Summary
Forrest Filler is a business owner and historic preservation specialist with 10 years’ experience blending conservation tradecraft, construction risk management, and safety consulting. He runs Local Preservation and Construction LLC, directing specialty contracting and owner’s project management while pioneering IoT integrations—particularly LoRaWAN—into preservation projects. Previously he led construction risk and safety programs at major insurers and served as Chief Sustainability Officer for a social impact housing fund, giving him a rare mix of field supervision, corporate risk expertise, and mission-driven development experience. Forrest holds an M.S. in Design and Historic Preservation from UMass Amherst and pairs traditional conservation skills with modern web and mobile training, enabling pragmatic tech-forward solutions on historic sites. Based in Chilmark, MA, he focuses on durable, sustainable outcomes that respect heritage while leveraging connected devices to monitor and protect aging assets.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ohio Wesleyan University
Single Page Applications (SPA) with Node.js + React, N/A, Single Page Applications (SPA) with Node.js + React, N/A at Velocity360
Italian, French, swift, node.js, react.js, bash, javascript, git, css, html