Project Manager for Z Modular: Allison Barnes

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Women In STEM Speaker Series St.Clair College

Genesis Entrepreneurship Centre

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The Women in STEM Club Speaker Series Podcast is brought to you by the Genesis Entrepreneurship Centre, at St. Clair College and hosted by Sue Taylor, the Program Manager of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Student Experience. Through interviews with women who have excelled in male-dominated industries & environments, women who are leaders, and women that serve to inspire, this podcast aims to support and foster young women, showing them that they can accomplish all they set out to achieve (and then some).

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Project Manager for Z Modular: Allison Barnes

Women In STEM Speaker Series St.Clair College

41 minutes 39 seconds

3 years ago

Project Manager for Z Modular: Allison Barnes

Welcome to the St. Clair College Women in STEM speaker series Podcast, brought to you by the Genesis Entrepreneurship Centre, located in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

This episode features Allison Barnes, Project Manager for Z Modular. Allison has 25 years of experience in the construction industry ranging from residential, commercial, institutional, high rise and hospitality. Her employer, Z Modular is a subsidiary of Zekelman industries, based in Kitchener with several plants throughout the United States, however Zekelman industries originated in Windsor.

Allison shares her journey of getting into the construction industry, working in a male-dominated field and often being the only woman on-site, what attracted her to choose Project Management in the first place, and much more. We also finish off with some fun rapid-fire questions!

Tune in to hear more about Allison’s story including:

What her day-to-day looks like as a project manager and working away from home
How she maintains work/life balance and hobbies that help her with this
Mentors she has had along her career and how she is also a mentor to others
Some advantages and disadvantages of working as a project manager in the construction industry
What a career defining moment looks like to her

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