• Melissa initially spent ten years working for her father’s irrigation construction company in various roles dating back over twenty-five years. Melissa has also specialized in bid preparation and other business development activities in multiple construction enterprises and is very familiar with the key success factors in this industry.
• Shrief is a licensed construction contractor in both Arizona and California, and is an expert in field operations with over fifteen years of construction experience and more than twenty years of project management work. Shrief has worked with the government in different spheres, both as an employee of the federal government and as a federal contractor, serving as project manager on high profile jobs including international test projects for the US military, and the border fence with Mexico, which involved the US Army Corp of Engineers, Customs and Border Protection, and Department of Homeland Security.