Meet the Impact Makers
Our growing team works together to serve our communities, people and the environment. We do what we love, and that’s the vibe we maintain in each office.
Abby Boyce
Accountant
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Abby began her professional life as an animal veterinarian but found medicine to be misaligned with her need for predictability. Abby has found her calling in accounting and is currently pursuing her associates degree from the University of Cincinnati. While she is new to the A/E/C industry, she plans to use her education and work experience to enhance the accuracy and integrity of financial records for EDG.
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Hobby:Hiking
Season:Autumn
Happy Place:Massages
Cartoon Character:Garfield
Color:Carolina Purple
Abby Crison
Transportation Designer
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Abby has always been interested in the intersection of art, nature, and community. After dabbling in sculpture, she got a degree from Kent in Architecture and continued her education at Akron in Civil Engineering, where she worked in finite element analysis of shape memory alloys and other novel materials along with other various research projects. Abby hopes to utilize her skills to enhance the unique projects EDG works on.
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Hobby:Art
Season:Spring
Happy Place:My reading nook
Cartoon Character:Leeka from Futurama
Color:Purple
Alex Darkow
Design Engineer
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Alex has experience in designing both private and municipal projects. His responsibilities include creating construction drawings, stormwater calculations and reports, cost estimates, and site plan reviews. Alex has also worked on numerous roadway resurfacing, reconstruction, storm, sanitary, and waterline projects for local municipalities.
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Hobby:Fishing
Season:Summer
Happy Place:The Woods
Cartoon Character:Doug Funnie
Color:Green
Allison Tirak
Design Engineer
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Allison is a recent graduate of Youngstown State University. During her time in college she worked at EDG as an intern for two summers under the site development POD.
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Hobby:Traveling
Season:Spring
Happy Place:Disney World
Cartoon Character:Scooby Doo
Color:Blue or Pink
Amanda Johnson
Executive Administrator
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Amanda has experience supporting teams and executives with organizing their day-to-day workload, calendar, and email as well as executing tasks to assist with business operations. She enjoys helping people and finding solutions to improve efficiency. She is a proud alumna of Western Michigan University where she received her Bachelor of Business Administration.
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Hobby:Playing tennis and cooking
Season:Summer
Happy Place:The beach
Cartoon Character:Garfield
Color:Green
Ana Shundry
POD Administrator
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Andi Chakraborty
Design Engineer
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Andi graduated from Case Western Reserve University, where she studied Civil and Environmental Engineering. There, she gained experience in Wastewater and Stormwater design, and is very excited to start her career at EDG!
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Favorites:
Hobby:Playing and Writing Music
Season:Fall
Happy Place:Any of the Cleveland Metroparks!
Cartoon Character:Jake from Adventure Time
Color:Green
Andrew Croasmun
Construction Project Manager
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Andrew is a construction engineer with experience providing inspection, materials testing, and oversight on state, federal, and privately funded construction projects. He has experience in engineering services related to the testing, inspection, report preparation and review of materials, as well as certifications in signals and lighting specifications and protective coating application.
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Hobby:Home improvement projects
Season:Fall
Happy Place:Disney World
Cartoon Character:Barney Rubble
Color:Orange
Angela Tribuzi
Project Manager
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Angela has experience that includes collecting data, managing projects, and preparing technical documents for a variety of local, state, and federal agencies. Her work responsibilities have included ecological permitting, wetland and stream assessments, ESA’s and ESR’s; mitigation monitoring, construction observation, and reporting.
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Hobby:traveling
Season:Summer
Happy Place:Nature
Cartoon Character:Donald Duck
Color:Blue
Ariel Jones
Graphic Designer
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Ariel received her BFA in graphic design at Kent State University with a minor in user experience design. She enjoys typography, layout design, and illustration. She has experience with numerous adobe platforms including InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Aftereffects and XD. She has completed graphic design internships with Jump Rope Dudes, Kent State Football, and Kent State University Libraries.
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Hobby:Drawing
Season:Fall
Happy Place:Hiking
Cartoon Character:Katara - Avatar
Color:Light Blue
Bill Shephard
Transportation Designer
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Boris Slogar, PE, MPM
Principal
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Boris has over three decades of experience in working with communities and local and state agencies in solving water resource issues ranging from flood mitigation, water and wastewater infrastructure, and green best management practices.
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Hobby:Tinkering with projects around the house. I also love to play competitive tennis and golf too! Though my golf game is nothing to brag about.
Season:Fall. Football, fall colors, and of course the gateway to the Holidays.
Happy Place:Christmastime with the family at home.
Cartoon Character:Yukon Cornelius from Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer. Herbie the Dentist comes in a close second.
Color:Two: scarlet and gray.
Brandy Harmon
Director of Human Resources
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Brandy has been in human resources for over 11 years and has largely specialized in M&A and development of growth-oriented organizations. Her passion is mentoring and developing professionals. She is planning to pursue her MBA starting in the fall of 2023 and believes in lifelong education through formal academics, life experiences, and the passionate pursuit of knowledge.
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Hobby:Yoga. I really love how it clears my mind.
Season:Fall because I love to do fall activities with my kids.
Happy Place:My happiest place is Key West, FL.
Cartoon Character:I have a strong aversion to cartoon characters right now after approximately 3,654,234 hours of Cocomelon with my kids!
Color:Red
Brent Graham
Senior Right-of-Way Professional
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Brent has experience in transportation negotiation, title research, value analyses, closings and surveying. He has extensive experience with ODOT and LPA right of way acquisition practices and procedures. His degrees are in Urban and Regional Planning and Environmental Earth Science, with a GIS certificate from Miami University. He also has extensive experience monitoring of engineered fill placement, analysis of drilling samples, ACI testing certified, environmental monitoring of sewerage systems. Brent enjoys genealogical and historical research, along with multiple other interests.
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Hobby:Genealogy, music, history, document research, art, gardening, research
Season:Late fall or early spring
Happy Place:Our property
Cartoon Character:Bugs Bunny, Tazmanian Devil, Stewie Griffith, The Brain, Butters Stotch
Color:Dark Blue/Black/Vermilion
Brian Hanna, PE
Director of Construction Management
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With over two decades of experience and a professional engineering license, Brian has established himself as a leader in healthcare and university construction projects. He has successfully managed emergency situations and improved fiscal and operational processes through Lean principles. Brian’s extensive experience in design, construction, and operations has allowed him to cultivate critical leadership, supervisory, communication, and relationship-building skills. He leverages his expertise in facilities, operations, and construction management to deliver results. Brian’s proven ability to achieve goals and build strong teams makes him an asset for solving complex construction challenges.
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Hobby:Woodworking and fishing
Season:Fall
Happy Place:My woodshop
Cartoon Character:Yoda
Color:Green
Brian Loushin
Ecologist
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Brian brings a background in stream ecology and technical expertise in a variety of field work. He is skilled in ArcGIS mapping and has created a variety of maps for several projects. He has experience in writing technical documents and offers expertise in coordinating and executing site visits for environmental projects.
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Hobby:Board Games
Season:Fall
Happy Place:In the woods
Cartoon Character:Bart Simpson
Color:Orange
Brian Uhlenbrock
Senior Project Manager
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Brian is experienced in site development planning and construction documentation. He takes a creative approach to managing stormwater by incorporating Best Management Practices (BMPs) and green infrastructure as a seamless part of the site design process. Brian also has been directly involved in wetland and stream permitting, in addition to mitigation/restoration plans.
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Hobby:Spending time with good people while eating good food
Season:Summer
Happy Place:Lost in my garden
Cartoon Character:Yosemite Sam
Color:Green
Brian Wellert
Associate Project Manager
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Brian has been involved in the land surveying and civil design industry since he was very young. His experience ranges from being a rod man on a surveying crew to planning and design of international retail petroleum facilities.
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Hobby:Sports
Season:Fall
Happy Place:With family
Cartoon Character:Goku
Color:Orange
Bryan Newell, AICP
Principal
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Bryan has managed or served in a lead technical capacity on 100+ DOT and local transportation planning and design projects. He specializes in transportation planning, safety and traffic engineering for large area plans and corridor operations studies. Bryan is a leader in applying TSMO strategies and technology to improve safety and save money.
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Season:Fall
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Cartoon Character:Bugs Bunny
Color:Green
Brydan Rahrig
Construction Inspector
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Brydan is a Construction Inspector and holds a bachelor’s degree in Construction Engineering Technology from the University of Akron. This is his first full-time job since graduation, but previous experience includes a co-op position as a Field Observer for a Solon-based consulting firm. He is married and became a first-time father to a son in August 2022.
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Hobby:Woodworking
Season:Spring
Happy Place:My living room
Cartoon Character:Billy from The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
Color:Blue
Caitlin Russell
Urban Designer
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Caitlin has expertise in the areas of regional connectivity planning, neighborhood and community planning, trail and greenway planning and design, complete streets and multi-modal transportation plans, planning studies and public involvement.
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Hobby:Baking
Season:Fall
Happy Place:Sunrise on a Tropical Beach
Cartoon Character:Mushu
Color:Green
Cale Wuethrich
Designer
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Cale is a CAD technician!
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Hobby:Playing the guitar
Season:Summer
Happy Place:At a lake
Cartoon Character:Jedi
Color:Blue
Carmen DeVeau
Project Manager
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Carmen's creative experience includes packaging, page layout, web design, and the design of booklets, flyers, signage, advertisements, logos, brochures, invitations, and infographics. Carmen is a certified drone pilot and has additional skills in photography, videography, drone photography/videography, illustration, and animation.
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Hobby:Drawing
Season:Summer
Happy Place:The Beach
Cartoon Character:Spongebob
Color:Duck Egg Blue
Chuck Bode, PE, PS
Survey Field Technician
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Chuck has experience in surveying, roadway design, water and sewer design. He has experience with ODOT, local government agencies, and Federal agencies.
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Hobby:Genealogy/History
Season:Fall
Happy Place:Golf Course
Cartoon Character:Roadrunner
Color:Purple
Clint Flaherty
Construction Inspector
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Clint has overseen construction of roadway reconstruction and resurfacing projects, bridge improvements, site development, wastewater treatment plants, waterlines, sanitary sewers, storm sewers and residential subdivisions. His duties include construction inspection, coordination of work, maintaining daily logs, coordinating/ reviewing contractor pay requests, coordinating field changes, reviewing shop drawings, and preparing as-built drawings.
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Hobby:Collections
Season:Spring / Fall
Happy Place:Home
Cartoon Character:Leghorn Foghorn
Color:Red
Damon Fulk
Construction Project Manager
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Damon has experience in transportation, water, sewer, and storm design including paving, road widening, water distribution, WWTP, sanitary lift stations. He has extensive experience in construction management and inspection of municipal and ODOT projects. Damon enjoys being outdoors, hunting, fishing and coaching his two daughters in sports.
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Hobby:Hunting, Farming
Season:Fall
Happy Place:Outdoors
Cartoon Character:Foghorn Leghorn
Color:Green
Daniel Smith
Construction Inspector
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Daniel is a construction inspector who graduated from High School last year and started off working as an Intern. He is working on getting his certifications for ODOT. He has experienced inspection on roadway construction and culvert inspection.
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Hobby:Playing sports
Season:Summer
Happy Place:The lake
Cartoon Character:SpongeBob
Color:Blue
Daryl Wells, PLS
Project Surveyor
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Daryl Wells is a registered surveyor with the State of Ohio. He is also ODOT Pre-Qualified for Right-of-Way Plan Review and Title Research. He is experienced in preparing boundary and ALTA surveys for Corporate and Private clients. Mr. Wells has performed site surveying on various projects requiring calculations consisting of vertical and horizontal control circuits, instrument control including prism constants, as well as determination of boundary line, section line and range line locations. Mr. Wells is known for his meticulously thorough record research and regularly performs title searches for property survey including research of utility and other easement information. He was awarded 2003 Chapter Professional of the Year by the IR/WA in recognition of his professional integrity and dedication to the survey profession. Mr. Wells has been a member of IR/WA Chapter 13 since 1989, held positions as Treasurer, President, International Director, Survey Committee Chair. Started the annual Survey/Engineering Day Seminar in 2001 that continues today, the first was 9/11/2001. Coordinated or Co-Coordinated 18 - day long seminars. 2006 started providing continuing education certificates for Surveyors and Engineers.
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Hobby:Reading
Season:Spring or Fall
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Cartoon Character:Dilbert
Color:Blue
Dave Thornton
Survey Crew Chief
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David has been with Environmental Design Group since 1993. He resides in Plain Township and has two daughters, Samantha and Dana. In his free time, Dave enjoys fishing, shooting, and reading.
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David Pulay, PE
Project Engineer
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David has worked for 35 years for the City of Akron where 24 of those were with AMATS, the regions MPO. (AMATS is attached to the City of Akron Planning Department). He has done many types of work there from collecting field data to managing the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). He started working with safety shortly after he started at AMATS and developed a passion for it. He also reviewed traffic impact studies and worked with congestion analysis studies. As the TIP Manager he learned a tremendous amount about federal transportation funding and how the process works.
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Hobby:Making things from wood, especially bird houses and feeders, airplanes, cars, fixing things, outdoor activities.
Season:Summer
Happy Place:Downstairs in my workshop or in my recliner with the dogs.
Cartoon Character:Yosemite Sam
Color:Red
Deanna Uhl, EIT
Design Engineer
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Deanna has experience in the municipal and water industry including sanitary sewer rehabilitation and replacement design, water main design, and site design. She also has experience in permitting and has certifications that include Confined Space Entry, OSHA 10 Hour Construction, and Personal Protective Equipment.
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Hobby:Gardening
Season:Summer
Happy Place:Arboretum or Metropark
Cartoon Character:Scooby-Doo
Color:Green
Dennis Stoffer, PE, PS
Director of Survey
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Dennis is a Professional Engineer and Surveyor in the State of Ohio. He has experience in surveying for public and private clients and has directed and performed all aspects of surveying. Dennis has been responsible for surveying and right-of-way plan preparation for federally funded projects and has completed the ODOT Right-of-Way Plan Development Training Course.
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Hobby:Golf
Season:Fall
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Cartoon Character:Tasmanian Devil
Color:Red
Doug Briggs, PE, PS
Director
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Mr. Briggs is a professional engineer and professional land surveyor with more than 35 years of experience. He will be leading the Environmental Design Group project team. He has provided and managed right-of-way acquisition for numerous roadway and bridge projects of various sizes both while working directly for ODOT and while working as a consultant. Mr. Briggs holds a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering and has completed the relevant ODOT training courses. While serving as the regional projects’ manager for ODOT’s Southwest Region and providing acquisition services for Districts 7, 8 and 9, he cleared over 1,600 parcels having a value of approximately $37 million. As a consultant, Mr. Briggs has provided project management on Ohio Department of Transportation agreements involving right-of-way acquisition, surveying and right-of-way plan development. ODOT Projects include: MOT-75-6.36 (West Carrollton interchange), ALL-65-8.02, and smaller projects in Clermont and Butler counties. LPA project locations include: Fairfield, Kettering, Beavercreek, Huber Heights, Athens, Mason, Fairborn, Tiffin and Washington Township and Lewisburg. He has also provided easement acquisition management for utilities that include electric, water and telecommunications.
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Douglas Raters, PE
Project Manager
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Mr. Raters is a registered professional engineer in the State of Ohio. He has over 35 years of experience in transportation engineering and management. He has completed ODOT training courses including property management, right of way plan development and eminent domain law changes. As the District 8 Real Estate Administrator, Mr. Raters managed the acquisition process, right of way plan development and review, project scoping, property management, and railroad coordination and utility relocation. He was responsible for setting project acquisition schedules and budgets, task order contracts/utilization, funds encumbrance, and right of way certification. For EDG, Mr. Raters is providing project management and support for ROW, survey, and acquisition.
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Hobby:Home remodeling, Car Repairs
Season:Early Fall
Happy Place:Sipping Coffee on the Front Porch
Cartoon Character:Foghorn Leghorn
Color:Blue
Dwayne Groll, PE, LEED AP
CEO/Chairman of the Board
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Dwayne is responsible for leading the Client Service Groups and Professional Service Groups that execute transportation and traffic projects; water, wastewater and stormwater management projects; environmental investigation and remediation projects; parks, trails and greenway projects; and institutional and land development projects.
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Hobby:Classic Muscle Cars
Season:Fall
Happy Place:Reading historical fiction novels
Cartoon Character:Popeye
Color:Purple
Eleanor Frey
Land Planner
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Eleanor has experience in residential and commercial design, park planning, and sustainable infrastructure. She has been involved in all aspects of the design and construction process, with special interest in 3D modeling and renderings to help clients see the vision of the project come to life.
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Hobby:Painting, reading & figure Skating
Season:Spring
Happy Place:Anywhere with sunshine and wildflowers
Cartoon Character:Dory - Finding Nemo
Color:Purple
Emma Fischer
Proposal Coordinator
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Emma graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design! Some of her strengths as a designer are social media design, typography, layout, photo and video editing, and creative direction. Her past design experience includes working part-time designing CD covers. She has worked for Design by Nine, a student-led design firm, creating brochures, logos, posters, etc. for clients. She was also part of a student-led team, providing creative direction for UNKNWN, Lebron’s retail space in downtown Akron. Regardless of the job, she wants to be able to exercise her creative skillset and have room to grow as a designer and photographer. She has a wide range of skills she hopes to put into practice and is excited to gain more professional experience.
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Hobby:Photography
Season:Fall
Happy Place:My room, a park, or a concert
Cartoon Character:Gumball from Amazing World of Gumball
Color:Green
Eric Derstine
Associate Project Manager
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Eric has a background in horticulture, earning his undergraduate degree in plant science at Penn State. Upon graduation, he has worked for the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, a commercial landscape company and operated his own residential landscape design/build company in North Carolina. Before starting at EDG, Eric earned his Master of Landscape Architecture at NC State. Eric is also an ISA certified Arborist.
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Hobby:Hiking
Season:Fall
Happy Place:Any place that involves hiking and mountains!
Cartoon Character:Patrick Star
Color:John Deere Green
Eric Miller
Survey Crew Chief
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Eric has been doing survey work for 12 years. He has experience in performing boundary work, topography, AHAs, and construction staking. Eric has a passion for what he does and has high standards for the work he performs.
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Hobby:Working on cars
Season:Summer
Happy Place:Gym
Cartoon Character:Foghorn Leghorn
Color:Blue
Eric Ostrowski, EIT
Design Engineer
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Eric is currently a senior Civil Engineering student at the University of Mount Union. He resides in Austintown, Ohio with his mom Ann, his dad John, and his younger sister Julie. In his free time he enjoys golfing, fishing, watching sports, and spending time with friends and family.
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Francisco Prado
Design Engineer
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Francisco has experience in engineering design, construction management, code review and structural calculations.
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Hobby:Working out
Season:Summer
Happy Place:The gym
Cartoon Character:Bugs Bunny
Color:Blue
Frank Bronzo
Principal
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Frank has civil engineering experience in project inspection, design, project management, budgetary tracking and monitoring. He specializes in transportation infrastructure improvements; engineering studies; inspection; construction supervision; contract document preparation and review; storm sewer systems; and water and wastewater systems.
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Hobby:Trap Shooting, Fishing, Golf, Gardening, Hiking
Season:Spring
Happy Place:On a Lake
Cartoon Character:Tasmanian Devil
Color:Navy Blue
Holly Henriksen, PLA, ASLA, LEED AP BD+C
Senior Landscape Architect
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Holly is a Professional Landscape Architect and LEED Accredited Professional with a LEED BD+C (LEED Building Design and Construction) designation who has provided documentation for 29 LEED registered projects, to date. Holly offers landscape architectural planning and design experience in a variety of project types.
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Hobby:Reading
Season:Spring
Happy Place:The beach
Cartoon Character:Bubbles from the Powerpuff Girls
Color:Blue
Hunter Durbin, PE
Associate Project Manager
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Hunter has experience in stormwater management, and linear transportation planning and design. He recently researched smart-data applications for storm and wastewater management as part of his honor’s project. Hunter is well-versed in the use of software programs such as AutoCAD, EPANET, EPA SWMM, GIS, HEC-RAS, HydroCAD and PCSWMM.
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Hobby:Music
Season:Fall
Happy Place:Out on a hike
Cartoon Character:Patrick Star
Color:Green
Jacob Peterson
Survey Field Technician
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Jake has a wide range of knowledge in the field of surveying, including the operation of robotic total stations, GPS, and AutoCAD. As a survey crew member, Jake has performed construction layout surveys for buildings, heavy highway, curb, storm, bridges, tunnels and utilities.
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Hobby:Golfing
Season:Summer
Happy Place:The Lake/Beach
Cartoon Character:Scooby Doo
Color:Green
James Harrison
Construction Project Engineer
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James has experience in project management for water resources projects and inspection for geotechnical projects. James is responsible for documentation of utility work, pavement installation, and drainage elements on projects, as well as providing stakeholder coordination with businesses and residents.
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Hobby:Golf
Season:Fall
Happy Place:Outdoors
Cartoon Character:Wolverine
Color:Hunter Green
Jeff Carr
Associate Director
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Jeff has over 32 years of engineering experience and is a U.S. Army combat veteran. Jeff has been involved with projects ranging from small to large and from inception to construction closeout; including client development, conceptual planning, funding procurement, engineering reports, design and plan preparation, project bidding and construction administration and inspection.
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Hobby:Art and backpacking
Season:Winter
Happy Place:Snow covered woods
Cartoon Character:Spiderman
Color:Grey
Jeremy Osborn, CPESC, CPSWQ
Associate Project Manager
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Jeremy is a storm water design expert. He has 23 years of design experience including culvert sizing, stormwater management controls, SWP3, hydraulic studies, and lake design.
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Hobby:Motocross Racing
Season:Fall
Happy Place:An early crisp fall morning with equipment warming up.
Cartoon Character:Wile E. Coyote
Color:Blue, Black, & Red
Jeremy Ousley, PE
Project Manager
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Jeremy has experience in site design engineering and municipal utility projects. Jeremy provides experience in public and private site design including stormwater management design, site drainage and grading, site layout, water and sewer main conveyance system design, erosion and sediment control and property survey and easement coordination.
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Hobby:Traveling & visiting parks with family
Season:Summer
Happy Place:On the road
Cartoon Character:Hank Hill
Color:Green
Jeremy Schaffner, PE
Project Manager
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Jeremy is a project engineer who possesses over 8 years of experience in leading the design of various transportation and municipal projects. His project experience includes geometric, drainage, culvert, maintenance of traffic, and signing and marking design. He also has experience in land development and hydrologic modeling.
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Hobby:Sports
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Jessie Hornyak
Business Administrator
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Jessie has experience in both project planning and scheduling in the residential construction industry. She is heavily focused on time management, efficient data entry, and customer satisfaction. She is looking forward to facilitating processes for her POD to make their jobs easier.
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Hobby:Reading suspense/thriller novels
Season:Summer
Happy Place:Clearwater Beach, FL
Cartoon Character:Ariel from the Little Mermaid
Color:Blue
Jill Pfeiffer-Ward, PE, CPESC, LEED AP
Director of Site Development
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Jill engages in all stages of the project life cycle from initiation through project close out with a strong client focus. Jill has a wide-range of experience working within healthcare, corporate campuses, industrial, zoo facilities and education markets. Jill offers the design team sustainable solutions that connect people to their environment and providing lasting and positive outcome for the owners and end users.
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Hobby:Gardening
Season:Winter
Happy Place:Coffee Tree Ridge
Cartoon Character:Katara
Color:Green
James Ruemping, PS
Project Surveyor
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Have been a Professional Surveyor for 45 years. Have done many boundaries, topographical surveys, construction staking, machine alignment and reviewed surveys for the Montgomery County Engineer.
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Hobby:Golf
Season:Spring
Happy Place:Home
Cartoon Character:Bugs Bunny
Color:Blue
John Donnelly, PE
Project Manager
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John is a PE (Professional Engineer) and has considerable experience in project management and thrives overseeing large projects with tight timelines and budgets. Serving as the Director of Municipal Services in Tipp City, Ohio, John was project manager and the point of contact for all projects for all projects in the City, including all projects with Tipp Electric, Water and Sewer. John has a Masters of Public Administration (MPA) and three other Master's degrees and is preparing to begin a doctoral study program. John is pre approved with ODOT in negotiations and titles.
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Hobby:Playing soccer and playing the piano.
Season:Fall
Happy Place:Where ever my family is located.
Cartoon Character:Bugs Bunny
Color:Orange
John Jarman
Business Development Manager
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John brings over 20 years’ experience in Communications and Management. He lives in Columbus and enjoys spending time with the love of his life Abby and his four adult children: Jaslyn, Jaelyn, Jonathan, and James. John had a brief tenure as a radio personality and as a news anchor in North Carolina, where he hails from originally, and is a big UNC “Tarheels” basketball fan.
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Hobby:Playing Guitar
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Happy Place:Cancun
Cartoon Character:Captain America
Color:Carolina Blue
John Mandula
Business Development Executive
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John has experience in business development creating new relationships with clients and maintaining those relationships as a trusted advisor. He has experience with ODOT and LPA projects. John is a member of ASHE Cuyahoga Valley and Lake Erie sections. He is a member of WTS and also belongs to MEANEO as well.
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Hobby:Coaching my kids
Season:Summer
Happy Place:Summer
Cartoon Character:Leonardo
Color:Blue
John Swihart
Construction Inspector
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John has experience in transportation improvement projects including bridge and roadway replacement and rehabilitation. He has also inspected sanitary sewer rehabilitation and replacements, and waterline replacements. He is well-versed in ODOT specifications and inspection procedures and has worked on construction projects for more than 25 years.
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Hobby:Bowling & Golf
Season:Anything but winter
Happy Place:The beach
Cartoon Character:Bugs Bunny
Color:Royal Blue
Julie Langenfeld, PE
Design Engineer
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Julie is a registered PE and brings a background in flood risk mapping and hydraulic modeling, with growing experience in other areas of water resources engineering and municipal services such as stream restoration and water main design. She is skilled in GIS data management & mapping and has experience preparing technical documents and performing quality reviews.
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Hobby:Bicycling
Season:Summer
Happy Place:Neighborhood Pizzeria
Cartoon Character:Bulbasaur
Color:Purple
Justin Duluc, EIT
Design Engineer
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Justin is a recent graduate with a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Civil Engineering who always aspires to be learning. He has experience in primarily urban design and multi modal transportation, but has also experienced project types such as ODOT, environmental design, construction inspection, park and trail design, and more. He has his E.I.T Certification and acts as a Design Engineer with hopes to continue to grow in his career.
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Hobby:Relaxing videogames
Season:Summer
Happy Place:Outdoors in the Sun
Cartoon Character:The Flash
Color:Blue
Katie Wellert
Environmental Scientist
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Katie is an experienced environmental professional. Her professional experience includes preparation of Phase I ESA reports, fuel permitting activities, and coordination with state and local agencies. She conducts wetland and surface water delineations, prepares planting plans, and is knowledgeable in plant identification.
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Hobby:Gardening
Season:Fall
Happy Place:Appalachian Mountains
Cartoon Character:Archer
Color:Green
Kellie Pike, PE, ENV, SP, CFM
Project Manager
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Kellie is a registered PE with experience in projects involving streams/river mechanics, retention/detention ponds and spillways, wetlands, open channel flow, and BMPs. Kellie’s skills allow her to apply professional principals, practices, and techniques to research and design water resources projects that aid in restoring our natural environment.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Kayaking & Skiing
Season:Fall
Happy Place:In nature
Cartoon Character:Tigger
Color:Blue
Kerry Gerich, PLA, ASLA, CLARB
Project Manager
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Kerry is a licensed Landscape Architect with diverse experience in environmental design and horticulture. Her extensive native plant knowledge provides a nuanced perspective, focusing on sustainability of natural systems in the built environment. Scope of projects includes parks and recreation, river fronts, academic and corporate campuses and mixed use developments. Kerry contributes throughout all stages of design including pre-development, conceptual design, design development and construction documentation.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Gardening
Season:Spring
Happy Place:Beach or garden
Cartoon Character:Donald Duck
Color:Turquoise
Kyle Erickson
Designer
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Kyle graduated from Stark State College with a Civil Engineering Degree in December of 2019. He has over two years of experience with Civil 3D. Kyle has worked on existing and proposed site plans, and improvement plans for residential and commercial buildings. He also has experience in reviewing plats, surveys, and ALTAS.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Making video games
Season:Spring
Happy Place:Beach
Cartoon Character:Eeyore
Color:Blue
Kyle Lukes, PLA, ASLA
Associate Director, Trails & Active Transportation
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Kyle has expertise working on projects in the parks, trails and greenways, institutional, commercial and governmental markets. Kyle’s experience includes parks, trails and greenway planning and design, site inventory and analysis, schematic site design, commercial landscape design, wetland and stream delineation, monitoring, and mitigation/restoration design.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Railfan
Season:I like the mall
Happy Place:the outdoors
Cartoon Character:Roger Rabbit
Color:Orange
Laura Boyle
POD Administrator
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I am a POD Administrator for the Mason office. My current duties include proposal draft and review, invoice review, assisting coworkers and assisting the Mason Director. I have experience with ODOT invoicing and contract negotiations, running payroll and invoice preparations. My goal is to help our people whether they are client or employee. My office nicknames are "Mom" and "Radar O'Reilly"
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Favorites:
Hobby:Reading and playing Stardew Valley or Animal Crossing
Season:Fall
Happy Place:My Dad's farm in Michigan
Cartoon Character:Bugs Bunny
Color:Purple
Laura Hengle
Marketing Manager
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Laura has a long career in marketing as the "brand ambassador" for her previous company. In the past, she has taken the marketing plan from idea to creation to implementation and back again. She currently sits on the board of CREW Cleveland, is a classically trained singer and proud wife and mother.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Singing
Season:Spring
Happy Place:Stan Hywet Halls & Gardens
Cartoon Character:Mickey Mouse
Color:Red
Lauren Argyros
Marketing Proposal Coordinator
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Lauren is an experienced marketing professional with 3 years in the A/E/C industry. As the proposal coordinator, she helps to drive business development initiatives through the management of all aspects regarding RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs. This includes managing the process, organizing deliverables, and creating content in collaboration with the firm's subject matter experts.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Spending time with good people while eating good food
Season:Fall
Happy Place:In nature, near water
Cartoon Character:Blossom - the pink Powerpuff girl
Color:Dusty Lavender
Lauren Koch
Marketing Coordinator
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With a bachelor’s in communication studies, Lauren is a versatile marketing coordinator with a particular expertise in digital marketing. She is fluent in all aspects of the social media world, focusing on crafting innovative and engaging digital campaigns that capture the essence of our brand and strengthen company brand identity.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Running & reading
Season:Summer
Happy Place:Up north Michigan
Cartoon Character:Totoro (from My Neighbor Totoro)
Color:Forest green
Lisa Post, CXMP
Employee Experience Manager
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Lisa has 20 years of business related experience and has been in the A/E/C industry for 12 years. She started with EDG in 2009 and as the Office Manager she works with various departments such as Human Resources, Marketing, Operations and Accounting and also assists the technical teams with QA/QC on letter proposals to the client.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Anything outdoors
Season:
Happy Place:Beach
Cartoon Character:Donkey (Shrek)
Color:Green
Lu Ann Unrue
President/Chief Operating Officer
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As Chief Strategy Officer and Managing Principal, Lu Ann is responsible for growth strategy, client development strategy, and leading and guiding company operations to ensure company goals are achieved. In 2012, Lu Ann along with 4 other partners purchased the northeast Ohio office and re-formed Environmental Design Group.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Cooking & Baking
Season:Fall
Happy Place:Las Vegas
Cartoon Character:Wilma Flinstone
Color:Purple
Luke Happensack
Survey Field Technician
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Luke went to Sinclair for two years for Anthropology and Psychology. He is now a survey technician in which he has learned through direct experience out in the field. Luke hopes to learn more as he goes along. He mostly does field work and help with all that! He plays music and video games in his free time!
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Favorites:
Hobby:Shredding sick riffs and playing Xbox
Season:Autumn
Happy Place:In Nature at peace of course!
Cartoon Character:Goku
Color:Evergreen and Indigo
Maria Danko
POD Administrator
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Maria has over 25 years of office services experience in property managements, construction, and real estate development. She has extensive experience with the production of quality documents, scheduling, and office management in a variety of settings as well as client/vendor relations and customer service. She has over 15 years of Administrative Support experience in the areas of Property Management, Real Estate Development, Construction, Construction Management, and Architecture office settings. Maria is a jewelry designer and creates wire wrapped jewelry designs in her studio and other artistic creations as well. She is a nature photographer and avid birder.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Yard sales/flea markets
Season:Summer
Happy Place:In the woods birding with my camera
Cartoon Character:Foghorn leghorn
Color:Orange
Marissa Zink
Accounting Manager
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Marissa is an accomplished Accounting Manager with 7 years of experience in the field, including 4 years specializing in telecommunications construction. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Accounting and an MBA, both of which she graduated with honors. In her current role, Marissa leverages her extensive knowledge to oversee financial operations, process optimization, payroll and ensuring regulatory compliance. Her experience in telecommunications construction has equipped her with a unique perspective on industry-specific financial challenges and opportunities, enabling her to provide tailored solutions and strategic insights. With a strong foundation in accounting principles and a proven track record in the telecommunications sector, Marissa is a dynamic leader in financial management, committed to delivering results and supporting business growth.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Watching sports (football, hockey, gymnastics), hanging out with my family, baking.
Season:Fall
Happy Place:Being with my family
Cartoon Character:Moana
Color:Pink
Matt Hildebrandt, PS
Project Surveyor
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Matt is a experienced Professional Surveyor with a demonstrated history of working in the civil engineering industry. He is skilled in Land Development, AutoCAD, Residential and Commercial Boundary Surveys, ALTA Surveys, and Construction layout/stakeout.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Spending time with the kids and golfing
Season:Fall
Happy Place:With family and friends
Cartoon Character:Scooby Doo
Color:Darkwing Duck
Michael Davidson
Designer
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Michael’s experience includes roadway design and layout, storm sewer design and maintenance, waterline distribution projects, site development, plans maintenance, preparation of validation documents and reports, project site inspection and site surveying and staking. In addition to AutoCAD Civil 3D, he is competent in MicroStation, GeoPAK, and OpenRoads Designer.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Traveling with family
Season:Anything but winter
Happy Place:Amusement parks
Cartoon Character:Stimpson J. Cat
Color:Green
Michael Spade, PE
Design Engineer
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Michael has experience in construction inspection on a variety of projects. His design work has included WTP, WWTP, force mains, water mains, pump stations, booster pump stations, water tanks, and water and waste water preliminary engineering reports. Michael is active in many assets of his life, playing guitar, adult baseball leagues, and an everyday outdoorsmen.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Playing guitar
Season:Winter
Happy Place:Outside in a snow storm
Cartoon Character:Bugs Bunny
Color:Blue
Nathan Ruemping
Survey Field Technician
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Nathan has been around land surveying all his life thanks to his father being a professional surveyor. He has his real estate license, and was a personal trainer before working in his current position. I have taken many classes with ODOT. I have been working in my position for 5 years now and have been enjoying it and wanting to grow more and learn more to advance in this passion. Being outside and being in nature is something I love.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Gamer/fitness
Season:Spring/summer
Happy Place:My room
Cartoon Character:Bugs bunny
Color:Blue/green/red
Nick Barr, EIT
Associate Project Manager
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Nick is responsible for designing utilities such as storm sewers, sanitary sewers, pump stations, force mains and water lines, as well as stormwater pollution prevention design. He also prepares project manuals, cost estimates and construction documents, and has additional experience in construction administration duties, including processing bid documents, contract documents, change orders and shop drawing review.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Biking
Season:Fall
Happy Place:Oak Island, NC
Cartoon Character:Spongebob Squarepants
Color:Navy Blue
Pam Horning
Director of Accounting
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Pam has been with the Environmental Design Group for over 20 years. She attended Stark State College where she earned her associates degree in Accounting.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Travel
Season:Summer
Happy Place:By the pool
Cartoon Character:Scooby Doo
Color:Purple
Patrick Gsellman
Senior Project Professional
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Patrick has worked in the water and wastewater industry for over 43 years, spending the past 34 years with the City of Akron. A graduate of the University of Akron, Pat is a licensed professional engineer and Class III Wastewater Operator in Ohio. Pat is a proud member of the Select Society of Sanitary Sludge Shovelers and the Golden Manhole Society.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Golf
Season:Fall
Happy Place:Backyard Patio
Cartoon Character:Elmer Fudd
Color:Light Blue
Paul Butt
Senior Right-of-Way Professional
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Paul is ODOT prequalified for project management, title research, value analysis, negotiation and closings. He has a Bachelor of Science in Biology with teaching credentials and is a certified general appraiser. He was employed by ODOT for 35 years in Right of Way/ Real Estate. For 20 of those years, he managed Right of Way projects and supervised staff. He was worked for Right of Way consultant companies on both state of Ohio and local government projects. He enjoys volunteering with the local food pantry, gardening, taking walks in parks, fishing and just about anything outdoors
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Favorites:
Hobby:Taking care of and interacting with my pets.
Season:Fall
Happy Place:Thigh deep in the water off a South Carolina beach with a bait in the water feeling for a bite on the other end of my fishing line.
Cartoon Character:Dogbert
Color:Blue
Paul Feie, PS
Project Surveyor
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Paul is a professional surveyor in Ohio and Kentucky. He has worked for public and private companies, large and small. He enjoys the challenges that come with the profession. Paul also perform title searches, something he thought that he would never want to do. Paul is a deacon in the Catholic church and he volunteers at a lab rescue, transporting dogs. Paul and his wife used to love roller skating, but that is in his past.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Coin Collecting
Season:Fall
Happy Place:With God
Cartoon Character:Bugs Bunny
Color:Green
Paul Jeffers
Business Development Executive
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Paul has experience in Economic Development, Project Management, and Water Resources Engineering. He has a Civil Engineering Degree from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and a Master of Business Administration from Ohio University.
He has experience working with communities in Ohio on industrial site planning, evaluation, and preparation for competitive site selection projects.
Paul has served on the board of the Joint Economic Development District of Northern Pickaway County for the past 8 years as well as been an active member in the Ohio Economic Development Association for the past 10 years.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Playing Team Sports (this is not the hobby I have the most time for)
Season:Fall
Happy Place:My happiest place is on the beach with my kids
Cartoon Character:Bluey
Color:Green
Reneé Whittenberger, PE, RSP1
Associate Director of Transportation
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Reneé has experience in transportation planning and design including trails, transportation corridors, culvert replacements, and major interstate projects. She has extensive experience with ODOT and LPA roadway, bridge, and multi modal projects. Reneé is a proud on-road cyclist and is both a League Certified Instructor and an ODOT sponsored “How We Roll” leader.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Playing Rugby
Season:Summer
Happy Place:My house on Portage Lakes
Cartoon Character:Buttercup, the green Powerpuff Girl
Color:Pink
Rita Boswell
Principal
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Rita has over thirty years of experience in marketing, management, project administration, process improvement, and sales development. Rita also has approximately fifteen years of experience in the AEC industry and, as operations manager, coaches the administrative team and calibrates technical and operational systems/ processes to support growth and innovation.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Crochet
Season:Summer
Happy Place:The Beach
Cartoon Character:Bugs Bunny
Color:Pink
Robert Sabol, PE
Project Manager
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Robert has design experience in the trails and greenways, institutional, commercial and government markets. His experience includes trail design, commercial site design, stormwater modeling, roadway improvement design and construction inspection.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Theme Parks
Season:Fall
Happy Place:Orlando
Cartoon Character:Hercules
Color:Orange
Russell Crotty
Survey Crew Chief
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Russell is a detail-oriented professional with experience and proven knowledge as a field surveyor. He is skilled in boundary, ALTA, and topographic surveys, as well as data collection utilizing robotic total station. Russell’s experience includes construction layout and coordinating and supervising crew members.
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Ryan Biasella
Senior Designer
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Ryan has 10 years of experience drafting in homebuilding. His main focus was on adjustments, additions, complete redesigns, structures and problem solving as well as mentoring new hires. He values the mentality of continuous learning which he strives to do in many areas such as his career, parenting and investing.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Working on my house, car or lawn
Season:Winter when there is snow
Happy Place:On my lawn mower
Cartoon Character:Miles Morales from Spiderman into the Spider Verse
Color:Any bright colors (I'm colorblind to pastels)
Samuel Adams
CADD Technician
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Samuel has experience in roadway and water planning and design and extensive experience with C.O.C and ODOT projects. He is also a proud sports coach and certified OSHAA Umpire.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Coaching Football and Baseball
Season:Summer
Happy Place:Hocking Hills
Cartoon Character:Bugs Bunny
Color:Red
Scott Bickley, PE
Senior Project Manager
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Scott has experience in land development projects including residential subdivisions, commercial sites, and healthcare facilities. He has experience throughout the entire process of a project from concept to post construction.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Sports & Camping
Season:Fall
Happy Place:Allegany State Park
Cartoon Character:Goofy
Color:Blue & Green
Scott Cook, PE
Senior Project Engineer
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Scott specializes in roadway design for ODOT and other public agencies and has extensive civil engineering design experience that includes drainage design and hydraulics, stream and river hydraulic and hydrologic analysis, right-of-way engineering, traffic engineering and traffic studies, highway and street lighting, utility engineering and land surveying.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Fishing or agriculture
Season:Summer
Happy Place:My dad's farm or the beach
Cartoon Character:Johnny Quest
Color:Black
Sela Jones
Design Engineer
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Sela is heading into her senior year at Youngstown State University this fall and will graduate with a bachelor's degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering in the spring of 2024. Last summer, she worked as an intern at a construction management firm. This summer she looks forward to working on the design and planning side of the transportation sector.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Spending time with my friends and family (especially my baby nephew)
Season:Fall
Happy Place:The Beach
Cartoon Character:Kim Possible
Color:Navy
Shelly Freshwater
Marketing & CX Administrator
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Shelly is a Project Administrator for Environmental Design Group where she prepares, reviews, and processes various documents for the firm. Although Shelly is new to the A/E/C industry, she brings 20 years of experience working for a large corporate retail company. Shelly also volunteers for several non-profit organizations within the community.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Couponing
Season:Fall
Happy Place:Anywhere with my family
Cartoon Character:Rainbow Brite
Color:Magenta
Stefanie Smith, RA
Technical Director
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Stefanie is a licensed architect and sustainability professional with success leading architectural, higher education and private sector teams to achieve performance goals. She demonstrates strengths in leadership, project management, communication, design and problem resolution. Her work portfolio includes strategy formation, stakeholder engagement, sustainability assessments, project development and implementation.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Trail running & hiking
Season:Late summer & early Fall
Happy Place:Priest Lake, Idaho
Cartoon Character:The Snowman
Color:Maroon
Steve Newman
Construction Inspector
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Steve spent 10 years in supply chain management. His field experience includes bridge and heavy highway construction, utilities, erosion and sediment control, intersections, lighting and traffic control. Steve managed the construction of networks of interactive kiosks in downtown Baltimore and Cleveland.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Building model wood ships
Season:Summer
Happy Place:Emerald Isle, NC
Cartoon Character:Bugs Bunny
Color:Scarlet
Steven Kolarik, PLA, ASLA
Associate Project Manager
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Steven is a Landscape Architect who has been with Environmental Design Group since 2013 and is an alumni of The Ohio State University. He is passionate for creating sustainable experiences that impact the local community and his professional experience includes recreational, institutional, and comprehensive land use plans.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Mountain Biking
Season:Autumn
Happy Place:The gym at 5AM
Cartoon Character:Archer
Color:Nogaro Blue
Susan Derwacter, PE
Director of Transportation
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Susan is a transportation engineer with over 20 years of experience. She manages projects including roadway improvements, traffic analysis and planning, safety studies, signalization, water distribution, and active transportation for local municipalities and ODOT. Susan is a member of the “Focus on Fatalities” committee and an advocate for roadway safety.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Travel
Season:Spring
Happy Place:Anywhere with family
Cartoon Character:Jimmy Neutron
Color:Blue
Tammi Nagucki, CPSM, CXMP
Chief Marketing Officer
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Tammi leads a team of marketing professionals who specialize in graphic design, videography/photography, copywriting/editing, digital marketing platforms, community outreach/event planning, and strategic campaign management. Tammi and her team have recently won two 2019 and three 2020 Zweig National Marketing Awards.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Travel
Season:Fall
Happy Place:Soccer sideline
Cartoon Character:Bugs Bunny
Color:Crimson
Terry Fercana
Business Development Executive
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Terry has almost 40 years of marketing, communications and business development experience and has been in the A/E/C industry for more than 20 years. She joined EDG in 2014 where she implements internal and external business development strategies – including client relations, project pursuits and mentoring staff. She recently served on Planning Commission and is currently a member of the Records Commission for the City of Munroe Falls.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Going to the Casino
Season:Fall
Happy Place:On the beach
Cartoon Character:Donald Duck
Color:Black
Thomas Sweeney
Survey Field Technician
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Thomas has an astrophysics degree from Illinois Institute of Technology. As a field technician, he assists in finding and setting property pins, right of way monuments, setting up and running the total station and GPS units for survey, and setting hubs and lath for poles and right of way on construction jobs.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Video games
Season:Summer
Happy Place:Gym
Cartoon Character:Sokka
Color:Orange
Tim Gunter
Design Engineer
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Tim has experience designing single lot house projects and working on survey jobs such as lot splits and consolidations. He also has experience reviewing plats.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Video Games
Season:Winter
Happy Place:Cedar Point
Cartoon Character:Mash from Fate/Grand Order
Color:Purple
Tim Jewell
Senior Designer
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Tim has experience in the design of private and municipal projects. Tim’s responsibilities include the preparation of construction documents for a wide variety of civil related projects, including site design, parking and grading plans, storm and sanitary projects, subdivisions development plans, roadway and bike path plans, and site earthwork calculations.
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Cartoon Character:Stitch
Color:Green
Todd Moore, PE
Construction Project Engineer
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Todd is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Ohio (PE.57969). He graduated from The Ohio State University in 1989. He worked for the Ohio Department of Transportation for 31.5 years (mostly in District 11). His background is in Construction Management with an emphasis in Dispute Resolution. Todd is an avid gun collector.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Target Shooting
Season:Fall
Happy Place:Shooting Range
Cartoon Character:Bugs Bunny
Color:Scarlet
Tom James
Park Development Specialist
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Tom is a seasoned park professional with over forty years of progressive park management experience in budget management, personnel management, strategic planning, project development and management, public speaking, grant writing, and inter-agency cooperation.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Wood Working
Season:Spring
Happy Place:The beach at the ocean
Cartoon Character:Bugs Bunny
Color:Red
Tom Pitko
Survey Design Engineer
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Tom has experience in surveying including construction layout, leveling, setting/searching for monuments, and conducting point cloud scans. He has some experience using MicroStation and Open Roads platforms. Currently he is working towards obtaining his PE, PS licensure. He has worked on projects dealing with site design, transmission/distribution power line layout and design, and roadway design.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Painting
Season:Fall
Happy Place:Being Outside
Cartoon Character:Peter Griffin
Color:Green
Whitney Megyes
Accounting Assistant
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Whitney is our Office Administrator and handles front desk duties as well as letter proposals and supporting technical teams with administrative duties.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Shopping
Season:Fall
Happy Place:Tennessee or Colorado
Cartoon Character:Rainbow Brite
Color:Red
William Troyer, PE
Design Engineer
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William’s experience includes design work in AutoCAD creating construction documents; creating alignments, surfaces, earthwork quantities, and sewer pipe networks; designing grading for wastewater management; construction site inspection; using construction documents to develop a cost estimate; and working in teams to find solutions to project challenges.
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Favorites:
Hobby:Gardening
Season:Spring
Happy Place:Backyard Hammock
Cartoon Character:Jerry Smith
Color:Red