Mr. McCartney has more than 13 years of experience conducting research on fire growth and smoke movement in built environments using a combination of full-scale experiments and numerical modeling. His expertise is in the development and evaluation of smoke management techniques and has included investigations of balcony spill plumes, smoke layer plugholing, sprinklered mercantile fires, duct smoke detectors and sprinkler-cooled smoke. Over the past decade, he has conducted numerous on-site experiments including the performance of residential sprinkler systems and characterization of smoke movement in roadway tunnels. Mr. McCartney holds a M.A.Sc. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is a member of ASHRAE, NFPA and SFPE.