Relevant General Commissioning Experience & Background: Ryan has over 18 years of mechanical and electrical systems experience. He brings to his commissioning practice a broad base of experience as a tradesman, controls contractor, and design engineer with expertise in the design, installation, and maintenance of an extensive range HVAC, automation/controls, power distribution, lighting, data/communication, and integrated security systems.  His project experience includes large correctional centers, hospitals, military facilities, industrial plants, retail centers, and educational facilities. 

Ryan’s electrical systems experience includes designing, verifying, and commissioning power distribution, lighting, and data/ communication, and city wide integrated security systems.  Electrical building power design includes isolated grounding systems, emergency power systems, circuit breaker and equipment coordination studies including short circuit calculations, and electrical system power factor correction and power quality studies.  Lighting design includes performing photometric calculations in all types of spaces and controls design.  Low voltage design includes fire alarm systems, smoke control systems, fully integrated security systems.

During his 5 years as a commissioning specialist, Ryan has performed all design and construction phase commissioning activities including, owner’s project requirements (OPR) and basis of design (BOD) facilitation, control logic and integration reviews, constructability reviews, commissioning plan formulation, commissioning specification writing, functional performance test writing, commissioning kickoff meetings, periodic construction site visits, maintaining  commissioning issues logs, coordination of start-up activities, witnessing and performing functional tests, documenting commissioning activities in a final commissioning report.  Ryan is an ACG certified Commissioning Authority (CxA) and performs services on all projects in accordance with ACG and Building Commissioning Association guidelines. 

Ryan has a B.S. degree in Architectural Engineering from the University of Colorado.  His professional engineering licenses include: Architectural Engineer, Colorado #38443; Building Systems Engineer Washington #45457; Mechanical Engineer, California #34596.