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Dr. Atalah teaches construction management at Bowling Green State University (BGSU). He has taught and mentored hundreds of construction management students since 2000. Dr. Atalah has written many peer-reviewed-journal and conference papers. He has made hundreds of construction management presentations in many national and international conferences and educational seminars. Dr. Atalah has been involved in the construction of water and wastewater projects since 1984. He earned a Doctor of Engineering degree, an MS degree in Civil Engineering, and MBA degrees from Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA. After his graduation with a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering in 1982, he worked on the construction of wastewater projects in very challenging conditions such as high ground water table, stratified soils, unknown utilities, congested streets, and nearby high-rise buildings. Dr. Atalah also worked on the construction of water and wastewater projects in very challenging conditions such as tunneling in very sensitive tourism and commercial areas where construction disturbance must be minimized on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.

Civil Engineer at Burns & McDonnell
Ms. Zamaites is a senior civil engineer with Burns & McDonnell in Chicago. She has 28 years of experience with planning and design covering municipal infrastructure and commercial, residential, and recreational development; along with planned community design. Ms. Zamaites’ experience includes utility design/relocation for water transmission and distribution systems, sewage collection, and stormwater management systems including that for arterial, collector and local street systems. She works on floodplain evaluation and management, utility relocation, hydrology and hydraulics, earthen dam inspections, stream modeling with scour countermeasures, erosion and sediment control, and meeting all regulatory criteria associated with local planning and zoning ordinances, stormwater ordinances, and other applicable regulatory criteria from local to the federal level. Ms. Zamaites’ hydrologic and hydraulic modeling experience includes HEC 1, HEC 2, WSP2, WSPRO, WIN TR-20, TR 55, SWMM, HEC-RAS, HydroCAD, SewerCAD, StormCAD, Culvert Master, and Flow Master.

Principal, Matrix Engineering Group, Inc.
Mr. Tomeh is a principal and co-founder of Matrix Engineering Group, an award-winning consultancy group, based in Atlanta, Georgia, specializing in geotechnical engineering, environmental engineering, construction materials testing, special inspections and geophysical surveys. He is a registered professional engineer and a certified project management professional. Mr. Tomeh has pioneered several systems and work flow processes as they relate to ICC special inspections and construction materials testing; and he has innovated the use of geophysics (refraction and multi-channel analysis of surface waves) to non-invasively enhance and supplement the traditional geotechnical characterization of sites and important structures. He is an adjunct professor at Southern Polytechnic State University Department of Construction Management and serves on the Commercial Construction Management Advisory Board at Gwinnett Technical College. Mr. Tomeh is a voting member in ASTM Committee D18 and is a member of the American Concrete Institute. He earned his bachelor of science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and his master of science degree in Civil Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Mr. Tomeh was accepted in 2015 into the Academy of Geo-Professionals (AGP), as a diplomate, geotechnical engineering (D.GE). Considered one of the highest designations in the geo-profession, only about 300 engineers have achieved the D.GE status.

Veridus Group in IndianapolisMr. Holeyfield is a graduate of Texas A&M University witha degree in Civil Engineering.  He has been in the industry for 12 years and is licensed in the states of Texas and Indiana.  Mr. Holeyfield specializes in civil engineering land development ranging from commercial/retail development and industrial development, to small site civil projects, education projects and more.  He also has a background in transportation planning and operations. He is part of Urban Land Institute’s Young Leaders program and is involved in community development and outreach.   Mr. Holeyfield joined The Veridus Group in January 2017 and leads the civil design studio for the group.

Veridus Group in IndianapolisMr. Jensen is the founder, president and principal engineer at the Veridus Group.  He has been involved in a number of high profile projects throughout his career including large municipal projects, sustainable master planning, large campuses and mixed-use complexes.  Mr. Jensen specializes in representing project owners in complex projects.  His creative, sustainable, collaborative approach to issues assists clients through the most difficult projects and circumstances.  Mr. Jensen is a graduate of Purdue University’s School of Civil Engineering and is licensed in five states. He and his staff primarily focus on commercial site development, schools, athletic facilities and all aspects of stormwater management for their clients. Mr. Jensen started the Veridus Group in 2011 to provide a civil engineering consultancy alternative in the regional market.

Civil Engineer at Burns & McDonnell
Ms. Zamaites is a senior civil engineer with Burns & McDonnell in Chicago. She has 28 years of experience with planning and design covering municipal infrastructure and commercial, residential, and recreational development; along with planned community design. Ms. Zamaites’ experience includes utility design/relocation for water transmission and distribution systems, sewage collection, and stormwater management systems including that for arterial, collector and local street systems. She works on floodplain evaluation and management, utility relocation, hydrology and hydraulics, earthen dam inspections, stream modeling with scour countermeasures, erosion and sediment control, and meeting all regulatory criteria associated with local planning and zoning ordinances, stormwater ordinances, and other applicable regulatory criteria from local to the federal level. Ms. Zamaites’ hydrologic and hydraulic modeling experience includes HEC 1, HEC 2, WSP2, WSPRO, WIN TR-20, TR 55, SWMM, HEC-RAS, HydroCAD, SewerCAD, StormCAD, Culvert Master, and Flow Master.

Landscape Architect with ConfluenceMr. Aldrich is a landscape architect with Confluence who has 15+ years designing sustainable sites and innovative green infrastructure practices. He is passionate about sustainable site design and has numerous award-winning projects certified and/or influenced by LEED, SITES and the Living Building Challenge (LEED on steroids).

State Soil Scientist in Iowa for the Natural Resources Conservation Service
Mr. Bednarek has statewide responsibility for the Soil Health and Technical Soil Services Programs. He also supervises the GIS section. Mr. Bednarek is also the State Resource Inventory Coordinator in Iowa providing leadership for the state in all Natural Resource Inventory activities. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Soil Science from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls in 1983 and started his career with NRCS in 1987. Mr. Bednarek began his soil scientist career as a county soil scientist in McDonough County, Illinois, in 1985. In 1987, he joined the Soil Conservation Service in Minnesota as a soil scientist and later as project leader and area soils specialist. In 1999, Mr. Bednarek became the Resource Soil Scientist in Atlantic, Iowa. Then in 2007, he went to the South Dakota State Office as Soil Quality Specialist and later as Assistant State Soil Scientist.

LAndVisionMr. Hager is a professional landscape architect, licensed to practicein Iowa and Illinois with over 30 years of experience working as avital team member at both large, multi-disciplinary firms and smallerlandscape architectural and engineering offices. After receiving hisbachelor of Landscape Architecture degree from Iowa State University,his professional journey included design and planning positions atlarge, national, multi-disciplinary firms such as Jacobs and Parsons aswell as smaller landscape architecture, engineering and architecturefirms in Iowa, Tennessee and Missouri. Mr. Hager has worked on anumber of housing, mixed use, and light industrial projects in many USlocations for private developers. His experience in planning and urbandesign for low impact and best management practices includes work inHeibei Province, Peoples Republic of China.

Landscape Architect with ConfluenceMr. Host is a landscape architect with Confluence who has 30+ years of public and private sector experience. Sustainable practices have been part of his design influence over that span. Past projects have achieved LEED and Green Globes certification, and he is currently part of the West North Central SITES Collaborative.

Snyder & Associates, Inc. Mr. Marner is a landscape architect with 29 years of experience in the profession. He leads the Land Development Business Unit consisting of civil engineers and landscape architects in the corporate office in Ankeny. Project experience in the private sector includes housing, retail, commercial and industrial developments. Projects in the public sector include educational facilities, parks, streetscapes and sports complexes. Projects are located in Iowa and the surrounding states.

Considered one of the innovators in melding art, science and engineering in design, James Patchett, FASLA, LEED AP, founded Conservation Design Forum in 1994, with offices in Elmhurst, Illinois, and Grand Rapids, Michigan. Mr. Patchett is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading pioneers in the design and promotion of sustainable site planning methodologies that integrate innovative water resource management and ecological restoration measures into built and natural environments. Trained both as a landscape architect and hydrologist, Mr. Patchett has served on a variety of national technical advisory committees including the ASLA Sustainable Sites initiative. He is also co-founder of Conservation Research Institute, Conservation Land Stewardship, and Solutions in the Land. Mr. Patchett is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and a LEED-Accredited Professional. He received an undergraduate degree in Landscape Architecture, and master’s degrees in both Landscape Architecture and Civil Engineering (water resources) from Iowa State University. Mr. Patchett has completed the necessary course work towards a PhD degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources.

CPSS, CPESC
Ms. Sauer is a professional soil scientist and the executive director for the Iowa Stormwater Education Partnership (ISWEP). She oversees ISWEP, an organization that supports Iowa MS-4 cities that are permitted by the IDNR by providing educational resources, training and technical support. She also develops and conducts educational training and certification programs throughout Iowa on construction site runoff control, green infrastructure and stormwater design, streambank restoration and stormwater pollution prevention. Ms. Sauer is on the Technical Committee for the IDNR Iowa Stormwater Management Manual and is involved with planning the annual Iowa Water Conference.

Associate Professor in the Landscape Architecture Department at Iowa State University
Professor Yost teaches graduate and undergraduate collaborative and interdisciplinary studios; a social and behavioral landscapes seminar (environmental psychology); an advanced graphics and representation course; portfolio design; graduate-level introduction to research methods for landscape architects; Design Core Studio for 1st year students in our College of Design; an optional upper-level studio titled, “Poetry of Place, Earthworks, & Revelations,” and a capstone community-based studio focused on stormwater, green infrastructure & schoolyard design called “Mount Airy Schoolyards” in northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Professor Yost received her two master degrees in Landscape Architecture and Urban & Regional Planning from the University of Colorado Denver and a bachelors of arts degree in General Arts & Sciences from Pennsylvania State University. In addition, she is currently completing her PhD degree (ABD status) on Denver Public School Learning Landscapes schoolyards. Prior to pursuing her graduate degrees, Professor Yost was a program manager and environmental educator for five years for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in Virginia where she designed and led watershed and wetlands programs.

Development Services Engineering Lead, City of Round RockMr. Carr is the Development Services senior engineering lead with the City of Round Rock, Texas. He facilitates permit applications for site and subdivision development from the point of annexation and platting through site construction and closeout. Mr. Carr conducts pre-development meetings with developers and engineers to help identify the quickest path to permitting, construction, and closeout. He also reviews plat applications as well as subdivision plans, site plans, wastewater capacity analyses, flood studies, and drainage studies for code compliance and technical correctness. Prior to working for the City of Round Rock, Mr. Carr worked for a consulting engineering firm in Austin designing and preparing plans and reports similar to what he is now reviewing. Mr. Carr earned his B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, and he has served as a mentor for a senior civil engineering design class at the University of Texas for the past several years. He is also a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Mr. Carr is a professional engineer in Texas and is a certified floodplain manager.

Mr. Blake has practiced land surveying throughout central California and western Nevada. He is licensed in both states and is also a certified federal surveyor. He specializes in surveys to support large public works infrastructure projects. He also serves as an expert witness in disputes involving boundary survey or land title issues. He currently works as the Mapping Department manager for Hawkins and Associates in Modesto, California. In his previous positions he worked as the Mapping Department manager for O’Dell Engineering and the assistant surveyor manager for KSN in Stockton, California. Mr. Blake serves as a volunteer on the Land Surveyor Technical Advisory Committee to the California Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists. He is currently the president of the California Land Surveyors Association Central Valley Chapter and the vice president of the American Council of Engineering Companies Central California Chapter. Mr. Blake teaches at surveying and GIS events around the Western United States.

Creative Product Solutions, LLC, Coloma, MI
Mr. Hoffman received his Mechanical Engineering degree from Michigan Technological University (MTU). He studied solid mechanics including stress, fatigue, mechanism design, and vibrations. Mr. Hoffman has 33 years of experience in both the automotive and consumer products fields. His experience includes extensive use of simulation- based design tools, design of electro-mechanical sub-systems and system level optimization through sequential learning using design of experiments (DOE). Mr. Hoffman also has experience with the reduction of performance variation using component of variation (COV) studies as well as all aspects of testing and production approval of electro-mechanical products including safety, performance, reliability, and quality. He has detailed knowledge of manufacturing processes including stampings, castings, injection moldings, and machining. Mr. Hoffman is a registered professional engineer in the state of Michigan and was trained and certified as a certified statistical black belt from Six Sigma Associates. He is also certified as a master in forced failure testing and certified as a master in product safety at Whirlpool based on the formal training received at that company.

Blue Ridge Design, Inc., in Winchester, VADr. Cleland has 40 years of experience in structural analysis, design, research, and engineering management. Dr. Cleland has designed or directed the design of nearly 300 parking garages either as specialty structural engineer or as structural engineer of record, and he has extensive experience in precast/prestressed design, detailing and construction. He is the immediate past chairman of the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) Technical Committee on Parking Garages when the PCI Recommended Practice was updated to the 3rd Edition. He co-authored the PCI Seismic Design Manual with Dr. S.K. Ghosh for the 1st and 2nd Editions. Dr. Cleland is currently a member the American Concrete Institute Committee 318, and he serves on 318-G, the prestressed concrete subcommittee, and on 318-H, the seismic design subcommittee. He is a member of ACI 362 on parking garages. Dr. Cleland is also chairman of the Technical Activities Council of PCI and has served on this committee for 18 years.

Mr. Gleich is vice president of engineering for Metromont Corporation. He is responsible for all engineering designs for the company, including: developing new design techniques and improving quality and efficiency in manufacturing or erection through design, supervising areas of drafting and project engineering, and providing technical support to quality control and sales. Metromont has built more than 750 parking structures across the Southeast under Mr. Gleich’s supervision. Previously he worked for two precast/prestress manufacturers, advancing from design engineer to chief engineer. Professional awards include The Norman L. Scott Professional Engineer Award (2018), Titan of the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Industry (2014), Life Member of PCI (2013), ACI Fellow (2005), PCI Fellow (1999), and Piedmont Chapter NSPE Engineer of the Year (1997).

Mr. Hibbard is a parking planning and design specialist with expertise in functionality and operational flexibility. Mr. Hibbard is skilled in parking programming for phased mixed-use projects and master planning for municipal, university, healthcare, hospitality, corporate campus and airport clients. He is experienced in coordinating parking requirements with developers; owners; design consultants; and planning, zoning, and building departments. His technical strengths include sustainable parking design strategies, barrier-free design, parking geometrics, pedestrian and vehicular traffic flows, signage and graphics, parking access and revenue control equipment, and “smart parking” technology design integration. Mr. Hibbard is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology and is a registered professional engineer in Georgia (License No. 15029). He is a contributing author of The Dimensions of Parking, 5th Edition, 2010, a collaborative effort of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and the National Parking Association (NPA). As a past-member of NPA’s Parking Consultants Council, Mr. Hibbard has been a committee member contributor to several publications, including Parking Studies, 2006; Parking Garage Maintenance Manual, 2004; and Guidelines for Parking Geometrics, 2002. Mr. Hibbard is a member of the International Parking Institute (IPI) and has been an active member of the Parking Association of Georgia (PAG) for 30 years.

Blue Ridge Design, Inc., in Winchester, VADr. Cleland has 40 years of experience in structural analysis, design, research, and engineering management. Dr. Cleland has designed or directed the design of nearly 300 parking garages either as specialty structural engineer or as structural engineer of record, and he has extensive experience in precast/prestressed design, detailing and construction. He is the immediate past chairman of the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) Technical Committee on Parking Garages when the PCI Recommended Practice was updated to the 3rd Edition. He co-authored the PCI Seismic Design Manual with Dr. S.K. Ghosh for the 1st and 2nd Editions. Dr. Cleland is currently a member the American Concrete Institute Committee 318, and he serves on 318-G, the prestressed concrete subcommittee, and on 318-H, the seismic design subcommittee. He is a member of ACI 362 on parking garages. Dr. Cleland is also chairman of the Technical Activities Council of PCI and has served on this committee for 18 years.

Blue Ridge Design, Inc., in Winchester, VADr. Cleland has 40 years of experience in structural analysis, design, research, and engineering management. Dr. Cleland has designed or directed the design of nearly 300 parking garages either as specialty structural engineer or as structural engineer of record, and he has extensive experience in precast/prestressed design, detailing and construction. He is the immediate past chairman of the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) Technical Committee on Parking Garages when the PCI Recommended Practice was updated to the 3rd Edition. He co-authored the PCI Seismic Design Manual with Dr. S.K. Ghosh for the 1st and 2nd Editions. Dr. Cleland is currently a member the American Concrete Institute Committee 318, and he serves on 318-G, the prestressed concrete subcommittee, and on 318-H, the seismic design subcommittee. He is a member of ACI 362 on parking garages. Dr. Cleland is also chairman of the Technical Activities Council of PCI and has served on this committee for 18 years.

Blue Ridge Design, Inc., in Winchester, VADr. Cleland has 40 years of experience in structural analysis, design, research, and engineering management. Dr. Cleland has designed or directed the design of nearly 300 parking garages either as specialty structural engineer or as structural engineer of record, and he has extensive experience in precast/prestressed design, detailing and construction. He is the immediate past chairman of the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) Technical Committee on Parking Garages when the PCI Recommended Practice was updated to the 3rd Edition. He co-authored the PCI Seismic Design Manual with Dr. S.K. Ghosh for the 1st and 2nd Editions. Dr. Cleland is currently a member the American Concrete Institute Committee 318, and he serves on 318-G, the prestressed concrete subcommittee, and on 318-H, the seismic design subcommittee. He is a member of ACI 362 on parking garages. Dr. Cleland is also chairman of the Technical Activities Council of PCI and has served on this committee for 18 years.

Senior Consultant with Engineering Systems, Inc., in Charlotte, NCMr. Kercsmar specializes in structural engineering with expertise in the investigation, evaluation, and repair/restoration of damaged and distressed buildings and other structures. He also has expertise with building envelope investigation, precast/prestressed concrete specialty engineering, fall protection consulting for buildings, parking structure consulting, and new building analysis and design. In addition, he served as a structures specialist with Virginia Task Force 1 (VA-TF1), a FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) Urban Search and Rescue team that responds to domestic disasters, as well as with USA-1, one of only two USAID-OFDA (United States Agency for International Development, Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance) teams that deploys and responds to international disasters. Mr. Kercsmar holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University. He is a registered professional engineer (P.E.) in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia.