Transportation Commission Elects New Officers/OZ Announces Staff Promotions/Vision Land Promotes 3, Adds 8

Doug Aden of Grand Junction was elected as new chairman of the Colorado Transportation Commission and Bill Swenson of Longmont was elected vice chairman. Aden represents District 7; Swenson represents District 4.

The Colorado Transportation Commission has elected Doug Aden of Grand Junction as its new chairman and Bill Swenson of Longmont as its new vice chairman.
Aden represents District 7, which includes Chaffee, Delta, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison, Lake, Mesa, Montrose, Ouray, Pitkin and Summit counties. He has served on the commission since September 1997.

Swenson, a former state representative, represents District 4, which includes Boulder and Adams counties. He also served as co-chairman of the transportation legislation review committee before being appointed to the commission in July 2003.

Timothy Harris is the new regional transportation director for the Colorado Department of Transportation's Region Two, encompassing southeastern Colorado.
Harris, a 26-year CDOT employee, will oversee all CDOT activities throughout southeastern Colorado, including construction and maintenance.

He replaces Bob Torres, PE, who joined Carter & Burgess as a group manager for the Denver transportation unit. Torres will be based in Colorado Springs.

OZ Architecture promoted two of its staff members to associate principal and six others were named senior associates.

The new associate principals are Jeff Dawson and Chad Holtzinger, AIA.
Brian Haffey, Dan Miller, Kate Fields, Ken Breitkreuz, AIA; and Elizabeth Yo, CDT, LEED AP; are the newly appointed senior associates.

Westwood Contractors Inc. appointed Clarissa Campbell as vice president and chief financial officer of the company - only the second CFO Westwood has had in its 23-year history.

Campbell has 20 years of accounting and financial experience; five of those years included industry experience with Carter & Burgess Inc. Her most recent position was vice president and controller of a managed-care provider.

Brien Gidlow, PE, and William "B.J." Schnitzler joined HDR - Gidlow as a senior project manager in the water engineering group and Schnitzler as an electrical engineer in the environmental and resources management group. Both men are based in the firm's Denver office.

Lantz-Boggio Architects announced six new promotions earlier this fall - Mark Baker and Paul Bormann were named principals; Scott Shea and Vera Margheim were named senior associates; and Bill Speck and Peter Adams were named associates.

The firm also added several new people to its Englewood office - Scott Boduch, project architect; Shawn Croissant, project manager; Chris Clause, project coordinator; Jason Weber, CAD technician; and Brian Culver, manager of IT/CAD systems.

Jerome Klint was named Ameristar Casinos Inc.'s new vice president of construction, effective Sept. 1. Reporting to Alan Rose, senior vice president of construction, Klint will be responsible for construction of Ameristar projects, including department administration and coordination of pre-planning, budgeting, contracting, purchasing and onsite observation of construction.

Amber Stephens joined Wenk Associates Inc. as marketing director, responsible for the firm's strategic marketing and business development.

Six engineers in Martin/Martin Inc. Consulting Engineers' Colorado office have received their license to practice as professional engineers. Bruce Haynes, PE, André Schlappe, PE, and Michael Goldstein, PE, received licenses from Wyoming; Emily Guglielmo, PE, earned a civil engineering license from California; and Colorado licenses were earned by Thomas Repp, PE, and Tracey Wise, PE.

JG Johnson Architects in Denver added two new members to its staff - Tim Ross, AIA, and Elizabeth Pahlke.

Ross, a licensed architect in Colorado and Nevada with more than 10 years of experience, is currently working on a new hospitality project in Telluride. Pahlke is an architectural intern whose main focus will be hospitality projects.

Joel Levenberg, CSI, CDT, ICRI, was promoted to technical director for US SPEC, a division of US MIX Co. In his new role, he will take over the development of the company's A&E program and technical training initiatives.

Justin Olson, PE, was promoted to project manager at Vision Land Consultants Inc. Steve Voehringer was promoted to project engineer and Mitch Winters to senior designer.

The firm also added eight new employees this summer - Cody Matson, Joshua Root, James Usher, Grant Newton, Joe Hemelt and Jessica Kent, design engineers; and Katie Cooley and Craig Houser, construction managers.

Tonya Hart was recently named engineering division manager for CTL/Thompson's Denver office. Before this, Hart served as a project manager on geotechnical engineering projects.

Jared Hall has been appointed to the newly created position of project manager at BonaKemi USA, and Chad Nordhagen has been promoted to finish product manager.

Bob Allen was promoted to director of business development for HomeSphere.

James Chang, PE, and Gregory Weeks, PE, joined the civil engineering department at S.A. Miro Inc.

Chang is an associate and manager of water resources; Weeks is an associate.

The Wheat Ridge office of Terracon Consultants Inc. added three new senior-level staff members for its geotechnical, construction materials and environmental engineering departments - Rafael Baltodano Goulding, PhD, EIT, staff engineer; Robert Cords, PE, operations specialist; and Russ Pickering, MS, a senior project manager.

Tim Maley joined The Beck Group as director of business development.

Tim Nielsen, LEED AP, has joined Thissen Construction Corp. in Greeley as the company's chief estimator, while Dan Malpiede joined the company as a project superintendent.

Tricia Gibbons and Royce Peterson were promoted to associates at DLR Group in Colorado Springs.

Gibbons is the office manager and has been employed by the firm since 2002. Peterson has been with DLR Group for 20 years, providing CAD and architectural support services.

Ed Binkley, AIA , was named the new national design director for BSB Design , formerly Bloodgood Sharp Buster Architects and Planners Inc. The Des Moines-based firm has 15 offices nationwide, including Denver.

Drexel, Barrell & Co. added two new professionals to the firm - James Brzostowicz, PE , and Robert Bennett, PE .

Brzostowicz is head of the land development engineering department for the Boulder office. Bennett is a senior project manager in the water resources department.