The Team

Tim Gordon

Tim, our CEO, joins us after recently completing an MBA with Auckland University's Business School.  He has over 25 years' experience in the manufacturing industry with his most recent role as manufacturing manager of a successful New Zealand OEM.  His knowledge and experience comes from a career that has spanned the trade, sales and account manager roles through to senior management positions.

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Reegan Lawton

Reegan started his career as a draughtsman with Ormond Stock Associates, the predecessor of Silvester Clark. Reegan moved on to further his engineering interests joining another consulting engineering practice gaining knowledge of Civil Engineering and Surveying whilst studying for his NZCE Structural and was promoted to draughting manager. Reegan's interests then turned to Shop Drawings. He lead a successful team of detailers and worked on many jobs throughout the country and overseas. Reegan's focus is increasingly spent on administration and the business development aspects of the growing company. Reegan brings a wealth of engineering knowledge and experience to Steel Pencil Ltd. He became a director of Steel Pencil Ltd on the 1st January 2004.

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Ormond Stock

In 1979, after a career spent in consulting in New Zealand, England and Australia, Ormond formed Ormond Stock Associates, a consulting engineering company which grew to have offices in Wellington, Auckland and Palmerston North. The company was responsible for many food industry buildings around the world, and also pioneered the use of fully intelligent integrated 3D modelling of buildings, in essence, prebuilding structures on a computer so that the contractor builds them for the second time. Part of this development involved the introduction of steel shop drawing into the consulting office; a step in the process of saving the client time and money.In 2002 John Silvester and Peter Clark purchased the company (now Silvester Clark) and Ormond turned his interests to Steel Pencil Ltd.

Ormond is now a director of various companies and of Steel Pencil Ltd. His role at Steel Pencil is all "behind the scenes", setting strategies and goals, helping with background management and contributing IT management as time allows.

Ormond's role at Steel Pencil is as Chairman.

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Bevin Thirkell

Started his career with Steel Pencil as a draughting cadet in 2003. Over the years Bevin has acquired and fine tuned his skills leading to his involvement in most projects undertaken by the company, including project management. After a period of operating CAD, Bevin became interested in and championed the development of the tools used everyday by Steel Pencil. He now provides the development behind Tekla Structures, the software the company uses to provide the documentation to our clients. His understanding of the fabrication and construction proccess is backed up by his studies towards a Diploma in Construction Management, and in researching and collating the information used in our in-house Staff Training Competencies. Bevin's readily available to handle any questions or development work asked by our clients and by fabricators.Bevin's role at Steel Pencil is as IT Development Manager and Senior Project Manager.

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Luke Scanlan

Luke started his career with one of the world’s largest  engineering design, detailing and 3D Building Information Modeling (BIM) companies in 2003 working on some of Australia’s largest mining, oil and gas projects. In 2009 Luke moved to the UK where he worked as a senior draughtsman for a variety of organizations where he picked up very valuable fabrication and erection experience with several large engineering and fabrication companies on large commercial projects including bridges and airports.   Luke has been heavily involved with Tekla administration using his knowledge to facilitate other users requests as well as developing techniques to improve usability and efficiency within the workplace. As well as working as a senior Draughtsman in charge of intermediate and junior draughtsmen Luke has a strong passion for mentoring cadets and new staff.

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Travis Gould

Travis has worked in detailing for over ten years, including some time spent running his own company.  His work has covered a range of software bringing this valuable knowledge to Steel Pencil.  Travis has been involved in the mining industry and also in commercial, industrial and residential work.

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