2015 International Women's Day

Kristin Goree

“You guys really know how to put on a meeting!” Louis Moore, deputy public affairs director for Reclamation’s Mid-Pacific Region, shared this as we wrapped up a Feb. 4, 2015, public meeting in Fresno, Calif., for a new reservoir in the San Joaquin River watershed. Kristin Goree led all elements that made the meeting successful for the client more than 60 stakeholders in the project area. Nominated by Craig Moyle

Julie Labonte

Julie recently participated in filming a video for the 2014 MWH Annual Report in which she tells the story of why she volunteers, how it enriches her life and how it fulfills her deep commitment to giving back to communities in need. Her blog tells about her work with the World Water Corp in places like Malawi in Africa. She provides rich detail and brings to life in a very real way how very important it is to bring clean water to the people in these communities. Her passion is contagious in the very best sense. She certainly is living the mission of MWH by Building a Better World. What an inspiration! Nominated by MJ Panek

Cath Schefer, Tania Williams

Cath Schefer, Marshall Davert and Tania Williams delivered on the MWH promise of ‘our employees are our greatest assets’ when they enabled Sarah Davies to move to Auckland as Group Manager bringing UK AMP experience to a wider market.

Kath Standen

Mythe WTW supplies 300,000 people with drinking water. Major flooding of the River Severn in 2007 took the WTW off line for nearly 3 weeks. As part of the MWH-Costain Flood Alleviation scheme, Kath Standen was the project hydrogeologist responsible for design and construction of the groundwater lowering scheme to prevent a similar flooding incident damaging infrastructure on site in future. This included drilling and testing supervision, analysis and modelling. Nominated by Sarah Grimwood

Lydia Yates,Claire Kent, Kathleen Standen and Rachel Dewhurst

Women have definitely been #makingithappen at the Edgbaston new borehole scheme which is designed to provide resilience to water supply and treatment outages in Birmingham, a city of 16.5 Million people in the UK. Site hydrogeologists during the borehole drilling were Lydia Yates and Claire Kent, while the technical project management has been provided by Kathleen Standen and Rachel Dewhurst. Nominated by Sarah Grimwood

Rachel Dewhurst

A room full of 8 year olds puzzling over the question of “how old is the water in my bottle” or carrying 10 litres of water across a playground; is there a better way of building a better world? Rachel Dewhurst spends her “spare time” challenging the assumption of water as an infinite resource in the damp climate of the UK, by visiting local schools with the MWH water cycle game. She also does quite a good lesson on the rock cycle, using CHOCOLATE! Nominated by Sarah Grimwood

Katie Rodman

On weekends when Katie Rodman is not travelling for her job as a senior internal auditor for MWH, she routinely volunteers at Denver’s Samaritan House homeless shelter. There she interacts with men, women and children offering support for Veterans, single mothers and others that are currently utilizing the resources the shelter provides. Outside of her time at the shelter, she also advocates for the residents by arranging for donations of much needed clothes and toiletry supplies. Nominated by Alison White

Angela Davis

Angela Davis spreads her time and positive energy volunteering amongst many organizations in the Denver/Boulder area. In the past year, since moving to Colorado and joining MWH as a senior internal auditor, she has helped our local community build a better world by volunteering at Operation Christmas Child through Samaritan’s Purse, the Denver Rescue Mission, A Precious Child, Community Food share in Broomfield and the Boulder homeless shelter. In the picture, she is with friends and family that support her in making it happen. Nominated by Alison White

Julie Miller

Jill Miller has participated as a project manager, assistant project manager, contract manager and project engineer on a variety of hydropower, water resource and site development projects, including FERC relicensing, construction and program management, detention facility design, stormwater management, construction management, cost estimating, contract document and specification preparation, project presentations and fast track permitting. Jill is a registered professional engineer, and has also worked on a number of energy projects that included compliance monitoring, vegetation management inspections and Geographic Information System applications. She currently leads MWH’s efforts on FERC relicensing on the southern portion of the State Water Project for the California Department of Water Resources. Nominated by Roberta Vahl

Emi Fujii

Ms. Fujii has over seven years of experience in environmental engineering, with an emphasis in water quality and treatment. She has worked on variety of projects that include groundwater in-situ and ex-situ treatment, stormwater treatment plant design, installation, and operations, industrial wastewater treatment installation, pilot studies, well design, program management, and engineering services during construction. Ms. Fujii has recently worked on projects dealing with groundwater contaminated with hexavalent chromium, 1-4 dioxane, TCE, and PCE. Nominated by Roberta Vahl

Faithe Gorman-Smith

Faithe Gorman-Smith has consistently brought pragmatism, passion, and strategic thinking to positions at MWH. A leader, communicator, mother, and great team member, Faithe has utilized her valuable skills to advance the goals of MWH and our clients. Nominated by Amy Broughton

Tania Flasck

Last week, Tania Flasck, Project Management & Commercial Leader presented at the first Texas AWWA/Water Environment Association Texas (WEAT) Project Management Seminar in San Antonio, Texas. Tania’s presentation, “Getting to High Performance Teams!” discussed how adapting leadership styles can drive very different and beneficial outcomes. The presentation used the situational leadership model to illustrate leadership style changes in an interactive way.

A special mention also goes to Mary Portillo, Project Technical Lead, for organizing this opportunity for Tania and facilitating some of the interactive aspects of Tania’s presentation. Nominated by Cameron McWilliam

Jen Workman

Being an animal lover, Jen Workman has joined RSPCA Queensland’s Buddy Challenge (rspcabuddychallenge.com.au) which aims to recruit an ambassador for every RSPCA QLD animal needing a furever home. With a series of tasks to complete over a six week period, the Buddy Challenge is a simple and fun way to make a difference to the livelihood of our furry friends. Jen has been teamed up with a four month old kitten called Seth, located at the RSPCA Brisbane Adoption Centre in Wacol. Nominated by Kate Taylor.

Rebecca Clarke , Jacquie Christodoulides, Erika Pearce and Entire Team

An all-woman team has been responsible for the management of the exciting move to a new High Wycombe Office! As well as successfully managing that the project ran to time and budget to an exciting new design and all that entails, Rebecca Clarke , Jacquie Christodoulides, and Erika Pearce also ensured full engagement of all High Wycombe staff via various communication means; emails, Teamsite development and a final Terriers office party to celebrate. Nominated by Sarah Grimwood

Alicja Loveday Rota

During 2014, Alicja Loveday Rota travelled to Selma, Alabama to volunteer in the local community, supporting the Freedom Foundation and its youth development activities that benefit the younger generation in the Selma community. She also participates in local fundraising events close to home that benefit the efforts of the foundation. Alicja worked on improving this old department building, which the Freedom Foundation is making a hangout place for the kids and others in the community, while she was in Selma. Nominated by Alison White

Monique Garbowicz

Monique is a member of the E&I West team in Alaska, She is a licensed Civil Engineer and PMP with 27 years of infrastructure design, construction, project management and environmental permitting experience. Her experience has been split between the Great Lakes area and Alaska, USA and includes: bridge and highway construction, airport design and construction, surface water hydrology and hydraulic design, storm water system design, Arctic utility and infrastructure design, cold regions engineering, oil and gas facility design, environmental permitting, and regulatory compliance. Nominated by Roberta Vahl

Julie Stanaszek

Ms. Stanaszek has over 19 years of experience in project management and civil engineering design of hydroelectric power plants and other water resources projects. She is a licensed professional engineer in the State of Washington and experienced in all phases of project engineering, from feasibility studies and conceptual design through detailed design and engineering during construction. Her design experience includes structural and civil components utilized in hydroelectric powerhouses, and preparation of contract documents and specifications, for projects ranging in size from 2 MW to 92 MW. Nominated by Roberta Vahl

Debbie Liu

Debbie, our Senior HR Business Partner in Taiwan single-handedly runs a highly successful HR function for MWH across Asia, including managing recruitment, training and development and performance management for over 152 staff as well as rolling out key global initiatives. Nominated by Kate Taylor

Pam Gilbert

Pam was travelling in the Andes, got lost and was helped by children from a local community. Since then, she has committed to helping the three local villages. In 2008 she asked Engineers without Borders to become involved and help provide a water system. In addition, she has recruited educational, medical, dental and nutritional volunteers to improve the communities. Her biggest effort has been educational, which has led to building a local school (with a library and computer lab!), providing a stable teaching staff, and finding scholarship opportunities. Thanks Pam for helping to #makeithappen. Nominated by Daniela Castaneda.

Mandhy Senewiratne

Not only has Mandhy Senewiratne recently gained chartered status with both CIWEM (Chartered Water and Environmental Manager) and the Institute of Water (Chartered Environmentalist), but she is also an active member of the IWater SE committee. She is an event organizer and her suit of 2014 events include the interactive weekend school to develop the presentation and debating skills of young professionals and a World Environment Day debate on climate change; events which she has been organizing for the past few years and will do so again in 2015. She was also featured in the IWater magazine feature on “Women in Water”. Nominated by Sarah Grimwood

Resa Furey

Resa Furey personifies the integrity, passion and intelligence that enables MWH to Build a Better World. Committed to a purpose that can measurably improve the lives of people inside and outside of MWH Global, Resa has tirelessly dedicated time and energy to advancing and sustaining our social license to operate. Nominated by Amy Broughton

Dina Hunt

Dina Hunt is one of the few geotechnical engineers at our company that focuses solely on performing seismic hazard analyses and developing seismic design parameters for some of the MWH large Dams & Hydro Sector projects. She has worked on several large projects in highly seismic regions worldwide, including Susitna-Watana (Alaska); Vizcachas (Peru); San Vicente Dam Raise (California); Panama Canal Third Set of Locks Expansion (Panama); Kurram Tangi (Pakistan); and Wanapum Dam (Washington). Dina’s work has been presented to several high-level Board of Consultant panels and to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (regulator) for acceptance of the seismic design values and time histories. Her recent work at Salmon Creek Dam (Alaska) was presented in a technical paper at the 2014 United States Society on Dams Conference. Nominated by Mike Rogers and Amy McTigue

Linda Tuley

Linda Tuley has done a terrific job over the past few years as project manager for the Honeywell North Hollywood Bendix Site- a project involving the cleanup of soil and groundwater contamination resulting from a former aerospace components manufacturing plant. She manages our Honeywell project team and client very well. Linda’s astute understanding of our client allows her to successfully communicate difficult information and issues. This skill has in turn allowed us to manage through the project financials amidst constantly change scopes without any overruns. This is a performance-based contract, and the result of her efforts were high performance scores that maximized our profits while operating a remediation system that is cleaning up the groundwater. Nominated by Don Walsh and Amy McTigue

Dixie Hambrick

Ms. Hambrick has over 31 years of experience in geology and hydrogeology managing and conducting soil and groundwater contamination investigations, groundwater supply studies, mineral resource evaluations, and remedial project and program management. Her work to date has also included experience leading large-scale interim remedial actions to address PAHs, heavy metals (particularly mercury, cooper, arsenic, and lead), and perchlorate in impacted soil. She has worked at CERCLA and RCRA sites, integrating soil, surface water, and groundwater studies to achieve program goals. She currently serves as project director for one of the most complex, on-going soil investigation remediation project in southern California, leading a team of over 25 professionals from within MWH and other facility contractors. Dixie is a registered professional geologist in the State of California. Nominated by Roberta Vahl

Amy McTigue-Stoll

Amy is the California E&I Business Unit Leader, and located in Walnut Creek, California. She is a civil engineer and geotechnical engineer, and a registered professional engineer in the State of California. She has worked in the environmental field for 24 years on projects for industrial, federal and municipal clients. She has engineered many former waste site or landfill closures in the State of California under CCR Title 27. She is currently a client service manager for Tesoro and Waste Management. Nominated by Roberta Vahl

Mari Jane Panek

Mari Jane has been working tirelessly (with much enthusiasm) on the 2014 annual report while juggling so many other internal communication efforts. She is a great example of jumping in and getting both feet wet…more like taking a swim. Ultimately, the 2014 annual report will be a hit and industry leading. Way to go MJ! Nominated by Allison Cowan

Sarah Garber

Ms. Garber is a principal environmental scientist with 26 years of experience in environmental impact assessments for infrastructure projects. In addition to National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) documentation, Ms. Garber also specializes in permit acquisition from a wide-range of regulatory agencies. Ms. Garber routinely conducts public scoping meetings for environmental documents, participates in stakeholder coordination meetings, and presents the environmental issues of projects at public hearings. In addition, Ms. Garber is involved in surface water investigations and permitting for stream discharges. She has worked as a field biologist, concentrating in water quality analysis, including fisheries investigations and natural resource surveys. Ms. Garber holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute and is a Certified Permitting Professional (CPP) from the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD). Her work in the environmental field is truly “Building a Better World”. Nominated by Roberta Vahl