Team Category: Project Managers / Technical Advisors

As a Project Manager, Tyler excels at combining his education, firefighting experience, and on-the-job training to reach unique solutions to life safety challenges. Tyler has extensive experience in developing construction fire safety plans for new and existing buildings, helping work to meet client project goals while also maintaining life safety for building occupants and construction personnel. Tyler also specializes in the commissioning and integrated testing of life safety systems, including stair pressurization and atrium smoke control systems.

He can often be found on-site at key project milestones, helping to ensure the project meets its intended goals. Tyler takes pride in his work and is eager to use his skills and knowledge to help clients and develop project solutions to achieve overall life safety for all stakeholders.

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

I keep just as busy in my time off the clock as I do on it. In my free time, I am an Olympic weightlifting coach and competitor, Highland Games athlete, and Strongman athlete

Nick is a fire protection and life safety consultant who enjoys working with clients to find creative solutions to solve complex problems that meet the needs of all stakeholders. His professional experience includes firestopping special inspections, developing construction fire safety plans, and providing code consulting services for new and existing buildings. His project work includes healthcare, large assembly spaces, high-rise buildings, and mixed-use buildings. Nick finds it tremendously rewarding to work in a field where his efforts directly impact the safety of others in a positive way.

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

As a student athlete at Fairfield University, I played Division I lacrosse.

As a fire protection consultant, Lea is responsible for performing fire and life safety evaluations, facilitating drawing reviews, and developing code-compliance strategies for both new and existing buildings. She enjoys collaborating with architects, clients, contractors, and Authorities Having Jurisdiction to engineer resolutions for complex fire protection and life safety issues. Lea’s experience includes conducting life safety assessments, designing fire alarm systems, managing performance-based egress design projects, and executing smoke control testing plans for natural and exhaust type smoke control systems. Her project work has spanned healthcare, hospitality, business, and detention facilities. Prior to joining Code Red Consultants, Lea served as a life safety officer for a large healthcare institution where she was responsible for multiple facets of life safety and regulatory compliance.

With an academic background in electrical engineering and fire protection, Lea applies her expertise to her professional interests in fire alarm design and electrical life safety. She excels at providing attentive and responsive client service with a keen eye for details and effective project management. Always open to learning new skills, Lea enjoys that the fire protection engineering profession is fluid and constantly evolving as we learn more about the mechanics of the construction world and further our study in fire research.

What do you love most about your job?

I love that I work with a group of people who have the same goals and aspirations for the fire protection industry that I do. We all truly care about the work we’re doing. Working in an industry focused on the safety of others is the most rewarding part of my job and why I originally got into the field.

A passionate and focused fire protection and life safety consultant, Kevin is committed to delivering high-quality solutions that address the needs of all stakeholders involved in a project. He enjoys the work process of strategizing with the project team to develop innovative performance-based design solutions that meet unique code compliance challenges. He takes pride in his work and is dedicated to providing attentive and responsive client service. Kevin’s professional interests include construction fire safety, smoke control special inspections, fire alarm system design/review, and life safety.

What do you love most about your job?

Being hands-on in the field, interacting and meeting with clients and then collaborating with the project team to devise solutions to their challenges.

Joe enjoys assisting owners, architects, and contractors with developing an overall fire protection and life safety approach that optimizes building design to mitigate risk and loss of life and property. With that goal in mind, he specializes in third-party review of active and passive fire protection systems, including sprinkler and fire alarm/detection system designs and inspection of firestop and fire-resistant joint systems.

He is skilled at the evaluation of prescriptive-based compliance with local, state, and federal codes as well as the development of performance-based alternative approaches for unique fire protection and life safety situations. Joe’s deep knowledge of applicable fire protection and life safety codes allow him to develop novel approaches that meet the needs of clients. His portfolio includes projects for higher education, transportation facilities including airports, large assembly spaces, healthcare, high-rise buildings, hazardous materials, and mixed-use buildings.

What is the most rewarding part of your job?

Making the world a safer place.