CANCO adds project leadership in Cedar Falls office

Carl A. Nelson & Company is pleased to announce the hiring of a new project manager to work in our Cedar Falls office. Joining the CANCO team is Project Manager Pete Fuller, a veteran of the U.S. Navy, who has led food production plant operations and maintenance, and operated a family-owned construction company.

"Pete comes to us with extensive leadership and construction experience," said Jamie Stanley, vice president of operations for CANCO North, in a memo announcing Fuller's hiring.

After spending most of his youth in Monroe, Wisconsin, Fuller joined the Navy after a brief stint in college. In a 10-year Navy career, he served for 10 years including on the battleship USS New Jersey, and the guided missile cruiser, USS Richmond K. Turner, where he worked as a fire control technician operating the ships' guns. During his service, he sailed around the world 3 1/2 times. Following the Navy, he began a career in plant maintenance, where his experience in automation saw him leading system updates at his home plant in Lubbock, Texas, then traveling within the company to bring new and acquired plants online.

His last assignment before leaving the company after 17 years amid the 2008 recession was rebuilding a plant in New Hampton, Iowa, after a devastating explosion. His departure after three years in New Hampton gave him time to golf, meet his wife of 11 years, Ann, and get involved in her and his father-in-law's construction business. During that time, Fuller returned to school and earned a bachelor of science degree in Construction Management from the University of Northern Iowa.

Joining CANCO, he said, offered the opportunity to fulfill a desire to work in project management.

"I like challenges, and working in teams," Fuller said, adding he also appreciates the variety of projects CANCO performs for clients in different markets.

Away from the office, he and Ann reside in Waverly, and have seven children and seven grandchildren between them. He enjoys golf, is a Harley-Davidson enthusiast, enjoys backroads travel on his trike or in his Mazda Miata convertible, is discovering the intricacies of model railroading and collects vintage and modern firearms.