As senior vice president and general manager of F&ES, Jacobs, Major General, USAF (ret) Timothy Byers brings to the role almost four decades of engineering and operations leadership. Major General Byers joined Jacobs four years ago to lead F&ES growth and sales after he retired from the U.S. Air Force as The Air Force Civil Engineer, having served 32 years, which culminated with his leadership of the 54,000-person engineering workforce. During this time, he managed an $18 billion worldwide facility, infrastructure and real estate portfolio. During his military career, General Byers served as The Air Force Civil Engineer where he led the 60,000-person engineering force at 166 installations worldwide with a $12B budget.  His previous assignments include headquarter tours and base command positions as a squadron and group commander responsible for master planning, program and project management of infrastructure and major mission and weapon system beddowns.   Prior to serving as The Civil Engineer, he was Director of Installations and Mission Support, HQ Air Combat Command, Langley AFB and HQ Pacific Air Command, Hickam AFB.  He is a Fellow and past National President of the Society of American Military Engineers. Byers earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Kentucky (UK) and is a UK Distinguished Alumni and member of the UK College of Engineering Hall of Distinction, and his Master of Science Degree in Engineering Management from the Air Force Institute of Technology.