- Animal Care
- Animal Welfare Advocacy
- I enjoy sketching and drawing, which helps improve my creativity and attention to detail
- Horseback Riding
- I like working with my hands and fixing things
- Reading
- DIY and Home Improvement
- Running
- Sustainable Tech Innovations
- Road Trips
Mark Ellis Vermeer
2241 152nd Street, Winterset,IA
Summary
I have over forty years of Engineering, Project Management, and Business Development experience with A/E and EPC Companies specializing in the design and construction of storage, handling, and processing facilities, and renewable energy and industrial projects. Besides Engineering and Project Management I have held Marketing and Business Development positions. I hold an MBA, and am a Licensed P.E. I am a team builder and leader, touching all aspects of project development from early-stage planning and feasibility to design, engineering, construction, and writing and executing commissioning plans. I am a skilled communicator, published in trade journals, and presenter at conferences and investor meetings.
Overview
32
32
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Security Supervisor
Apple
- Security Supervisor on an Apple Data Center construction site in Waukee, IA. I am tasked with performing and enforcing Post Orders issued by Apple and Turner Construction on the site.
- Security Guard/Rover – Data Center
Construction Management Consultant
Confidential
05.2022 - Current
- I am currently engaged as an Independent Contractor to assist in the design and construction of a 5.7-million-bushel, $50-million greenfield site grain (corn, soybeans, wheat) facility with 110-car rail loop track. I developed the Process Flow Diagrams (PFD) and Process & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID) for the facility. I oversaw the production of the plan, elevation, and 3-D drawings. I compiled the project specifications and authored the bid documents which consisted of thirteen (13) separate bid packages for the unique EPC specialties of which the facility was comprised. The project will break ground in November of 2023. Commissioning of the facility is slated for Summer of 2025.
Security Officer
Microsoft
12.2020 - 05.2022
- Security Officer on Microsoft Data Center construction sites at Cumming and Booneville, IA. I was tasked with performing and enforcing Post Orders issued by Microsoft and Turner Construction on these sites.
- Security Guard – Data Centers
Front Desk Security Officer
Equifax
12.2020 - 05.2022
- Front desk security officer at Equifax, West Des Moines, IA. I was responsible for a) access control which included proficiency in Tyco Software House software including C-Cure 9000 Monitoring Station, C-Cure 9000 Admin Station and Avigilon Control Center, b) contractor, visitor, temporary, and new hire badging, c) building walk-throughs, checking printer supplies, and recording and entering temperature & humidity readings from instruments placed throughout the facility, and d) being available, approachable, friendly, and helpful to Equifax employees.
- Front Desk Security – Financial
Project Manager/Engineer
Shockwave LLC
09.2019 - 11.2020
- One of Shockwave’s patented processes relieves egg food products plant from the cost of disposing eggshells. The process takes the disposed eggshells and separates the membrane that lines the inside of the shell from the calcium shell itself. The dried and finished membrane is milled into a powder and sold into various markets that utilize the collagen-like material. The calcium shell is powdered and sold as a soil conditioner (fertilizer). I was the engineering lead to take the process from the pilot stage to a full scaled-up installation into an egg food products facility.
Project Manager
Syngenta NA
08.2017 - 04.2018
- Authored Commissioning Plan for a multi-million-dollar facility upgrade at their Omaha, NE plant.
Project Manager/Engineer
Halverson Company
05.2016 - 06.2017
- I was the Project Engineer on a $30 million project in California that produces premixes consisting of vitamins, minerals, nutritional and pharma supplements for the animal agriculture industry on the West Coast. The project includes significant site development including an industry loop track overpass.
- The project includes two processes, one to produce pharma supplements and the other to incorporate the pharma supplements into premixes. I was also the Project Engineer/Project Manager on an automated hay and feed operation for a large cattle feedlot operation near Moses Lake, WA.
Project Manager/Engineer
Fluid Quip Process Technologies, Inc.
06.2014 - 02.2016
- Company Overview: Fluid Quip Process Technologies (FQPT) is a construction management firm that designs and builds systems for ethanol plants to enhance their bottom line by creating high-value co-products and increased ethanol yield.
- Fluid Quip Process Technologies (FQPT) is a construction management firm that designs and builds systems for ethanol plants to enhance their bottom line by creating high-value co-products and increased ethanol yield.
Project Manager
Moeller Engineering
06.2013 - 03.2014
- I was the sole Project Manager on the turnkey project delivery of a new grain facility in South-Central Kansas. Besides acting as the Project Manager, I also was the Site Superintendent and Site Safety Professional and as such wrote the Site Safety Plan as well as administering Site Safety Orientations and keeping site safety documentation records.
Marketing, Sales & Project Management
EES Companies
06.2010 - 05.2013
- Company Overview: EES Companies is a Design-Build company employing engineers, designers, field construction supervision, and skilled millwrights. EES provides design, turn-key construction, and millwright services to ag related industries such as seed plants, grain elevators and terminals, feed mills, bio-fuels refineries, corn milling plants and oilseed crush plants.
- I secured the consulting contract to evaluate Syngenta Seed Company’s 22 North American facilities in the context of OSHA-driven combustible dust National Emphasis Program (NEP). All 22 plants were studied and reported on. The dust systems of most of these plants were in fact modified or retrofitted based on the recommendations in the reports. I was the on-site representative for much of the Civil portion of a new parent seed facility being designed and built for Syngenta Seeds on the Island of Oahu, Hawaii.
Business Development - Industrial Services
EAPC Architects Engineers
02.2009 - 03.2010
- Marketing/business development for the Industrial Division of this Midwestern full-service A/E consulting firm serving ag and food processing, food/beverage, manufacturing, metals/minerals/mining, alternative/ renewable energy, central heating/cooling plants and distribution, coal-fired power plants, combined heat and power (CHP), oil/petroleum, chemical processing, and pulp/paper/wood.
President & Owner
Vermeer Design & Construction Consulting PLC
08.2006 - 01.2009
- I was a consultant to Agri-Business for project services, including the design, permitting and construction of biodiesel plants, oil-seed crush plants, feed mills, and grain handling facilities. Work included a large liquid storage addition to a biodiesel plant in Missouri; design-build scope documents for a 60 million-gallon-per-year biodiesel plant in Illinois; performance guarantee documentation for a 3,000 ton-per-day soybean crush plant and associated 50 million-gallon-per-year biodiesel plant in Missouri; design-build scope documents for a 30 million-gallon-per-year biodiesel plant in Iowa; and design-build scope documents for a 4,000 ton-per-day soybean crush and associated 60 million-gallon-per-year biodiesel plant in Iowa. Clients included Powershift Energy LLC, Progressive Energies Inc., America’s Renewable Energy LLC, Northern Bioenergy, LLC, American Energy Producers, Inc., Virtuoso Biofuels, and BHR Biofuels (UK).
Senior Project Manager
Renewable Energy Group (REG)
05.2003 - 06.2006
- Sr. Project Manager. Sr. Project Manager on the first major scale-up of a biodiesel plant in North America in 2004-2005. Challenging technology scale-up coupled with demanding project completion requirements dictated aggressive management of the project schedule which was accomplished utilizing scheduling software accompanied by constant monitoring and updating. Managed the start- up of REG as a design-build construction company which became the “go-to” provider of biodiesel plants, ultimately resulting in $300 million+ in biodiesel plant construction over a four-year period from 2004-2008.
Vice President of Business Development
Bratney Companies
07.1993 - 04.2003
- I developed new markets for Bratney Companies which included grain storage and handling facilities; unit train handling systems; feed mills; facilities for handling, cleaning, and storage of human-consumption grain commodities; corn storage, handling and milling, and DDG storage and handling for ethanol plants. I facilitated the consolidation of Bratney’s two Pacific Northwest branch offices into one office located in Boise, Idaho.
Education
B.S. - Civil Engineering
Iowa State University
M.S. - Business Administration (MBA)
University of South Dakota
Skills
- Engineering
- Construction
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- MS Project
- Outlook
- Word
- Adobe Acrobat
- Construction Safety
- Start-ups
- Renewable Energy
- Construction Management
- Budgets
- Project Management
- Business Development
- Renovations
- Feasibility Studies
- Heavy Industrial
- EPC
Affiliations
- Project Management Institute
- Association of Energy Engineers
- National Society of Professional Engineers
- American Society of Civil Engineers
- OSHA 30-hour Construction Safety Certification
- Association of Builders and Contractors
- Project Management Professional
- Tau Beta Pi (Academic Excellence in Engineering)
- Beta Gamma Sigma (Academic Excellence in Business)
Certification
- Licensed Professional Engineer – Iowa (PE09528)
- 30-Hour Construction Safety Certification – OSHA
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
Interests
Timeline
Construction Management Consultant
Confidential
05.2022 - Current
Security Officer
Microsoft
12.2020 - 05.2022
Front Desk Security Officer
Equifax
12.2020 - 05.2022
Project Manager/Engineer
Shockwave LLC
09.2019 - 11.2020
Project Manager
Syngenta NA
08.2017 - 04.2018
Project Manager/Engineer
Halverson Company
05.2016 - 06.2017
Project Manager/Engineer
Fluid Quip Process Technologies, Inc.
06.2014 - 02.2016
Project Manager
Moeller Engineering
06.2013 - 03.2014
Marketing, Sales & Project Management
EES Companies
06.2010 - 05.2013
Business Development - Industrial Services
EAPC Architects Engineers
02.2009 - 03.2010
President & Owner
Vermeer Design & Construction Consulting PLC
08.2006 - 01.2009
Senior Project Manager
Renewable Energy Group (REG)
05.2003 - 06.2006
Vice President of Business Development
Bratney Companies
07.1993 - 04.2003
Security Supervisor
Apple
M.S. - Business Administration (MBA)
University of South Dakota
B.S. - Civil Engineering
Iowa State University
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