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James “Mike” Alexander Hg Consult, Inc. 10512 N. Euclid Avenue Kansas City, MO 64155 (816) 895-9133 [email protected] Professional Biography Mike Alexander is a licensed Professional Engineer who has worked in the Kansas City Area for 12 years. Currently, he is a water resources project manager for Hg Consult, designing water resources projects throughout the nation. His design experience includes hydraulic modeling, hydrology and hydraulics studies, highway and site drainage, EPA consent decree projects, streambank stabilization, best management practices/green infrastructure design, bridge scour, and floodplain management. Mr. Alexander received his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri – Rolla in 2004. He is licensed as a Professional Engineer in Missouri and Kansas. He is active in several professional organizations, including the Association of Dam Safety Officials (ASDSO), Society of American Military Engineers (SAME), and the Blue River Watershed Association (BRWA). Personal Biography Mike and his wife Carrie have one son, James, age 3. He enjoys playing golf, fishing, watching area sports teams, travel, and spending time with family.

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James “Mike” Alexander Hg Consult, Inc.

10512 N. Euclid Avenue Kansas City, MO 64155

(816) 895-9133 [email protected]

Professional Biography Mike Alexander is a licensed Professional Engineer who has worked in the Kansas City Area for 12 years. Currently, he is a water resources project manager for Hg Consult, designing water resources projects throughout the nation. His design experience includes hydraulic modeling, hydrology and hydraulics studies, highway and site drainage, EPA consent decree projects, streambank stabilization, best management practices/green infrastructure design, bridge scour, and floodplain management. Mr. Alexander received his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri – Rolla in 2004. He is licensed as a Professional Engineer in Missouri and Kansas. He is active in several professional organizations, including the Association of Dam Safety Officials (ASDSO), Society of American Military Engineers (SAME), and the Blue River Watershed Association (BRWA). Personal Biography Mike and his wife Carrie have one son, James, age 3. He enjoys playing golf, fishing, watching area sports teams, travel, and spending time with family.

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Anthony C. “Tony” Augustine Kuhlmann design Group, Inc.

66 Progress Parkway St. Louis, MO 63043

(314) 434-8898 [email protected]

Professional Biography Anthony Augustine is a licensed Professional Engineer in 16 states responsible for the management of the Structural Department at Kuhlmann design Group. He has over 5 years of experience in structural engineering and design for building systems as well as equipment support structures, including analysis, design, construction documentation and administration. He has worked on structural design projects across the country, from California to Florida and from Mississippi to Iowa. Previous projects range from minor renovations to entirely new structures and consist of casinos, hospitals, retail and restaurant spaces, industrial systems support structures, grocery stores, commercial buildings, aircraft hangars, and cellular sites. He received a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering Degree from the University of Missouri – Columbia in 2010, and has gone on to pursue a Master’s Degree in Structural Engineering from the University of Southern Illinois Edwardsville with a planned completion in 2017. His professional activities include the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME), and the Engineers’ Club of St. Louis. Personal Biography In his spare time Anthony enjoys playing golf, bowling, floor hockey, softball, and attending St. Louis Blues Hockey games as a season ticket holder. He is a St. Louis native and currently resides in Maryland Heights.

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Joseph “Joe” Blasi HNTB Corporation

715 Kirk Drive Kansas City, MO 64105

(816) 527-2378 [email protected]

Professional Biography Joe Blasi joined HNTB in January of 2005 and currently serves as a transportation planning engineer and a project manager for the Kansas City office. He is a registered Professional Engineer (PE) in Missouri, Iowa, and Arkansas, and a Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE). He founded and leads the firmwide transportation planning modelers user group, which connects over 100 HNTB modelers and meets regularly to discuss topics of planning models from travel demand models to meso- and micro-simulation, transit, noise, air-quality, and safety models. He assists offices around the country as a firmwide expert in VISSIM simulation software, having presented at six VISSIM user group conferences. His qualifications include micro- and mesoscopic simulation modeling and travel demand modeling using the latest versions of Synchro, SimTraffic, HCS, TransCAD, VISUM, VISSIM, and Dynameq, as well as ESRI GIS software. He has also produced a dozen Access Justification Requests in ten years, which have all been approved or are currently in the approval process. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Transportation Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. As a student, he held internships with several public and private transportation engineering entities, including the East-West Gateway Council of Governments. He is a member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) at the National and Local levels and served as President of the Kansas City Institute of Transportation Engineers (KCITE) in 2013. Personal Biography Joe and his wife, Laura, live in Kansas City, Missouri with their two boys – Joshua and Evan, ages 4 and 1. When not playing with his sons, he enjoys cycling, ultimate Frisbee, and strategy board games. He grew up in suburban Maryland and thus, roots first and foremost for the Baltimore Orioles. Joe enjoys travel, with some of his favorite destinations including National Parks in the Western United States.

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John P. Burgelin Horner & Shifrin, Inc. 4061 Hwy. PP, Suite 1 Poplar Bluff, MO 63901

(573) 727-9666 [email protected]

Professional Biography John Burgelin is a licensed professional engineer with over 10 years of experience in water resources, environmental engineering, transportation engineering, project and construction management. He has worked in varying capacities during his career from onsite resident engineer for large bridge and transportation projects to project manager for complete overhauls of municipal water and wastewater systems. He has successfully managed many projects from concept, through design and final construction acceptance. He has extensive experience working with available state and federal funding; helping to make upgrades and rehabilitation of municipal utilities possible for many small communities in the Midwest. He received his Bachelor (2007) and Master’s (2009) degrees in Civil Engineering from Southern Illinois University – Carbondale. He is currently working as a Project Manager for the Southeast Missouri Office of Horner & Shifrin, Inc. Personal Biography John and his wife MacKenzie live in Poplar Bluff Missouri and have a two-year old son named Sebastian. They enjoy spending their family time outdoors, fishing, hunting, and boating on the Current River; they are also both very active in their church, volunteer activities and civic clubs.

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Isaac Crabtree Larkin Lamp Rynearson

9001 State Line Road, Suite 200 Kansas City, MO 64114

(816) 823-7225 [email protected]

Professional Biography Isaac Crabtree currently serves as a Senior Project Manager in the Wastewater group at Larkin Lamp Rynearson (LLR) in Kansas City, MO. LLR is consulting engineering firm specializing in municipal water and wastewater engineering, civil engineering, and aquatics and is a branch office of Lamp Rynearson Associates, Inc. headquartered in Omaha, NE. Lamp Rynearson also has two branch offices in Colorado. He has worked in the consulting engineering field for over 11 years serving predominantly municipal clients and has focused his career on wastewater engineering – particularly treatment plant projects, from conceptual studies through construction phase services. His expertise includes project management, plant hydraulics, wastewater and sludge pumping stations, preliminary treatment processes including screening, screenings handling and grit removal, secondary biological treatment processes, and sludge thickening. He received a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Kansas State University in 2005, is a licensed Professional Engineer in Kansas and Missouri, and received the Envision® Sustainability Credential from the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) in 2015. He is active in the local Water Environment Federation (WEF) Member Association which is the Kansas Water Environment Association (KWEA). Personal Biography Isaac resides in Olathe, Kansas with his wife Stephanie and their 4 children – Caleb (7), Austin (4), Avery (2), and Callen (1). He serves his church in various capacities and is an Assistant Den Leader for his son’s Cub Scout pack. In his free time, he enjoys the outdoors (hunting, fishing, shooting, Frisbee golf), working in the yard, watching sports, and spending time with his family.

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Adrianne Eilers Crawford, Murphy & Tilly, Inc. One Memorial Drive, Suite 500

St. Louis, MO 63102 (314) 436-5500

[email protected]

Professional Biography Adrianne Eilers has been with Crawford, Murphy & Tilly, Inc for 10 years and is currently a Senior Engineer in the Water Resources Business Unit in St. Louis, Missouri. She has worked as project engineer and lead process design on numerous wastewater treatment plant projects ranging in size from 0.5 MGD to 150 MGD. Her engineering experience includes hydraulic design of wastewater treatment plants, pump stations and forcemains along with mechanical process design of headworks facilities (screening, screenings and grit removal), biological treatment systems (including biological nutrient removal, activated sludge systems and clarification), disinfection and biosolids treatment (including digestion and thickening/dewatering). She has also served as project engineer on water treatment upgrade projects and water main transmission projects. She is licensed as a Professional Engineer in Missouri and Illinois. Adrianne received her Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana – Champaign in 2006. She is currently a member of Water Environment Federation, American Water Works Association, Society of American Military Engineers and American Society of Civil Engineers. Personal Biography Adrianne, her husband Nick and son Cooper live on a livestock farm where they raise Red Angus and commercial cattle. She currently serves on the Bond County Fair Association Board of Directors. In her spare time, she enjoys working on the farm and spending time with family.

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Caroline Epperly Engineering Design Source, Inc.

16141 Swingley Ridge Road, Suite 300 Chesterfield, MO 63017

(636) 537-5585 [email protected]

Professional Biography Caroline Epperly is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Illinois since 1996 and in the state of Missouri since 2010. She works for Engineering Design Source, Inc (EDSI) for over 3 years as the Structural Department Manager. With more than 20 years of experience in transportation, most of her experience is in the design and construction inspection and rehabilitation of bridges. She also has experience in design of retaining walls and culverts, final structural design calculations and plans, construction specifications and cost estimates. She graduated with a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri- Rolla in May 1990. She is an active member of TEAM StL, ASCE and APWA. Personal Biography Caroline resides in Dardenne Prairie, MO with her three children, Matthew (20), Kathryn (17) and Kristen (16). As a widow, besides working full time, Caroline is a Cardinals baseball fan and enjoys spending time with her family and friends. Most of her spare time she spends running, attending her kids sporting events and visiting colleges with them. She enjoys any outdoor activity – especially sand volleyball, boating and likes to keep active.

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Michael C. “Mike” Erdtmann GBA

16305 Swingley Ridge Road, Suite 300 Chesterfield, MO 63017

(636) 385-5659 [email protected]

Professional Biography Mike Erdtmann is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Missouri since 2010, working for GBA (George Butler Associates), an engineering consulting firm. He is GBA’s St. Louis area manager, and has been with the company for nearly 12 years. With a background in transportation planning and design, he has designed and managed a variety of transportation projects including municipal roadway design of collector and arterial streets, highway design, interchanges, bridge replacements, corridor and alignment studies, pedestrian facilities and trail design, intersections, comprehensive plans, and streetscapes. He also has construction inspection and administration experience. He graduated with a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri – Columbia in May of 2005. He is an active member of Engineer’s Club of St. Louis, TEAM StL, and APWA. Personal Biography Mike resides in South St. Louis City with his wife Meghan and two daughters, Hanley and Elsie. He enjoys a variety of sports and hobbies, including running, softball, golf, lacrosse, tennis, and reading. Above all he likes spending time with family and friends, be it attending kid’s soccer games, watching sports and movies, playing board games, or going to the park. Someday he would like to own horses… and maybe learn how to ride them.

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Laura Faletto AECOM

1001 Highlands Plaza Drive West, Ste. 300 St. Louis, MO 63110

(314) 743-4127 [email protected]

Professional Biography Laura Faletto is currently a Certified AECOM Project Manager serving as the Department Manager for the Environmental Division of the AECOM St. Louis office. Additionally, she is a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM) and has completed the 40-Hour Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response. She has over 18 years of experience in environmental compliance, air permitting, hazardous waste permitting and management, Department of Transportation compliance, and general environmental awareness training. Laura’s extensive background includes performing consultant services and providing comprehensive environmental assistance in the utility and private industry sectors. She is skilled in her abilities to manage issues of regulatory compliance and work closely with state, local, and environmental agencies. She has prepared operation & maintenance plans, monitoring plans, and startup, shutdown, and malfunction plans for industrial facilities required to comply with MACT regulations. Her professional accomplishments include the design and oversight of a liquid propane pipeline extension while working for St. Louis Laclede Gas Company (now Spire). Additionally, Laura designed and provided training for the company’s DOT HAZMAT and spill response. While working with Schreiber, Yonley & Associates, she conducted extensive reviews, data compilation, and updates of risk assessments for industrial and waste management facilities. She used these results to co-author a risk assessment summary paper that was presented at AWMA HWC conference. As part of her project work, she has compiled industry-wide emissions databases and a report summarizing the state of multi-pathway risk assessments for the cement manufacturing industry. Personal Biography Laura and her husband are native St. Louisans who enjoy spending time with their daughters and extended family.

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Chad A. Harrington Larkin Lamp Rynearson

9001 State Line Road, Suite 200 Kansas City, MO 64114

(816) 823-7203 [email protected]

Professional Biography Chad Harrington currently serves as a Project Manager in the Water Group at Larkin Lamp Rynearson (LLR) in Kansas City, MO. LLR is consulting engineering firm specializing in municipal water and wastewater engineering, civil engineering, and aquatics and is a branch office of Lamp Rynearson Associates, Inc. headquartered in Omaha, NE. Lamp Rynearson also has two branch offices in Colorado. He has worked in the consulting engineering field for the last 11 years serving predominantly municipal clients and has focused his career on water engineering – particularly distribution systems, elevated storage tanks, and capital improvement plans. Prior to his work in the consulting field, he worked as a water applications engineer for a center pivot irrigation manufacturer. His expertise includes project management, hydraulics, distribution system design, coating systems. He received a Bachelor of Science in Biological and Agricultural Engineering from Kansas State University in 2001, is a licensed Professional Engineer in Kansas and Missouri, and is NACE CIP Level 1 and Confined Space Entry Certified. Personal Biography Chad resides in Olathe, Kansas. He enjoys skiing, hiking, traveling, museums, and visiting Major League Baseball Stadiums.

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John Huebbe EFK Moen, LLC

13523 Barrett Parkway Drive St. Louis, MO 63021

(314) 394-3117 [email protected]

Professional Biography John Huebbe is a licensed professional engineer who lives in St. Peters, Missouri. He is currently a project engineer for EFK Moen, LLC, working from their St. Louis office. He has over 10 years of experience in the transportation engineering field and 2 years in the structural engineering field. He has worked on multiple components of roadway design, including roadway alignment and geometrics, drainage systems, open channel hydraulics, signing, retaining wall layouts, quantities, estimates, and PS&E bid documents. He received his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from University of MO St. Louis/Washington University in 2003. He is a licensed as a Professional Engineering in both Missouri and Illinois and has actively participated in many professional organizations, including TEAM St. Louis, APWA, and MfSMA. He has worked on many large active corridors in the Midwest region, including recently both phases 2 and 3 of Route 364 in St. Charles county and I‐90 and I‐294 in the Chicago suburbs for the IL tollway. He has also worked on a number of mid‐sized and smaller design projects for local counties and municipalities in the St. Louis area, consisting of drainage studies, local road rehabilitations, creek bank stabilizations, and ADA sidewalks and shared use paths. Personal Biography John is a lifelong St. Louisan, having grown up in Hazelwood Missouri and later moving to St Peters. In his personal time he enjoys entering rally races with his 1970 VW Beetle and organizes the yearly Rally in the 100 Acre Wood off‐road rally in Salem MO every winter. He enjoys running, hiking, travel, photography, making things with his own hands, and family genealogy. In addition he is a pilot and member of the EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) and AOPA (Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association). He has previously built 3 experimental airplanes and currently flys a Vans RV‐12 which he built over 2015‐2016 and completed last summer.

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Spence Kelly Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.

501 N. Broadway St. Louis, MO 63102

(314) 335-5008 [email protected]

Professional Biography Spence Kelly is a licensed professional engineer with eleven years of experience in water resources as well as transportation and municipal engineering. He spent the first seven years of his career working for a municipal engineering firm in Chicago and now manages the Hydrology/Hydraulics/Site group at Jacobs Engineering. His career includes serving as project engineer/manager for the planning and design of a variety of projects including land development, highways, streets, bridges, trails, utilities, and detention/retention facilities. He has experience in hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, flood studies, municipal plan review and NPDES Phase II program management. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 2005. He is currently working as drainage discipline lead for a 20 mile segment of high speed train in California. Personal Biography Spence and his wife Hilary live in St. Charles and have a two-year old son named Wyatt. They have another child due on April 8th. He enjoys house projects, running, music, golf and spending time with the family.

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Eric Livingston TRC Environmental Corporation

415 S. 18th Street St. Louis, MO 63103

(314) 241-2694 [email protected]

Professional Biography Eric Livingston is a Registered Geologist in the State of Missouri and has over 11 years of environmental consulting experience. He currently serves as a project manager for TRC Environmental Corporation in St. Louis, Missouri. His work experience encompasses all aspects of characterizing and remediating environmentally impaired properties. Much of his career has been focused on managing environmental liabilities associated with railroad lease sites. This work includes quantifying the environmental risk posed at these sites, developing approaches to mitigating risk, and appropriately managing the environmental reserve associated with each site. He received his Bachelor of Science in Geological Sciences from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is also an active member of the Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists (AEG) St. Louis Chapter. Personal Biography Eric resides in Webster Groves, Missouri with his wife Kristin and 16 month old daughter, Elle. He enjoys spending time with his family, travelling, and golf. For over 13 years, he has played men’s club rugby and currently has an active role in coaching. He is also a lifelong Blues hockey fan and most recently attended the Winter Classic at Busch Stadium.

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David P. “Dave” Nolan SCI Engineering, Inc.

130 Point West Boulevard St. Charles, MO 63301

(636) 757-1024 [email protected]

Professional Biography Dave Nolan is a Professional Engineer in Missouri and Illinois and currently Vice President and Partner at SCI Engineering, Inc. where he has been for over 21 years. In this position he leads the material testing and inspection department at SCI. This department includes nearly 80 professional and technical staff performing various construction quality control testing and inspection services on various construction sites, as well as SCI’s concrete and geotechnical laboratories. He received his BS in Civil Engineering from Purdue University in 1995 and his MBA from Lindenwood University in 2004. He is a Concrete Plant Inspecting Engineer through NRMCA’s plant certification program. He is currently the immediate Past President of the Missouri Chapter of the American Concrete Institute (ACI), an examiner for most of ACI’s certification programs, and has held the position of Certification Chairman for Missouri ACI since 2008. He currently serves on the O’Fallon, Missouri Public Works Commission and is a past chairman of that commission. He also serves on the St. Charles County Board of the Home Builders Association of St. Louis and Eastern Missouri. Personal Biography Dave and his wife Laura reside in O’Fallon, MO with their three children, Patrick (10), Emma (10), and Lillian (7). In his personal time, he coaches basketball and soccer for some of his kids’ teams, is the Committee Chair for Cubscout Pack 873, and is on the School Board at Immaculate Conception – Dardenne school which his kids attend. He enjoys spending time with his family, snowboarding, and golf.

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Greg Raffaelle EDM Incorporated

220 Mansion House Center St. Louis, MO 63102

(314) 231-5485 [email protected]

Professional Biography Greg Raffaelle is a Senior Structural Engineer with the firm EDM, Incorporated in St. Louis, Missouri. EDM is a multidisciplinary consulting engineering and project management firm. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of Missouri and licensed Structural Engineer in the state of Illinois. His responsibilities include meeting with owners/architects to develop design requirements and scope of work for major commercial building projects. He received a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering for the University of Michigan in 1992. Before receiving his Ph.D., he received a Master of Science and Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Illinois. He was a Graduate Student Teaching Assistant and a Graduate Student Research Assistant with the Department of Civil Engineering with the University of Michigan. He also was a lecturer for an evening class of Structural Engineering at Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville. Course content included introduction to structural analysis methods, beginning structural steel design using LRFD and Risa-2D project. He is currently a part time Adjunct Instructor for the UMSL/Washington University Joint Engineering Program during the spring semester. Personal Biography Greg in his spare time likes to golf and program engineering applications.

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Andrew Reid Burns & McDonnell 9400 Ward Parkway

Kansas City, MO 64114 (816) 349-6694

[email protected]

Professional Biography Andrew Reid is a licensed Professional Engineer with experience in a wide range of multidiscipline transportation projects. He has been with Burns and McDonnell in Kansas City for 3 years in the transportation global practice and prior to Burns and McDonnell, spent 4 years with a transportation firm in Phoenix. His design work includes roadway design, traffic analysis, and a personal passion for intelligent transportation systems design and operations. He received his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Iowa State University in 2010. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Texas, and he is a Professional Traffic Operations Engineer. His current assignments include serving as project manager/engineer on a variety of transportation projects and serving as deputy project manager on a design-build project for the Kansas Turnpike where 21 bridges are being raised to improve vertical clearance. He is active in several professional organizations, including ITS Heartland and the American Public Works Association. Personal Biography Andrew and his wife, Kelsey, have a brand new daughter named Emerson, born in January. He enjoys hunting with his German shorthair pointer, Kansas City Royals baseball, and is an avid Iowa State football fan. He lives with his family in Overland Park, Kansas.

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Laura Rightler Civil Design, Inc. 1552 S. 7th Street

St. Louis, MO 63104 (314) 863-5570

[email protected]

Professional Biography Laura Mwirigi Rightler is a civil engineer, with 17 years analysis, design and project management experience. At Civil Design, Inc. (CDI) a full service civil engineering, mapping and surveying consulting firm, she serves as the Water Resources Group Leader. She directs the engineering team developing Hydrologic and Hydraulic (H&H) models for water, separate and combined sewer systems, regional municipal and private BMPs, riverine floodplain mapping, dam inundation mapping, and No Rise Certification for bridge replacement projects. Her project experience includes stormwater management, green infrastructure, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, (COE) 401/404, 402 Clean Water Act (CWA) permits, levee hydraulic modeling, water reticulation design and modeling, Inflow and Infiltration (I/I) analysis, wastewater, sanitary and storm sewer design, and landfill cell construction design. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology (JKUAT), Nairobi, a Masters in Information Design & Technology from Georgia Institute of Technology (GA Tech), Atlanta and a Masters in Civil Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology (MST), Rolla. She is a registered Professional Engineer in Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, and Virginia and a Certified Floodplain Manager. She is affiliated with the Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM), Water Environment Federation (WEF), the American Society of Civil engineers (ASCE), the Engineers Club of St. Louis and serves as the 2017 K12 STEM outreach committee chair for the Society of Military Engineers (SAME) Scott Field Post. Personal Biography Laura is interested in performance arts, festivals and culture, the outdoors and promoting the value of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) careers in the community. She enjoys exploring with her children, Gabby and Bella, going on safari and has climbed Mt. Kenya and Mt. Kilimanjaro, the peaks of Africa. She resides with her family in Florissant, Missouri.

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Anthony “Tony” Roth Geotechnology, Inc.

11816 Lackland Road, Suite 150 St. Louis, MO 63146

(314) 997-7440 [email protected]

Professional Biography Tony Roth is a Senior Geotechnical Engineer at Geotechnology, Inc. He began working for Geotechnology in their Overland Park, Kansas office in 2013, and transferred to their St. Louis, Missouri office in the summer of 2016. Prior to Geotechnology, he worked for S&ME, Inc. in their Duluth, Georgia office for more than seven years. His responsibilities include performing geotechnical engineering and managing geotechnical and construction materials testing projects. Industry experience includes heavy and light industrial, commercial development, communication, infrastructure, and municipal projects. He is a 2006 graduate of the University of Missouri – Rolla with a B.S. of Civil Engineering. He is professionally licensed in Georgia, Kansas, and Missouri and currently enrolled as an online distance student pursing a Master of Science degree of Civil Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He enjoyed serving as a mentor to Future City Competition teams in Kansas, and looks forward to serving on the committee to start the St. Louis chapter of the Future City Competition. Personal Biography Tony and his wife, Maureen, are enjoying living back in the St. Louis area with their two children, Sylvia (age 5) and Jack (age 2), and dog Boomer after living in the Atlanta and Kansas City areas. His interests include chasing after their young children, traveling, camping, golfing, skiing, and four-wheel-drive vehicles.

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Wes Theissen BFA, Inc.

103 Elm Street Washington, MO 63090

(636) 231-4328 [email protected]

Professional Biography Wes Theissen is a licensed Professional Engineer in Missouri and has been with BFA for 9 years. His primary responsibilities include project management and business development activities. With expertise in storm water and erosion and sediment control, Wes often works with clients to assist them with their land disturbance permit and regulated MS4 requirements by providing designs, staff training, development plan reviews and construction site storm water inspections. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Management from the University of Missouri - Rolla in 1992. Along with being a Professional Engineer, he is also a Certified Floodplain Manager (CFM) and Certified Professional in Erosion and Sediment Control (CPESC). He is a member of the American Public Works Association (serving as Director of Education and Training for the Missouri Chapter), Engineers Club, and Missouri floodplain and Storm Water Managers Association. Personal Biography Wes and his wife, Becky, have 2 daughters, Katie and Grace, ages 13 and 10. He enjoys numerous leisure and sporting activities, such as playing golf, baseball, basketball, and bowling as well as supporting his daughters as they participate in their activities.

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Jessica “Jessi” Veach CDM Smith

9200 Ward Parkway, Suite 320 Kansas City, MO 64114

(816) 412-3139 [email protected]

Professional Biography Jessica Veach is a licensed professional engineer with 10 years of experience. She is a project manager in the water resources group at CDM Smith. Her current projects include a wide range of consent decree projects with the ultimate goal of reducing the number of sanitary and combined sewer overflows in Kansas City, MO. From the design of green and gray infrastructure integration to reduce the volume of stormwater entering the combined sewer, to managing field crews that inspect, identify, and disconnect illicit connections to the sanitary sewer system on private property, to design-build projects that repair and rehabilitate sewer infrastructure within waterways to reduce infiltration and inflow from entering the combined sewer system. Her background also includes site civil design for commercial development, H&H modeling for floodplain mapping, environmental permitting support for transmission pipeline projects, NPDES permitting support for industrial and railroad clients, and a wide range of water resources and storm water design projects. She has experience in ArcGIS, AutoCAD, HEC-RAS, HEC HMS, XPSWMM, and InfoWorks. She received a dual bachelor’s degree from San Diego State University in Mathematics and Civil Engineering. She is a licensed professional engineer in Kansas and is currently applying for licensure in Missouri. Personal Biography Jessica lives in Olathe, Kansas with her husband Jason and three daughters Emma (11), Kayleigh (9), and Addison (5). She enjoys watching them all play competitive sports and coaches her oldest daughter’s competitive softball team. She also enjoys spending time with her family on the lake boating and visiting her family in San Diego.