ALUMA SYSTEMS

Aluma offers high-efficiency concrete forming and shoring solutions — from wall formwork, slab formwork and shoring solutions to climbing and bridge formwork — for projects ranging from hotels, high-rise buildings, and stadiums to airports, bridges, dams and power plants. They are a north american company with multiple offices across USA and Canada, servicing projects domestically and internationally.

Many, if not most Canadian concrete works for high rise or heavy civil use Aluma Systems in some way. Aluma has been making waves in the Canadian Highrise and industrial sector as their products and systems are widely known and used internationally and domestically, not to mention they have their own in house engineering, design and sales teams that has a strong technical base and business acumen.

Check out more on Aluma Systems from their company page https://www.industrial.aluma.ca/

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Joe Giordano

Marketing Manager + Strategy

Joe graduated from both George Brown College in Graphic Design and a I.A.O.D for Business and Marketing. After completing his education Joe went to work for the Canadian Marketing Association and helped them in rebranding their business, membership and services. While working for the Association Joe also enrolled in multiple courses to further extend his knowledge and abilities. Joe’s enthusiasm for Business Strategy and Marketing Development led him into a career of consulting for mid to large scale clients. Clients ranged in business from $10million to $60million. Aluma Systems hired Joe as a consultant to help rebrand and strategize their marketing approach. In 2016 Aluma hired Joe full time. Over the last several years Joe has been teaching Advertising and Project Management at Humber College.

Nick Coffelt

Director of Engineering

With original aspirations of becoming an Aerospace Engineer, Nick realized quickly into his first few courses his passion for building and “getting your hands dirty”. He decided on changing his degree from Aerospace to Civil Engineering to work with structures. Nick graduated Civil Engineering from Iowa State University in 2003 where he almost immediately landed a junior position with EFCO in 2004. Nick fell into concrete and shoring, it was not his expected career path. He fell in love with the fast pace of the projects, the complexity of the engineering and the shear number of projects he was able to work on. Nick spent 13 years at EFCO where he honed not only his technical skills but actively began developing his people skills. He enjoyed the ability he had at mid management to develop and mentor his staff. In 2017 a position with Aluma for the Director of Engineering opened. Nick jumped at the opportunity to work at upper level management. He wanted to start making a difference to the policies, procedures and processes that would affect and develop the staff on individual and large scales. Today Nick is managing all North America overseeing 78 people in 4 teams divided across his territory. Aluma is a long-standing reputable company but has also been flexible and adaptable enough to incorporate changes implemented by Nick over the years.

Katarina Palomba

Human Resources Assistant

Katarina started her Post Secondary education with a Bachelors in English from Wilfrid Laurier in Waterloo. Originally, Katarina wanted to be a teacher, she loved working with people and wanted to contribute to their individual growth and lives. After completing her degree in 2013 Katarina started with a company in Customer Care working as a concierge representative for VIP Credit Card holders. In 2016 she switched gears and took on a supervisory role for a Honda Service department where she learned the in’s and out’s of supervisor responsibilities including Human Resources. She went back to school in 2016 to obtain her Human Resources Management Certificate. With her new career focus in mind, Katarina applied to Aluma as a student! She was taken as a part time student learning the ropes from Canada and the US departments. Earlier this year in 2019, Katarina was promoted to full time contract with Aluma. When asked about her experiences within Aluma she mentioned the following:

There is a strong commitment to staff. The locations of the offices and yards are across Canada and the US. Everyone is accommodating for one another and allow for easy communication and access.

There is a great layer of senior experienced individuals which means there is plenty of opportunity to learn from amazing role models and mentors!

Phanie Ouimet

Safety Director North America

Born and raised in a small town 5 hours outside of Quebec, Phanie is bilinguial in French and English. She went to Post-Secondary at the University of Montreal and got her Batchelors Degree in Labour Relations in 2004. Phanie did her internship for health and safety at a hospital where she realized she wanted a more fast paced and changing environment. Her second position was in manufacturing, for 2 years. After 2 years, Phanie found the work repetitive and she wanted to grow into a new area. Phanie turned her focus onto construction. She started with Royal Building Products where she oversaw 4 manufacturing sites and slowly transitioned to live sites. While working at Royal, she went back to night and weekend classes for a diploma in Occupational Health and Safety, as well as a graduate Certificate in the Safety sector. Phanie started with Aluma in their Laval office as the Eastern Regional Safety Manager in 2013. She was overseeing all sites and offices from Ottawa, Montreal and to the East Costs. In 2018, Phanie, was promoted to the Director of Health and Safety, overseeing operations for US and for Canada.