Catie Williams
VP of Product Development
InEight
Catie Williams leads as Vice President of Product Development at InEight, focused on digitalizing the industry and being a champion for change management and business process standardization for contractors, owners and engineers.
Catie started her career as an application developer and quickly pivoted into the data and analytics space. Fast forward to today, Catie oversees several application products that drive productivity growth in the construction and engineering industries. Catie has a passion for efficiency, solving problems, team building and promoting women in S.T.E.M. fields. In addition to her work at InEight, Catie helped develop both undergraduate and graduate data science programs for a local university, where she also currently teaches.
Jakob Sjuts
Product Manager
InEight
Jake Sjuts serves as a product manager at InEight. He leads the vision and delivery for the InEight Design product which focuses on engineering project planning, resourcing and progress tracking along with construction quantity management on alternative delivery projects.
Jake has spent the last nine years in the construction technology area and has delivered a number of products, ERP customizations, and integrations. Jake holds a master’s degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Nebraska Omaha.
Nidhi Jain
Director of Engineering Project Controls
Kiewit
Nidhi Jain is the director of engineering project controls for Kiewit, focused on standardizing and implementing tools and processes across the power, oil, gas and chemical; industrial and infrastructure markets, while driving continuous improvement. A civil engineer, Nidhi has a master’s degree in construction management from Texas A&M University and has more than 15 years of experience in the engineering, construction, and IT industry.
Her futuristic vision, data-driven personality and knowledge of engineering, construction and software has led to the development of several tools that impact productivity and profit. Most of these tools started as proof of concepts for a project, but were then implemented across multiple projects, markets, groups, companies and the industry at large.
Nidhi’s expertise and experience with implementation of these tools across different markets was key, as she steered the development of InEight’s Design Quantity Forecasting and Design Engineering modules, as the business sponsor.
Matthew Reuer
Manager of Engineering Controls – Infrastructure
Kiewit
Matt Reuer leads as manager of engineering controls for Kiewit Engineering Group focused on the infrastructure market. Matt is responsible for implementing standard engineering controls processes and tools for all of Kiewit’s infrastructure DB/EPC projects.
Matt has spent the past 10 years with Kiewit, joining as a structural engineer responsible for design optimization and design partner coordination on several design build pursuits throughout North America. For the past seven years, Matt has been growing a best-in-class engineering controls organization at Kiewit Infrastructure Engineers which has supported projects ranging from $50M to $3.5B.
His passion for data and reporting comes from his experiences working as an engineer. Prior to joining Kiewit, Matt worked 10 years for HDR, where he started his career as an EIT in the structural engineering group.