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KANSAS CITY, Missouri — Burns & McDonnell has promoted 35 employee-owners around the U.S. to the Essential Crew after their contribution to a checklist 12 months of gross sales and enlargement in 2021 for the 100% employee-owned engineering, building and structure company.
Final 12 months, Burns & McDonnell supported 17,000 tasks, grew by means of just about 650 workers and reached a record-breaking $5.7 billion in gross sales. Burns & McDonnell is predicting some other 13% build up in general enlargement for 2022.
“Our robust and distinctive tradition — constructed on worker possession — drives our good fortune, guides our trade selections and is the engine of our enlargement,” says Ray Kowalik, chairman and CEO, Burns & McDonnell. “As we glance to proceed rising, I’m assured those leaders will lend a hand us include our ideas and proceed to serve our purchasers within the swiftly converting industries we serve.”
Principals are decided on in line with demonstrated remarkable efficiency and technical excellence, in addition to reputation and anticipation of long term management roles contributing to the good fortune of Burns & McDonnell.
Contributors of the Burns & McDonnell 2022 magnificence of Principals come with the next employee-owners:
Andrew Becker, PE
Procedure Generation Supervisor
Becker has been with Burns & McDonnell for 15 years. Becker’s technical, strategic and marketplace wisdom supplies distinctive perception throughout all oil, gasoline and chemical marketplace sectors, bringing innovation to many important tasks and purchasers. He has been at the leading edge of recent and novel era software construction together with the just lately granted patented procedure to fractionate herbal gasoline liquids.
Lauren Bertram
Ability Acquisition Director
Bertram leads the group answerable for bringing in new hires throughout a couple of places, industries and revel in ranges. She creates alignment around the trade to forecast long term ability wishes and determine the most powerful and maximum numerous additions for the corporate. Her group has endured to advance the recruitment house by means of imposing new branding techniques, gaining efficiencies in era and adorning techniques akin to range outreach and the corporate’s world intern program. With over 19 years of recruitment revel in in more than a few industries, Bertram has been instrumental in using the ability appeal that has contributed to the company’s explosive enlargement over the past decade.
Jeff Buckley, PE
Division Supervisor
Buckley is a division supervisor within the Development Crew within the Northeast. He has over two decades of program control revel in keen on large-scale software tasks. He has supported the access of Burns & McDonnell into the U.S. offshore wind marketplace, overseeing execution of a number of tasks and creating new alternatives to amplify the company’s engineering and building products and services.
Heath Catt
Development Director
Catt serves because the nationwide building director for the company’s production trade. He’s answerable for creating design-build groups inside the meals and beverage, client merchandise, lifestyles sciences, aerospace and business markets. Previous to his present position, Catt spent over part of his two decades at Burns & McDonnell within the box on tasks for a couple of companies inside the company, then progressing to serving as an engineer-procure-construct (EPC) challenge supervisor for the Oil, Gasoline & Chemical Crew after which a building director for the Meals & Client Merchandise Crew.
Sarah Cisper
Managing Operations Director, 1898 & Co.
Cisper brings nearly two decades of revel in to her position. Beginning her occupation in structural engineering for overhead transmission strains, she won an appreciation for the trade fashions in the back of Burns & McDonnell and located her interest in working strategic exchange tasks for the corporate. In her present position, she leads the uniquely mixed group of 1898 & Co. practices in control consulting, cybersecurity consulting, power consulting and virtual consulting that toughen strategic tasks for serious infrastructure purchasers.
Willie Clark
Federal Technique Director
Clark is answerable for technique, trade alternative construction, seize control and group construction for design and building products and services within the federal marketplace. Clark has over 35 years of revel in and has been with Burns & McDonnell for nearly a decade. He’s talented at imposing a success methods, advertising plans, insurance policies and procedures for line operations, trade construction, and challenge portfolio control.
Steve Cline, PE
Operations Director
Cline serves as operations director for the Burns & McDonnell Aviation & Federal Crew. In his 18 years with Burns & McDonnell, he served as a structural engineer earlier than shifting into challenge control. Maximum just lately, Cline served as tasks director for paintings at a number of installations with the Division of Power, supporting and overseeing the design and building of greater than a dozen tasks totaling greater than $500 million. Cline makes a speciality of innovation and technical excellence in supply of design and building tasks throughout all places of work national within the aviation and federal markets.
Jon Conway, PE
Undertaking Director
Conway serves as challenge execution director of the Telecomm Crew. With over 19 years of various telecommunications engineering and building revel in, Conway leads over 20 challenge managers who execute the engineering design, set up, commissioning and building of basically software telecommunications tasks that span 5 core competencies: networks, automation, wi-fi, fiber and infrastructure.
Jennifer Dodson, PE
Division Supervisor
Dodson serves as an EPC challenge supervisor and has been concerned within the building of producing vegetation, substations and extra. She brings greater than 19 years of revel in, and her present duties come with coordination with purchasers, engineers and architects, control of procurement of kit and fabrics in addition to subcontractors and box building actions. She additionally makes a speciality of mentorship and construction along with main a gaggle of building challenge managers in Denver, Colorado, and Vancouver, Washington.
Matthew Domeier
Director, Power Garage for EPC Tasks
Domeier brings two decades of revel in to this position. He oversees a group answerable for the advance and building of protected, dependable and cost-effective power garage answers. His group just lately achieved the biggest battery garage facility within the U.S. He’s answerable for seeing that tasks are effectively finished on time and in compliance with contractual responsibilities on this rising marketplace.
Steve Dresie
Managing Director, 1898 & Co.
Dresie serves as managing director of era consulting at 1898 & Co., a part of Burns & McDonnell. He brings greater than two decades of revel in main groups that spouse with purchasers to leverage era to handle key trade demanding situations. Dresie and his group paintings intently with shoppers throughout a couple of industries to construct and put into effect cutting edge virtual answers that lend a hand companies function extra successfully and successfully.
James Duehning, PE
Program Control Director
Duehning serves as this system control director within the company’s Transmission & Distribution Crew in Kansas Town. All through his just about two decades of revel in, Duehning has controlled a number of multibillion-dollar techniques with cross-functional groups throughout North The usa for a few of our greatest program control engagements inside the electrical software business. He has led his groups to the a success final touch of our purchasers’ tasks from construction to energization.
Bryan Floth, AIA
Undertaking Vital Tasks Director
Floth has greater than 25 years of revel in keen on facility A/E challenge design in undertaking serious and science/era. Present tasks come with most important oversight of a multicountry consumer rollout of mission-critical amenities in Europe, the Heart East and Africa. He has a confirmed observe checklist of establishing consumer relationships that force repeat paintings and earnings enlargement.
Chris Freeman
Trade Building Supervisor
Freeman leads the advance group for the nationwide production trade of Burns & McDonnell. He has a robust background within the meals substances business and greater than two decades of various revel in, each at the production aspect and the engineering-consulting aspect. Freeman has a observe checklist of bettering operational potency, using earnings enlargement, main organizations via serious transitions and imposing charge regulate tasks.
Kerrie Greenfelder, PE, DBIA, BCEE
Engineering Director
Engineering director for our Water Crew, Greenfelder has greater than twenty years of revel in within the water sector, together with water/wastewater remedy, water reclamation, challenge control, design, reporting, bidding, buying, building control/oversight, scheduling and startup for quite a few public, non-public and federal purchasers. An authorized engineer in seven states, Greenfelder may be an energetic chief within the Society of Ladies Engineers, in addition to the Water Surroundings Federation and the Kansas Society of Skilled Engineers.
Shawn Hickey
IT Director
Hickey has two decades of revel in and a zeal for using era to force a success trade effects. He has intensive revel in in managing complicated tasks, effectively coordinating cross-functional groups and dealing with a various buyer base. As a pacesetter at the IT group, Hickey oversees quite a few enterprisewide trade programs and integration functions.
RJ Hope, CPP
Facility Safety Director
Hope serves because the director of company safety and shuttle. His groups globally toughen the company’s safety wishes involving investigations, trade continuity, disaster control, shuttle and amenities. He has over two decades of revel in within the safety business to incorporate 10 years main the Burns & McDonnell safety consulting observe, particularly supporting the serious infrastructure purchasers serviced by means of Burns & McDonnell.
Matthew Kapusta, PE
Regional World Observe Supervisor
Kapusta oversees our Transmission & Distribution Crew throughout Florida. He coordinates and oversees proposal construction, challenge execution, scope and chance control, and general trade technique inside of Florida. With 14 years of business revel in, he focuses on energy programs engineering, challenge construction, engineering control ranging and cost-effective answers for tasks starting from distribution voltage via EHV programs.
Allen King
Undertaking Building Vice President, AZCO
King is the vice chairman of challenge construction at AZCO, the place he oversees the making plans and coordination of the corporate’s estimating and trade construction division. He has just about 20 years of revel in in building control, management and buyer interfacing, with integrity and a powerful emphasis within the energy technology, oil and gasoline, pulp and paper, water, federal, and transportation industries.
Mike Lehrburger, PE
Regional World Observe Supervisor
Lehrburger leads the Water Crew in California. All through his occupation spanning greater than two decades, he has supported, controlled and led a various portfolio of water infrastructure tasks together with: pipelines, trenchless and tunneling paintings, rehabilitations/renewals/cleanups, garage tanks, pump stations, neatly rehabilitations, and remedy programs and amenities. He’s answerable for enlargement of the regional staff with a focal point on purchasers and distinctive wishes of the Golden State.
Amy Lewis
Senior Finance & Management Vice President, AZCO
Lewis is these days senior vice chairman of finance and management for AZCO. On this position she oversees human assets, procurement, IT and different admin purposes for AZCO, along with the accounting and finance purposes. Lewis supplies monetary oversight for all sides of the trade.
Thomas Maples, PE
Segment Supervisor
Maples serves as EPC phase supervisor for the Transmission & Distribution Crew in Houston. He’s {an electrical} engineer with just about 15 years of revel in main all sides of substation, transmission and distribution tasks, from proposal via challenge closeout and together with EPC and commissioning.
Adam Matthiesen, PE
Regional World Observe Supervisor
Matthiesen leads the Transmission & Distribution Crew in St. Louis, Missouri serving purchasers all the way through the Higher Midwest. He has been with Burns & McDonnell for 13 years, with maximum of his occupation keen on EPC challenge execution in all T&D markets. In his present position, he’s answerable for the total trade technique, managerial path, and management of a gaggle with greater than 185 pros, and rising, throughout in St. Louis; O’Fallon, Illinois; and Columbus and Akron, Ohio.
Chris McCall, PE, P.Eng, PMP
Regional World Observe Supervisor
McCall leads the Transmission & Distribution Crew in California. He has been with Burns & McDonnell for 17 years and serves the crowd because the managerial group chief and execution director for tasks within the area. He coordinates and oversees execution making plans, scope control, proposal construction, subcontractor and buy order control, procurement control, and building control. He has advanced purchasers, tasks and execution methods, all with the top function of increasing purchasers’ portfolios inside of their territories.
Allen Moe
Segment Supervisor
Moe leads a wide selection of building products and services, together with control of challenge and craft supervision, challenge controls, and estimating. With 17 years of revel in in challenge control, Moe has intensive technical wisdom of charge regulate and value forecasting, commodity development monitoring, agenda construction, and estimating for self-perform paintings, in addition to subcontract control, challenge procurement and proprietor/engineer interface.
Amanda (Mandy) Olson
Engineering Director
Olson is the engineering director for the Transmission & Distribution Crew. Olson is {an electrical} engineer with a background in substation design and challenge control. She helps consistency in engineering practices and the expansion of technical revel in around the group. Outdoor of Burns & McDonnell, Olson leads the CIGRE Ladies in Power staff for the U.S., is the chair of the CIGRE ELECTRA Editorial board globally, and is the USA consultant for CIGRE’s Energy Machine Environmental Efficiency Learn about Committee.
Agnes Otto, LEED AP
Transportation Director
Otto is answerable for consumer construction, other people construction, strategic path and challenge execution for the transportation trade within the Midwest. She brings over 35 years of revel in in engineering control, operations, trade construction, communications and implemented era. She has served as most important, challenge director and challenge supervisor for a lot of tasks.
Bhavesh (Bob) Patel, PE
Regional World Observe Supervisor
Patel has been with Burns and McDonnell for nearly 15 years. In his present position, he’s answerable for the managerial path and management of the Transmission and Distribution Crew within the Southwest, with places of work in Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona, and Albuquerque, New Mexico. He coordinates and oversees trade construction, consumer control, proposal construction, challenge execution, scope and chance control, and general trade technique within the Southwest.
Brad Schilhab
Box Operations Director
Schilhab has been with Burns & McDonnell for seven years and has 27 years of EPC revel in. All through his occupation, Schilhab has labored on quite a few tasks together with refining, LNG, gasoline processing and combined-cycle energy. His revel in contains global assignments in Angola, Venezuela and Colombia. As box operations director he’s answerable for ability acquisition, staff construction, staffing, coaching and building execution around the company.
Tony Schoenecker, PE, CET, LEED AP
Undertaking Supervisor Hearth Coverage
Schoenecker has over 25 years of revel in within the hearth coverage business, together with 15 years at Burns & McDonnell. His major duty is the a success implementation of strategic and technical ventures to toughen the expansion of the hearth coverage engineering trade national. This contains national recruiting, tutorial occasions, hearth coverage branding and increasing the hearth coverage trade.
Jeffrey Smith
Regional World Observe Supervisor
Smith leads the company’s Oil, Gasoline & Chemical Crew in Canada. Primarily based in Calgary, Alberta, his duties quilt all sides of the OGC Canadian trade, together with engineering, building, challenge execution and trade construction. Smith has a robust background in procedure engineering and challenge control, and in earlier roles he served as EPC challenge supervisor on one of the greatest tasks within the company’s historical past. He has been with Burns & McDonnell for 15 years.
Dan Sorensen
Undertaking Supervisor
Sorensen serves as an EPC challenge supervisor and undertaking account supervisor at Burns & McDonnell and has been with the company for 15 years. Sorensen has performed an integral position within the good fortune of many design-build tasks and has demonstrated an intimate working out of the execution of EPC tasks, specifically within the company’s Meals & Client Merchandise Crew. He has a wealth of revel in in executing design and building tasks.
Crystal Spoor, CPA
Government Vice President, Ref-Chem
Spoor has just about two decades of revel in in monetary control and serves as CFO for Ref-Chem. Spoor oversees accounting, procurement, human assets and data era operations and manages capital to ship cutting edge building answers to our purchasers and succeed in operational excellence and winning enlargement.
Kevin Syphard
Managing Director
Syphard serves as managing director of chemical substances within the Oil, Gasoline & Chemical Crew. He drives our technique for rising the company’s footprint within the vast chemical substances and petrochemicals markets. With a robust background in procedure engineering, Syphard has over 25 years of revel in main wide groups in turning in tasks around the globe within the petrochemical, distinctiveness chemical, refining and renewables markets.
Andy Wozniak, PE
Regional World Observe Supervisor
Wozniak leads the World Amenities Crew in Chicago, Illinois — a area that comes with Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan — because it designs, constructs and commissions complicated amenities for purchasers in lifestyles sciences and era, distinctiveness chemical substances, meals and drinks, client merchandise, mission-critical and distribution/warehouse programs and amenities. With greater than 15 years of revel in, he makes a speciality of trade enlargement and execution of enormous capital techniques for purchasers throughout the USA.
About Burns & McDonnell
Burns & McDonnell is a circle of relatives of businesses bringing in combination an unrivaled group of 10,000 engineers, building and craft pros, architects, planners, technologists and scientists to design and construct our serious infrastructure. With an built-in building and design mindset, we provide full-service functions. Based in 1898 and dealing from greater than 60 places of work globally, Burns & McDonnell is 100% employee-owned. Learn the way we’re designed to construct.
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