Ray Westerlaken, P.Eng. - Regional Manager, Northern BC

Please join us in welcoming Ray back to the Fransen team.  Ray is an electrical engineer who also has a depth of experience in instrumentation and process control.  He was previously with Fransen between 1993 and 2000 working out of our Richmond office before moving to Edmonton, where he worked for Colt Engineering for seven years and gained valuable project management experience.  His family recently relocated to Prince George and Ray is just wrapping up an MBA.

As of September 8th, Ray will take over management of our Prince George office and coordination of our Northern BC project work from Bill Verdi, who will continue to provide support to the PG office for the foreseeable future.  We would like to thank Bill for his personal sacrifice in providing leadership for the Prince George office while we filled the role with a permanent PG resident.

Jack Vanier, P.Eng., CEM - Team Leader, Energy

Please join us in welcoming Jack Vanier to the Fransen team.  Jack is an electrical engineer who has significant experience with energy management which he gained over 35 years working primarily in the pulp & paper industry.  Most recently Jack was with Catalyst Paper, where he was the Energy Manager for the Crofton mill and also assisted the other Catalyst mills in meeting their energy objectives.

Jack will assume the role of Team Leader for our PowerSmart/Energy team.  In this role, he will work closely with Randy Wunderlich, George Coelho, Jonathan Ho and others who have done an excellent job of building relationships, procedures and tools, and completing successful projects over the past couple of years.