April 8, 2009

INCA Engineers

INCA Engineers promoted six employees to department and group managers in its Bellevue office. New department managers are Lisa Pierce, structural department manager; Sandy Glover, transportation department manager; and Hassan Tondravi, mechanical department manager. Perry Cole was promoted to deputy mechanical department manager. New group managers are Ahmet Ozkan, bridge and rail group manager, and James Costello, navigation group manager. Pierce is a manager with 20 years of engineering experience, specializing in structural studies, analysis and design. She has designed and managed large projects including navigation studies, lock designs, Panama Canal water saving basin concepts, bridges, deep foundations and prestressed and post-tensioned concrete structures. Glover has 20 years of experience in project management and design engineering for roadways, transit centers, parking lots, bridges and intersections. Tondravi has 40 years of mechanical design experience in hydroelectric power, pumping plants and other water resource and utility projects in the U.S. and abroad. Cole has 30 years of experience in planning, design and construction of hydroelectric and water resource projects, and is integral to developing the company's hydroelectric services. Ozkan has 19 years of experience designing concrete and steel bridges including segmental, truss, arch, cable-stayed, suspension and movable bridges for highway projects, light rail and freight rail projects, and pedestrian multi-use projects. He is leading a team of structural engineers to design a track bridge over the I-90 floating bridge that will be the world's first light rail vehicle crossing over a floating bridge. Costello has 19 years of experience in design for floating, float-in, and in-the-wet hydraulic structures.