Drahota Adds Seven Staff Members/Fiore & Sons Grows by Four/CoCal Names New CFO

Several firms added new staff over the summer, including Drahota, Fiore & Sons, M+O+A Architectural Partnership, Kumar & Associates, HDR, Norris Design, JE Dunn, CTL/Thompson, Maxwell Builders, JR Engineering and Jordy/Carter.

Drahota added seven new employees to its team earlier this year. Two of them - Loren Nansel, operations manager; and Cindy Fox, office manager, are in the company's Steamboat Springs office. The others - Brian Buringa, Tyler Texeira and Todd McCowin, project superintendents; Derek Cohen, project engineer; and Mickie Cobb, who joined the accounting department - are based in Fort Collins.

Fiore & Sons Inc. has grown by four new employees - Ross Campbell, estimating manager; Robert Johnson, project manager' Lewis Hoffman, utility division manager; and Larry Grote, estimator.

Dell Palmer, PE, joined Kirkham Michael as manager for the firm's Colorado operations, responsible for the daily activities of the Greenwood Village and Colorado Springs offices.

M+O+A Architectural Partnership in Denver added two new staff members - Keith Morandini, LEED-AP and intern architect; and Caitlin Whitman, summer intern.

Scott Warfield joined HDR as a power and facilities group project manager working out of the firm's Colorado Springs and Denver offices. His responsibilities include business development, project management and program management for power and energy projects across the Midwest.

Norris Design expanded its senior team and made four new hires earlier this year.
Three firm employees were promoted - Jordan Dame to associate; Joanna Waldenmyer to project manager; and Leanna Vielehr to full-time project manager.
Joining the firm were Phil Walters and Todd Wainwright, landscape architects; Lonni Grattan, marketing/public relations coordinator; and Chris Bates, 3-D animator.

Tarah Harpstreith was named manager of business development for The Weitz Co. Rocky Mountain business office's business acquisition team. Harpstreith trained for her new role on an interim basis while also serving as manager of the special projects group.

Bill McCarthy joined JE Dunn Construction as assistant vice president.

Justin Dolezal and Eric Pickerill joined the Denver offices of CTL/Thompson.
Dolezal performs structural foundation designs for CTL/Thompson Structural Engineers Denver LLC, a subsidiary of CTL/Thompson Inc. Pickerill handles project management duties within the field department at the firm's main Denver location, including client development.

Robert Steele and Sam Eberhart joined Maxwell Builders Inc. in Englewood.
Steele is an estimator, focusing on retail and commercial projects on a hard bid and negotiated basis. Eberhart, a superintendent, is working on one of two newly awarded Costco pharmacy remodels.

Carol Henry, ASLA, was named managing principal of Lafayette-based Design Concepts.

The firm also hired three new staff members since the spring - Scott Hodson, ASLA, landscape architect and planner; and Trish Taylor, ASLA, and Mark Ballock, landscape architects.

David Hoesing joined JR Engineering as a vice president, responsible for all aspects of business development in corporate operations for the firm's branch offices; and Cory Sharp, PLS, was recently promoted to survey division manager in the firm's Colorado Springs office.

W.E. O'Neil Construction Co. hired Lloyd Smith as a superintendent.

David Betty was promoted to associate at Denver's Nuszer Kopatz.

Miranda Keffer was named an account manager at Jordy/Carter Furnishings.

Marvin Criswell, a professor in the civil engineering department at Colorado State University, recently joined the Colorado Asphalt Paving Association/CSU Asphalt management board.

JVA Inc. added three new staff members in July - Adam Cleary, EIT, Joe O'Malley, EIT, and Patricia Orendorff, EIT.

Cleary joined the firm's civil department, while O'Malley and Orendorff work in the structural department.

Mark Weidhaas, PE, manager of the commercial structural engineering department for RMG Engineers, was installed as president of the Professional Engineers of Colorado.

Randy Brown was named chief financial officer of Denver-based CoCal Landscape.
Brown is a member of the Associated General Contractors of Colorado, Associated Builders and Contractors Rocky Mountain Chapter and the Construction Financial Management Association, where he is a two-time past president.

Vinyard has been a recipient of the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, a juror for the National Endowment for the Arts and a guest critic at Yale University, Carnegie-Mellon, Parson's School of Design, Catholic University and Notre Dame.