在1978年在建筑工地上工作的第一周，珍妮弗·平克（Jennifer Pinck）在一个k-mart绘画，当时她注意到购物中心另一端的一个男人穿着白色的硬汉并拿着剪贴板。该男子正在监督一名钢制船员。现年63岁的平克在新英格兰在波士顿举行的新英格兰12月最佳项目奖活动中说：“我什至不知道这份工作是什么，但知道我想要它。”新利18备用网址新利18备用

在短暂的商业绘画工作之后，Pinck不仅拿着剪贴板。未来的现场工程师兼校长最终成为第一位获得波士顿ABC建筑许可证并获得MBA的女性。She has worked on two of the country’s largest public works projects: as a construction manager for the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) Boston Harbor project from 1988 to 1992 and immediately following that became a senior manager for Boston’s Central Artery/Tunnel project known as the Big Dig, where she worked until 1996.

Since founding the program and construction management firm Pinck & Co. in 1998, Pinck has made it a point to help women gain a foothold in the industry. “Two-thirds of my staff have been or are women,” says Pinck, whose firm provides construction services to nonprofits, private developers and public agencies.

在过去的两年里,LGBT-owned公司en named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in America and was recognized six times as one of the fastest growing inner-city businesses in the country. Based on its stellar track record—growing every year since its inception and recording a 94.5% revenue growth rate through the Great Recession of 2008—the firm was acquired for an undisclosed amount last October by Anser Advisory, a newly formed capital program advisory firm that specializes in program management, construction management and project management nationally in transportation, education, health care and other sectors. Under Answer Advisory’s umbrella, the firm will continue to operate as Pinck & Co. Pinck, herself, is a managing director, maintaining the same role with clients.

Pinck说加入雁属是“一个令人兴奋的冒险”because it not only expands the firm’s “capacity and expertise both regionally and nationwide, but it brings together like-minded professionals under one entity who genuinely care about our clients and each other.”

Anser首席执行官Bryan Carruthers表示：“我们的每个传统公司都是其地理或市场利基市场中的领导者，也是对客户的战略和创新计划管理服务的受人尊敬的提供者。”

此次收购标志着Pinck在充满成就的职业生涯中的最新里程碑。她获得了2018年波士顿商业杂志的LGBT开拓者奖和2017年相关的马萨诸塞州总承包商建筑妇女（BWIC）年度最佳导师奖。她还获得了西蒙斯大学的杰出校友奖。

Anthony Consigli, chief executive of Milford, Mass.-based Consigli Construction Co., has worked with Pinck on six projects valued at a combined $95 million during the past 20-plus years. He describes her as “a consummate construction professional who is responsible and accessible to clients, and cares deeply about promoting diversity in our industry.”

艰难的方式

Growing up one of four children in a middle-class home in Belmont, Mass., Pinck’s path to construction was an unlikely one. Pinck’s parents both worked in academia and instilled in her a love of reading the classics. Unlike her bookish parents, she also loved to tinker and investigate how things worked. But Pinck’s trailblazing early feminist mother left another lasting impression on her daughter. Working her way up to serve as an assistant dean at the Harvard Business School, Pinck’s mother advocated for women in the workforce. “You can do anything you want, but it won’t necessarily be easy,” is a motto Pinck’s mother shared with her daughter early in life and one that Pinck took to heart.

After landing her first job with a general contractor at the defunct George B.H. Macomber Co. in 1981, a then century-old commercial builder, Pinck worked her way up from field engineer to construction superintendent, learning about construction technology, building management and how to get the job done in a construction world that was hostile toward women. “I had few allies and few friends,” recalls Pinck, who says at the time she was a deeply closeted lesbian. “When the labor foreman came into the trailer, he would swear like a trucker …, but I didn’t let it intimidate me,” she recalls. “There were no accommodations for women, so I would find sympathetic property [owners] nearby, where I could sneak in and use a real bathroom,” she recalls. “With thick skin and round shoulders, I just let it wash off.”

On her first project, she worked in downtown Boston on the Devonshire, which for two decades was the tallest cast-in-place concrete building in New England, and later she worked on 399 Boylston St. in the Back Bay, along with some historic renovations. “I loved working on high-rises—that was the most exciting thing I’d done,” she recalls.

Eager to advance her career, Pinck took a year off in the mid-1980s to earn her MBA at Simmons College. “After working in the field with all men, I found myself in a brutal boot camp with all women. I learned how to cram; I read books on masonry and read code books.”

Pinck earned her MBA in 1986, the same year she passed the oral exam to become the first woman to receive the Boston ABC building license.

All of Pinck’s effort early in her career led to work on the MWRA Boston Harbor Project and the Big Dig, two of the nation’s largest public work projects. “These incredible public works projects allowed Jennifer to shine and highlighted her incredible abilities to manage complicated projects, negotiate complex mitigation agreements and assist communities and businesses impacted by these projects,” said Marianne Connelly, who worked with Pinck on the Boston Harbor project at the MWRA, where she recently retired as senior program manager. “[Pinck] managed these projects with grace, respect and a deep commitment to all stakeholders.”

对于波士顿港项目，平克（Pinck）依靠从父亲那里学到的写作技巧，父亲是《纽约客》 A.J.在撰写自己的间谍回忆录之前就在苦恼。对于MWRA，Pinck写道RFP认为，根据州法律，有足够的具体购买混凝土，但不足以表明该团队正在建造一个混凝土批处理厂。她说：“公共采购需要非常战略和谨慎，以征收有利的定价。”

共识构建器

Today, Pinck’s employees and contractors alike say her effective communication and consensus-driven management style helps her elicit cooperation from her team. Joe Albanese, president of Commodore Builders, says “Jennifer drives consensus, which is different than seeking consensus … she’s not passive.”

Pinck & Co. project manager Larry Berger says she’s engaged in her employees’ work without micromanaging. “She gets an update on the big picture and allows the team to manage the project,” he says. “There’s no second guessing and she’s always available as a resource if we’re up against something.”

Pinck says she will stay at Pinck & Co. “as long as I am having fun.” The late-blooming entrepreneur isn’t done innovating. “I have ideas,” she says with a glimmer in her slate-blue eyes. “I’m constantly thinking of new clients and new projects.” But Pinck, who lives in South Boston with her wife, Kelle, is beginning to imagine life beyond construction. She loves painting landscapes with heavy architectural elements. “I have been learning to play with color using simple buildings to explore color,” she says.