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Sarah Allender | TrueNorth Construction Specialty Group, Cedar Rapids, IA Sarah Allender has over a decade of experience in working with construction and general industry clients. She enjoys working with clients on enhancing their current safety culture and working with leadership on effectively communicating safety. Sarah is the president of the ASSP-NE Iowa Chapter, serves on planning committees for the Iowa Women in Safety and Hawkeye on Safety conferences and is an adjunct professor at Kirkwood Community College.
Brandon Black | Construction Safety Specialists, Inc. – Des Moines, IA Brandon began his career as a card-carrying member of the Carpenter’s Local Union #106 and was previously employed with an ENR Top Specialty Contractor where he worked on the site of Microsoft’s large Data Center project in Des Moines. This opportunity allowed him to look at construction project safety from a different perspective, all the while providing him knowledge growth of “whole-project” safety. Brandon now helps to provide a well-rounded safety-mentality to job sites and provides the CSSI team with a “field perspective” while delivering a wide array of services related to inspections, site visits and employee education. In addition to being a certified American Red Cross Instructor for First Aid/CPR/AED, Brandon has earned certificates from the National Safety Council that include Specialist in Safety & Health and Advanced Safety as well as being a certified equipment instructor through the IVES Training Group.
Luke Borlee | United Rentals, Inc. – Ft. Myers, FL Luke has been with United Rentals for over 14 years in various roles within safety, focusing on customer training. In his current role, he helps safetyconscious companies obtain and track employee safety certifications. Luke puts his Bachelors in Communications to use, presenting on equipment safe use and jobsite safety. He is a Certified Master Instructor on forklifts, mobile elevated work platforms, earth moving equipment, fall protection and more. Luke is also an 18-year USAF vet. While serving, he instructed Airmen on fall protection and confined space entry, earning an Associates in Aviation Maintenance & Technology.
Tim Boyer | DEKRA Safety Management Systems – Kansas City, MO Tim has over 30 years’ experience working with software development, artificial intelligence development, safety metric indicator and collection management. Tim has been working with leading-edge development for the past 20 years in enterprise safety management systems, behavioral safety, artificial intelligence, analytic development and predictive analytics. Tim has spent the past five years focusing on leading international development for worldwide leaders in class organizational reliability analytics.
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SARAH ALLENDER
BRANDON BLACK
LUKE BORLEE
TIM BOYER
