April 2008

New employees join Mead & Hunt team

Marcus Januario, PhD, P.E., is a Traffic Engineer on the Transportation team.  His responsibilities will include traffic engineering encompassing traffic operations analysis, modeling and safety, traffic impact analysis, signal design, signal warrant analysis, traffic forecast, pavement marking, signing design, and Intelligent Transportation Systems.  Januario holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and master’s degree in transportation.  He also holds a doctorate in civil engineering from the University of Wisconsin — Madison.  Prior to joining Mead & Hunt he served as a traffic engineer for a large national consulting firm.  He brings expertise in engineering planning, operations and maintenance, and has worked as a public urban transportation operator in the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.  He has worked in almost all aspects of traffic engineering including traffic operations analysis, and has a Professional Engineer license in the states of Wisconsin and Washington.

Ryan Spaulding is a Visualization Specialist joining the Architecture team.  He will provide graphic communications and visualizations, and assist with graphic designs related to illustrations for presentation purposes.  He is a graduate of the Madison Area Technical College in CIS Programming and a graduate of Madison Media Institute in digital art and animation.  He brings Web design experience and is familiar with Dreamweaver and Flash software.  Spaulding is adept at still imagery and animation, audio mastering, and video production.

Mary Clare Sorenson is Mead & Hunt’s new Marketing and Communications Manager.  She brings a 20–year career in marketing, sales, development, and account management as well as a degree in advertising and public relations from the University of Wisconsin — Madison.  Sorenson provides leadership to the company’s marketing staff as they develop and implement marketing plans for each of Mead & Hunt’s Business Units. Her primary goal at Mead & Hunt is to help the firm grow to its next level of business success.

Frank Ransley, P.E., joins Mead & Hunt’s Water Resources team.  He is responsible for hydropower system design, supervision of equipment installation, project management, specification writing, cost estimating, and ROI analysis.  With more than 20 years of experience in mechanical engineering and solving mechanical problems, Ransley is knowledgeable about pumps and hydraulic turbine equipment.  He has a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin — Madison. 

Yvonne Wheeler joins the team as an administrative assistant in the Water Resources Department.  In that position she provides administrative support to the department leader and a staff of more than 25 engineers, scientists, and technicians.  She has held a variety of positions in the past, including as a recruiter, training assistant, and public safety supervisor.  Computer adept, Wheeler is skilled in the Microsoft Office Suite applications and several database programs.  She graduated from TPS Technical School in New York.  She was also a foster parent for five boys between nine and 12 years old.

Bobbi Jo Swanson is an Administrative Assistant and Receptionist in the Green Bay office.  Her responsibilities include assisting clients and supporting staff with a variety of tasks.  Swanson brings a wealth of experience from the insurance and healthcare industries.  In addition, she has technical writing capabilities having written many successful grant proposals.  Swanson graduated from the University of Wisconsin — La Crosse with a bachelor of science degree in sociology and frequently volunteers for the Salvation Army and Special Olympics.

Alexander Vrtiska joins Mead & Hunt as an Aviation Consultant for the Air Service team.  He is responsible for assisting senior consultants with research production, and editing of reports for clients.  He also assists senior personnel with client communications.  Vrtiska will be involved extensively using US Department of Transportation statistics, Global Distribution Systems (GDS), and Marketing Information Data Tapes (MIDT).  He also is trained in the Data Analysis and Statistical software program Stata.  Vrtiska is a graduate of the University of Oregon where he graduated with honors, with a bachelor of science in both economics and Spanish.  While a college student, he was self–proprietor of a company where he sold and produced $80,000 in residential house painting contracts over the course of five months.  He also was employed as the bilingual legal assistant for an immigration law firm.

Mead & Hunt provides professional services in architecture, historic preservation, transportation, infrastructure, and water resources engineering to clients throughout the US.  Mead & Hunt was recognized as one of the fastest rising architectural and engineering firms by the Zweig Letter Hot Firm list; the corporation remains strong on Engineering News Record’s Top 500 design firm list.  Mead & Hunt, named by CE News as one of the top 10 engineering companies to work for in the nation, is employee—owned with about 350 people in offices nationwide.