FOOTPRINT ENGINEERING - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Engineer / Inventor / VP Engineering
Ashley Burk is a lawyer and the founder of Burk Law PC.
Ashley provides legal advice to Feng in the areas of patent and trademark law, IP licensing, and corporate law. Following many years of representing clients in a variety of industries, Ashley is able to advise on the broader, practical impact of legal decisions on the business. Ashley works with Feng to harness the power of IP to advance business, grow revenues, and most importantly, to assist Feng in its goal of helping other businesses implement Earth Honouring Systems.
Ashley's litigation experience includes appearances in trademark and copyright matters before the Canadian Federal Court, Ontario Superior Court of Justice, and the Trademarks Opposition Board. She has also represented clients in domain name dispute proceedings before WIPO and CIRA.
Ashley graduated from the University of Ottawa with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), and is called to the Ontario bar. Ashley is a Trademark Agent licensed to practice in Canada. Prior to attending law school, Ashley graduated from Carleton University with a Bachelor of Engineering in Engineering Physics (B.Eng.).
Job Titles:
- Information Technologies Specialist
A dedicated and highly motivated Computing Technologies Specialist with over 24 years combined experience supporting operational systems scaling from single end user to national Network Operations level with 1000's of end point users.
David Ruhl is a professional engineer with 10 years of consulting and construction management experience with a primary focus in concrete construction (formed and sprayed), concrete technology, corrosion control, structural restoration, and concrete coatings.
Ediz Vural has over 30 years of experience working in the heavy construction industry as a Senior Geotechnical Design Engineer. He has worked on various renowned construction and tunnelling projects in Canada and internationally.
Job Titles:
- Professional Engineer With More Than 25 Years of Geotechnical Engineering
J. Troy Issigonis is a Professional Engineer with more than 25 years of Geotechnical Engineering experience, primarily foundation and excavation support. This experience includes assisting with thousands of projects with a wide variety of size and type.
Luke Shantz is a seasoned construction professional with over 20 years of experience working in the commercial, industrial, and energy markets. He has worked in various manufacturing sectors providing a broad range of maintenance and construction services and has built both new construction and renewable energy projects.
Job Titles:
- East Coast Sales Representative
I am interested in construction methods and practices, the reason why a project works, the solutions that made the project economical. To most it is given that the project will just work, but the reality is that a project has more reasons to stay at the beginning than it has reason to make it to the end. The difference between success and failure is detail. Concrete has that, a lot of detail that matters to make a project successful. Most of the detail comes down to the people you work with, peoples attitudes, knowledge, understating, all detail that needs to be interpreted.
I have worked on Bridges, buildings and roads; most roads out of gravel and asphalt. I have worked on project that have had unique aspects about there construction. Such as a single span bridges, construction with driven piles suspended in noncohesive material for lateral bridge movement. And what made this an interesting project is during construction we hit the water table, water became uncontrollable. The 600mm diameter CPS culverts that are designed to hold the noncohesive soil started to get sucked into the ground(mud). This resulted in meeting the designer of the bridges and learning about why the method for the single span bridge didn't require the 100% perfected cleaned CSP culvert that was designed for our project. That if this was in-fact a multiple span bridge the CSP culverts would have had to be excavated out, 15ft below the water table to insure the perfectly cleaned out culvert.
I have inspected the installation of multiple bridges over the 407, 401, 400 north of highway 9. Girder inspection usually at the concrete plants to insure the QC of the girder for municipal and MTO project. But placement at night on the highway watching the multiple cranes place girders, insuring the placement is as per plan.
Martin Halliwell is considered a visionary by industry peers in foundations, engineering and contracting business and is seen by his colleagues as someone with a steady flow of innovative ideas and solutions to engineering and human challenges.
Martin has over thirty-five years of experience leading engineering and contracting companies specializing in heavy civil, mechanical systems, excavation, shoring, and specialized foundations.
Job Titles:
- Drilling Expert
- Forgione Engineering Inc. VE1
Job Titles:
- Patent Agent, Electrical Engineer
Served as Vice President of Global Intellectual Property for JDS Uniphase from 2000-2003. Prior to 2000, Teitelbaum was in private practice. The firm of Neil Teitelbaum and Associates represented JDS Uniphase, the National Research Council of Canada, Communications Research Centre, Photonics Research Ontario, University of Quebec, Canadian Space Agency, Alberta Research Council, McGill University, Dew Engineering and Development, Flexicoil, American Biometrics, Chrysalis-ITS Inc., Solidum, and many other high tech companies preparing and filing patent applications worldwide.
Neil is a graduate of Ottawa University with a degree in Electrical (Computer) Engineering, having moved from a teaching career that included two years teaching in Lesotho, Southern Africa while acting as a Headmaster of a Secondary school.
Oscar Duckworth has personally placed nearly two hundred thousand cubic yards of Wet-mix Shotcrete. This is an accomplishment that few people have ever attained. His contribution to the industry as a technical consultant, author, dedicated committee member, educator, and an ACI Appointed Shotcrete Examiner, firmly places Mr. Duckworth in an elite group of industry leaders.
Job Titles:
- Estimator, Project Manager, Project Coordinator and Architect
Paul has worked as estimator, project manager, project coordinator and architect in all sectors of the industry, including residential, institutional, hospitality, commercial, and industrial development.
Paul has conducted various feasibility studies and Heritage Impact Assessments for several developers across Ontario. He has a keen interest in sustainable development, and the aesthetic and technical subtlety required when bringing existing fabric together with new technology and design.
Job Titles:
- Engineering Co - Ordinator
Job Titles:
- Strategic Planning and Operations Superintendent
A dynamic and experienced Superintendent with over 30 years of experience planning, managing and coordinating large scale Welding, Shoring, Caisson Walls, Lagging, Sheet Piling, and Marine Construction projects
Hands-on experience in strategic planning, business expansion, logistical planning, construction, field, project, people, site safety, and operations management
Well versed in subcontract negotiations, project estimating, impending design issues, and material procurement
Committed to maintaining exceptional client satisfaction by managing expectations, engaging throughout projects, and building lasting relationships
Job Titles:
- Registered Senior Hydrogeologist
Shane O'Neill is a professionally registered senior hydrogeologist with expertise in all aspects of groundwater from mine hydrogeology to water resources development, bottled water to geothermal energy, and 2D groundwater flow modeling to complex 3D hydromechanical models.