A helluva engineer: A brief biography of Allan Gordon Provost
Usually, I provide writing and ghostwriting services for lawyers, law firms, legal organizations and consultants to the legal industry. But I can write just about anything for anybody. Recently, for example, I was retained by a mining construction (Harrison Western Construction) and water process technology (HW Process Technologies) company to write a short profile of a Denver-based businessman and mining engineer -- Allan Gordon Provost. Here's the first section:
Al Provost was just a teenager when he first worked on an oil rig. One day -- as he was laboring away on a drill, cold and covered in mud -- he looked up to see a well-groomed man in a nice suit walking through the site. “Who’s that?” he asked a pal. It was the project’s engineer. “Well, that’s the job for me,” he decided.
That decision was just the first step in a half-century journey that included the creation and growth of a successful company -- as well as many significant contributions to the mining and natural resources industries.
In June of 2010, Al fell ill while bear-hunting with his grandson in
While he was still in the hospital, the head and pelt of a record-setting black bear he’d shot in
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