Andy is a Registered Professional Forester and is a Senior Wildland Fire Specialist with Forsite Consultants Ltd. in Kamloops. Andy started on a contract fire crew during the 1998 fire season before spending three years on a Parks Canada rappel crew in the mountain National Parks. In 2003, Andy joined the BC Wildfire Service Rapattack program in Salmon Arm, before moving on to the Penticton Fire Zone and ultimately the Provincial Wildfire Coordination Centre in Kamloops, where he completed his public service career as the Wildfire Preparedness Officer in the Provincial Fire Operations section. In 2017, Andy entered into the consulting world, where he joined John Davies in co-founding the wildfire and emergency management firm, Frontline Operations Group Ltd. In 2023, John and Andy joined Forsite as part of the acquisition of Frontline, where they now lead the Forsite Fire business unit. Andy's consulting practice includes community wildfire protection planning, hazard and risk assessments, fuel management prescriptions and prescribed burn planning. His consulting work has taken him throughout Western Canada and abroad, including a fire crew training project in East Borneo, Indonesia in 2017. Andy is a BCIT forestry graduate and completed a bachelor of Natural Resource Science at Thompson Rivers University and has completed nationally recognized advanced wildland fire behavior and ignition specialist training.