CANCO adds project manager in Cedar Falls office

CANCO adds project manager in Cedar Falls office Matt Shaner, Project Manager CANCO photo

11 months ago

Matt Shaner brings 24 years of commercial construction industry experience to Carl A. Nelson & Company.

Matt Shaner joined Carl A. Nelson & Company in August 2024 as a project manager, expanding the construction project leadership team in the firm's Cedar Falls office.

A 2000 graduate of the University of Northern Iowa with a degree in Construction Management, Matt has spent the years since working primarily in commercial construction. He traces the beginnings of his career even earlier, to his mid-teens working for his uncle's construction company, where Matt said he poured "a lot of concrete."

He also worked with a concrete and masonry company throughout college.

Matt's career includes several years running his own company. More recently, he has gained field and office leadership experience working for a pair of larger firms since where he has been engaged in commercial/industrial construction, hotel and multi-family residential work. He said commercial and industrial work appeals to him from the standpoint of how the projects are run and the processes involved in meetings a client's needs. It was on a job that Matt first became connected to Carl A. Nelson & Company, which in joining he said "just seemed like a pretty good fit."

Away from work, Matt is the father of two sons, 20-year-old Drew, who is attending UNI as a business major; and 18-year-old Nic, who is attending lineman school in Sheldon, Iowa.

Matt described interests that include being in the outdoors, including fishing and scuba-diving.