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Mike Ford grew up in a construction family and has come a long way from his first job of pulling nails out of forms for 50 cents an hour when he was 12 years old. A New Jersey native, Mike started his 27-plus-year construction career as a project engineer building technical projects in the east and southeast United States before heading west. He joined DPR’s Redwood City office in 1993 and has taken on several different roles and levels of responsibility, including successfully leading our Arizona operations for more than a decade. He has also helped start and lead the company’s National Operations Group and Healthcare Think Tank. Now, with a focus on taking care of customers and a passion for building a truly great construction company (DPR’s Mission 2000), Mike has headed east again, bringing his direct, no-nonsense approach to help further develop and grow DPR’s presence on the east coast. Most Memorable Project: "I would have to say TGEN. It had all the elements of what makes a DPR project a DPR project: technically challenging, impossible 24-month schedule, collaborative owner, architecturally interesting and structurally complex. And, it was an all-out success from cost to schedule to quality." | 