As an engineer at a semiconductor component manufacturer 17 years ago, our products were a small part of a larger solution. At AREPA, our comprehensive recovery is the solution. I wake up daily excited to collaborate with far smarter team members, who allow me to learn, grow and contribute in meaningful ways. Following a loss, AREPA helps business owners and their employees regain a sense of confidence and pride. We do so by restoring equipment utilized to fabricate products or provide services. Those impacted are the true heroes. I find it incredibly rewarding to support the recovery efforts and restore normality.

I enjoy spending time with family and friends, performing arts, weekend excursions, and I seek out new ethnic dining experiences everywhere I go.

Collaboration, result orientation, customer satisfaction, and having fun.

I value the importance of my family (my wife and two boys) as well as my close friends so I enjoy spending time with them as much as I can. We live on the beach and love to walk along the coast while smelling the fresh sea air while the wind blows in our hair. It’s also a wonderful way to clear your head! My other hobbies include playing golf and touring around on my Harley Davidson. Because both of my sons play football, I also act as a referee every Saturday to steer their games in the right direction. I enjoy scuba diving and my wife and I are both PADI Instructors.

I am a lifelong cottager and enjoy getting away from the city by going up to the lake. I also enjoy collecting watches and have a clothes shopping problem.

While I enjoy helping people get back in working order, I think the most rewarding part of my job is our internal AREPA sense of family. We spend a great deal of time together, away from our families and so we have become a very tight knit group. We always try to help one another and offer support if a team member is facing a challenge. Without this, our job would be almost impossible to perform. On the equipment side, it is rewarding to be able to work on a wide range of equipment. It makes me feel good when I can approach a piece of equipment I have never seen before and feel confident about decontaminating it. Finally, as AREPA North America’s safety coordinator, the most important thing is that everyone goes home safe at the end of the day – it is one of my jobs to make sure this happens.

These values are important for me to live by, work by and pass along to my children: treating others with respect, appreciation of those around me and the life I live, standing behind commitments and promises I made, having compassion for others, lending a helping hand, hug, and/or smile, and doing all things with integrity and honesty.

I enjoy spending time with my family and friends. Going boating in the summers, listening to music, standing on the field at Wrigley or Soldier field seeing my favorite bands up close and personal at concerts, and cheering on the Chicago Blackhawks and Chicago Bears.

I like travelling with my colleagues and finding solutions to small and big problems, especially on cases where you may not have the right tools (e.g. on turbines far away from civilization). I like the quality that we are able to deliver after a damage and then see the happiness and surprising look in the customers faces when their equipment is restored to pre-loss condition.

Before joining AREPA, I was just finishing my duties in the Army after being posted in former Jugoslavia for six months. Prior to my Army days, I worked as a blacksmith building busses in Silkeborg.

After a client has faced a loss and we’ve done our parts to restore their equipment, pressing the power button and seeing everything start back up to normal is a very rewarding feeling.

I have a great interest in technology and appreciate the opportunity to be able to collaborate with colleagues.

The most rewarding part of my job is helping companies get back on their feet. For instance, I worked on a project where a company suffered a major fire. They had no business interruption insurance and their custom equipment would take months to receive if they were to order new equipment. We successfully decontaminated the equipment back to pre-loss condition and the owners personally thanked me for preventing certain bankruptcy.

Solutions.

I get a true satisfaction out of being able to help companies get back to what they do best – treating patients, making products, making money and keeping hard working people employed. It’s rewarding to be able to help those who have suffered damages to navigate a situation they have no experience in.

Essential.

Making our clients happy by building up their company after a disaster is a true driver to continue doing this work.

Quality!

I like my job very much, especially the ability to meet many different people across many different professions. There is a lot of variety in our work so the job never gets boring.

In my spare time I like driving my motorbike, taking city trips in Europe and having a BBQ when we are on holiday.

When I’m not working, I enjoy reading books, watching sports and running. I have run several half marathons and a few marathons so far. Unfortunately, I currently have a knee injury that keeps me out of running but I plan to start up again as soon as I can.

Trust.

There are several rewarding parts of my job. One of the most rewarding parts are my coworkers and the spirit of AREPA. It is such a thrill when the phone rings and you never know where you will end up. It’s wonderful to be able to see all of the industries from the inside, to be able to work with my hands and make something shiny again.

Sustainability – economically, ecologically and humanely.

A new job can change someone’s life completely. I help people with this journey and it feels great when I am able to take someone through the whole recruitment process and help them secure their dream job.

I enjoy spending time with family and friends. My other hobbies are playing field hockey and golf, alpine skiing in the winter and sailing in summertime.

Professionalism, high quality work, and technical accuracy.

I am a committed DIY’er on electronics and construction work. I have an interest in Danish prehistory, architecture as well as city development. But mainly, I’m passionate about cooking good food and listening to Alternative music (I go to a couple of concerts every month).

Feeling like we are meaningfully making a difference in the world by assisting our clients recover from various types of disasters with compassion and technical expertise. This business hardens your perspective on catastrophic events and gives us the opportunity to provide strength, experience and confidence to help our customers recover to a pre-loss condition.

I enjoy being outside in nature. Florida offers all types of hiking, fishing and beautiful beaches throughout the state, all within driving distance.

The most rewarding part of my job is earning the trust of an at first skeptical client after a disaster. You know you’ve done a great job when you see this confidence build back up in clients – this is an incredible feeling and accomplishment and is wonderful to share with the team.

I like to go mountain biking, hiking and skiing. I love to be outdoors so as long as we can be in the mountains, preferably the Alps in Austria, it’s a great time.

One of the most rewarding aspects of my job is the close bonds you develop with your coworkers. Being away from your family on job sites for so much of your time makes it important to establish and maintain relationships with coworkers. Over time, you develop such strong bonds and turn to each other for support. I also appreciate the opportunity to work on a wide range of equipment that has been involved in a variety of incidents.

To build a better future for my children.

I spent 18 years in facility restoration while performing various roles at ServiceMaster. These duties included sales management, CRM development and database management, and creation of a specialized account management call center. My focus was on was on selling pre-loss contingency plans to our commercial clients, with a special interest in the healthcare property segment.

It’s been truly exciting to work with the AREPA sales and operations teams. I have learned so much during my time here, and at the same time, I believe I still have much to offer from my previous experience. Being in an emergency services industry, we get to know people in what are often the worst of times. At AREPA, we help our clients navigate the many choices in front of them to find the most economical path to recovery. Our technical service gets businesses get back up and running, so they can bring people back to work and communities back in order.

Everyone comes to work with the expectation that their contribution to the mission of the company will be appreciated, but also that what they do makes a difference and that their ideas for improvement will lead to better results and a better work environment. My job is especially rewarding when I can see people get that out of their jobs. When I clear away problems, or even better, help people find ways to clear away their own problems and achieve goals, I feel like we are building a stronger team, a clearer mission, and a more successful organization. I also find it rewarding to help people define and meet their own career goals, adding skills, getting opportunities to try things, find resources for learning, and test their intuition.

I value what groups of people can accomplish working together. Individuals who are all out for themselves tend to self-create systems of chaos and gradual decline of value. Groups who implement a shared vision, or even come together to compete under a common set of rules, drive a sense of purpose and build things that are much, much more sophisticated and impressive than single efforts. One look at the Panama Canal or the iPhone design shows how amazing team output is.