July 2009

New employees join Mead & Hunt team

Mead & Hunt, a leading architectural, engineering, and planning professional consulting firm, adds new team members.

Erica King is a wetland ecologist, who will work on field surveys and project sequencing for developments that have potential impacts to water resources.  She will perform wetland delineations and create mitigation designs.  Her responsibilities will also include performing field delineations conforming to current U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other state standards.  King brings both private consultant and agency experience.  She has performed wetland delineations, Phase I Environmental Assessments, Rare Species Surveys, and has worked with power companies on multiple lateral line projects such as above ground transmission lines and underground gas lateral lines.  King holds a bachelor of science degree in natural resource conservation with a minor in biology from Carroll College (Waukesha, WI).

Scott Long is a project architect on the Architecture and Building Engineering team, where he will be responsible for producing architectural and coordinating multi–disciplinary construction documents.  Long will work with both clients and senior team members.  He brings nearly two decades of experience in architecture to the team, including project management and architecture of health care, justice, and municipal facilities.  Long has been involved in schematic design, programming, and design development.  He has an extensive background in construction.  He is a licensed architect in both Wisconsin and Illinois.  Long has a master of architecture degree from the University of Illinois Urbana—Champaign and a bachelor of science in architectural studies from the University of Illinois. He is an active member in the American Institute of Architects, having served as president of the Northern Illinois chapter in 2007.  Most recently, Long served as president of the Rockford (IL) River District business association.

Mitch Walker is an intern architect in Architecture and Building Engineering He is a recent graduate of Montana State University with a master of architecture degree.  Walker has performed site visits and inspections, reviewed building code, incorporated design changes, and drafted construction documents while working at a small architectural firm in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.  His 3D programming capabilities range from modeling initial sketch ideas in order to attain schematic designs and finish renderings to hand drawing and Adobe Photoshop illustrations for presentations.  He is also proficient in Autodesk, AutoCad, and the Adobe Creative Suite software.  Walker will be involved in code and product research, as well as assisting design architects and engineers with projects.

Ivo Rozendaal joins the Architecture and Building Engineering team as an intern architect.  Over the past decade he has worked on a variety of building types including health care, education, residential, laboratory and sciences, and museums.  He is familiar with the fundamentals of design and building construction.  He has been involved in project development from concept and design through construction.  He is familiar with International Building Code (IBC).  Rozendaal coordinates with design architects and engineers, assisting with the development of schematic and design development drawings, and quantity and shop drawing reviews.  He is experienced in AutoCAD, Revit, Microstation, and Architectural Desktop software.  Rosendaal has a bachelor of science degree in architecture with a minor in construction management from Ball State University (Munci, IN), and a master of architecture from Washington University in St. Louis (MO).

Mark Braithwaite is an architectural CAD technician, bringing more than 15 years experience to the Architecture and Building Engineering team.  He holds an associate degree in technology architectural design from Morrison Institute of Technology (Morrison, IL), and has been involved n the development of various building projects.  His experience extends from preliminary design through construction documents, and includes design-build facilities.  He is proficient with AutoCAD, MicroStation, and Autodesk Revit Architecture software.  His responsibilities include preparing architectural and structural engineering documents, assisting with design computations and quantity estimates, and helping to prepare or modify reports, specifications, and plans and schedules for design projects.  Braithwaite is knowledgeable about building construction materials and methods.  He is an associate member of the American Institute of Architects.

Brad Jansen, E.I.T., joins the Municipal Services team with nearly three years experience in land development, roadway design, and environmental impact evaluation.  Since joining Mead & Hunt, he has worked on sanitary sewer investigation projects for the City of Wauwatosa (WI), design of the expansion of the Chippewa Valley Regional Airport parking lot (Eau Claire, WI), and design of the reconstruction of Cumberland Boulevard in the Village of Whitefish Bay (WI).  Jansen has also been involved in the design of utilities, grading parking lots, and determining the required drainage systems for residential and commercial projects.  He has developed construction plans for urban and rural roads, and state and county trunk highways.  Jansen holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Calvin College (Grand Rapids, MI).

Lisa Harmon is the newest airport planner in Mead & Hunt.  She brings almost 20 years of environmental and aviation–specific environmental planning to the firm.  She has been involved in the preparation, management, and production of environmental documents to support transportation projects nationwide.  Harmon has extensive knowledge of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) documentation requirements as well as resource agency permitting requirements. Harmon has been actively involved with airport land use compatibility planning. She has managed or prepared land use compatibility plans and supporting environmental documentation that implement local policy controls.  Harmon has Land Use and Environmental Planning in Transportation and Land Use Planning Certification from the University of California at Davis.

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 ranking 240 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 nearly 400 people in offices nationwide.