Meet Jason Lien

O ver the course of several decades, Jason Lien has had a tremendous impact on the precast concrete industry.But if you asked Lien where he wanted to take his career after he completed his master's degree in engineering systems with a specialty in computational mechanics from the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, he likely would not have said precast concrete.Thankfully, after earning his bachelor's degree at the same school just a few years earlier, Lien spent time working as a design engineer at Sirko Associates of Denver, Colo., where he was introduced to companies like Metromont, Gage Brothers, and Finfrock, igniting his interest in the field."It was a long interview process," Lien says."I would call Jim Sirko, the owner, every Tuesday at 9 a.m. and ask, 'Is this the right week?' Weeks and months went by until finally, Jim said, 'Why don't you come in and start on this day?'"After Lien accepted the job, the company didn't have an office for him; he would have to build one himself.Lien was up for the challenge.His willingness in that moment to make things happen is a trademark of his work, representing a career approach that has allowed him to blaze a path to success everywhere he has contributed.At Structureworks, where Lien served as president from 2003 to 2007, he led a team that created one of the earliest three-dimensional (3-D) building information modeling (BIM) solid modeling packages available in the United States.That package helped revolutionize the speed and accuracy with which precast concrete shop drawings could be developed.In 2007, Lien met the president of EnCon United, where he took a job as the vice president of design before eventually becoming executive vice president and chief operating officer.Along the way, Lien has worked on numerous projects that have shaped his career.Right out of the Colorado School of Mines, he played a role in what he described as "a total precast office boom" around the turn of the new millennium.While working as an engineering manager at Rocky Mountain