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Pat Dooley has been involved in the Restoration industry for over 30 years, owning a restoration company with 8 locations throughout British Columbia, then as Director of Restoration Development and The Clean Trust (Formerly IICRC) training for Stanley Steamer.
Pat has been involved in Catastrophic Loss Management for all hurricanes and major flooding in North America to date, including Florida's Hurricane Andrew in 1992, the 4 Florida hurricanes in 2004, and New Orleans' Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Pat became a lead instructor for Dri-Eaz Products in 1999, writing and teaching the first Applied Structural Drying course offered. He then founded Restoration College, averaging 75 schools per year for restorers and insurance adjusters throughout Canada and the U.S.
He is currently the only Canadian The Clean Trust (Formerly IICRC)-approved restoration instructor with field experience.
As a Voluntary Committee Member of The Clean Trust, Pat participated in rewriting the new S500 Water Damage Standards section on Large Loss Drying.
Today Pat Continues to teach, write articles, manage catatrosphic losses with his company, Drytech International, as well as providing expert witness testimony in legal disputes involving the restoration industry. He is a keynote speaker at many conferences including the Canadian Adjusters Association, and is a consultant and trainer to the Insurance industry.
Pat Dooley is the only Canadian instructor among 6 The Clean Trust-approved, worldwide, to teach the new The Clean Trust Commercial Drying Specialist course.
Ron Valega has been in the restoration business for over 20 years. He was one of the pioneers in the Ohio area for water restoration and has been training and educating customers, agents and adjusters ever since.
- The Clean Trust (Formerly IICRC) Master Cleaning Technician
- The Clean Trust (Formerly IICRC) Master Restoration Technician
- Member of ASLA American Seminar Leader Association June 1998
- Continuing Education Provider for the state of Ohio, Provider #S12582 since 1995
- Previous Servpro Franchise owner
- Servpro trainer of Franchise's
Joey Pickett
Joey Pickett is President of Service Consultants and Joey's Carpet Care of Lexington, Kentucky. With over 32 years of experience, he is recognized by The Clean Trust (Formerly IICRC) as a Certified Master Cleaning Technician, Restorer, and Senior Inspector. He serves on The Clean Trust Standards Committee including as Contents Chapter Co-Chair of the S-500 Water Damage Restoration Standard, Chairman of the S-300 Upholstery and Fine Fabric Cleaning Standard, and has provided peer review for several other standards.
Joey is well known as The Clean Trust-approved instructor, TV and radio personality, and offers presentations on a wide variety of technical, management, marketing, and inspirational topics.
Joey works as an industry consultant and coach to cleaning and restoration companies, insurance companies, carpet and fiber manufacturers, consumer reporting agencies, trade associations, chemical and equipment manufacturers and suppliers.
Joey's presentations are fun, down-to-earth, and extremely informative.
Jim Thomas
Jim Thomas has been in the cleaning and restoration industry for nineteen years, ten of which was in the field. He is a Master Cleaner, Master Restorer and has owned and operated his own cleaning and restoring business. The last few years Jim has been on the distribution side of the industry and brings with him a wide knowledge of products and services. Jim's experience with a high volume cleaning and restoration company on the West Coast can prove to be a great resource for new and seasoned professionals.
Peter Sierck
Peter Sierck is the director and founder of Environment Testing & Technology, Inc. (ET&T) in San Diego. ET&T specializes in the assessment of indoor air quality, moisture and microbial problems in buildings and provides engineering control solutions. Peter has conducted over 3000 residential and commercial building surveys for the past 16 years. He has extensively worked with the water restoration industry and was a committee member of The Clean Trust (Formerly IICRC) S500 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Water Damage Restoration and S520 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Mold Remediation.
He has studied industrial hygiene, environmental testing methods and engineering controls at the University of California, San Diego and Berkeley,the Mid Atlantic Environmental Hygiene Resource Center in Philadelphia and in Germany. Peter is a Registered Environmental Accessor (REA) with the state of California, a Certified Indoor Air Quality Professional (CIAQP) and Certified Microbial Remediation Supervisor (CMRS).
Mark Violand
Mark Violand has been in the floor covering business since 1977. Carpet care was his first encounter. As consumers became more interested in other types of floor coverings, so did Mark. As a certified senior carpet inspector, Mark now operates an inspection, correction and repair business which handles all types of floor coverings.
Mark is The Clean Trust (Formerly IICRC) approved instructor in the following categories:
- Carpet Cleaning Technician
- Carpet Repair and Reinstallation Technician
- Commercial Carpet Maintenance Technician
Michel Crépeau
Michel J. Crépeau, B.Sc., CIH, ROH, is a Senior Industrial Hygienist with WESA Inc. Mr. Crépeau is registered with the Canadian Registration Board of Occupational Hygienists (ROH) and certified with the American Board of Industrial Hygiene (CIH). He is a member of several other professional organizations including the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), Canadian Society of Safety Engineering (CSSE), AQHSST (Association Québecoise pour l'hygiène, la santé et la sécurité du travail) and OHAO (Occupational Hygiene Association of Ontario). Mr. Crépeau is very familiar with the various regulations related to occupational health and safety in federal and provincial workplaces. He has over 30 years of local, national and international experience in occupational health, safety and environment and has managed the development, implementation and performance of a wide variety of EHS programs.
He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree (Chemistry) from the University of Ottawa and a Graduate Diploma (Occupational Hygiene) from McGill University.
Mr. Crépeau's work experience includes federal, provincial, municipal and industrial risk assessments as well as hazard investigations. He has worked extensively in the recognition, evaluation and control of workplace occupational health hazards in a wide variety of roles. Hazard evaluations have been carried out in various industrial and commercial establishments, governmental work places as well as in homeowner residences. Mr. Crépeau is fluent in both English and French, and has worked on projects throughout Canada, the United States and Europe. He frequently delivers training courses on health and safety to a variety of clients including extensive training to the remediation and restoration industry with respect to asbestos and mould remediation work.
Joe Dobbins has been in the cleaning and restoration industry for over 27 years. He has experience in direct operations of construction, professional cleaning, restoration, inspection and consultation. He also has experience as a consultant to insurance companies and employed as a property claims adjuster. Joe is a Master Textile Cleaner, Master Smoke Restorer, Master Water Restorer and Senior Carpet Inspector. Being one of the industry's foremost authorities on restoration topics, he is a licensed general contractor and his firm processed hundreds of fire, water and mold losses annually. The combination of working as a contractor and later as a claims adjuster brings a perspective to the classroom that enables insight into both areas of restoration work.
Previous designations with The Clean Trust (Formerly IICRC) include a member of development task force for ASD and AMRT, Certification Division Chair over Restoration Division and Maintenance Cleaning Division, Technical Advisory Committee Chair for ASD, FSRT and WRT, and Chair of Certification Council/Executive Officer for 6 years overseeing technical development for cleaning, inspection, restoration, hard surface/maintenance cleaning and apprentice/basic skills. Today, Joe holds the position as Chair of the Technical Advisory Committees for WRT and WFMT and is also certified in all divisions of The Clean Trust.
He is an approved instructor with The Clean Trust. He is also approved in approx. 20 states to teach continued education to the insurance industry in water, mold, fire and odor classes. He has a teaching style of down to earth yet with a dynamic personality.
Ken, a 1982 graduate of Elon University in Business Administration began his career in the cleaning and restoration industry in 1987 while performing restroom hygiene and sanitizing. After this beginning, he went on to own a multi-location carpet cleaning company when he began getting into the property damage restoration industry. Following owning his own company, Ken went on to work for several independent restoration organizations and several offices of a national restoration franchise, Paul Davis Restoration, to account for a 24+ year career in the cleaning and restoration industry. Currently, he provides training and consulting, specializing in all facets of property damage and contents restoration, as well as being The Clean Trust (Formerly IICRC) approved instructor for WRT, FSRT, OCT, AMRT and CDS. Ken has also developed and is approved to teach Continuing Education Credit courses for the insurance, real estate and property management industries.
Ken's experience from the field brings a side of education that is easy to understand and relate to by technicians, managers and owners alike. Anyone interested in furthering their technical knowledge and in the field training will embrace these courses strongly.
Slade Smith is President and CEO of Industrial Hygiene Consulting Corp., a private environmental consulting and testing firm focusing on identifying and solving indoor environmental problems and building related deficiencies. Mr Smith is a Registered Professional Industrial Hygienist, Accredited indoor Environmental Hygienist and Registered Construction Inspector. Mr. Smith in an active member in the Indoor Air Quality Association, American Construction Inspectors Association, Association of Professional Industrial Hygienists, Association of Professionals in Infection Control and Edipemiology, Minnesota Association of School Maintenance Supervisors, Minnesota Area Association of Realtors and the Minnisota Building Envelope/Enclosure Council
Mr. Smith has a Bachelors of Science degreee with an emphasis in environmental science, organic chemistry, soil physics, and hydrogeology from the University of Wisconsin - River Falls. In addition, Mr. Smith has completed the Building Inspection Technology program from North Hennepin Community College and the Accredited Indoor Environmental Hygienist program from Miami Dade College.
Mr. Smith has over 13 years of experience in investigating and solving environmental problems. Mr. Smith spent one year with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's Ground Water Monitoring and Assessment Program; sampling, evaluating, and mapping the quality of Minnesota's drinking water. Mr. Smith then worked 8 years with the Institute for Environmental Assessment's (IEA)Indoor Air Quality Division where he was the Operations Manager of the company. At IEA, Mr Smith was responsible for business development and expanded environmental services to include reactive indoor air quality and industrial hygiene evaluations, proactive facility assessments, streamline management of large scale environmental remediation projects, design/build construction and management. Mr. Smith has performed over one thousand facility related evaluations totaling over 200 million square feet that encompass a variety of disciplines, including industrial hygiene, reactive, and proactive building and environmental evaluations. Mr. Smith is regarded as an expert in the environmental indoor air quality consulting industry, including national and local speaking engagements, article publications, as well as being qualified as an expert witness for court and arbitration related testimony.
In 1973, Bill Griffin formed Cleaning Consultant Services, Inc., to market the Comprehensive Custodial Training Manual, a 300 page book he’d written on the technical aspects of cleaning. Since that time, he has written many other cleaning related books and also publishes Cleaning Business Magazine for self-employed professional cleaners.
Having taught cleaning, maintenance and management subjects at South Seattle Community College, Lake Washington Voc Tech, Renton Voc Tech and the Washington Institute of Applied Technology, Griffin now stays busy conducting privately sponsored seminars for equipment manufacturers, suppliers and industry trade associations. He also writes articles for trade publications and provides consulting services to small business owners, large corporations, property management firms, hospitals, schools and organizations with specialized cleaning needs.
Bill Weigand is an instructor with RSA (Restoration Sciences Academy), and has been in the cleaning and restoration industry since 1980. Bill joined Unsmoke in 1988, when he was hired as General Manager of its service company. In 1992 Bill was promoted to General Manager of Training and Technical Support for Unsmoke Systems. Bill has had the opportunity to put his restoration knowledge to work in on-site disaster restoration projects throughout North America and the Caribbean. He has helped to develop many odor control products and techniques that have become industry standards. Bill is an instructor for the Restoration Industry Association’s Certified Restoration Course as well as a number of courses for The Clean Trust (Formerly IICRC). He has trained several thousand students for The Clean Trust. Bill holds multiple designations with The Clean Trust as well as RIA (Restoration Industry Association) and Indoor Air Quality Association.
Lee Senter has been in the cleaning and restoration industry for 25 years. He owns and operates a cleaning / restoration company in Toronto. He also owns an inspection / correction company. Lee is a WHMIS trainer and The Clean Trust (Formerly IICRC) instructor in Health and Safety Technician and Carpet Cleaning Technician. Lee is The Clean Trust Master Textile Cleaner, Master Fire Restorer, Master Water Restorer and Senior Practicing Carpet Inspector. He has a passion for the subject of Health and Safety and would like to help change the way the industry deals with it.
Ken has been involved in the restoration industry since 1978. He was co-owner of CR Restorations in Vancouver, BC and also worked for Restoration Consultants in California.He has experience in the indoor air quality consulting industry and mold remediation.
Ken holds a number of advanced certifications, including: Water Loss Specialist (WLI),Certified Restorer (NIDR), and Master Cleaner and Master Restorer with The Clean Trust (Formerly IICRC). He's an experienced instructor and an author of numerous articles for industry magazines.
Rick Ruch has been in the cleaning and restoration industry since 1982. He began his career with a large restoration firm in Denver Colorado and was a previous owner of Advanced Cleaning and Restoration Specialist for twelve years. Rick is a past President of the PCUCA and served on their board of directors for ten years. Rick has been The Clean Trust (Formerly IICRC) approved WRT instructor for RSA since 1997, and is currently a certified master restorer, master textile cleaner, and senior carpet inspector.
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