tunnelbuilder - Meet The Team

Sam - Head of tunnelbuilder

Sam was instrumental in setting up tunnelbuilder.com in 1999, and took up her executive directorship of tunnelbuilder ltd on a full time basis in 2004. In the last five years she has grown the business with the launch of tunnelbuilder.it and tunneljobs.com, and the relaunch of tunnelintelligence.com as a safety promotion vehicle. Sales offices have been opened in Milan, Madrid, London and Las Vegas, and readership is now well past 750,000/year. tunnelbuilder.com is now updated daily, and the archive contains over 5,000 entries searchable by project and country. Nowadays, virtually all reports are translated into Spanish at tunnelbuilder.es and Italian at tunnelbuilder.it, and RSS feeds are available for readers, while advertisers can check clickthroughs advertising at the touch of a button.

Olaia

Olaia is a geologist who graduated in Spain in 2001. Her first job was a university-based research project on the oceanographic ship Hesperides. This was followed by a stint in the geotechnics department of engineering company Prointec, on road and railway projects. A period of five years was then spent with the same company working on tunnels, with an emphasis on the high-speed railway line between Córdoba and Málaga, which is now in service. A construction company called Urazca employed me until I became responsible for tunnelbuilder.es serving 150,000 readers/year in the Spanish-speaking world. The mix of tunnels, editorial, translation and advertising is not for everybody, but Olaia has the right background to make it work. Look out for Olaia at Intermat in Paris, where you can have a chat with her in Spanish, French or English….or e-mail her at olaia@tunnelbuilder.es

Dreamscape Design

Dreamscape Design was founded in 1999 by university friends James Brack and Neville Langston. Tunnelbuilder Ltd became Dreamscape’s first client and to date both companies continue to work together. In 2007 Dreamscape Design became incorporated as a Ltd company and in that year employed two extra staff members. At present there are five members of staff which make up the team. Apart from programming, design and managing the range of tunnelbuilder websites, Dreamscape Design Ltd offer bespoke website solutions, graphic design, website hosting, corporate branding and search engine optimisation.

More information and our portfolio can be found at www.dreamscapedesign.co.uk Email: info@dreamscapedesign.co.uk, Telephone: +442476 796470

Angela O'Reilly

Angela O'Reilly of Lansdowne Media Services joined the tunnelbuilder team over a year ago after already having a twenty-five year association with the tunnelling and mining industries. Angela worked on World Tunnelling magazine and attended industry conferences and exhibitions. Her in-depth knowledge of the demographics of tunnelling advertising puts her in a unique position to advise clients on the most effective way to promote their companies with solid placement advice ensuring the best return on their marketing investment.

Maurice Jones

Maurice Jones is an internationally known technical editor with particular expertise in all 'underground' activities. Qualified as a colliery manager, he has 36 years of post-qualification experience in industrial marketing services, technical editing and journalism, mining, utilities construction, surveying, project planning and materials handling. He has worked as a consultant to many construction manufacturers and industrial magazines. This includes launching 'Microtunnelling' and 'Plant Hire Review', editing 'Tunnels & Tunnelling International', acting as Executive Editor of 'World Tunnelling' and editing the Tunnel Lining Design Guide for the British Tunnelling Society in co-operation with the country's leading experts. He is an accredited journalist with tunneljournalists.com.

Roy McDonald Associates Inc

The tunnelbuilder.com advertising sales team Roy McDonald Associates, Inc., offers a lot of experience. George Roman has a degree in mining engineering and is a Registered Professional Engineer. He has over 25 years of experience in publishing, was publisher of World Mining, and continues to work with similar print publications and online sites.

Early in his career George worked as a UMWA underground coal miner, so he has a pretty good idea of what tunnelling is like. Ian McDonald, Jim Olsen and David Hoierman have worked for decades serving publications in tunnelling-related industries. For example, they have worked for industry-leading publications like Civil Engineering, International Mining, Rock Products, Engineering & Mining Journal, Concrete Products and others, giving them the experience needed to provide a valuable resource when serving our customers who are focusing on the global tunnelling market. Jennifer Mancini is a relative newcomer to the tunneling industry. Her background has been retail and advertising-centric, which affords her the skills necessary to server her customers and meet their expectations.

Monica

Monica has 26 years experience in advertising, television and editorial marketing. In recent years she helped launch tunnelbuilder.it and developed experience in the Italian tunnelling market and its players. Currently she is responsible for tunnelbuilder.it advertising and writes technical articles for both tunnelbuilder and the magazine Strade&Autostrade. Monica conducts multilingual research on the market for tunnels, reporting projects at all stages, from planning and design, to tendering, construction and commissioning.