Meet the Team

Executive leader in senior housing, long-term care, and healthcare innovation with over 45 years of experience developing, operating, and transforming senior living organizations across the United States. Founder of Horizon Health Research and Board Chair for the Senior Services Research Collaboratory.

Former AHCA Board Member, Chairman of the National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL) and recipient of the 2025 NCAL Jan Thayer Pioneer Award, recognizing national leadership and innovation in advancing quality senior care.

Founder and CEO of multiple senior housing operating and investment platforms, including the creation of Vigilan, Inc., a pioneering technology systems company that developed the first acuity based care management systems.


Career leadership includes oversight of operations, development, and turnaround of more than 100 senior housing communities representing over 15,000 units nationwide. National speaker, published author, and faculty member supporting executive education, policy development, and workforce advancement initiatives across the long-term care sector.



Education: Doctor of Business Administration (Management), George Fox University; MBA (Finance), University of New Hampshire; BS, Lyndon State College (Therapy). Currently serving as the Executive in Residence for George Fox University – College of Business.

Trustee for the Vision Centre – designed to bring together providers, universities, students, and accrediting bodies to create a collaborative platform for advancing education, research, and workforce development in senior living and healthcare. By integrating academic learning with real-world operational environments, the Centre supports applied research, experiential training, and the rapid testing of innovative care, technology, and management models.

Brad Wilkins is our Lead Engineer. Brad brings close to 25 years of construction experience and over a decade of audio-video integration experience to the table.

Brad started out in construction as a framer on a crew and quickly advanced to being the Superintendent of 6 framing crews. This experience led to a role as a home inspector with an engineering firm in the Phoenix Valley.

In 2006, Mr. Wilkins moved into the home automation space. Since then, he has worked with multiple control systems and projects varying from luxuriously appointed hunting cabins to beachfront estates. Brad has integrated homes with control systems like URC, RTI, and Crestron, giving homeowners the ability to communicate with their homes through CCTV.

We are beyond pleased to have a Lead Engineer with the specific mix of experience, managerial aplomb, and devotion to seeing each customer’s job through to maximum satisfaction that Brad brings to the table every day. We know you will appreciate working with him on your project just as much as we appreciate his skill, sense of humor, and drive to deliver results on our team.

Josh Walker is our Director of IT and Programming, offering cutting-edge yet practical solutions to ensure our clients’ systems perform reliably.

With 15 years of construction experience, Josh brings a wealth of real-world project knowledge to the team. He has built numerous homes as a general contractor, mastering the intricacies of full-scale projects from concept to completion.

As a certified Crestron and URC Programmer, Josh handles our programming needs with a methodical touch. He has a real talent for creating cohesive systems that are intuitive and dependable for daily use.

Josh is a reliable team member whose broad expertise covers everything from on-site field work and project management to custom programming and IT support—ready to pitch in on whatever keeps our projects moving forward.

Carl Mason is the Chief Operating Officer at Integration Engineers, where he oversees the operational backbone that keeps the team working smarter, faster, and more efficiently. His professional journey began in athletic training, but he soon transitioned to working alongside his father, Chris Mason, in the long-term care industry as President & Chief Operating Officer—experience that now pairs seamlessly with his work in home and commercial automation.

Carl quite literally grew up in senior living. From the time he could walk, he was running through assisted living communities under construction, tagging along as the senior Mason developed new buildings. From building elaborate train displays in common areas to rewiring speakers, integration and low-voltage electrical projects have been part of Carl’s entrepreneurial and creative DNA from the very beginning.

After graduating from George Fox University in 2013 with a Bachelor of Science in Athletic Training, Carl served as the Head Athletic Trainer at Canby High School in Canby, Oregon. He still enjoys using his degree as a personal trainer, helping friends and family stay healthy and active.

In the summer of 2014, he joined Senior Housing Managers as an Operations Analyst and became a certified assisted living administrator shortly thereafter. In 2019, he was nominated by the State of Oregon to participate in the prestigious year-long AHCA/NCAL Future Leaders Program, which further accelerated his leadership growth in long-term care.

After five years overseeing operations, Carl was promoted to Chief Operating Officer of Senior Housing Managers in 2021. He remains actively involved in industry leadership through the OHCA Legal Committee, the ALF/RCF Council, the Independent Owners Council, and NCAL’s Policy & Finance Committee.

When he’s not on the road visiting communities or keeping operations running smoothly for Senior Housing Managers and Integration Engineers, Carl, his wife, and their energetic golden retriever and German shepherd can usually be found outdoors—hiking, camping, and enjoying every adventure the Pacific Northwest has to offer.

Susan is an LEA journeyman with over 28 years in the low-voltage industry. After graduating from PCC, she began her career installing and maintaining telephone and data lines for a utility.

She later moved on to new construction and remodels, where she installed cameras, data, and HVAC wiring, as well as fire testing and wiring.

In her spare time, Susan enjoys traditional archery, gravel biking, fishing, and gardening.