April 2009

New employees join Mead & Hunt team

Ryan Meyer, GISP, is the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Coordinator for Mead & Hunt.  The GIS practice is growing, and Meyer will manage GIS projects, develop and coordinate GIS standards throughout the company, train and mentor staff, assist with quality control, and support development of GIS marketing.  He brings more than a decade of professional consulting industry experience in technical GIS consulting, client account management, and project management.  As a project manager he will manage scope, schedule, budget, client communications, subconsultant relationships, and internal team tasks.  Meyer graduated from the University of Wisconsin — Madison with a bachelor’s in Cartography and GIS.

Marina Williams will be supporting the Architecture and Building Engineering team as an architectural CAD technician.  Her responsibilities include preparing architectural and engineering documents, assisting with design computations and quantity estimates, and assisting with preparation or modifications of reports, specifications, plans, and schedules for design projects.  She will also help with building design such as floor plans, sections, and details.  Williams is familiar with building codes, architectural design standards, and building construction materials.  She has almost 10 years of experience in CAD and design of commercial buildings.  She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in structural engineering from Kaliningrad State Technical University in Kaliningrad Russia.

Carol Roland, Ph.D., joins the Mead & Hunt Historic Preservation team.  Her experience include writing historic preservation and environmental regulation compliance documents, coordinating activities related to compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and conducting research and field work to identify and document historic properties.  Additionally her experience includes applying National Register and California Register criteria to evaluate the significance and integrity of historic properties, and then assisting in the identification of client and market opportunities.  She brings more than 25 years of active involvement in a broad range of cultural resource and environmental programs and issues in California.  She has extensive knowledge of historic property designation, preservation policy, land use planning and environmental regulation at the local, state, and federal levels.  Roland is well familiar with California city and county preservation programs, State Office of Historic Preservation policy and practice, California transportation and energy agency environmental processes.  She attained her BA, MA, and Ph.D. in US History from the University of California at Riverside.

Eric Burki, P.E., LEED AP® AP is an electrical project engineer on the Architecture and Building Engineering team.  He brings more than 10 years of experience in design.  He is proficient in lighting design and has specific knowledge of the design criteria for interior and exterior lighting, lighting management systems, service and branch power, generation and load shedding, and emergency back-up systems.  He is also familiar with small scale security and nurse call systems, and fire alarm systems that include smoke control and shutdown.  His responsibilities will include design support on military, aviation, industrial, and commercial buildings.  Burki graduated from the University of Wisconsin — Platteville with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.  He is experienced in LitePro and AGI, and SKM Power Tools for calculating arc flash, fault analysis, and coordination studies.

Jonathan Archibald, P.E., is a senior project manager with the Water Resources team.  He has nearly 15 years experience in water resources engineering planning and design, including HEC–RAS modeling of steady and unsteady state and HEC–HMS modeling.  He is experienced in infrastructure design and construction administration of engineered channels, swales, and storm water ponds.  He is familiar with field hydraulic, structural, and geomorphic inventory, as well as bank stress–failure studies and stabilization design.  He will be responsible for client relations and communications, project team leadership, specification and report writing, and public presentations.  He will assist with local, state, and federal regulatory compliance and in building agency relationships to support client projects.  Archibald has a Bachelor of Science degree in civil and environmental engineering from the University of California — Los Angeles, and he is active in the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

Dan Brady, P.E., CHMM, joins the Water Resources team as a senior project manager.  His responsibilities include development of an Environmental Services business unit, managing environmental and ecological projects, and maintaining client relationships.  He has experience in environmental compliance and permitting, natural area restoration and management, and storm water management.  He is also knowledgeable about state and federal environmental regulations.  Brady has managed multi-million dollar environmental services contracts for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command and the USDA Forest Service. He has also managed a variety of environmental projects for government agencies and private clients.  His skill set includes environmental compliance, air permitting, water resources engineering, soil and groundwater investigation and remediation, water and wastewater conveyance and treatment, and construction management.  Brady has a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering and a Master of Science degree in environmental engineering from Marquette University.

Phil Minton is a CAD designer with the Aviation team.  He has more than a decade of experience designing and drafting for civil engineering, planning, and environmental projects.  He has experience designing a variety of land development projects for both the private and public sectors.  Minton’s projects include office parks, restaurants, fire stations, schools, housing developments, and planned master communities.  He has been involved in designs for grading, water, sewer, and storm drain, as well as horizontal control plans, erosion control plans, and detail sheets.  Minton is proficient in many design software packages including AutoCAD Civil 3D and Land Desktop. 

Brian Clark, P.E., is a mechanical engineer with the Architecture and Building Engineering team.  He has nearly 10 years experience in HVAC and plumbing design, including DOAS, VAV systems, and boiler plants.  His responsibilities include client communications, design and layout of building HVAC and plumbing design systems, specification writing, and construction administration.  He is proficient with Trane Trace and HAP for load estimation, energy modeling, and payback analysis.  He has worked on industrial, educational, and medical facilities.  He is proficient in the use of AutoDesk AutoCAD software, including 3D drafting and basic lisp programming.  Clark has a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering.

Mike Runde joins the Aviation team as a project engineer.  He will be responsible for design, field work, and construction engineering for various civil engineering projects.  As a summer intern for Mead & Hunt, Runde has drafted airport as-built plans, performed topographic surveys, and is experienced in CAD design.  His construction inspection activities included CABC placement, compaction, and density testing.  He has worked on projects that involved bituminous milling, bituminous paving, and density testing.  He has also assisted with storm water utility placement.  He graduated from the University of Wisconsin — Platteville with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering with an emphasis in construction, transportation, and municipal engineering.  He passed his Engineer–in–Training exam and will be pursuing his Professional Engineering (P.E.) certification in the future.  Runde is active in both the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the Associated General Contractors (AGC) of America.

Darrell Berry, P.E., S.E., F.ASCE, is project manager on the Transportation team.  His responsibilities include managing Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) design projects, leading project teams and managing scheduling, budgeting, and quality control.  He also serves as the primary contact for clients and facilitates any project meetings.  Berry brings more than 35 years of experience in consulting engineering design and project management.  He has worked on several notable projects including the Miller Park Infrastructure and the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District Deep Tunnel projects.  He is active in a number of professional and civic organizations including American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) where he served as regional governor; president of the ASCE Wisconsin Section and other officer positions.  Berry graduated from the University of Wisconsin Madison with a bachelor’s degree in civil and environmental engineering and received his Master of Science degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois — Champaign–Urbana.

Steve Adams is a construction project leader on the Transportation team.  He is responsible for project construction teams for Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) construction projects.  He is responsible for MDOT construction documentation and inspections.  He is experienced in working on single and multiple spanned bridges, highways and rural roads, and streetscape projects.  These activities include construction staking, project scheduling, cost analysis, value engineering, and budget management, soil and concrete testing — seeing projects through from start to finish. Adams has worked on projects from $1.0 million to $80 million.  He is pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in construction management from Ferris State University (MI) and has attained several certificates including Advanced Construction Management (Ferris State University), Construction Safety & Health (OSHA), Moisture and Density Determination (MDOT), and Underwater Diver (PADI).

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.