Tim Truax Terminated
As one of his first actions after having been installed by Madam Brigitte Soppo Ngalle as new President of SICC Florida on March 17, 2016, Charles Douglas Heinlein, terminated the employment of Tim Truax. Since all operations of SICC Florida are directed, approved, and financed through Madam Ngalle, it is understood that Madam Ngalle has directed this termination order for, Mr. Heinlein to execute.
It is also believed that among the reasons for Soppo directing the termination of Mr. Truax, is to hide the fact, that she has been both using funds from Cameroon and home buyers, through the use of a lease of her personal condo by SICC Florida, to pay for her Condo. This has allowed her to use SICC Florida to make her mortgage payments and charge it as a business expense under the premise that Mr. Truax has been required to live in the condo as part of his employment compensation, and maintain his Florida Residence there, Over the past 6 years, Madam Ngalle has personally benefited from this company condo lease and employment compensation expense plan, including SICC Florida making her condo property tax payments, for an estimated total of $72,000.00 over the past 6 years. To add one more piece of information, SICC Florida has never constructed Anything in Florida or anywhere else.
Tim Truax is pictured here with Brigitte Soppo Ngalle, on his visit to Cameroon to assist in the training and certification of Jerry Smith (USA), Garden Community model homes.
Tim Truax is pictured here with Brigitte Soppo Ngalle, on his visit to Cameroon to assist in the training and certification of Jerry Smith (USA), Garden Community model homes.
Madam Ngalle portrays herself to the Cameroon business community as being backed by SICC Florida as her investor partners, when in reality Madam Ngalle Is SICC Florida …and has used funds from Cameroon to operate and fund it for the purpose of creating this public image. This has resulted in an ongoing program to mislead the press, government officials, and investors about the fact that she has been operating as a sole proprietor using the guise of several personally fully controlled corporations.
Mr. Truax introduced the American SIP Technology to Madam Ngalle in December of 2009, by taking her to visit Alabama to meet with the inventor of Thermasave, Mr. Hoot Haddock. Then Madam Ngalle introduced this technology to lure her investor partners, Brecq Corporation of Yaoundé, Cameroon, to invest in the startup of her operations. Brecq Corporation and private Cameroon investors partners, along with Madam Ngalle, formed a partnership called Quality Habitat Corporation of Cameroon to build a Cameroon SIP panel making facility and build homes with this new technology.
Mr. Truax first met the DG of BRECQ, Mr. Andre Tcheyacnou in Florida when this technology was introduced to him in 2009. Mr. Truax called Mr. Tcheyacnou in February of 2015 during his Cameroon visit. Andre drove from Yaoundé to Douala to meet with Mr. Truax, however Madam Ngalle refused to allow Mr. Truax to see Andre in private and used the situation to repair cold relations she had with Andre at that time. The subject of the controlled meeting was for Madam Ngalle to present an offer to buy his interest in Quality Habitat Corporation of Cameroon. No serious offer has been put pen to paper since that meeting. Mr. Tcheyacnou knew that it was Mr. Truax that had introduced this housing technology to Madam Ngalle in 2009 and Mr. Truax just wanted to have a friendly visit with Andre on his trip there since they knew each other From Andre’s visit to Florida all those years ago.
Mr. Truax was charged by Madam Ngalle with designing the factory in Cameroon, now known as the Quality Habitat facility in Bassa, to produce SIP panels capable of constructing 2000 homes per year. Mr. Truax then worked from behind the scenes in Florida, to organize the shipping of the 22,000 square foot (2056 m3) prefabricated metal building, machinery, equipment, tools, building materials, and American professionals to start and complete this factory building construction project. The factory was designed to have 2 main SIP panel production lines, including an EPS foam block production line. When funding was available from Cameroon, Mr. Truax coordinated the shipment of the panel pressing machines from Alabama to Cameroon. However, to date, only the panel line equipment and manufacturing license has been partially funded.
Still remaining to be funded and installed is the EPS foam block manufacturing line. Mr. Truax was also asked to run this SIP panel manufacturing factory when eventually completed.
Part of the responsibility of running this factory was to complete the certification of the factory manufacturing operations to comply with IBC (international Building Code) standards and with
engineering standards within the ICC Legacy Report 2406. This is still a long way from being legally accomplished. At this time, it is not believed that any of the prior SIP or construction professionals who have helped with housing or other construction activities in Cameroon will be returning.
Since the EPS foam panel equipment and production line have not been installed, Mr. Truax was also tasked by Soppo to ship EPS foam, building materials, tools and U.S. based expertise needed to supervise the assembly of 3 model homes at the Garden Community. Mr. Truax recruited an SIP panel assembly expert, Mike Bishop and an expert production housing supervisor, Mr. Jerry Smith to travel and spend time in Cameroon to assist in this task. When funding was available to Florida from Cameroon, Mr. Truax arrange all, for the assembly and shipment of all building components to complete assembly of these 3 models.
When Mr. Truax visited the Cameroon Quality Habitat facility in February 2015, it was obvious that the hard work he had done, was not going to produce result in a factory that would operate in the way he had designed. It appeared to him that Quality Habitat was a financially paralyzed company. A huge management fees, contracted debt of over $1,000,000 has been created with Quality Habitat owing SICC Florida. These are now burdening Quality Habitat Corporation and no movement currently exists to purchase the essential EPS foam block making equipment or the millions in panel making raw materials needed to operate it.
In my opinion, Mdm Ngalle has been charging these huge management fees to Quality Habitat of Cameroon, in order to establish a financial position to drive Andre Tcheyacnou and the BRECQ group out of their Quality Habitat shareholder interest. Also, in my opinion, a full Outside audit of Quality Habitat’s accounting records is badly needed. Construction costs and true asset values for the Quality Habitat facility and equipment purchases need to be accurately shown on Quality Habitat’s financial reports.
This Quality habitat records situation is a shining example of the corrupt nature of Madam Ngalle’s business practices which are now also being demonstrated on Mr. Truax in her acts of retaliation against him in Florida with his termination of employment. He just “knows too much” about the inner workings of her companies.
During his tenure at SICC Florida, Mr. Truax was also tasked with assisting in the design and engineering decisions relating to the Marche Congo Project. This is a Public and Private Partnership (PPP) formed as a corporation known as SICC Marche Congo Management. (link to site)
He was tasked to take the weak drafted drawings from Cameroon, and translate them into structurally engineered plans that would comply with IBC shopping mall building codes, seismic standards, geo-tech soil report done by BRECQ, and determine the type of foundation technology that could be used to save the project time and money. After careful consulting with several engineers, in opposition to opinions emanating from Cameroon, it was determined the best technology to be used would be (see link) Chance Helical Piles
In August of 2015, after attending helical pilings installation training with Mr. Jerry Smith earlier that year, Mr. Truax traveled to Cameroon, to begin installation and training of Cameroonians working at the March Congo jobsite. The press was invited as well as Darren Smith and his staff from the U.S. Embassy to watch the initial pilings installation work being done. Jerry returned to Cameroon, to complete most of the helical piling work by January 2016, however due to ongoing jobsite obstructions, that are still in the way of construction, (namely a building that Still needs to be torn down), the helical pile installation work cannot be completed.
Mr. Truax states that "until the ground work is completed in Phase 1 of the project, Phase 2 of erecting the engineered steel structure Cannot begin".
During the design of the Marche Congo Group A structural design process, Mr. Truax also introduced state of the art engineering structural design technology from Auto-desk called Revit and Lumion Rendering software to this project. The combined cost of this software is $12,000.00 dollars to purchase. Although essential, Madam Ngalle refuses to pay for this essential software,
Mr. Truax has worked around this lack of funds, by hiring freelance engineers, capable of using this technology, by the hour. By renting a monthly subscription of Revit, Mr. Truax is able to supervise the work to complete the assembly plans in April of 2015. He found a structural engineer in Madrid Spain, that could do all the Seismic work and apply ECC standards in metric as well as comply to IBC Standards for shopping mall engineering requirement loads.
When asked if Mr. Truax will he ever return to Cameroon, He states "Not under the present Conditions". He also when on to say that "In Cameroon, these types of projects need to be planned and budgeted by experienced professionals due to the nature of the supply chain".
"All imported building materials, tools and specialized professional construction manpower have to be budgeted, funded, and organized in a proper order and scheduling needs to follow with precise timing and planning". “shipments into Port of Douala need to be Pre-cleared with all SGS documentation, bills of lading and port clearing fees paid before arrival. So that containers do not sit in port for months and in this case, some containers stayed in port for up to a year or more” Since Mr. Truax was just a working but leading employee of SICC Florida, his expert assistance leading the Marche Congo construction will surely be missed in Cameroon. Good luck to them. Mr. Truax also felt like he was used as a showman to impress bankers and government stakeholders to get funds released for Madam Ngalle’s use.
If anyone wishes to contact Mr. Truax, he can no longer be reached on his SICC company email accounts, but he can be reached at timtruax@yahoo.com and on his private line at +1-941-416-2213 for any questions anyone may have or to confirm this story for a limited time. Mr. Truax is now out looking for work to replace his sorry $400 dollar a week paycheck. If you would like one last look at all his work he has posted on YouTube here is the Link….