News: Construction Design & Engineering
Posted: September 15, 2009
Emil Frei 2009
Name: Emil Frei
Title: Principal
Company: Delta Design & Construction
Location: 410 Riverside Ave., Medford, MA
Birthplace and year: St. Louis, MO - July 20
Family: Wife Lauren and two daughters
College: Washington University
First job: Ice cream cone factory
First job in current field: Project engineer
What do you do now and what are you planning for the future: We build a wide variety of institutional projects including gyms, classrooms, offices, and servery's. Our goal is to add more lab projects to our portfolio.
Hobbies: Biking and reading
Favorite book: "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Favorite movie: The Mission
Key to success: Perseverance.
If you were forced to choose another vocation what would it be? Teacher
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