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Women have a vital and growing role in the construction industry. At O’Shea, we’re celebrating Women in Construction Week this week by highlighting some of our very own, who are breaking down barriers and championing women!

O’Shea’s resident operator, Denny Moore, has officially left his ‘bulldozer’ to retire. O’Shea Team News sat down with Denny and Mike O’Shea to talk about a few career highlights.

Get to know Tony Park, Carpenter Foreman!

Get to know JD Evans, Laborer Foreman!

Get to know Haley Enlow, Accounts Payable!

It started with an invitation to be a guest speaker, but when Josh Frye realized how much he enjoyed the classroom, he jumped at the chance to teach his own college course at Benedictine University. 

I received the true “O’Shea experience” working as a marketing/business development intern, and it’s an experience that I looked forward to every day this summer. 

O’Shea employees can agree on at least one thing about personal trainer Bo Bennett: his workouts are never dull.

Superintendent Jim McCann is officially retired. O’Shea Team News sat down with Jim and Mike O’Shea to talk about a few career highlights.

O’Shea’s “Iron Man,” a.k.a. Tim VanBrooker, is “officially” retired. O’Shea Team News sat down with Tim and Mike O’Shea to talk about a few career highlights.

Get to know Devin Powell, Construction Administrator!

Kelly Boston fondly recalls the excitement from her and her sister Janelle Boston Fanning when their father built them the clubhouse they’d been begging for as children.

“He also constructed several sheds around the house for farm equipment and tools, and he built our brick family home in 1986,” Kelly says. “My dad is a very self-taught man when it comes to construction, and he is very particular about the construction process every inch of the way.  Even though he didn’t make a living in the construction industry, I could tell it was something he was passionate about.”

Get to know one of our "super" Superintendents, Gene Alexander!

Get to know one of our newest Estimators, Keagan Dooley!

As Austin Barton was growing up, dirt bikes were the ideal mode of transportation on his family’s farm in Nebo, Ill.

“I started riding at six years old; it was the best way to get around the farm,” he says. “I got bigger bikes as I grew older and eventually I started racing them when I was 15. I raced throughout high school and college.”