Brent Thorne
Team Lead Estimator
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBrent Thorne is a Team Lead and Estimator with a decade of environmental consulting experience, currently guiding hazardous materials, indoor air quality, and contamination assessment projects at OMNI Hazmat Consulting in Canada. He blends technical field expertise with client-focused estimating and project scoping, ensuring regulatory compliance and clear, data-driven recommendations. Brent mentors junior staff and cultivates strong partnerships with restoration contractors and property managers to deliver consistent, technically sound outcomes. With an academic background in physical geography and graduate research experience in Arctic permafrost hydrology, he brings a strong geocomputation and GIS mindset to practical environmental problem-solving. Notably, his cross-disciplinary skillset spans hands-on fieldwork, quantitative analysis in R, and effective project leadership, making him adept at translating complex environmental data into actionable client guidance.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Honours Physical Geography, Bachelor of Science - BS, Honours Physical Geography at Brock University
Github Skills (47)
r-package10
journal10
pdf10
posters10
pdf-generation10
rmarkdown10
markdown9
tidyverse9
unconf9
transition9
tibble9
tidymodels9
tsne9
tidy9
dplyr8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
brentthorne/posterdown
Nov 2018 - May 2020
Use RMarkdown to generate PDF Conference Posters via HTML
Contributions:2 releases, 269 commits, 82 PRs in 1 year 5 months
pdfgenerate-pdfpdf-generationpostersmarkdown
brentthorne/COVID19r
Mar 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:51 pushes in 8 months
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