Team

Brad Wells – Executive Director TSC Global

Brad Wells is an entrepreneur, co-owner and President of The Innovative Alliance book distributorship. Brad is also co-founder of the Sustainability Series (S²) a Denver based monthly forum highlighting organizations promoting sustainability and development. Bachelors Degree in Economics from Wesleyan University.

Steve Riley – Director TSC Global

Steve Riley retired from a 30 year career in the insurance business to become Co-Founder & Executive Director of Nuba Water Project www.nubawaterproject.org. He has 4 years experience working in Sudan, and has worked on construction projects in Cambodia, Sudan, Tanzania, Haiti, Kenya, Thailand and Bangladesh. His passion is working in underdeveloped countries, especially when they are plagued with the problem of inadequate and unsafe water supplies and lack of affordable housing. Steve attended the College of William & Mary graduating with a degree in Geology.

Randy Parsley - Director of Construction TSC Global

Randy has over 40 years tenure in the commercial construction industry, 20 years of which he served in senior management roles for substantial General Contractors engaged primarily in high-rise and large commercial and residential projects. Randy is a former U.S. Army officer commissioned in 1968, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.  Randy is a Certified Professional Estimator (ASPE) and still holds certification credentials in Post Tension Inspection and heavy crane operation. Randy has considerable experience with the manufacture and implementation of Cellular Concrete  and Compressed Earth products and has developed green sustainable products for market use. Randy attended Regis University majoring in Technical Management.

Dr. George Nez

Dr. George Nez serves as a technical advisor on TSC Hypar roof systems. Formerly a city planning director and professor, he has served in UN and USAID development projects in Ghana, Egypt, the Persian Gulf countries, Thailand, S. Korea, and coordinated post-earthquake planning of Skopje, Macedonia and Managua, Nicaragua. In Ghana he initiated roofs-first preparation of 20 new and enlarged villages for emergency resettlement, in the Volta Basin hydroelectric program, where the roofs-first construction allowed families to move into their own new houses and complete walls using traditional methods. Since retirement he has continued training: for the Nuba Water Project of South Sudan, for the Birambye L’Esperance Orphanage project in Rwanda, the Sheik Yassin school in Wardak Afghanistan, introducing bamboo framed thin shell roofing in Bangladesh Architectural Research Institute, and thin-shell roofing over compressed earth brick walls in Uganda. He has researched this system since 1980 along with engineers Evan Curtis of National Park Service and Albert Knott of Knott Testing Laboratory, Denver.

Steve Brooks

Steve Brooks is a Principal with OZ Architecture. He specializes in research science and healthcare facilities, the technology of “green” buildings and creating community through mixed use diversity and sustainability. AIA, NCARB, LEEDap , he is a Graduate and Post Graduate of the University of Colorado (1980), was a Visiting Lecturer at Makerere University in Kampala Uganda (1992) and a co-instructor at CU Denver School of Architecture and Planning “Urbanization in Developing Countries”. With an interest in international development that is culturally relevant, socially, economically and environmentally sustainable, he has been involved in design work in Afghanistan (2002) and Nepal (2004) and recently, with a team of specialists, completed a city master plan for Kigali Rwanda as the country rebuilds from the 1994 genocide. Steve also serves on the board of Engineering Ministries International and International Family Missions.

Bob Cvancara

Project manager and team leader for several international business projects including design, technical services, negotiations, procurement, logistics, development and implementation. Designed, developed and implemented a three year $191 million dollar water well drilling and irrigation distribution project in Brazil. Developed a $71 million dollar irrigation project in Romania. Interfaced and successfully negotiated with professional contractors, engineers, architects and municipal authorities for successful projects in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico, China, Latin America and the Middle East. Identified international partners and projects, proposed business plans and financial models, established joint ventures and oversaw operations of several projects in the developing world. Worked onsite with 13 United Nations agricultural projects including Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Brazil, Honduras, Bolivia, India and Ghana. BS in Biology and Chemistry Minot State University, Minot N. Dakota. MS in Irrigation N. Dakota State University, Fargo, N. Dakota. MIM-International Management: American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird), Glendale, Arizona.

Andy Vermouth

Andrew Vermouth is Director of Marketing and Communications for IDE – International Development Enterprises – in Denver. He has twenty years experience building integrated marketing strategies as a creative director and designer for consumer brands and the nonprofit sector, with specific expertise in multimedia production. He has designed environmental graphics projects in the commercial architecture and urban planning spheres, done documentary film production, has worked in construction and development for a vegetative roof and sustainable landscape concern in Boston. He has traveled extensively throughout the developing world, and authored numerous articles, essays, videos, and visual art installations mostly focused on intercultural relations and sustainability issues. His design and film work has been exhibited in various venues, and has received several awards.

Joel Cheney-Philp

Joel is a graduate of the Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, where he worked extensively with the Humanitarian Assistance Program. He has in-depthexperience and knowledge of West Africa and USAID, in addition to grant writing, communications, and outreach.

Vasilios Katsavrias

Vasilios Katsavrias is a design/build contractor focused on small scale residential and emergency housing systems.  Vasilios has served on the board of The Cape Cod Modern House Trust and as project manager for the restoration of their newly acquired Gips House, a highly regarded work of Modernist Architecture. He is also the co-founder of the Cape Sustainable Project, a group developing affordable housing for the region.  Vasilios was a Design Fellow for Architecture for Humanity in San Francisco working on volunteer coordination, small scale interventions, as well as Design Like you Give a Damn 2.  Vasilios’s work at TSC Global includes project management and training of crews in the production of our Hy Par Roofing System and CLC Block production. Vasilios has a B.A. in Philosophy from The College of Wooster.