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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." | 