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ON THE MOVE WALTER P MOORE ANNOUNCES AUSTIN LEADERSHIP TRANSITION International engineering firm Walter P Moore announced that Brian Caudle, P.E., managing director of the firm’s Austin office, stepped down. Adam Johnson, P.E., S.E., LEED AP has assumed the managing directorship and office leadership with Caudle’s ongoing support. Caudle, a 30-year veteran of Walter P Moore who has led the Austin office since shortly after its inception in 2001, is stepping down to focus more on managing projects and mentoring staff. Through steady leadership and with a positive and energetic spirit, Caudle has led the office and built it into an outstanding success. After 18 years of leadership, recognizing the strong pipeline of talent in the office, Caudle expressed a desire to give to someone else the opportunity to lead, allowing him to focus on his areas of highest passion – project management and mentoring others. Over the last few years, he has worked hard to position the Austin office and its upcoming leadership to take the reins and continue with the same success. Dilip Choudhuri, Walter P Moore president and CEO, said, “Brian has anchored the leadership of the Austin office since its beginning in 2001 and grown our presence in Austin over the years. We thank him for his years of leadership as managing director and wish him the very best for his future role within our firm.” Johnson, principal, a structural engineer at Walter P Moore since 2004, has been promoted to managing director of the Structures Group in the firm’s Austin office. Johnson will be taking over leadership of the
Austin office while working closely with Caudle and Austin’s Operations Manager Brent Wenger, P.E. Additionally, Johnson will have the support of Structures Group Design Director Viral Patel, P.E., S.E., who is located in Austin, and Dennis Wittry, P.E., S.E., Regional Director for Central Texas. Johnson has led Walter P Moore’s efforts on a variety of important projects in Austin such as The Oracle Waterfront Campus, Austin Planning and Development Center, Employee Retirement System of Texas Office Building, and Arena Tower. Outside of Austin, Johnson led the firm’s efforts on the United Airlines Consolidated Flight Training Center Renovation in Denver, Colorado, The Quarry Run Regional Operations Center in San Antonio, and several towers in Panama City, Panama. “Adam’s collaborative leadership style will continue the success that we have had in Austin into the foreseeable future. He is well-liked and trusted by our most important clients and we wish him a lot of success as the new Managing Director of the Structures Group, Austin,” remarked Choudhuri. Walter P Moore is an international company of engineers, innovators, and creative people who solve some of the world’s most complex structural and infrastructure challenges. Providing structural, diagnostics, civil, traffic, parking, transportation, enclosure, technology consulting, and construction engineering services, they design solutions that are cost- and resource-efficient, forward-thinking, and help support and shape communities worldwide.
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