Andrew Luce, PE
- Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 2007
- Graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington
- (Thought about being a History Teacher)
- Hidden Talent: Memorizing useless sports facts and movie lines
- Blind as a bat – legally blind without contacts or glasses
- Professional expertise: Subsurface Utility Engineering, Utility Coordination, and Municipal Roadway, Drainage, and Utility Design
“IT’S HARD TO BEAT A PERSON WHO NEVER GIVES UP!” ~ BABE RUTH
Brian Maddox, RPLS
- Born in Dallas, Texas
- Began a career within the surveying industry in 1984
- Attended Eastfield College and Army Defense Mapping School
- (Thought about being an Army Ranger)
- Hidden Talent: Best Dad and Papa in Texas
- Enjoys fishing and anything outdoors, and spending time with family
- Professional expertise: Professional Land Surveying, Land Development and Project Management
“STRENGTH DOESN’T COME FROM WHAT YOU CAN DO. IT COMES FROM OVERCOMING THE THINGS YOU ONCE THOUGHT YOU COULDN’T.” ~ BRIAN MADDOX
Cecil Cheshier, PE
- Born in Bowie, Texas
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 1993
- Graduated from Texas A&M University
- Thought about being a fighter pilot or a rock star (or better yet a rock star/fighter pilot!)
- Hidden Talent: Even though I never became a fighter pilot, I can still fly an airplane– and hey, I even have a license to do it!
- I guess I blame my 7th grade football coach and math teacher for never making it as a rock star. After all, he is the one who got me into this business when he offered me a part time job while I was still in high school. He was a registered professional land surveyor (RPLS) and did surveying work on the weekends and in the summer.
- Professional expertise: Land Development, Site Development, Complex Grading/Drainage Design & Analysis
“For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.” ~ Mark 10:45
Chris Cuny, PE
- Born in Dallas, Texas
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 1983
- Attended Texas A&M, College Station
- (Thought about being an Attorney)
- Hidden Talent: Private Pilot, solo flight at age 18!
- Met Nelson Mandela in Amsterdam!
- Professional expertise: Site Development, Environmental Remediation, and Criminal Justice Design Consulting
“IT’S WHAT YOU DO AND HOW YOU ACT WHEN NOBODY IS WATCHING THAT REALLY COUNTS.” ~ UNKWOWN
Chris Schmitt, PE
- Born in Fort Worth, Texas
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 1996
- Graduated from Texas Tech University
- (Thought about being a meteorologist or professional golfer)
- Hidden talent: Chainsaw artist or wanna be professional golfer
- Professional expertise: Municipal/Public Works Consulting, and Site Development
“PLAN YOUR WORK – WORK YOUR PLAN.”
Christopher Hartke, PE, CFM
- Born in Elgin, Illinois
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 1999
- Graduated from the University of Iowa, Iowa City (BSCE)
- (Thought about being an engineer, it allowed me to skip foreign language classes)
- Hidden Talent: Ambidextrous
- Only left-handed catcher in the league until I knocked out the umpire on a throw to 3rd base
- Professional expertise: Transportation, Management and Design (Streets, Highways, TxDOT)
“ENTHUSIASM IS EVERYTHING. IT MUST BE TAUT AND VIBRATING LIKE A GUITAR STRING.” ~ PELE
Daniel P. McCullough, PE
- Born in Waco, Texas
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 1996
- Graduated from Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
- (Thought about being an Architect)
- Hidden Talent: Drawing 3D Sketches Freehand
- Played trumpet in the “Goin’ Band from Raiderland”
- Professional expertise: Transportation
“REMEMBER YOUR LEADERS, WHO SPOKE THE WORD OF GOD TO YOU. CONSIDER THE OUTCOME OF THEIR WAY OF LIFE AND IMITATE THEIR FAITH.” ~ HEBREWS 13:78 (NIV)
David D. Dryden
- Born in Chickasha, Oklahoma
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 2001
- Graduated from Spring Woods in Houston, attended Texas State University, Texas
- (Thought about being a stunt man)
- Hidden talent: 2nd degree black belt martial arts
- Loves being a grandpa!
- Professional expertise: Sales, Client Relations
“SHARE THE LOVE, NOT THE RELIGION.”
Eric Calvert, PE
- Born in Hampton, Virginia
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 1998
- Graduated from Texas A&M University, College Station
- (Thought about being a pilot)
- Hidden Talent: Modifying and updating old electronics
- Enjoys coaching his sons’ sports teams
- Professional expertise: Drainage Design and Analysis for TxDOT
“IF YOU CHANGE YOUR THOUGHTS, YOU WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE. IT’S AS SIMPLE AS THAT.” ~ JERRY BRUCKNER
Eric R. Friedrich, PE, CFM
- Born in Austin, Texas
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 1984
- Graduated from the University of Texas, Austin
- (Thought about being a football player …. then an electrical engineer)
- Hidden talent: Puns and Dad jokes – prefers his puns “intended”
- Owns a coffee shop and coffee roasting business in Kansas City, Missouri
- Professional expertise: H&H Studies / Drainage Design for TxDOT
“…WHOEVER WOULD BE GREAT AMONG YOU MUST BE YOUR SERVANT, AND WHOEVER WOULD BE FIRST AMONG YOU MUST BE SLAVE OF ALL.” ~ MARK 10:43-44
Jaime Benoliel, PE, CFM
- Born in Saddlebrook, New Jersey
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 2001
- Graduated from the University of Houston
- (Thought about being a doctor)
- Hidden Talent: Mathematics and Baking
- Completed three years in the Junior Nationals for Cycling
- Professional expertise: H&H Analysis &Design, Hydraulic Modeling
“INSANITY IS DOING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND EXPECTING DIFFERENT RESULTS!” ~ ALBERT EINSTEIN
Jay Maddox, RPLS
- Born in Alexandria, Virginia
- Began a career within the surveying/engineering industry in 2006
- Graduated from Tyler Junior College and Texas A&M University, Commerce
- (Thought about being a High School Baseball Coach/English Teacher)
- Hidden Talent: Carpentry and Cooking (Not at the same time…)
- Fouled out of a basketball game in under one minute in middle school (realized basketball was not my sport)
- Professional expertise: Design Surveys, Land Development, Boundary Retracements and Project Management
“THE LORD IS MY ROCK, MY FORTRESS AND MY DELIVERER; MY GOD IS MY ROCK, IN WHOM I TAKE REFUGE, MY SHIELD AND THE HORN OF MY SALVATION, MY STRONGHOLD.” ~PSALMS 18:2
Jennifer Hall, SR/WA
- Born in Houston, Texas
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 2002
- Graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches
- (Thought about being an Elementary Teacher)
- Hidden Talent: Love to cook (evidenced by winning TNP’s chili cook-off 3 consecutive years)
- In a former life I was a Swim Team Coach, Life Guard Instructor and Water Aerobics Instructor
- Professional expertise: Right of Way Acquisition for Government and Private Sector Clients
“YOUR WHY HAS TO BE BIGGER THAN THE SACRIFICES YOU WILL MAKE IN THE PRESENT TO BECOME YOUR FUTURE SELF.” ~AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Joe L. Madrid, RLA, LI
- Born in Midland, Texas
- Began a career as a Landscape Architect in 2008
- Graduated from Texas Tech University, Lubbock
- (Thought about being a lawyer, architect, or chef)
- Hidden Talent: Master Chef of Breakfast (Best Meal – Breakfast of Champions)
- Gave up his professional video game career to become a Landscape Architect
- Professional expertise: Landscape and Irrigation Design
“I AM A GREAT BELIEVER IN LUCK, AND I FIND THE HARDER I WORK THE MORE I HAVE OF IT.” ~ THOMAS JEFFERSON
Jonathan Bengfort, PE, CFM
- Born in Lindsay, Texas
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 2004
- Graduated from University of Texas at Arlington
- (Thought about being a Meteorologist …. partial derivatives, atmospheric physics, bow ties…need I say more)
- Hidden Talent: Extraordinary dance skills, watch out if it’s family dance party night at the Bengfort household!
- Have a twin sister. No, we don’t communicate telepathically. No, we don’t look alike. No, we’re actually nothing alike at all. But, she’s still pretty awesome…after all, we are twins.
- Professional expertise: Municipal Engineering and Consulting
“A MAN’S HEART PLANS HIS WAY, BUT THE LORD DIRECTS HIS STEPS.” ~ PROVERBS 16:9
Joseph W. Atwood, PE
- Born in Houston, Texas
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 1984
- Graduated from Texas A&M University
- Always wanted to be an engineer. Almost went into the mechanical field after high school experience as a mechanical designer in the IT field. The experience hooked me on engineering!
- Hidden talent: Vision. There is a great deal of personal satisfaction envisioning a project, planning its outcome then navigating it to conclusion
- Professional expertise: Highway and city street infrastructure planning and design.
“UNDER PROMISE. OVER DELIVER.”
Justin Walton, PE
- Born in Longview, Texas
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 2001
- Graduated from Texas A&M University
- (Thought about being a Pilot)
- Hidden Talent: Can do a 360 on a wakeboard…. well, at least before he turned 40!
- Valedictorian of his graduating class (out of all of 26 students); named his dogs after famous rappers, circa early 2000’s and has backpacked a tiny portion (50 miles) of the Appalachian Trail
- Professional expertise: Municipal Engineering and Site Development
“I AM THE VINE; YOU ARE THE BRANCHES. IF A MAN REMAINS IN ME AND I IN HIM, HE WILL BEAR MUCH FRUIT; APART FROM ME YOU CAN DO NOTHING.” ~ JOHN 15:5
Mandy Clark, PE, CFM, AICP
- Born in New Orleans, Louisiana
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 1995
- Graduated from Texas A&M University
- Thought about owning a crafting Bed & Breakfast
- Hidden Talent: I can name every NFL, NBA, MLB, & NHL Team (I’m not a sports fan, just an insomniac.)
- Was once pulled on stage in Nashville to sing “Panama” with a Van Halen cover band.
- Professional expertise: City Engineering and Stormwater Program Management
“Don’t Panic” – Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Mark Berry, PE
- Born in Fort Knox, Kentucky
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 1985
- Graduated from University of Texas at Arlington (BSCE) and University of North Texas (MBA)
- (Thought about being a professional bass fisherman)
- Hidden talent: Baseball skills coach
- Started his first business at age 18, during freshman year in college
- Professional expertise: Engineering consulting for government and private sector clients
“WHERE THERE IS NO VISION, THE PEOPLE PERISH.” – PROVERBS 29:18
Matt Atkins, PE
- Born in Denison, Texas
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 2000
- Graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington
- (Thought about being a Homebuilder or Architect)
- Hidden Talent: According to his wife he is a “mind Ninja”
- Will attempt to build just about anything….especially when it save money
- Professional expertise: Roadway Reconstruction and Land Development
“LIFE SEEMED EASIER WHEN APPLE AND BLACKBERRY WERE JUST FRUITS!” ~ UNKNOWN
Michael DeMotte, PE, CFM
- Born in Lemoore, California
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 1998
- Graduated from Texas A&M University
- (Thought about being an Air Force Pilot, until I needed glasses)
- Hidden Talent: Enjoy singing in the church choir (whether or not others enjoy me singing is a different story)
- Served in the US Navy aboard a Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarine and ran a nuclear reactor on part-time job during college
- Professional expertise: Lift/Pump Stations and Tanks; primarily Public Works (Water, Wastewater, Drainage, Roadway)
“…IT SHOULD, IN FACT, BE THOUGHT OF AS A CREATIVE ACTIVITY UNDERTAKEN FOR THE LOVE OF THE WORK ITSELF; AND THAT MAN, MADE IN GOD’S IMAGE, SHOULD MAKE THINGS, AS GOD MAKES THEM, FOR THE SAKE OF DOING WELL A THING THAT IS WELL WORTH DOING…IT SHOULD BE LOOKED UPON, NOT AS A NECESSARY DRUDGERY TO BE UNDERGONE FOR THE PURPOSE OF MAKING MONEY, BUT AS A WAY OF LIFE IN WHICH THE NATURE OF MAN SHOULD FIND ITS PROPER EXERCISE AND DELIGHT AND SO FULFILL ITSELF TO THE GLORY OF GOD.” ~ DOROTHY SAYERS
Mike Wilson, PE
- Born in Lubbock, Texas
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 1999
- Graduated from Texas Tech University (BSCE) and University of Texas at Arlington (MBA)
- (Thought about being a Meteorologist)
- Hidden Talent: Word Search aficionado
- Hit two hole-in-ones in my lifetime… one at age 14 and one at age 20
- Professional expertise: Management/Design of Site Development, emphasis on school sites
“THE ONLY IMPOSSIBLE JOURNEY IS THE ONE YOU NEVER BEGIN.” ~ANTHONY ROBBINS
Niraj Acharya, PE, CFM
- Born in Detroit, Michigan
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 2007
- Graduated from University of Texas at Arlington (BSCE, MECE)
- (Thought about being an Aerospace Engineer or Comedy Sketch Writer)
- Hidden Talent: Able to detach and hold over 20 clothespins with the same hand.
- Love Taco Bell (don’t judge me…!)
- Professional expertise: Storm Water Analysis and Design
“DO YOUR WORK WITH THE WELFARE OF OTHERS ALWAYS IN YOUR MIND”. ~ THE BHAGAVAD GITA
Philip C. Varughese, PE
- Born in Manama, Bahrain
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 2000
- Graduated from University of Texas at Arlington (BSCE & MBA)
- (Thought about being a Pharmacist)
- Hidden talent: Drummer
- Know four languages (English, Malayalam, Hindi, and Spanish), learning a fifth
- Professional expertise: Site Development and Project Management
“TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND LEAN NOT ON YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING; IN ALL YOUR WAYS ACKNOWLEDGE HIM, AND HE SHALL DIRECT YOUR PATHS.” ~ PROVERBS 3:5-6 (HOLY BIBILE: NEW KING JAMES VERSION)
Ryan Jones, PE
- Born in Fort Worth, Texas
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 2007
- Graduated from Texas A&M University (BSCE), College Station
- (Thought about being a Landscape Architect)
- Hidden Talent: Visual Arts
- Enjoy yardwork, the outside and an avid basketball fan!
- Professional expertise: Design of streets, highways, and drainage improvements for State and Municipal clients
“IRON SHARPENS IRON, SO ONE MAN SHARPENS ANOTHER.” ~PROVERBS 27:17
Scott A. Gibson, PE
- Born in Waco, Texas
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 1997
- Graduated from Texas Tech University, Lubbock
- (Thought about being a Golf Course Designer)
- Hidden Talent: Can hold my breath underwater for over one minute
- Raise Registered Simbrah and Santa Gertrudis Cattle
- Professional expertise: Site Development and Municipal Consulting
“THE ONLY TIME SUCCESS COMES BEFORE WORK IS IN THE DICTIONARY.” ~ VINCE LOMBARDI
Scott Wilhelm, PE, CFM
- Born in Cleveland, Ohio (aka “Mistake by the Lake”)
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 1990
- Graduated from University of Texas at Arlington
- (Thought about being an orthodontist)
- Hidden talent: Assigning nicknames to people
- Jeff Gordon fan
- Professional expertise: Water Distribution and Wastewater Collection Systems
“YOU GOTTA BE IN IT TO WIN IT!”
Sue Cole
- Born in Detroit, Michigan
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 2001
- Graduated from Michigan State University, E Lansing Michigan
- (Thought about being a Home Economist)
- Hidden Talent: Smocking and French Studies (not necessarily at the same time, but maybe….)
- Early career involved public service television spots
- Professional expertise: Accounting
“…BE QUICK TO LISTEN, SLOW TO SPEAK AND SLOW TO BECOME ANGRY.” ~ JAMES 1:19
Theron Sims, RPLS
- Born in Dallas, Texas
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 1983
- Graduated from Arlington High School
- (Thought about being a Paramedic)
- Hidden Talent: Drummer
- Love camping and cooking!
- Professional expertise: Professional Land Surveying
“IF YOU MAKE LISTENING AND OBSERVATION YOUR OCCUPATION YOU WILL GAIN MUCH MORE THAN YOU CAN BY TALK”. ~ ROBERT BADEN-POWELL
Todd B. Turner, RPLS
- Born in Greenville, Texas
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 1985
- Attended University of North Texas
- (Thought about being a professional hunter)
- Hidden talent: Big Game Hunting
- Enjoy Rocky Mountain wildlife spotting
- Professional expertise: Design Surveys and Project Management
“DO NOT MOVE AN ANCIENT BOUNDARY STONE, SET UP BY YOUR ANCESTORS.” ~ PROVERBS 22:28 (NIV)
Todd Dughman, CCISO, CISSP
- Born in Thermopolis, Wyoming
- Began an IT career within the engineering industry in 1999
- Graduated from Colorado Christian University (BSMIS, MBA)
- (Thought about being a gym owner)
- Hidden Talent: Pretty good weight lifter, fair cribbage player
- Huge dog lover. Has adopted many rescue dogs, including a retired greyhound whose racing name was “The Undertaker”.
- Professional expertise: Cybersecurity – Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
“TRULY, TRULY I SAY TO YOU, THE ONE WHO BELIEVES IN ME, THE WORKS THAT I DO, HE WILL DO ALSO; AND GREATER WORKS THAN THESE HE WILL DO; BECAUSE I AM GOING TO THE FATHER.” ~ JOHN 14:12 (NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE)
Tom Rutledge
- Born in Belen, New Mexico
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 1983
- Attended Delmar College, Corpus Christi, Florida State, Florida, and Tarrant County College, Texas
- (Thought about being an architect)
- Hidden talent: Storytelling
- Would like to become a professional photographer
- Professional expertise: Civil Engineering Site Design and Management
“GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE, THE COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS I CAN, AND THE WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.” ~REINHOLD NIEHBUHR
Ty Hilton, PE
- Born in Arlington, Texas
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 1989
- Graduated from Texas A&M University (BSCE) and University of Texas at Arlington (MECE)
- (Thought about being a dentist, but realized I couldn’t stand the sight of blood)
- Hidden talent: Always the first one off the ski lift using my patented “swim move”
- My full name is Carden Tyrone Hilton…. now you know why I go by Ty!
- Professional expertise: Management/Design of streets and highways, water and wastewater systems, and drainage improvements.
“BELIEVE YOU CAN AND YOU’RE HALFWAY THERE”. ~THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Veronica Hodge, PE, CFM
- Born in Alice, Texas
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 1997
- Graduated from Texas A&M, College Station
- (Thought about being a Doctor. Plans changed when faced with the reality of years of additional school.)
- Hidden Talent: Trying new recipes in the kitchen and bringing people together through food
- Should have a customer loyalty card at the orthopedic surgeon, she has torn both ACL’s playing basketball.
- Professional expertise: H & H Studies and Drainage Design for TxDOT
“ENJOY THE LITTLE THINGS IN LIFE, FOR SOMEDAY YOU WILL REALIZE THEY WERE THE BIG THINGS!” ~ UNKNOWN
Wayne E. Fowler, PE, CFM
- Born in Fort Valley, Georgia
- Began a career within the engineering industry in 1984
- Graduated from Auburn University, Alabama
- (Thought about being an antique auto restoration expert)
- Hidden talent: Beekeeper
- Writes a weekly newspaper column on faith and culture, and in 2017 published a book with a 2-year collection, with another book in progress!
- Professional expertise: Drainage Engineering (emphasis in National Flood Insurance Program compliance)
