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Transitions:
- Keil Propst, Juan Gomez Ramirez, Justin Berndt, Percy Flowers and Jesse Gonzalez (all in Texas) and Jeffrey Huff (East Coast) have earned recent promotions at Russell Marine LLC.
- Doug Barnes retires as "respected superintendent" after 42 years at Sargent.
- Mike Chaisson leaves a "lasting impact" in retirement; the parted superintendent served Sealevel Construction in Thibodeaux, LA, for 20 years.
- Madeline Lato shifts from inside sales to marketing coordinator at Bottom Line Equipment in Baton Rouge.
- Casey McCullar is the newest BDM at Corpac. The 10-year veteran of the structural steel industry is based in Ohio.
- Casey Cowen joins the service team at the Empire Crane New York facility.
- Leslie Hyde, SVP/chief sustainability officer and Joe Dowd, global VP of zero harm, announce upcoming retirements from Koppers, Inc. in Q1 2025.
- Dave Rettner reached a previously announced retirement from American Engineering Testing; 100+ people honored the past president at a Dec. party.
- Elie Cohen, P.E. joins CRW Engineering Group in Alaska as civil engineer
- Walter Kosinski, P.E., leaves a big footprint across multiple states through his work, and big shoes to fill at GZA GeoEnvironmental following his retirement after 46 years at the firm. He steps away as principal in the Livonia, MI, office.
- Leo Keegan was promoted to regional manager at Intertek PSI; he will oversee geotechnical, materials and integrity testing services in Louisiana.
- Thomas Smoak, P.E., achieves principal designation at Terracon; the firm's office manager in Charleston, SC, earns this 2nd promotion in less than a year.
- Magarita Restrepo onboards at Shannon & Wilson Denver as geotech.
- Jacob La Mere and Derek Southall join Southern Earth Sciences as CMT for the Panama City, FL, and Mobile, AL, offices, respectively.
Recognitions:
- Scott Callaway, a past president of PDCA and SVP at Cajun Industries in Baton Rouge was SPOTTED in his ABC capacity in previous links in this publication; see the Recognitions in the Company News section.
- David Mueller, P.E., from Richard Goettle, Inc. and Daniel Woeste, P.E., of Geosyntec Consultants presented to the 54th Annual Ohio River Valley Soils Seminar, a Cincinnati ASCE event held at the Great American Ballpark.
- Kena Yoke of Island Piling in SW Florida will present on business relationships at the PDCA Annual Conference. She got an unsolicited endorsement from a peer who asked about best building elements. Spoiler alert, it's driven piles!
- John Hass from Veit will be honored with the Skill-Responsibility-Integrity Award by a Minnesota industry group during the February Construction Summit.
- Ronnie Wills, another presenter at the upcoming PDCA Annual Conference and Aggregate Technologies' president, gave an impromptu speech to a Houston business group where he was surprised as Member of the Year.
- Ginny Jarvis, manager at Dark Horse Metals near Austin, received her MBA in accounting from Texas Woman's University. It's worth noting that she did this while raising daughters and co-upstarting a piling business with husband Matt.
- Roy Kern, CEO at Equipment Corporation of America, is prominently quoted in Chapter 5 of the new book, From Status Quo to Status Grow. Best selling author Todd Cohen, a business consultant, dropped by ECA HQ in Pittsburgh to deliver a fresh copy. Summarizing Kern, collaboration + strategy = sales.
- Garrett Timm volunteered for storm clean-up at Duthie Hill, his favorite mountain biking park in King County, WA. The GeoEngineers, Inc. consultant thanks his employer for a "paid work day" to volunteer, as a company benefit.
- Bobby Ley, Katie McCoy, Grifin Savedge, all from Thomas & Hutton, have earned licenses from East Coast states as professional engineers.
- Sam Palmer, PE, CBO, CFM, branch manager for UES in Las Vegas has won election to the BOD for the International Code Council.
Sending sympathies:
- Albert "AP" Carline formerly with Patriot Construction and Industrial unexpectedly passed in December. The 59-year-old battled Leukemia. A Bayou Sorrel, LA, resident, he started a foundation construction career as a laborer, then pile driver, foreman and ended as a 15-year superintendent. Said his employer and longtime friend Kevin Gourgues, "He was a good man."
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