As a Senior Lean Practitioner in Haley & Aldrich’s Planning, Design & Construction group, Nick works with project teams, Construction Firms and Institutions applying Lean throughout the building life cycle. Nick got his bug for Lean as an officer on board the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea. Nick has led an HVAC service company, code-welding prefab shop, fire protection division, and been a Project Executive at a Design-Build firm. He has been practicing Lean for 9 years. Nick is the leader of the Lean Construction Institute’s New England Community of Practice. He teaches Lean at The University of Hartford's Construction Institute. Nick believes in learning by doing, noting that that first result we seek from Lean is that the work becomes easier for everybody from front line worker to customer.