Team EMI

Meet the people who make it all possible...

MEET OUR TEAM...

Hello, Anthony Fasano here. When I started EMI back in 2009, it was me, a laptop, and a dream of helping engineers. A lot has changed since then.

Over the years, I began working with more and more talented professionals to help me achieve our goals. I hired freelance designers, business coaches, specialized agencies, lawyers, accountants, web developers, event coordinators, and others. They all were and continue to be important in serving our audience of engineering professionals.

However, one day, I realized that if EMI was going to achieve its mission of providing engineering professionals with a path to become better leaders through learning transfer on large scale, I would need help. I would need a team!

I started by giving our first freelancer, Betty, a more prominent role, and from there found Angelique and continued building our team. Today, the team consists of our staff, plus a plethora of talented instructors and content creators.

Now, we are a growing team, which will help us to better serve you! Without further ado, here’s the team…

TEAM EMI

Anthony Fasano, P.E.

Founder, Engineer, Lead Trainer and Coach

Anthony is the man who started it all. After becoming successful as a civil engineer at a very young age, Fasano realized that his success was largely related to the development of his non-technical, or core skills. Since that time, he has decided to transition his career from designing to inspiring engineers in their soft skill development through coaching, speaking, and training. He has also co-authored a series of children’s books with his 11-year-old daughter, titled “Purpee the Purple Dragon.” They have delivered hundreds of books to pediatric cancer centers around the world.

In the past few years, Fasano has written a bestselling book titled, “Engineer Your Own Success: 7 Key Elements to Creating an Extraordinary Engineering Career,” which was recently updated with IEEE-Wiley Press. He has also created two top-rated iTunes podcasts for engineers. The Engineering Career Coach podcast was recently cited by Forbes as one of the top 15 most inspiring for professionals. The Civil Engineering Podcast, which is downloaded by thousands of civil engineers worldwide, has been downloaded over 1 million times since inception.

Fasano earned a B.S. and M.S. degree in civil engineering from Lafayette College and Columbia University, respectively, and his executive coaching certificate from the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC).

SKILLS:

Entrepreneurship
Public speaking
Executive coaching
Training
Podcasting
Marketing and media

TEAM:

Growth
Innovation
Operations and finance
Content
Training

Betty Arellano

Training Manager

Betty Arellano is an engineer who supports the day-to-day activities of the Engineering Management Institute and is responsible for the ensuring the success of EMI’s training programs. She is responsible for coordinating with the trainers and clients, and overseeing the management and delivery of the training programs. She also assists in the development of training materials and evaluations.

Betty graduated from De La Salle University Philippines with a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering. She received her Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of the Philippines (UP). She and her other UP colleagues formed a consulting company to assist companies with their environmental compliance, permitting requirements and impact assessment. Shortly after, Betty was selected as one of the Philippine representatives for the Industrial Biotechnology and Technology Transfer in Germany, which lasted for 10 months. Betty moved to the United States in 2006 and joined our team in 2012.

SKILLS:

Customer experience
Business operations
Data analytics
Course Design

TEAM:

Operations/Finance
Training

Angelique Burns

Content and Social Media Manager

One of the main reasons our content division, Engineering Management Institute’s content was ranked the best in the world for engineering career related content by a third party is because of Angelique Burns. Angelique manages the production, scheduling, and publication of all of our content which amounts to close to 200 pieces of content each year between articles, podcast episodes, and videos. And once we create it, she is also a master at sharing it online through our various social media channels.

Angelique manages the production, scheduling, and publication of all of our content which amounts to close to 200 pieces of content each year between articles, podcast episodes, and videos. And once we create it, she is also a master at sharing it online through our various social media channels.

Angelique is a hardworking professional that does whatever it takes to be

successful, even if it means working long hours to ensure a job is completed. She has and will remain to be a critical component of the

growth of The Engineering Management Institute and our ability to reach

and help engineers around the world.

SKILLS:

Content production
Publishing
Social media marketing

TEAM:

Growth
Content

Ann M.Tomalavage, P.E., PMP

EMI Instructor for PMA - PM Skills Course

Ann Tomalavage has walked in the shoes of the project manager. As a civil engineer, she has worked as a project manager for over 35 years in top-levelfirms. Ann developed a solid understanding of what it takes to become world-class. Typically, project management training ignores several key areas that contribute to the overall success and profitability of firms. They are:

Understanding profit drivers: deadlines, reporting, billing for additional work, team efficiencies
Advanced communication skills: negotiation, relationship building, communication with the team, clients, and the company.
Practice and support: accountability, metrics, mentoring and PM Scorecard

It’s not enough to merely understand project management at a basic level. Profitability must be maintained throughout every project.

Ann is the sole provider of in-person project management foundations training for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) nationwide (www.asce.org). Of more than 200 ASCE professionals teaching nearly 100 civil engineering topics, Ann is consistently rated among the top four of all ASCE instructors. Ann led the team who prepared and released the 2014 Report Card for Pennsylvania’s Infrastructure, which involved over 55 experts across the four Pennsylvania sections of ASCE. The Report Card evaluated sixteen infrastructure categories and assigned grades on an A to F scale.

SKILLS:

Project Management
Entrepreneurship
Public Speaking
Training

TEAM:

Training

Erica Lee Garcia, P.Eng.

EMI Instructor for EMA - People Skills Course

Lee Garcia is a professional engineer with over 15 years’ experience in automotive manufacturing, mining, non-profit management and entrepreneurship. She is a Six Sigma Black Belt, professional change agent, innovator and big-picture thinker, as well as an enthusiastic mentor and coach.

Since 2011, Lee Garcia has led Erica Lee Consulting which assists companies in embracing leaner and more cost-efficient ways of working. Erica has a great track record in achieving operational and company cultural improvements through the application of Six Sigma, Lean and Continuous Improvement tools. She has significant cross-cultural work experience and fluency in English and Spanish. In the fall of 2018, she founded Engineers of Tomorrow, a non-profit organization that inspires the next generation of engineers through effective, strategic youth outreach.

SKILLS:

Six Sigma Black Belt
Entrepreneurship
Public Speaking
Executive Coaching
Training

TEAM:

Training

Dax Hoff, P.E.

EMI Instructor for EMA - People Skills Course

Hoff is the founder and owner of Dax Consulting, a California based civil engineering consulting firm that has participated in a wide range of projects, from land development, residential, parks & recreation, commercial, industrial, and aviation assignments.

Hoff has worked personally on projects for residential developments, commercial, industrial, aviation, schools, parks, public roads, water districts, and solid waste districts. He is currently working on industrial and commercial land development projects, water resource projects and related consulting. He has expertise in business development and sales and is actively utilizing personal contacts gained throughout his career to attain engineering contracts throughout Southern California for land development projects.

SKILLS:

Civil Engineering
Entrepreneurship
Training
Relationship Building

TEAM:

Training

Christian Knutson, CEng, P.E., PgMP, PMP

EMI Creator - Co-Host The Civil Engineering Podcast

Chris Knutson, CEng, P.E., PgMP, F.SAME is a program manager/civil engineer with over twenty-seven years of program and project management experience in the defense infrastructure sector. This includes deep experience in executing and delivering infrastructure programs, as well as project planning, feasibility and requirements assessment, and controls in complex and international stakeholder environments. He’s an expert communicator skilled at working with both government and private sector organizations and has substantial international experience in Europe, the Middle East, and the U.S.

Most recently he was the Major Program Director for a $400 million defense infrastructure program in the UK and currently manages a diverse infrastructure planning and delivery portfolio for Stanley Consultants in the UK and Europe. He is a retired U.S. Air Force civil engineer officer, is a Chartered Engineer in the UK and Professional Engineer in the US, and holds both the Program and Project Management Certificates from Project Management International.

SKILLS:

Civil Engineering
Project Management
Program Management
Engineering Leadership

TEAM:

Content

Mathew Picardal, P.E.

EMI Creator - Co-Host The Structural Engineering Channel

Picardal is a licensed engineer practicing on structural engineering projects in California with an undergraduate degree from Cal Poly Pomona and an M.S. in Structural Engineering from UC San Diego. He has designed and managed various types of building structures including residential wood apartment buildings, commercial steel buildings, and concrete parking structures and towers. He also hosts the new YouTube channel “Structural Engineering Life,” through which he promotes the structural engineering profession to engineering students that are not familiar with the industry perspective.

SKILLS:

Civil Engineering
Video Creation

TEAM:

Content

Alexis Clark, P.E., M.ASCE

EMI Creator - Co-Host The Structural Engineering Channel

Alexis A. Clark, P.E., Structural Engineering Product Manager at HILTI North America, has contributed to the industry she loves, structural engineering, in many ways over the course of her career. Her involvement in industry goes beyond technical contribution by serving at the local, state and national levels of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and empowering the next generation to pursue and succeed in STEM fields through her work as a Concrete Canoe judge, a tenured mentor for the ACE Mentor Program, and as President of the Board of Directors for The Girls interested in Engineering Math and Science (or GEMS) Camp in Texas.

SKILLS:

Civil Engineering
STEM Engagement

TEAM:

Content

Where We Work

At EMI, we are very team focused and embrace the ideas of diversity and flexibility, as well as the benefits of remote working because we believe that distributed workforces are important to work-life balance and our society overall. Here are the locations of our current team members with our headquarters being in northern New Jersey...

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