Justin C. Reeves, P.E., LEED AP, (age 37) team leader and senior associate, Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, Inc. (LAN), Fort Worth, Texas, leads the municipal infrastructure teams for LAN’s Dallas and Fort Worth offices and is responsible for water, wastewater, drainage, and roadway design projects throughout the region. He has supported more than 500,000 linear feet of pipeline design ranging from 6 inches to 108 inches in diameter and has experience with more than 100,000 linear feet of trenchless utility installation or pipeline rehabilitation. Reeves is responsible for staff development, client relations, and market growth in the region, averaging more than 10 percent growth per year during the last three years. He has developed or supported development of various tools and processes now used company-wide, including a project execution manual, sales manual, and earned value management tools. Reeves is currently committee chair for the AWWA Standards Committee for Fiberglass Weirs, Troughs, and Baffles, where he is responsible for updates to two technical industry standards, and is serving as president of the Underground Construction Technology Association’s North Texas Chapter. Katie Thomas, P.E., ENV SP, QSD/P , (age 28) senior engineer/project manager, CWE, Fullerton, Calif., was hon- ored in 2015 by the Orange County Engineering Council with a Young Engineer Award. While a graduate student working full-time, she was awarded a $10,000 Metropolitan Water District World Water Forum grant to fund research- ing, designing, building, and testing a subsurface irrigation collection system. The project supported her hypothesis that a system of this kind could reduce potable water use by 15 to 30 percent. She is significantly contributing to development of one Watershed Management Program and six Enhanced Watershed Management Programs (EWMPs) for watershed management groups throughout Los Angeles County. These EWMPs, the first of their kind, are paving the road for stormwater quality protection in Los Angeles County. ASCE selected one of the plans as the Outstanding Regional Water Treatment Project of the Year in 2016. Thomas was the senior engineer for the design of bioswales and green street improvements to capture and retain urban runoff for the City of Beverly Hills, reducing potable water use by approximately 1.25 million gallons per year. Ryan Trahan, P.E. , (age 38) principal, Environmental Partners Group, Inc. (EP), Quincy, Mass., has advanced in six years to a principal within the firm and one of five directors on its board. Named by ENR New England as a 2018 Top Young Professional, Trahan consistently contributes to the cultural and financial well-being of EP, managing more than 40 active projects with a staff of 12 engineers. Managing 25 percent of the firm’s annual revenue, Trahan has been the project manager of EP’s largest project to date through all phases of design and construction — a $130 million public water system design and construction project in Eastham, Mass. The project has won numerous regional and national awards and accolades, including a 2017 Project of the Year award from the American Public Works Associa- tion. In 2012, he began and continues to coordinate a co-op partnership with Northeastern University, hiring as many as eight civil, environmental, and transportation engineering students at one time to work for a six month period. Trahan is involved in city government, serving on several committees in Lakeville, Mass. Jennifer Weger, P.E. , (age 35) senior analyst - Toll Systems, HNTB Corporation, Philadelphia, served as deputy program manager on the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission’s conversion to all-electronic tolling. She helped lead a multi-tiered effort to assist more than 800 state employees who no longer were needed to keep the toll system running in finding other opportunities with the State of Pennsylvania and other employers. In Georgia, Weger served as project manager for on-call support with the State Road and Tollway Authority (SRTA) to support consolidation of back-office operations. SRTA’s work was selected as winner of the 2017 International Bridge, Tunnel and Turn- pike Association’s annual Toll Excellence Award. Weger served as planning task leader for a Florida Department of Transportation plan to develop and implement an express lanes network across southeast Florida and helped guide decision making across multiple agencies. In 2012, she received a Trailblazer Award from the Atlanta Chapter of the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials because of her efforts to get minority engineering professionals more involved in their industry and local communities.
Justin C. Reeves, P.E., LEED AP
Katie Thomas, P.E., ENV SP, QSD/P
Ryan Trahan, P.E.
Jennifer Weger, P.E.
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