Dan Mak joined the Beck Group in 2007. Before joining The Beck Group, Dan was a Quality Auditor for APA – The Engineered Wood Association, a company which provides quality assurance, technical, educational and product promotion services for North American engineered wood product members. His responsibilities included conducting product and process audits of oriented strand board, plywood, and glued laminated timber producing membership in Western Canada.

Prior to this position, he worked as a Wood Technologist for Western Wood Products Association, a company which provides lumber grading, quality control, technical support, business information, and product support for solid sawn wood producers in the Western US territory. His responsibilities included leadership and participation in a wide variety of technical projects for members such as the QMS (quality management system) program, lab testing and characterization of MSR products, field certifications for heat treatment, and development of a quality control protocol for lumber grade scanning systems. He has also worked in the process and quality control fields in operations for Trus Joist Timberstrand, Weyerhaeuser, Canfor, and the Knoll Group in British Columbia and Ontario.

 

EDUCATION

B.S. Wood Products Processing
University of British Columbia(2002)