McA Flashcards
John McAdams
P.E., P.L.S.
John McAdams is the visionary leader that started The John R. McAdams Company in 1979 in a small office in Chapel Hill with nothing but a lone desk and a phone. He grew the company to be one of the largest and most respected companies for infrastructure and development planning, design and permitting in North Carolina.
Bill Derks
P.E.
Bill leads our firm’s commercial group and provides expertise in civil site design while managing projects, budgets, and staff. Bill has worked on numerous high-profile and complex projects throughout North Carolina, including The Streets at Southpoint regional mall, Renaissance Village, Renaissance Center, and Holly Springs Towne Center.
Jon Moore
P.E.
Jon leads McAdams’ residential group and provides expertise in civil site design while managing projects, budgets and staff. With almost twenty years of experience in civil site design and construction, Jon’s unique experience in large, multi-phased planned communities is an asset to the firm.
Jon implements a collaborative, service-oriented approach to manage large-scale client accounts, ensuring the completion of complex and multi-faceted projects that fulfill the client’s mission.
Jon’s diversity in project experience and clients provides him extraordinary insights in to the needs and expectations for varying types of clients and projects. Furthermore, Jon has an innate ability to forge strong relationships with clients, team members and regulatory agencies, which consistently results in the optimal outcome for our client’s projects.
Todd O’Daniel, PE
Senior Project Engineer at The John R. McAdams Company
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
Civil Engineering
Dwayne Peterson (Sr. CAD Tech)
Design Tech II
August 2010 – Present (3 years 2 months)
Owner
Peterson Enterprises
June 1998 – December 1999 (1 year 7 months)
Utilized the revolutionary Paintless Dent Removal process to remove minor dings, dents, and creases from a vehicle, while maintaining the integrity of the factory or custom paint finish.
Utilized “smart repair” process to repair vehicle scrapes, stone chips, minor dings, dents, and creases, as well as plastic bumpers that have paint damage (missing, cracked, or broken paint). With this cutting edge technology, spot blending was limited to the specific damaged area rather than painting an entire panel or multiple areas.
Performed process on pre-owned domestic and international autos with virtually undetectable repairs to the non-collision minor damages vehicles experience daily
Provide onsite repair and restoration to various car dealerships throughout RTP where service performed in a fraction of the time and at approximately one-third of the cost of traditional body repair shops.
CADD Tech
JOHN R. MCADAMS COMPANY, INC
August 1997 – June 1998 (11 months)
Assist the engineering staff with subdivision design in the Raleigh and Durham area.
Prepared plan sets for submittal
Trained new hires in the use of Auto CAD & Land Development Desktop software
Troubleshoot and resolve issues with Auto CAD software
Co-developer for in-house training programs which assisted CADD technicians in their advancement to CADD Designers/Engineering Assistants
Became the first CADD technician to complete training and be promoted to CADD Designer
Assisted with IT software installations
Support the engineering staff with hydrology, hydraulics, erosion control, roadway, traffic, and site design
Prepared plan sets for engineers review
Ran copies for submittal
Preformed traffic counts for town of Rock Hill
Troubleshoot and resolve IT hardware/software problems
Donna Scott
P.H.R.
Donna joined McAdams in 1997 as an administrative assistant. Her experience as a former educator, along with her love for serving others, equipped her with the organizational and strong time management skills required of a human resources professional. Donna’s commitment to enhancing her capabilities in the area of human resources, along with her commitment to the McAdams Company and its employees, has elevated her to the position of Director of Human Resources for the organization.
Donna is responsible for the firm’s benefits administration, regulatory compliance, recruiting, HR policy development and employee relations. She continually meets the dynamic demands placed on this position for a growing and changing firm with creative solutions aligned with the corporate strategy. Donna is a certified Professional in Human Resources.
Tell me about yourself?
I have a passion for complex problems that can only be solved by understanding the fundamental building blocks of the problem. This has always been the way my mind works, I commit the fundamentals and logic of an issue or problem to memory, and the rest falls into place from there.
Mastering a program such as Civil 3D that is continually evolving and always has new features to master would represent one of the most exciting endeavors of my career. Civil 3D is a very complex program built on layers of fundamental building blocks. Understanding the fundamentals and being able to deduce how you would accomplish a task from using these fundamental tools of the program is the key to mastery.
Programs like this can only be mastered by mastering the tool sets and their subsets available, and deducing how to accomplish the task at hand from that knowledge. Autodesk realized this and built the design of the interface around the idea. The program is designed with “intuitive” ribbons that change based on the object or task you are working with.
Do you know Civil 3D?
Yes. I understand it. I might not have completed every task that the program is capable of doing, but my understanding of the fundamentals and being able to deduce how you would accomplish a task from using these fundamental tools is what allows me to answer yes.
Why should I hire you?
You will not find someone more interested in the scope of this position. Yes there are many applicants very interested in working at one of the most preeminent engineering firms in the State, but are they truly interested in being the best Civil 3D CAD technician possible. I am!
Why did you leave your last job?
Connexion Technologies struggled on for a few years but ultimately we did not make it though the economic downturn of 2008.
What is your greatest strength / weakness?
My greatest strength is the breadth of my experience and my love for and ability to understand complex issues and software.
My greatest weakness would have to be my accent or speech pattern I picked up from growing up in the Virgin Islands. Some people find it hard to understand me when I fall back into this speech pattern. I have been endeavoring to enunciate more clearly and seem to have this weakness under control. Unless of course you just did not understand a word I said?
Describe a situation you’ve been in where you had to work as a team to achieve some goal and tell what you got out of the experience?
In my previous positions at Connexion I had many opportunities to work on teams to achieve diverse goals. My most important takeaway from those experiences was that the group must work together and each member must be willing to do whatever needs to be done. Saying not my job in a team setting or almost any environment is not acceptable. Even the team leader has to be willing to run copies or whatever is needed to keep his team on track and achieving their goals.
What do you know about our company?
John McAdams is the visionary leader that started The John R. McAdams Company in 1979 in a small office in Chapel Hill with nothing but a lone desk and a phone. He grew the company to be one of the largest and most respected companies for infrastructure and development planning, design and permitting in North Carolina.
Craig Duerr
Senior Project Manager
Withers & Ravenel, Inc.
September 2011 – Present (2 years 2 months)Cary, NC
Current responsibilities include business development, project management, technical staff supervision, strategic planning, and sustainability champion.
Representative Projects:
• Stonehouse – a 4,500 acre master planned community in Williamsburg, VA including “Better Site Design” standards and water conservation guidelines.
• Amberly – a 1,000 acre mixed use development in Cary including Carolina Preserve, Town Center, and remaining undeveloped parcels
• Veridea – Support for a sustainable design district for “next generation RTP” in Apex
Withers & Ravenel Company Information
Founded in 1983 by Tony Withers and Sam Ravenel, Withers & Ravenel offers a broad range of quality professional services. Our staff is dedicated to providing innovative and cost-effective engineering solutions. We value our clients and are committed to exceeding their expectations.
WITHERS & RAVENEL is a full-service civil and environmental consulting engineering firm that provides the following services:
Construction Administration | Economic Development | Environmental | GIS/IT Solutions | Land Development | Planning | Surveying | Transportation | Water Resources
WITHERS & RAVENEL, with over 100 employees, is located in Cary and has branch offices in Wilmington and Greensboro, North Carolina. Withers & Ravenel has been successful by focusing on a number of specialty areas where our staff possess a high level of experience.
Jason Bertoncino
Vice President - Land Development
Withers & Ravenel, Inc.
115 MacKenan Drive Cary, NC 27511
