<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=unicode" /> <title>Inwood Consulting Engineers - News</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-16" /> <link href="news.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" /> </head> <body> <table width="500" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10"> <tr> <td align="left"><table width="98%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td><img src="../images/News_logo.gif" alt="" width="230" height="70" border="0" /></td> <td><span class="NewsRelease">Media Release</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <th class="NewsHead2" align="center"> Inwood Promotes Four Employees </th> </tr> <tr height="255"> <td><p><span class="Newsbody">December 2007 - Inwood Consulting Engineers, Inc is pleased to announce four employee promotions. Mark Hales, PE, and David Graeber, PE, have been appointed Associates of the firm. Kate Spiess, PE, and Steve Sommerfeldt, PE, have been promoted to Project Managers.</span> </p> <p><span class="Newsbody">In over two and a half years with the firm, Mark Hales, PE, has successfully provided transportation engineering and project management services to Inwood's clients. His key areas of expertise include rural and urban roadway design, as well as limited access highway design and milling and resurfacing projects. Hales graduated from the University of Central Florida (UCF) with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering.</span></p> <p><span class="Newsbody">David Graeber, PE, has been with Inwood since 2005 and provides engineering and planning services on a variety of transportation projects. His key area of expertise is with Project Development and Environment (PD&E) Studies. Additionally, Graeber's experience includes traffic operations, construction management, roadway design and federal program management. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from UCF and a Masters of Public Administration from Minnesota State University. </span></p> <p><span class="Newsbody">Alex Hull, President of Inwood, stated, &quot;Mark and David are well deserving of their promotions to Associates. They have consistently shown the skills necessary to become future leaders of Inwood. Mark and David have been successful in managing their projects profitably and have developed client relationships that will sustain the growth of the company.&quot;</span></p> <p><span class="Newsbody">Since 2000, Kate Spiess, PE, has been a project engineer on a variety of transportation design projects for Inwood. Spiess's key area of expertise is with roadway construction plans including signing and pavement marking, signalization, maintenance of traffic and the analysis of primary and secondary drainage systems using ICPR and ASAD. Her new responsibilities will include management of the project scope, schedule, and budget as well as participation in project marketing and client management. Spiess graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering.</span></p> <p><span class="Newsbody">Steve Sommerfeldt, PE, has been with Inwood for six years. He has served as project engineer on various drainage and water resource projects throughout the state. Sommerfeldt's experience includes stormwater retrofits and watershed master planning efforts, including drainage infrastructure inventory and evaluation, hydraulic modeling, floodplain analysis, permitting and construction plans preparation. His responsibilities will expand to include management of the project scope, schedule, and budget as well as participation in project marketing and client management. Sommerfeldt holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from UCF.</span></p> <p><span class="Newsbody">&quot;Both Kate and Steve started their engineering careers at Inwood and have shown the ability to handle diverse projects from both a production as well as a management standpoint. Their hard work and dedication to quality has not gone unnoticed by both their peers and our clients. Their promotion means recognition of their expanding role within the company as team leaders,&quot; explained Hull. </span></p> <p align="center">###</p></td> </tr> <tr height="214"> <td><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="NewsHead">About Inwood Consulting Engineers Inc.</span></p> <p><span class="newsbtn">Inwood Consulting Engineers, Inc. provides quality civil, transportation, environmental, planning, and public involvement consulting services to governmental clients throughout the state of Florida. Inwood s main office is located in Oviedo, Florida. In 2009, the firm opened two satellite offices in Port St. Lucie and Tavares, Florida. Since it s inception in 1995, Inwood has grown to a staff of over 40 and has developed a reputation for tenacity in meeting project schedules, honoring commitments, and providing innovative solutions to difficult challenges. For more information on Inwood s services and projects, please visit www.inwoodinc.com.</span></p></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>