(L-R) Brandon Bicknell to serve as President of new Houston-based PDCA group, Arjin Dogan named Treasurer
***UPDATE 1/31/22***
A new PDCA chapter is now serving the local pile driving industry in Texas and will gather for a networking event in late February. In a letter to the locally elected leadership of the group, PDCA President Brian Heck reported that their request to affiliate as a PDCA chapter "was reviewed and unanimously approved by the PDCA Board of Directors" during its January Strategic Planning meeting.
Heck continued; "we are extremely impressed by your hard work and want to congratulate you again for accepting the responsibility to organize the PDCA of Texas." The formal communication completed several months of work by contractors, suppliers, manufacturers and engineers in Houston and beyond who pursued establishment of a formal presence for PDCA in the region. A Texas Chapter has not been available for local member engagement for several years.
As previously reported, four individuals have come forward to voluntarily serve as Texas Chapter leadership, they include:
- President: Brandon Bicknell, Russell Marine LLC. Brandon is a veteran contractor in the Houston region who joined Russell Marine as VP in 2019. Effective December 2021, he was promoted to President of the company.
- Vice president: Condon Verble, McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. Condon has spent 20 years in the pile driving industry where he has been a General Superintendent. He assumed this role at McCarthy in 2019 and works in very active pile driving operations.
- Treasurer: Arjin Dogan, JD Fields & Company, Inc. Arjin is a recently graduated engineer from the University of Texas at Tyler and began with J.D. Fields as Engineer in July 2021. The Houston Business Journal published the announcement of her hiring in a January '22 article.
- Secretary: Armando Guajardo, BRC International LLC
The PDCA of Texas Chapter is planning to host an industry networking event on February 24, 2022 at Pinstripes in Houston near River Oaks. Check back for details and registration information.
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***ORIGINAL POST 1/16/22***
PDCA members in the Houston, Texas area are organizing a new Chapter to give all local PDCA members a new resource in the region for industry networking, among other opportunities. The group has met multiple times since PDCA hosted The Houston Social in September 2021 and determined it intends to form a local PDCA Chapter. PDCA has been in regular communication with the local members and is assisting them in Chapter formation efforts.
A recent development for the group was its naming of an executive committee to serve as the leadership. As first reported in A Pile of News on January 3rd, the following individual PDCA members have been named to the new executive committee in the Texas group:
Texas PDCA members organize, establish leadership. Meet the new slate of officers.
- President: Brandon Bicknell, Russell Marine LLC. Brandon is a veteran contractor in the Houston region who joined Russell Marine as VP in 2019. Effective December 2021, he was promoted to President of the company.
- Vice president: Condon Verble, McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. Condon has spent 20 years in the pile driving industry where he has been a General Superintendent. He assumed this role at McCarthy in 2019 and works in very active pile driving operations.
- Treasurer: Arjin Dogan, JD Fields & Company, Inc. Arjin is a recently graduated engineer from the University of Texas at Tyler and began with J.D. Fields as Engineer in July 2021. The Houston Business Journal published the announcement of her hiring in a January '22 article.
- Secretary: Armando Guajardo, BRC International LLC
Please check back to this blog or other PDCA publications for the latest news from the PDCA-Texas. And if you are in Texas and would like to get involved, you are encouraged to do so!
(L-R) Condon Verble will serve as VP of the Houston PDCA group, Armando Guajardo is the Secretary on the executive committee.
