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Derek Piper has been named area manager for Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas in Columbia, S.C., the U.S. infrastructure arm of Parsons Brinckerhoff. He will be responsible for managing PB's operations in South Carolina.

Piper has 20 years of experience in designing and managing civil and transportation engineering projects. He previously served as a supervising civil engineer at PB.

William G. Morthland was recently appointed vice president and Florida operations manager for Hunt Construction Group of Tampa. Morthland joins Hunt with 25 years of Florida market experience. Over the past 10 years, he has served in an executive level capacity with Sverdrup, Welbro/Baker Mellon Stuart and Turner Construction Co.

Susan Jenkins has joined Skanska USA Building of Orlando as vice president and project executive. Her responsibilities include supporting and expanding the operations team and business development efforts of the Orlando office.

Jenkins brings over 24 years of experience to Skanska. She previously served as the managing director for Triad Investors, a commercial real estate development company and as senior vice president of Morse Diesel International in New York, where she was in charge of on-site construction operations for the aviation sector.

Brent Heath was hired as project manager in the water/wastewater group in Jones Edmunds' Gainesville, Fla., office. Heath has more than 12 years of experience in the water/wastewater industry. Prior to joining Jones Edmunds, Heath was with McKim & Creed in Clearwater, Fla., for six years. He recently relocated to Gainesville, Fla., with his wife and two children.

Heath will be responsible for project and client management on a variety of design projects including wastewater collection and treatment, reclaimed water transmission and water distribution systems.

J.R Crowell was hired as director of Rosser International's education design studio in Atlanta. He will be responsible for the project management, design and marketing of he firm's education projects throughout the country.

Crowell brings 25 years of experience in the comprehensive design and project management of education, laboratory, commercial and high-security government facilities. Prior to joining Rosser, he served as a vice president for HOK in that firm's Greenville, S.C., office.

Alycen Whiddon has joined HDR in Atlanta as community planning and urban design business group manager. She brings more than 25 years of experience in community planning, urban design, comprehensive plans and zoning code development and administration.

Before joining HDR, Whiddon served as a principal with Tunnell-Spangler-Walsh & Associates.

Mike Martindill has joined The Haskell Co. of Jacksonville, Fla., as director of business development for the company's newly formed parking solutions division. Martindill has 25 years' experience with parking structures and has been involved in the planning, design and construction of more than 200 parking projects. He previously worked for Walker Parking Consultants in Atlanta where he was director of business development and senior parking consultant

Also, 20-year Haskell veteran Denise Ramsey was promoted to corporate chief engineer and vice president. With her promotion, Denise Ramsey will be responsible for promoting engineering practice across the company, serve as an external spokeswoman for Haskell's engineering practice and will work with state licensing agencies to maintain the company's professional engineering practice and ethics.

Paul Macheske was named director of healthcare architecture at HuntonBrady Architects in Orlando. Macheske will be responsible for promoting best practices, quality control and recruitment of professional staff. He has more than 15 years of experience in healthcare design.

The firm also announced the addition of Marianne Dorbish as a designer in the interior design department. Also, Evan Hussey will serve as construction administrator on commercial and education projects. Robert DiLena will serve as a senior project coordinator on health care projects. He has over 20 years of experience in design, project coordination, code research and programming.

WilsonMiller, a Naples, Fla.-based planning, design and engineering firm, recently hired Iqbal Hossain as a senior project manager in its Fort Myers, Fla., office. Hossain has more than of 12 years of engineering experience in water and wastewater treatment plant planning, studies, design and construction.

The firm also hired Kathleen G. Prutos as business communications manager in its Naples office. Prutos has 25 years of professional experience as a senior executive and consultant, including 17 years as president and CEO of Prutos Public Relations of Naples, and eight years with Chicago-based Bozell & Jacobs.

Daniel A. Dock, a 28-year veteran of the bridge consulting industry, is the new vice president-engineering for Finley Engineering Group in Tallahassee.

Prior to joining FEG, Dock was responsible for the overall operations, business development and project oversight for Parsons Corporation's bridge engineering and bridge construction inspection offices in North Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Tennessee.

Richard Peebles was recently promoted to senior vice president at Hardin Construction Co. in Atlanta. Peebles is in his 12th year as a Hardin associate, having joined the firm in 1993 as a project manager.

Also, Borja Del Nido was promoted to project manager in Hardin's Orlando office. Del Nido joined Hardin in January 2004 as an assistant project manager. Also promoted to project manager in Orlando was Randy Brownell. Brownell joined Hardin in 2001 as an assistant project manager.

Also, Bryan Smith and Alex Fox were recently promoted to the position of superintendent.

Smith joined Hardin in 2002 and was promoted to project area superintendent in 2004. Fox began his career with Hardin in 1998 as an hourly field engineer.

Thomas Harrelson has joined Earth Tech as vice president of business development for its transportation business in the southeastern United States. Harrelson will be responsible for the development of large-scale transportation projects in Florida. Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee.

Prior to accepting his new position, Harrelson worked as a consultant in the transportation and water/wastewater markets for Earth Tech.

Lynn Rutan has been promoted to vice president of marketing for Christiano Construction Co. of Clearwater, Fla. Rutan has more than 11 years experience in the construction and engineering industry and is responsible for strategic business development.

Philip L. Trezza, Jr. has been promoted to associate at Harvard Jolly Architects in St. Petersburg, Fla. Trezza joined Harvard Jolly in 2000.

Douglas E. Smith has joined Clancy & Theys Construction Co. of Orlando as superintendent. Smith is a 25-year commercial construction veteran.

The Stellar Group of Jacksonville, Fla., recently announced several promotions. Tim Dickson was named senior project manager in Stellar's process division, where he will be responsible for project development, design and management of project activities. He has nine years of design and construction experience.

Scott Mark was also promoted to senior project manager for the process division. Mark has more than seven years of related experience in construction of food processing and commercial facilities.

Reymond Prieto was promoted to senior project manager for the refrigeration parts and service division. Prieto began his career at Stellar more than nine years ago as an engineering intern focused on the design of ammonia refrigeration systems. Subsequently, he has held the positions of field engineer, design engineer, and most recently, project manager of refrigeration projects.

Tom Draper was promoted to senior project manager for the commercial division. He has more than 15 years experience in commercial, industrial, educational, highway and transportation projects and is a four-year veteran of Stellar.

Buck Smoak was also promoted to senior project manager in the commercial division. Smoak has more than 16 years of experience in design/build and construction management.

Tim Baldwin, a vice president with engineering and surveying firm McKim & Creed of Cary, N.C., has been named director of total water management. In this new role, he is responsible for researching and planning for emerging trends in water management.

Also, John Farnsworth has joined McKim & Creed as the engineering manager of the Cary office. During his 30-year career, Farnsworth has managed the technical and administrative operations of a full-service engineering and architectural firm in the Midwest. In his role as engineering office manager, he is responsible for facilitating projects, maintaining client-relationships and energizing technical teams.

Richard L. Spreitzer, Jr., has been named facility assessment task coordinator at NexDSS in Kennesaw, Ga. He will also serve as in-house roofing consultant.

Spreitzer has more than 20 years of facility assessment experience in the roofing and construction industry.

Chris Dover was recently promoted to the position of sales representative for Thompson Pump & Manufacturing Co.'s Orlando branch location.

Dover previously served as a field service technician for two years. His territory will include Orange, Osceola and Polk counties.