Mark Kyle

Started my career at Edwards with eight years in the construction electrical division assisting in the construction of two high schools, three elementary schools and the remodel and expansion of Zionsville High School, before being recruited to the service electrical division. Schools have every system you will commonly run into. Big services, proper grounding, generators, chillers, RTUs, boilers, large HVAC equipment, data, sound systems, doors tied into the fire alarm systems, kitchens and shunt-trip breakers. The service department tasks have used all the knowledge learned earlier and how to listen, and ask question to develop and implement a plan/project to meet the real needs of the customer.

Eight years with Kinder Electric taught me project and manpower manpower management and coordination with other trades.

I was born in Louisville, Kentucky and moved to Miami, Florida at three years old through the fifth grade. I visit and camp and kayak with cousins in Louisville and Connecticut as often as I can and try to get to The Florida Everglades every other year.

To run 2 apartment jobs in Ft. Wayne, I was required to take and pass the Experior Journeyman test to be able to supervise 5 electricians in Allen County, IN. Now expired.

To wire a 3 doctor, 2 dermatologists and 1 pediatrician, office in a Frank Loyd Wright inspired building in Crawfordsville, IN, I was required to take the local masters test to supervise 10 electricians. Current.

I worked at Harlan Labs (rats & mice for labs), now Envigro, in Cumberland, IN, for approximately 3 years straight as they turned office space in to "production" space and surgical suites. The second floor "production" space was turned into small production rooms for customers to lease and a necropsy room. When that didn't take off, I returned it to production space. All these spaces required air pressure monitoring tied to VFDs to maintain slight positive pressure with HEPA filtered air.

I was referred to General Biotechnology, a tenant in a Harlan building at 10th and Indiana, later purchased by Cook Medical, when they needed some electrical work. I was there nearly continuously for about four years as Cook leased more and more space in the building and eventually purchased it. I pulled and terminated all the data, at both ends. Ran fiber to a second IT room when it was added. Added transformers and panels for office and reach-in refrigerators. Added a 300kw for the chiller, freeing up the 500 kw for just the building as their demand increased, eventually replacing the 1200 amp overhead service with 2000 amp underground service, a service rated transfer switch, and 1 Cummins 1 megawatt generator.

I was stationed at Dow AgroSciences, now Corteva Agrisience, for about a year doing PMs on compressors, gro-labs, greenhouses and even coffee makers.