Training

Pat Dooley has been involved in the Restoration industry for over 30 years, owning a restoration company with 8 locations throughout British Columbia, then as Director of Restoration Development and IICRC training for Stanley Steemer.

Pat has been involved in Catastrophic Loss Management for all hurricanes and major flooding in North America to date, including Florida’s Hurricane Andrew in 1992, the 4 Florida hurricanes in 2004, and New Orleans’ Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Pat became a lead instructor for Dri-Eaz Products in 1999, writing and teaching the first Applied Structural Drying course offered.  He then founded Restoration College, averaging 45 schools per year for restorers and insurance adjusters throughout Canada and the U.S.  He is currently the only Canadian IICRC-approved restoration instructor with field experience.

As a Voluntary Committee Member of the IICRC, Pat participated rewriting the new S500 Water Damage Standards section on Large Loss Drying.

Today Pat continues to teach, write articles, manage catastrophic losses with his company, Drytech International, as well as providing expert witness testimony in legal disputes involving the restoration industry.  He is a keynote speaker at many conferences including the Canadian Adjusters Association, and is a consultant and trainer to the Insurance industry.

Pat Dooley is the only Canadian instructor among 6 IICRC-approved, worldwide, to teach the new IICRC Commercial Drying Specialist course.

Ron Valega has been in the restoration business for over 20 years. He was one of the pioneers in the Ohio area for water restoration and has been training and educating customers, agents and adjusters ever since.

• IICRC Master Cleaning Technician
• IICRC Master Restoration Technician
• Member of ASLA American Seminar Leader Association June 1998
• Continuing Education Provider for the state of Ohio, Provider #S12582 since 1995
• Previous Servpro Franchise owner
• Servpro trainer of Franchise's

Joey Pickett

Joey Pickett is President of Service Consultants and Joey's Carpet Care of Lexington, Kentucky. With over 32 years of experience, he is recognized by the IICRC as a Certified Master Cleaning Technician, Restorer, and Senior Inspector. He serves on the IICRC Standards Committee including as Contents Chapter Co-Chair of the S-500 Water Damage Restoration Standard, Chairman of the S-300 Upholstery and Fine Fabric Cleaning Standard, and has provided peer review for several other standards.
 
Joey is well known as an IICRC-approved instructor, TV and radio personality, and offers presentations on a wide variety of technical, management, marketing, and inspirational topics.
 
Joey works as an industry consultant and coach to cleaning and restoration companies, insurance companies, carpet and fiber manufacturers, consumer reporting agencies, trade associations, chemical and equipment manufacturers and suppliers.
 
Joey's presentations are fun, down-to-earth, and extremely informative.

Jim Thomas has been in the cleaning and restoration industry for nineteen years, ten of which was in the field. He is a Master Cleaner, Master Restorer and has owned and operated his own cleaning and restoring business. The last few years Jim has been on the distribution side of the industry and brings with him a wide knowledge of products and services. Jim's experience with a high volume cleaning and restoration company on the West Coast can prove to be a great resource for new and seasoned professionals.

Peter Sierck is the director and founder of Environment Testing & Technology, Inc. (ET&T) in San Diego. ET&T specializes in the assessment of indoor air quality, moisture and microbial problems in buildings and provides engineering control solutions. Peter has conducted over 3000 residential and commercial building surveys for the past 16 years. He has extensively worked with the water restoration industry and was a committee member of the IICRC (Institute for Inspection Cleaning and Restoration Certification) S500 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Water Damage Restoration and S520 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Mold Remediation.

He has studied industrial hygiene, environmental testing methods and engineering controls at the University of California, San Diego and Berkeley, the MidAtlantic Environmental Hygiene Resource Center in Philadelphia and in Germany. Peter is a Registered Environmental Accessor (REA) with the state of California, a Certified Indoor Air Quality Professional (CIAQP) and Certified Microbial Remediation Supervisor (CMRS).

Mark Violand 

Mark Violand has been in the floor covering business since 1977. Carpet care was his first encounter. As consumers became more interested in other types of floor coverings, so did Mark. As a certified senior carpet inspector, Mark now operates an inspection, correction and repair business which handles all types of floor coverings.
Mark is an IICRC approved instructor in the following categories:
- Carpet Cleaning Technician
- Carpet Repair and Reinstallation Technician
- Commercial Carpet Maintenance Technician

Michel Crépeau

Michel J. Crépeau, B.Sc., CIH, ROH, is a Senior Industrial Hygienist with WESA Inc.  Mr. Crépeau is registered with the Canadian Registration Board of Occupational Hygienists (ROH) and certified with the American Board of Industrial Hygiene (CIH).  He is a member of several other professional organizations including the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), Canadian Society of Safety Engineering (CSSE), AQHSST (Association Québecoise pour l'hygiène, la santé et la sécurité du travail) and OHAO (Occupational Hygiene Association of Ontario).  Mr. Crépeau is very familiar with the various regulations related to occupational health and safety in federal and provincial workplaces.  He has over 30 years of local, national and international experience in occupational health, safety and environment and has managed the development, implementation and performance of a wide variety of EHS programs. 

He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree (Chemistry) from the University of Ottawa and a Graduate Diploma (Occupational Hygiene) from McGill University.

Mr. Crépeau's work experience includes federal, provincial, municipal and industrial risk assessments as well as hazard investigations.  He has worked extensively in the recognition, evaluation and control of workplace occupational health hazards in a wide variety of roles.  Hazard evaluations have been carried out in various industrial and commercial establishments, governmental workplaces as well as in homeowner residences.  Mr. Crépeau is fluent in both English and French, and has worked on projects throughout Canada, the United States and Europe. He frequently delivers training courses on health and safety to a variety of clients including extensive training to the remediation and restoration industry with respect to asbestos and mould remediation work.