Our People

Our business is a people business. Continuity of experience is key to a successful engineering firm. We pride oursleves in having staff that have been with Consultec for over 20 years.
Alex Ochrym
President
Alex Ochrym first joined Consultec out of University in 1991 as a project engineer. Throughout the years, he has been involved in hundreds of industrial and mineral projects throughout the western hemisphere. His focus as President is assembling multi discipline project teams, putting together project execution plans and reporting to Client Steering Committees.
Anthony DiDonato
Director, Plant Design
Tony is a Mechanical Designer with over 24 years of experience in heavy industry, material handling and mineral processing. Early in his career, Mr. Di Donato spent years working on site in the United States and Mexico where valuable design and construction experience was obtained. Current responsibilities include overseeing Consultec’s multidiscipline design group headquartered in Toronto with an overseas office in Ukraine.  
Michael Simpson
Chief Civil Engineer

Michael Simpson is an experienced Civil Engineer and Project Manager with over 20 years’ experience in industries associated with large scale, multidisciplinary capital engineering projects in minerals processing industries. His experience includes project management, engineering, and design of the full project life-cycle.  He serves as an voting committee member of ACI 313 "Bins and Silos", and spends some of his time as a Sessional Instructor at the University of Toronto.

Yurij Medwidsky
Director, Project Services
20 years of multi-functional experience within the mineral processing sector ranging from engineering
design and management, product development, project management, procurement and business
integration. The completion of a post-graduate business degree has added exposure to best practices in
business and project management, accounting and analytics to a well-rounded technical and practical
background.
Gustavo Gonzalez
Chief Mechanical Engineer
Senior Mechanical Engineer with over 30 years of experience in the mining and cement industry including engineering design of greenfield/brownfield projects, development of process concepts, procurement of equipment, engineering and site assignments in Mexico and Guatemala .