Team Category: Sr Project Managers / SR Technical Advisors

As an Associate Principal and Sr Project Manager, Dan enjoys collaborating with architects, owners, and Authorities Having Jurisdiction to deliver integrated solutions to complex fire and life safety challenges. With more than fifteen years of experience, Dan has worked in a wide variety of market sectors and building types, including high-rise construction, mixed-use commercial, large assembly, industrial, higher education, transportation, and healthcare. He specializes in building and fire code consulting, fire protection system design and testing, smoke control special inspections and integrated testing.  Additionally, he has a passion for  developing compliance strategies for both prescriptive and alternative solutions in new and existing buildings.

Dan enjoys that no two projects are exactly alike, and that unique buildings require unique solutions. He thrives in the problem-solving environment that this inherently creates and takes pride in helping clients achieve their goals while creating buildings that are safe for occupants. Dan views a project’s progression, from design concept through construction, to be one of the most rewarding aspects of working in this industry.

What is something that colleagues and clients might not know about you?

When I was three and a half years old, my preschool teacher predicted that I would grow up to be an engineer. I also loved doing jigsaw puzzles as a child. Today, I’m still that engineer who loves to solve puzzles. I’m fortunate I can apply my curiosity and love of problem-solving to my professional challenges, and work with others who also love what they do.

Janna is a fire protection and life safety consultant who enjoys the challenge of assisting stakeholders with finding unique solutions that address their specific needs and desires. She specializes in hazardous materials and has experience conducting chemical analyses and developing design approaches for chemical facilities. Janna also has experience performing existing building evaluations, reviewing design drawings, and developing life safety plans.

Prior to joining Code Red Consultants, Janna worked in codes and standards development where she was responsible for overseeing documents primarily involving flammable and combustible liquids. Janna enjoys working in a field that spans such a wide range of industries and is grateful to work with such a knowledgeable team, from whom she continues to learn every day.

What is something that colleagues and clients might not know about you?

I am an avid salsa dancer. I teach and perform with several dance teams in the Boston area, and have even traveled to Europe to perform.

Prior to joining Code Red Consultants, Jeremy served more than 24 years in the fire service, having achieved the rank of Deputy Fire Chief. His background as Authorities Having Jurisdiction perspective affords him unique perspective, as he regularly performed on-site inspections, plan reviews, and acceptance tests. His background includes expertise in water- and non-water-based fire suppression systems, fire protection and life safety in transportation facilities.  Jeremy also has substantial experience in the storage, distribution, and transportation of flammable liquids and hazardous materials. He has taught classes on flammable liquid firefighting and fuel systems across the northeastern U.S. for nearly a decade. His project work includes building surveys, third-party inspections, plan reviews, and developing unique solutions to code compliance challenges.

What is something that colleagues and clients might not know about you?

I am working my way through hiking all 48 of the 4,000-foot high mountains in New Hampshire.

Zach has over five years of experience and brings a client-focused approach to his role at Code Red Consultants.. He is highly experienced in building information modeling (BIM) software, and his technical ability is commended by colleagues and clients alike. He strives to create clear and concise deliverables on technical topics that quickly address his client’s questions and concerns. Zach’s project experience includes smoke control modeling, inspection work, and code consulting throughout the design process. He has a particular interest and expertise in fire protection and life safety consulting for healthcare clients.

What is the most rewarding part of your job?

It’s extremely rewarding to know that my job has a real impact on keeping the occupants of a building safe. This is especially true for healthcare facilities and patients who are unable to take care of themselves in an emergency. Fires and other incidents unfortunately happen, and it is gratifying that my work can help mitigate damage or injury in those events.

Paul brings a decade of experience in fire protection and life safety consulting.  He excels at creatively addressing project challenges and providing performance-based design solutions where the application of prescriptive code approaches do not meet the design and safety needs of the project. His technical specialties include egress modeling for large assembly and transportation projects, structural steel fire-resistance rating simulations, and smoke-control models for atria tenability. Paul particularly enjoys collaborating with design teams, owners, and Authorities Having Jurisdiction to develop safe and compliant approaches that satisfy architectural intent, feasibility, and occupant safety.

Paul’s experience includes projects for higher education, healthcare, residential, and transportation clients as well as a variety of laboratory buildings such as research and development facilities, manufacturing buildings, and educational laboratories. He focuses on understanding the code compliance challenges these occupancies can present based on their high chemical usage and the necessary coordination between numerous applicable codes and standards. Paul is skilled at clearly communicating technical concepts to clients and interfacing with building and fire officials to bring projects to successful fruition.

What is the most rewarding part of your job?

Seeing the successful completion of design challenges that include multi-disciplinary coordination in conjunction with alternative approaches. I take pride in delivering a single, cohesive solution that is agreeable to all stakeholders from a cost, design, safety, and usability perspective.

With over a decade of professional experience, Maxwell brings comprehensive expertise in electrical, mechanical and fire protection engineering to his role at Code Red Consultants. His project work includes performing life safety inspections, audits, and analyses, including third party site inspection and testing for a variety of projects. He excels at collaborating with clients and Authorities Having Jurisdiction to engineer resolutions for complex fire protection and life safety issues.

Maxwell’s portfolio includes projects for college and university buildings, athletic facilities, high-rise office and residential buildings, laboratories, shopping malls, and other mixed-use buildings. Prior to joining Code Red Consultants, he worked as a fire protection engineer with The 3M Company, serving on a cross-functional team developing, testing, and applying active and passive fire protection products.

What is the most rewarding part of your job?

I enjoy the fast pace and constant variability of being a professional fire protection engineer and life safety consultant. I learn something new every day.

Jeff has over a decade of experience developing prescriptive code compliance strategies and providing alternative solutions for complex fire protection and life safety issues. He brings a deep understanding of codes and extensive hands-on project experience, key attributes that allow him to anticipate potential issues early in the design process. He excels at developing performance-based design options and alternative methods where strict compliance with the code is not practical. Working with clients and Authorities Having Jurisdiction, he takes pride in his responsiveness and problem-solving abilities that lead to successful project delivery.

In addition to code consulting, Jeff specializes in using fire modeling and egress modeling as tools for evaluating potential conditions within atriums and large assembly spaces during emergency events. The results of these analyses are used to identify specific challenges and possible compliance strategies that are not offered prescriptively. His project work includes high-rise office and residential buildings, laboratory facilities, athletic centers, academic buildings, shopping malls, campus centers, historic buildings and educational facilities.

What do you love most about your job?

I enjoy being a part of a strong team that can successfully collaborate to create a space that exceeds an owner’s vision and expectations.

Jason is a registered professional fire protection engineer with experience performing fire and life safety evaluations, drawing reviews, and developing code compliance strategies for both new and existing buildings. He has both an interest and a specialty in providing field services such as accessibility reviews and third party firestopping inspections. Jason collaborates closely with clients to offer alternative solutions to identified code compliance issues, and strives to provide prompt communication and timely deliverables that empower clients’ decision-making in the design process.

He enjoys interacting with a variety of stakeholders, including general contractors, architects, building managers/owners, and developers, to see all perspectives and stages of the building life cycle. Jason’s client work includes projects for higher education, healthcare, large assembly spaces, residential, hazardous materials, and mixed-use buildings.

What is something that colleagues and clients might not know about you?

As a student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, I played soccer with my Code Red Consultants colleague Paul Moan, and I still play recreational soccer with colleague Corey Fisher.

James is focused on providing client-driven fire protection and life safety code consulting services to architects, contractors, building owners, and other engineers to achieve compliance with local, state, and federal codes and standards. He has consulted on a variety of project types including healthcare, higher education, high-rise buildings, large assembly spaces, mixed-use buildings, storage warehouses, military, and government-owned facilities. Notably, he has significant experience providing healthcare code consulting services for new construction, addition, and renovation projects. He has worked closely with healthcare facilities, engineering departments, and designers to perform analysis and advise on maintaining compliance with the requirements of The Joint Commission and Center for Medicare and Medicare Services for existing buildings.

He enjoys providing consulting services for the total life cycle of a building, from preliminary design and construction inspections to commissioning of fire alarm and smoke control systems and certificate of occupancy. James is particularly interested in healthcare code consulting, smoke control special inspection, smoke control retest services, and firestopping special inspections.

What is the most rewarding part of your job?

It is gratifying to help clients navigate their unique challenges and develop solutions and strategies that make the project successful. Clients appreciate my creative, outside-the-box thinking.

As a consultant and project manager, Corey excels at providing timely, alternative solutions to complex problems discovered in the field. Dedicated to every project he works on, he is astute as delivering technical information to clients and quickly addressing their questions and needs. Corey has extensive experience developing in-depth code analysis and construction fire safety plans for both new and existing buildings. He also specializes in performing field surveys related to existing building evaluations, construction site inspections, and third party inspections. His project work spans healthcare, higher education, high-rise buildings, large assembly spaces, and mixed-use buildings.

Corey enjoys the project and client diversity at Code Red Consultants, and relishes the challenges associated with working in a fast-paced work environment using various technologies.

What is something that colleagues and clients might not know about you?

I am also a nationally certified firefighter and EMT.