SPX Cooling Tech – Ontario
Get to know the SPX Ontario commercial team
I started working for Marley in 1987 getting coffee for the salespeople and have had multiple roles with the company since. My current role is hands-on, helping people with my years of cooling tower experience.
Fun Fact About You
I’m a music nerd and I’ll research liner notes trying to figure out who played harmonica on that track.
Describe yourself in three words.
Kind and conscientious.
If you didn’t sell cooling towers, what would you love to do for a career instead?
Music historian.
What do you like to do in your spare time?
Golf, curling, researching liner notes.
What is the most unusual item in your desk drawer?
My thermo instructor, Professor Graydon, gave my classmates and me a Newton. It’s a brass disc that weighs about 100 grams, so when you put it in your hand it exerts 1 Newton of force. Professor Graydon taught us all kinds of ways to view the world from a practical perspective and his teachings have served me well in the cooling tower world.
What is on your bucket list?
Learn the banjo.
Favorite Canadian food?
Kensington market for an empanada. Canada is wonderfully diverse.
Over 20 years of experience in the cooling tower industry, joining SPX Cooling in 2014. I started a career track in Aviation / Air Traffic Services / Radio Communication working for Transport Canada / NAV Canada and the Canadian Coast Guard long before I got into Technical Sales.
Fun Fact About You
I’m a retired private pilot.
If you didn’t sell cooling towers, what would you love to do for a career instead?
I would sell some sort of engineered industrial technical product.
What do you like to do in your spare time?
Rural living (hobby farm), target shooting. Spending time with my family and grandson. I volunteer within my community and serve on a couple non-profit boards. I have a multitude of projects going at any one time.
What is the most unusual item in your desk drawer?
Morse code key.
What is on your bucket list?
Fly an ultralight airplane or get a motorcycle.
Favorite Canadian food?
Meat and potatoes, BBQ.
Work History
Joined SPX Cooling in 2016. The opportunity to interact directly with people from other organizations and/or professions is what I like most about my job.
Fun Fact About You
I performed a wrestling stunt with a pillow that sent me straight for a foot surgery right before they started showing on TV, “Please do not try this at home.”
If you didn’t sell cooling towers, what would you love to do for a career instead?
Would have loved to be an architect. Luckily, I am married to one.
What do you like to do in your spare time?
Watch historical documentaries.
What is the most unusual item in your desk drawer?
Small telescope.
What is on your bucket list?
Drive coast to coast in Canada.
Favorite Canadian food?
Poutine.
Over 20 years of working experience in Business Development, Technical Sales, and Project Management. Started my carrier as a design engineer at Power Engineering Consultants and then worked in Rotating Equipment and HVAC market as a Technical Sales Manager and New Product Development Manager.
Fun Fact About You
Was a member of Classical Choir for 8 years.
If you didn’t sell cooling towers, what would you love to do for a career instead?
Working in charity, building schools in non-developed countries.
What do you like to do in your spare time?
Travel to new places, play volleyball.
What is the most unusual item in your desk drawer?
Old-fashioned business card holder.
What is on your bucket list?
Learn to ride a motorcycle.
Favorite Canadian food?
Montreal smoked meat.