Tri-Tech welcomes four new additions to our engineering team.

Ben Florkey

Ben is one of our recent additions to the Tri-Tech team, working part time for the past several months. In this time he has had the opportunity to be part of a few different projects which have included plumbing design, steam boiler replacement, and natural gas supply.

In addition to working at Tri-Tech, Mr. Florkey is currently a full time graduate student at Wright State University. Enrolled in Ohio’s first masters degree program in renewable energy, He has acquired some unique academic training. Among other topics his course work has delved into photovoltaic panels, wind power, and fuel cells. One underlying theme throughout the course work is the importance of understanding the true cost versus savings of an engineering decision. Through this program, Mr. Florkey has been taught the importance of not only making environmentally wise but economically wise decisions as well. This is a lesson he does not intend to forget as he works on any current or future project.

Jacob Dilk

Jacob offers more than 10 years experience in the field of industrial controls and IT support with General Motors. During that time he learned to adapt to fluid situations ranging from the full range of Allen-Bradley controls to PC application and networking support. He is very comfortable around technology and strives to use that technology to bring value-added solutions to the business and customer in a collaborative team-based environment.
Starting his career as a co-op controls engineer Jacob quickly developed skills with the SLC-500 and PLC-5 controller families before taking on the ControlLogix system during a major platform changeover. His natural talent in IT led to his becoming Facility Software Librarian for all Rockwell and other controls related software. He also worked closely with EDS in maintaining the plant data network, going so far as to run and terminate cat-5 cable and work with Sumitomo Air Blown Fiber that constituted the plants data network.
As part of his support role for odd-man-out and orphaned systems Jacob has replaced a trunked 2-way radio system with over 650 Nextel units and maintained the facilities broadband video network. He was the resident expert on barcode scanners having experience with manufacturers such as AccuSort, Hand Held Products, and Symbol. Deploying and maintaining industrial workstations and keeping software up to date was vital to the plant maintenance department.
Jacob earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Kettering University (formerly GMI) in 1999. He also has CompTIA certifications for A+, Network+, and Security+.

Jon Burnett

Jon graduated from Purdue University in 2007 and has worked as structural engineer and safety consultant for just over two years. A major highlight in Jon’s career was his position with the AOC (The Architect of the Capitol) in Washington DC for roof fall protection system designs. Performing field work placed him on top of most of the buildings in the AOC jurisdiction, including, the US Capitol, the US Supreme Court, the Thomas Jefferson building,
the Library of Congress, the House Office Buildings (Longworth, Cannon, and Ford), the John Adams building LOC, and the US Botanical Gardens.

Other pertinent experience includes his work as steel detailer using SDS2 v7.0 as summer intern.

Emily Luckhaupt

Emily is an engineering summer intern who was born in Florida but have lived in the greater Dayton area virtually all her life. A graduate of Alter High School, Emily is currently a senior at the University Dayton on track to graduate next May with a degree in civil engineering. The past few summers has found Emily working in composite design, construction, and project engineering for the renovation of Stuart Hall, a freshman dormitory building on the University of Dayton campus.

A volleyball enthusiast, Emily has been involved in set design and construction for her school’s drama department. At the University of Dayton she is the current Social/Service chair of ASCE and am quite involved in the organization’s activities. Emily is also involved with the WIE (Women in Engineering) program and continues to feed her love of volleyball by participating in intramural sand and indoor volleyball on campus.

We are excited to have these valuable additions to our team and look forward to their continued contributions to the Tri-Tech engineering story.