplishment: Becoming a father, twice
Dream Vacation: New Zealand's North and South Island
Doug Schmid
Service Operations Manager
Biggest Lesson Learned: Do the job right the first time.
Hobby: Farming
Superpower: To be invisible
Rather be doing: Hanging with my German Shepherds
First Car: 1967 Camaro
Mark Goupil
Vice President, Service Operations
Favorite Quote: "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." - Wayne Gretzky
Hails From: Anaheim, CA
Biggest Lesson Learned: Enjoy the little things and don't ever take anything for granted.
Dilya Sangniova
Service Sales Manager
Biggest Lesson Learned: Learning never stops. It is a necessary part of our life. By observing new things and experiencing it in our lives, our sight of perspective broadens and changes the way we see the entire world
Dream Vacation: Backpacking across Southeast Asia
Word to Live By: “I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.” - Virginia Rometty
Biggest Accomplishment: Founding a non-profit dog rescue
Megan Murphy
BAS Service Manager
Biggest Lesson Learned: Listen first
Superpower: I don't have bad hair days
Favorite Part of the Job: The work family
Nickname: Chino Chingon
Long Nguyen
TAB Manager
Words To Live By: Stay positive
Biggest Lesson Learned: Don't assume, always confirm
Rather Be Doing: Swimming at the beach
Biggest Accomplishment: Establishing a great plumbing service team
Juan Hernandez
Plumbing Service Manager
Operations
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