Leadership Team

SunSteel, LLC has a team of highly experienced and well respected individuals in the industry. Known for their depth of knowledge in construction, these leaders assist in the company’s daily growth. Click on a team member below to learn more about them.

 

 

Dan Deboer

President


Dan joined the Sunnyside team in 2000 soon after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Dordt College. His start in the estimating department gave him a detailed and useful knowledge base for steel construction and dozens of design/build projects bolstered his engineering skills. Many of the projects were managed by Dan from cradle to grave diversifying his overall skill set to include project management experience. Dan transitioned to the structural steel sales team in 2008 and has since proven his knowledge of the product, ability to understand and meet clients’ needs and develop relationships leading to repeat business. In addition to his 18 years of experience in the steel industry, he also has a unique understanding of metal building systems, open web joists and deck. Dan is also well versed in scheduling/sequencing, erection planning, mill ordering, estimating, tax law, insurance, cash flow analysis and holds multiple contractor’s licenses.

In Dan’s free- time he enjoys coaching baseball and basketball and enjoying water sports, camping, golfing, snow skiing and spending time with family and friends.

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Paul Willden

Vice President Pre-Construction


Paul Willden serves as the Vice-President of Pre-Construction for SunSteel, LLC. Paul joined the SunSteel, LLC / Canam team in 2011. He began his career in 1999 with a Salt Lake City area fabricator/erector. Paul has held positions as Estimator Manager, Estimator and in Production Support. He currently manages the sales and the estimating staff to make sure SunSteel’s proposals are thorough and competitive. He also works closely with our project management and accounting teams to make sure our customer expectations are exceeded and projects comes in on budget. Paul has extensive conceptually project estimating experience to help clients with budgeting, schedule development and value engineering to see their project from an idea to completion.

Paul loves spending time with his family camping and fishing. He also enjoys gardening and trying new restaurants.

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Carey Lee

Regional Sales Manager


Carey joined the SunSteel, LLC, team in 2015 as a regional sales manager to focus on the Oregon and Northern California market. His prior experience with a steel erector and as chief estimator for a design-build steel specialty firm for over 17 years has provided valuable knowledge to assisting clients with design options and project framing solutions to provide the best value for each project. During his career in the construction industry Carey has developed relationships with Engineers, Architects and suppliers throughout the PNW. He has had involvement from early design discussions and pre bid stage of projects up through contract negotiations.

Carey is a member of the American Society of Professional Estimators.

Carey’s personal interests include scuba diving, working on cars and home improvement projects.

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Kahn Hakman

Project Management Director


Lazaro Cardenas

Operations Manager


Lazaro has been with the company since July 25th, 1995 right after graduating high school. He started off in the shop as a fitter, painter, welder, quality control, machine operator, then leadman, and then worked his way up to supervisor in the year of 2008. As a leadman he used to run the parts department and once he became supervisor he worked to oversee the parts department. He is great with communicating with his team and creating a positive and productive environment. His wife and two kids are what motivates him to take on new challenges and grow in the company. He enjoys hunting with his son and friends, fishing, camping, hiking, and watching his kids play sports.

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Sham Thompson

Estimating Manager


Sham Thompson joined the SunSteel team in 2013 as an estimator. He then became the Estimating Manager in 2015, relocating to the Pacific North West. As Estimating Manager, Sham is responsible for monitoring and directing the estimating team. He also heads up the training & quality controls for the entire estimating department. Sham is also responsible for helping the sales team with conceptual estimates.

Prior to joining Sun Steel, Sham spent 13 years with a fabricator/erector in Utah as the Estimating Manager. Through his career he has had the opportunity to work on some very fulfilling projects such as OHSU Medical Center ( Portland) , City Center Casino ( Las Vegas) , IHC Medical Center (Utah), California Academy of Science, and the San Diego Central Library, to name a few. Sham started his career in the steel industry working for an erector in California.

Sham has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Business Management from La Vern University. He has also been a member of the American Society of Professional Estimators for many years. In his spare time, Sham enjoys blacksmithing, woodworking and gets his greatest enjoyment from coaching his kids in football and lacrosse.

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