Team Category: Sr Project Managers / SR Technical Advisors

As a fire and life safety consultant for over 20 years, Dr. Ierardi has been helping project teams and AHJs achieve successful outcomes in all aspects of commercial real estate. His experience spans all market sectors with a particular focus on transit-oriented mixed-use developments and complex existing building renovations. Jay is a valued resource to Owners, Architects, Engineers, Contractors and Code Officials in the planning, design, permitting, construction, and occupancy phases and is known for his collaborative approach with all project stakeholders. Dr. Ierardi’s specialties include structural fire resistance, mass timber, and existing buildings. In past leadership roles, Jay has applied his passion for continuous improvement of people and processes to create and sustain high-performing consulting teams and is now focused on developing the next generation of best-in-class fire and life safety professionals at Code Red Consultants.

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I’ve been playing the guitar since I was a teenager and enjoy writing and recording music in my free time.

Tom brings over thirty years of public and private sector experience in reviewing fire, engineering, and architecture in building permitting. He has served several fire marshals as their designee and reported directly to multiple building commissioners while serving in Boston. He also enjoyed collaborating with many talented plan reviewers and fire and building inspectors.

Tom has a results-oriented approach and hands-on experience focusing on consensus building that has a proven record of accomplishment of customer and constituent satisfaction. His public, private, and non-profit experience and insights brings added perspective to navigate external forces on rapidly changing development

In his role as Sr. technical advisor, Tom will assist CRC market sector leadership and their clients in increasing their capabilities for exceptional service delivery to complex development projects across the metro Boston region from inception to closeout.

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George is a skilled professional with over 10 years’ experience in fire protection engineering and project management. In his role as a Sr Project Manager, George works with his team to develop automatic sprinkler and fire alarm system designs across various project types, ensuring compliance with relevant codes and regulations. Additionally, George is able to conduct thorough code reviews to ensure that all projects meet stringent life safety standards.

In previous positions, George demonstrated expertise as a Sr Fire Protection Engineer, focusing on code compliance, permitting, and the development of fire alarm and suppression systems for new and existing construction. George also has unique experience as a Lead Design Engineer for an installing contractor, where he specialized in designing code-compliant fire suppression systems, performing hydraulic calculations, and producing accurate permit and installation drawings.

Project experience includes system design and life safety consulting services for jobs in a broad range of fields including healthcare, higher education, unlimited-area mixed-use buildings, residential, storage warehouses, and government-owned facilities.

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I am an FAA Part 107 certified commercial drone pilot. This allows me to conduct aerial surveys, gathering essential data for a wide range of projects along with capturing picture and videos from a unique vantage point.

As a licensed professional fire protection engineer, Ty is a Sr Project Manager at Code Red Consultants with a decade of experience solving complex fire and life safety code issues on buildings ranging from small scale office tenant improvements to high-rise hospital medical complexes. He has demonstrated this broad multi-project type and market sector Fire Protection and Life Safety Consulting experience in jurisdictions across the country from California to Massachusetts.

Through his dedication, creative problem-solving skills, and outside-the-box thinking, it is Ty’s mission and commitment to work closely with the design team to enable and achieve the team’s vision for the project, while keeping life safety as a priority. Ty’s expertise includes building and fire code consulting, fire protection and fire alarm systems consulting (suppression, alarm & smoke control), accessibility, and performance-based design.

Outside of work, Ty considers himself a loving father and an aspiring expert outdoorsman. When not enjoying time with his family at the beach or local park, you are likely to find Ty shooting his bow at the local archery club or getting some reps in at the gym.

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I am a PADI Certified Rescue Scuba Diver.

Josh Apolenis is a professional fire protection engineer and is a Sr. Project Manager with Code Red Consultants. Josh has a decade of experience in Fire Protection and Life Safety Consulting. His project work has spanned across the country from California to Washington, DC, with broad experience across project types and market sectors.

Josh is a proactive communicator who will work tirelessly to achieve the vision for the design team, while maintaining a building environment that integrates life safety at the core of its design. Josh’s expertise includes building and fire code consulting, hazardous material analysis and planning, fire protection systems design and consulting (suppression, alarm & smoke control), accessibility consulting, and performance-based design.

What is the most rewarding part of your job?

I enjoy working with all different types of people. Some days, I’m leveraging my skill set to help facilitate unique design elements and experiences within a building for an architect. Others, I’m discussing the constructability of an architectural detail and writing an engineering judgment for a contractor. The next day, I’m talking with an AHJ and proposing an alternate means and methods to save a developer or owner money. Each stakeholder has a different value proposition for our services as a fire protection engineers. I love getting the opportunity to view projects from each viewpoint to and finding the RIGHT solution for our clients.

Andrew has significant experience in a wide variety of consulting services including performance-based design, hazardous material analysis and process safety, fire and egress modeling, probabilistic risk assessments, building code compliance, and fire hazard analysis.

Andrew has had considerable project involvement in the residential, higher education, mixed-use, business, healthcare, and hazardous material markets. Andrew also has extensive experience in consulting efforts relating to large, international infrastructure projects in aviation and rail, as well as the re-use of historical buildings for residential or commercial purposes. He enjoys tackling complex engineering problems requiring singular, performance-based fire protection solutions and is continually looking to expand the application of fire protection engineering services using the latest industry software, tools, and analysis.

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I’m an avid reader and enjoy a variety of genres from American history to literary fiction to long form journalism.

What do you love most about your job?

Working on complex issues that don’t have an obvious precedent. I like to draw on my knowledge and experience to solve a problem that doesn’t have an easy solution.

Chris has been a Fire Protection Engineer working throughout New England since 2011. Over the course of his career, he experienced a diverse range of projects spanning various markets, including biopharmaceutical manufacturing, healthcare facilities and hospitals, secondary and higher education, hospitality, and high-rise office/lab buildings.

He is highly experienced in code consulting services as well as fire suppression, fire alarm, and smoke control system review taking projects from concepts to construction. He enjoys working alongside owners, architects, fire departments, authority having jurisdictions and end users to find solutions to projects that maximize his Client’s ability to execute their project goals.

Chris finds hazardous material safety in industrial, manufacturing, and laboratory settings most rewarding. These specialties play to his strengths in sorting out numerous challenges amongst multiple stakeholders.

What is the most rewarding part of your job?

Working within an industry and for a company that provides a nearly endless opportunity to be able to challenge myself and constantly be learning and bettering myself professionally and personally.

Dr. Biteau is a fire protection engineer who specializes in the evaluation of fire safety strategies for a wide range of hazards, buildings, and market types.  His expertise spans across a diverse set of hazards including wildland fires, energy storage systems (ESS) meeting NFPA 855, hazardous material processes, and explosion and deflagration mitigation systems in accordance with NFPA 68 and 69.  Dr. Biteau has used this expertise to conduct NFPA 855 risk assessments and hazard mitigation analyses for energy storage systems and has worked closely with utility companies on the implementation of a wildland fire hazard evaluation and mitigation tool for gas transmission lines and gas transmission stations.   He has experience with wildland ignition and fire hazard assessments, as well as wildland fire hazard mitigation strategies.

Dr. Biteau can lead efforts to conduct small and large-scale fire experiments based on internationally accepted standards (NFPA, ASTM, UL, ISO, NASA). He has conducted fire testing on a wide range of materials such as fabrics, polymers, insulation and building materials, paints, coatings, combustible, and flammable liquids, forest fuels as well as lithium-ion batteries.  He designs, manages, and executes fire testing to provide critical information regarding the fire behavior of materials and material assemblies.

Before joining Code Red Consultants, LLC, Dr. Biteau provided forensic services for more than 12 years, investigating the origin and causes of fires in residential, commercial, and industrial buildings, evaluating the performance of fire protection systems, and evaluating the thermal behavior of construction materials, appliances, as well as various consumer electronics.  He has served on a variety of NFPA Technical Committees including NFPA 88A, NFPA 285, NFPA 461, NFPA 855, and NFPA 1140.

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When I was younger, I used to compete in karate, which helped me later managing stressful situations.

Jennifer Hoyt is a fire protection engineer serving as a Senior Technical Advisor with Code Red Consultants. Her experience includes serving as the Chief Fire Protection Engineer for the Massachusetts Department of Fire Services.  Through her role, she participated in developing the current ICC-based state building code as a member of the Board of Building Regulations and Standards, which provided her with insight into the code development process and the intention behind the regulations and their application to new and existing building projects.  She also provided technical support for the current NFPA 1-based state fire code.  Her role included researching new and developing trends in fire protection, risk-based analysis of emerging technologies, and translation of her knowledge into applicable code language. Ms. Hoyt prepared third party reviews of architectural, fire sprinkler, and fire alarm plans for a multitude of projects including large industrial warehouses, laboratories, schools, manufacturing processes, and residential apartment complexes. She frequently attended design development meetings, site visits, and final inspections as a liaison between the design team and the local building and fire officials.  Ms. Hoyt also has prior experience designing fire protection systems for government-funded projects which lends her a unique perspective into the role of design practicality.

Ms. Hoyt has developed training for the Massachusetts Fire Service, building official organizations, and private industry groups based on her experiences with the state building and fire codes and lessons learned through their conception and application.  She has been a frequent speaker at NFPA’s Conference and Expo, SFPE-New England meetings, Fire Prevention Association of Massachusetts, and other public and private industry group meetings.

In her role as Senior Technical Advisor, she will have the responsibility of providing guidance on technical aspects of projects, developing education on applicable codes and emerging trends for members of the team and clients.  She will also apply her experience to advise team members on perspectives of local enforcement agents for incorporation into comprehensive project approaches with a focus on code compliance, fire risk management, and life safety.

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I am a certified equine sports massage therapist.  I adopted two rescue horses and I enjoy rehabilitating, training and riding them so much in my free time that I took a class and certification course in massage.  It is very rewarding and I love being able to better help them and the other horses at the equine rescue facility where I volunteer.