University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Grainger College of Engineering

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Current Board of Directors

Officers

President

David L. Byrd
(BS 01, MS 06)

Aggregate Construction Consultants
Deerfield, Ill.

Vice President

Dana B. Mehlman, P.E.
(BS 99, MS 01)
Vedder Price P.C.
Chicago

Second Vice Pres. & Secretary

Daniel J. Whalen
(BS 84, MS 85)

Hanson Professional Services Inc
Springfield, Ill.

Past President

Paula C. Pienton,
P.E., S.E.
(BS 85)

CN Railroad
Homewood, Ill.

Directors

Ama O. Addai, P.E. (BS 04)

Ardmore Roderick

Chicago

Jackie A. Becker, P.E. (BS 07)

Ameren Transmission

St. Louis, Mo.

Kimberly S. Cummins, P.E. (BS 98)
Cummins Engineering Corp.
Springfield, Ill.

Kevin C. Fuhr, P.E. (BS 96)
Hanson Professional Services
Chicago

Brian S. Heil, P.E. (BS 96, MS 97)
Oates Associates Inc.
Collinsville, Ill.

Matthew A. Johnson, P.E., S.E. (BS 04, MS 08)

Fehr Graham
Champaign, Ill.

Kurt A. Keifer, P.E. (BS 97, MS 99, PhD 06)
IMS Infrastructure Management Services
Tempe, Ariz.

Justin R. Lewis, P.E. (BS 07, MS 08)
Keller North America
Chicago

Michael J. Mack, P.E. (BS 89)
Burns & McDonnell
Downer's Grove, Ill.

Andrew J. Martin, P.E. (BS 98)
Greeley and Hansen LLC
Chicago

Douglas S. Pelletier (BS 95)

Burns & McDonnell

Chicago

Katherine Pripusich-Sienkiewicz (BS 03, MS 13)
Amazon Web Services
Chicago

Robert Risser (BS 87, MS 89)
Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute
Chicago

Richard Sieracki (BS 74)
The Kenrich Group
Chicago

Michael Vitale, P.E. (BS 82, MS 84)
Mott MacDonald
Cleveland, Ohio

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