Team Category: Life Safety Consultants

Jake is a motivated life safety consultant who seeks to gain as much knowledge of the fire protection industry as possible. As a result, he offers support in many services offered by Code Red Consultants including construction fire safety, firestopping special inspections, healthcare surveys, and building and life safety code consulting. Jake concurrently took classes for his Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering and his Master’s in Fire Protection Engineering while being a member of the wrestling team and acting as an officer in his fraternity. He is no stranger to hard work! Completing two summer internships with Code Red and another with a residential construction firm, Jake joined fulltime with an understanding of how to be successful. Jake enjoys working with others to solve unique problems in the field and in the office and is excited for the growth he will achieve while working at Code Red Consultants.

What do you love most about your job?

I enjoy the constant variety of work and challenges faced each day. I love expanding my knowledge base through all facets of fire protection engineering and look forward to connecting with individuals within FPE and the many related fields.

Joe is a very driven fire protection consultant who is responsible for developing code compliance strategies, performing fire, life safety, and accessibility evaluations, and delivering high-quality design solutions for both new and existing structures that address the needs of all stakeholders involved in a project. With an academic background in both chemical engineering and fire protection, Joe looks to apply his professional experience and technical knowledge relating to hazardous materials, chemical analyses, and industrial fire protection to engineer solutions for complex fire protection and chemical usage challenges.

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

One of my favorite hobbies is photography, I especially enjoy night sky and deep-space photography through a telescope.

Sullivan is a fire protection and life safety consultant eager to grow in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. Working primarily with field services, he enjoys that every project provides a unique challenge and opportunity to develop professional relationships. Sullivan’s background in Mechanical Engineering and previous experience in shipyard construction provides a unique perspective on how clients and contractors interact during the construction process and allows him to better understand the nuances of communication in the field. As a young consultant, Sullivan is excited to be provided with numerous learning opportunities from his colleagues and continue to grow himself personally and professionally.

What is the most rewarding part of your job?

The sense of community in the office environment, and the continued support of my colleagues regarding professional and personal growth.

Sara is a fire protection and life safety consultant who thrives in the quick, team-based environment at Code Red Consultants. Her background in Civil Engineering provides a unique perspective on the design process and construction management, which allows her to communicate well with parties involved in the construction process. Sara focuses her consulting efforts on general code analysis but enjoys a variety of work. The many different challenges presented in consulting is what drew her to the field. As a young consultant, Sara is excited to have the opportunity to work in the many disciplines Code Red has to offer and learn from her colleagues.

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

In my free time, I enjoy hiking and being outdoors. I have been to 19 US National Parks, and I hope to make it to the rest of them.

Anna is a fire protection and life safety consultant who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. Working with a variety of clients, project types, and consultants, she enjoys that every day provides a new challenge to solve, and no two projects are the same. Anna mostly focuses her consulting efforts on residential projects including accessibility code analysis. Her background in Architectural Engineering provides a unique perspective on how clients come to decisions during the design process which allows her to communicate seamlessly with architects. As a young consultant, Anna is excited to be provided with numerous learning opportunities from her colleagues and continue to grow in her role.

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

In my free time, I enjoy singing and playing music. I grew up playing the piano and organ and being very involved in school and community choirs. At WPI, I was the student conductor of the festival choir and had the opportunity to conduct on our tour to Berlin and Prague, conducting in a beautiful church in Old Town Square with a huge crowd of people that were just walking by and wanted to listen.

Ben is a fire protection and life safety consultant who thrives in a collaborative environment. He enjoys applying his problem-solving skills to reach creative solutions that meet the needs the client. Ben is involved with numerous services such as building and life safety code consulting, smoke control special inspections, and inspection of fire stop and fire-resistant joint systems. Fascinated by the fire protection and life safety industry, he is excited to grow his knowledge and experience in the services offered at Code Red Consultants by delivering the highest quality service to all stakeholders.

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

I love being active. I was a gymnast my whole life, collegiate baseball player and now working on my golf game.

Nick is a fire protection and life safety consultant who enjoys the collaborative nature of the fire protection engineering industry. As a young consultant, he takes advantage of all project opportunities to challenge himself to learn and to grow his subject matter expertise. Nick takes pride in his ability to adapt to and overcome new challenges that are presented to him while familiarizing himself with the fire protection engineering industry. He is involved with several services that Code Red Consultants offers such as construction fire safety, building and life safety code consulting, smoke control special inspections, NFPA 3/4 commissioning, and inspection of firestop and fire resistance joint systems.

What is something colleagues/clients might not know about you?

Nick played on the WPI Football team (2016-2019). He was part of the 2019 team, which had the best record in school history of 10-1.

Austin is a fire protection consultant driven to maintain public safety for every project and client. He enjoys working in an environment where there is a variety of projects that require different solutions.  Austin enjoys making an impact on the end result and working with colleagues that have a similar passion for protecting people. Austin 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 love the outdoors, dabble in photography, and I was a downhill ski racer while enrolled at WPI.