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April 17, 2006
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Chris Petrov has joined the Nielsen-Wurster
Group as the Southwest Regional Office Manager and
Senior Associate in the Southwest Regional office.
Chris earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Civil
Engineering from the University of Sofia, School of
Architecture and Engineering (Bulgaria). He is a
licensed Professional Engineer in California,
Arizona and Oregon and is fluent in Bulgarian and
conversational in Russian.
With more than 20 years of construction industry
experience, Chris brings extensive and diversified
capabilities in the management, design, construction
and supervision of large national and international
transportation projects. Prior to joining
Nielsen-Wurster, he was the Transportation
Department Manager at Earth Tech for 4 years. Before
that, he was a Project Manager and Senior Bridge
Engineer at J. Muller International, RD Section
Engineer at Metalni Konstruczi and Project Engineer
at Transproject. His professional affiliations
include the American Society of Civil Engineers,
Consulting Engineers & Land Surveyors of California,
International Association for Bridge and Structural
Engineering, Project Management Institute and
Structural Engineering Institute.
April 3, 2006 -
Pradip Mehta has joined the
Nielsen-Wurster Group as a Senior Associate in the
Princeton Corporate office.
Pradip earned his Bachelor of Science degree in
Civil Engineering from the University of Bombay
(India) and his Masters of Science degree in
Construction Management from the Georgia Institute
of Technology in Atlanta.
With 25 years of construction industry experience,
Pradip brings extensive and diversified capabilities
in project management and project controls in a
Design-Construct environment. Prior to joining
Nielsen-Wurster, he was the Manager of Project
Controls at the Port Authority of New York and New
Jersey for 7 years. Before that, he was a Project
Control Manager at Foster Wheeler in Clinton, New
Jersey; Corporate Director of Project Controls at
Ogden Environmental and Energy Services in Fairfax,
Virginia; Deputy Program Manager at IT Corporation
in Edison, New Jersey; and Senior Project Controls
Engineer at Gibbs & Hill / Dravo Corporation. He has
made numerous public presentations at various
conferences in the area of Project Management and
Controls and currently serves as a Director / Board
member and Vice President of the Project Management
Institute, College of Scheduling (PMICOS).
April 3, 2006 -
Jennifer K. Stokes has joined
the Nielsen-Wurster Group as a Corporate Accountant
in the Princeton Corporate office.
Jen earned her Bachelor of Science degree in
Business Administration with an emphasis in
Accounting. Before joining The Nielsen-Wurster
Group, she worked as a Staff Accountant at Vision
Finance Group CPAs in Morganville, NJ; J. H. Cohn,
LLP in Eatontown, New Jersey where started as an
Intern and progressed to Staff Account; Intern at
Jay Lesser, CPA in Plainsboro, New Jersey; and
David A. Lauer & Co., CPA.
March 13, 2006 -
William M. Hart has joined
Nielsen-Wurster as a Senior Associate in the
Princeton Corporate Office.
Bill earned his Bachelor of Science degree in
Petroleum Engineering with high honors from The
University of Texas in Austin and Master of Science
degree in Civil Engineering / Construction
Engineering & Management from Columbia University in
New York. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in
New York and New Jersey, an Adjunct Professor of
Engineering at Columbia University and is certified
by the Project Management Institute as a Project
Management Professional.
With more than 23 years of industry and consulting
experience, Bill brings vast capabilities in project
management with respect to the infrastructure and
oil and gas sectors. Prior to joining
Nielsen-Wurster, he was a Project Manager in Global
Infrastructure Operations for Exxon Mobil Global
Services Company. Before that, he started a
construction inspection and expert witness firm and
held various positions of increasing responsibility
with Exxon Research & Engineering Co. and Texaco
Inc.
Bill’s community activities include construction
advisor to the Missionaries of the Poor (MOP) in
Haiti, softball coach, Habitat for Humanity and Hope
House “Operation Fix-it” volunteer and Environmental
Committee Member in Randolph, New Jersey.
February 8, 2006
- The 4th Annual Key Women in
Energy™ - Global Awards announced their award
recipients. The annual honors program identifies,
recognizes and honors women who made recent
significant individual contributions or achievements
to the energy sector, or to businesses that support
energy. Fifty women, representing at least 28
nations/nationalities, are recognized across the
entire energy sector value chain – upstream,
midstream, downstream, retail, policy, law and
education, and support for advances in energy
engineering, science and technology.
Congratulations to Nielsen-Wurster's own Pat
Galloway was an award recipient in the field of
Leadership.
The article can be seen here.
January 30, 2006 -
Patricia A. Koss has joined
Nielsen-Wurster as Human Resource Assistant in the
Princeton Corporate Office.
Since relocating to this area seven years ago, Pat
worked most recently in Princeton University’s
Student Employment Office as their Office
Coordinator. Prior to that assignment at Princeton,
she was a Faculty and Staff Assistant in the
Department of Electrical Engineering.
January 30, 2006 -
Geoff Shaw has joined
Nielsen-Wurster, Inc. Northwest Regional Office as
an Analyst.
Geoff earned his LLB with honors in Law and Japanese
at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. He has
recently been working on temporary assignments in
Seattle doing legal research and technical writing.
Before that, he spent time in Japan as Program
Coordinator for LEC Tokyo Legal Mind, Japan’s second
largest education provider by budget, and taught
English at GEOS Language Ltd. In the United Kingdom,
he was Administrative Assistant at Cardiff
University and Assistant at the Immigration Advisory
Service.
January 16, 2006 -
Danielle Delprato has joined
Nielsen-Wurster as a Project Consultant in the
Mid-Atlantic Regional Office located in Princeton,
New Jersey. Danielle earned her Bachelor of Science
Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University
of Illinois at Chicago, her Master of Science Degree
in Mechanical Engineering from the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her Master’s Degree
in Business Administration from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
With more than 15 years of experience, Danielle
brings capabilities in risk management and financial
valuations and industry / engineering experience in
research and development, nuclear power, fossil
power, environmental and air conditioning,
marketing, and environmental legislation
interpretation. Prior to joining Nielsen-Wurster,
she was a Consultant at EEMA Consulting, a risk
management firm located in Princeton. Before that
time, Danielle was with Alstom Power Environmental
Control Systems in Paris, France, as their Strategy
and Marketing Manager for Europe, the Middle East
and Africa; an Engineering Consultant in Nuclear
Power Plants for Sargent & Lundy Engineers in
Chicago, Illinois; a Research Engineer with the
Thermal Energy Research Group at Commissariat A
L’Energie Atomique in Grenoble, France; and a
Research and Development Engineer at the Carrier
Corporation in Syracuse, New York.
May 2005
- Gregory E. Doerge
joins the Nielsen-Wurster
Northwest Regional Office in Seattle as a
Consultant. Greg earned a Bachelor of Science Degree
in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Economics
from Bucknell University. He previously work as a
Consulting Engineer with firms in Seattle and New
York.
Bruce
E. Hallock
joins Nielsen-Wurster as Senior Associate.
Bruce holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and
Political Science from the University of Northern
Colorado in Greeley and a Masters of Arts Degree in
African Studies from the University of California,
Los Angeles (UCLA). Prior to obtaining his
BA degree, he studied Electrical Engineering at
George Washington University.
Bruce returns with more than 30 years of
construction industry experience in project
management, risk management, contract administration
and procurement, scheduling, cost estimating,
testifying and litigation support. Some of his prior
roles and employers include: Senior Consultant at
Wagner Hohns Inglis, Inc. in Fort Lauderdale;
Contract Claims Manager at Dade Aviation Consultants
in Miami; Commercial Manager at Global Crossing in
Beverly Hills; Prime Contract Manager at Lucent
Technologies International, Inc. and Saudi Arabian
Bechtel Co. in Saudi Arabia; Senior Consultant with
Peterson Consulting LLP, and more than 10 years with
Fluor Engineers and Constructors. Bruce is a member
of the Project Management Institute and the American
Society of Military Engineers.
Susan
F. Davis
joins Nielsen-Wurster as Manager of Finance and
Accounting in Princeton, New Jersey. She brings more
than 10 years of finance and accounting experience
to Nielsen-Wurster.
Susan
will assist with all accounting functions, including
financial statement preparation, tax compliance,
cash management, budget preparation, A/P and A/R,
and will assist in managing the relationship with
our outside audit firm.
Susan
earned her Bachelor of Science Degree in Business
Administration / Accounting from California State
University in Dominguez Hills. She is a Certified
Public Accountant.
Her
public accounting career began at KPMG, Peat Marwick
in Los Angeles and she was later transferred to
their offices in Shorthills New Jersey as a
supervising senior accountant specializing in
financial statement audits. During the last four
years, Susan worked for The Distinctive Group, LLC,
a local accounting firm, assisting their clients in
tax planning and income tax preparation for
corporations, partnerships and individuals. Her
other roles included planning and supervising,
financial statement audits, acting in a
controllership capacity for smaller clients, firm
representative at trade shows and various
conferences, and firm representative for clients
during IRS and State audits.
Galloway Featured in the March 7, 2005
Issue of
Time Magazine.
The March 7, 2005
issue of Time Magazine carried a front page story on
women in science, math and engineering following the
remarks of Harvard's President. One of the feature
stories is of Pat Galloway, Nielsen-Wurster's CEO
and Past President of ASCE.
Patricia D. Galloway, CEO of Nielsen-Wurster
was elected as a Fellow of the Association for the
Advancement of Cost Engineer (AACE). Established in
1956, AACE International has about 5,500 members
world-wide and serves cost management professionals:
cost managers and engineers, project managers,
planners and schedulers, estimators and bidders, and
value engineers. AACE International has members in
78 countries and currently includes 70 local
sections. For more information on AAECI visit their
website at
www.aacei.org.
Patricia D. Galloway,
CEO of Nielsen-Wurster, was recently appointed
Regional Vice President for North America for the ComTech Committee of the World Federation of
Engineering Organizations (WFEO). ComTech is the
WFEO Standing Committee on Technology. Its purpose
is the sharing, transferring and assessment of
technology. The WFEO currently has 80 National
members and 9 international members. It represents
the whole engineering profession, estimated at 15
million engineers. For more information on Comtech
and WFEO visit
www.wfeo-comtech.org. |
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