Gomez and Sullivan Engineers, DPC announced several new hires at its main office in Utica. ELIZABETH BYRON has been hired as a water resources engineer. She is a graduate of Oregon State University, where she majored in ecological engineering with a minor in humanitarian engineering. Byron is a registered engineer-in-training (EIT) and has been performing […]
Gomez and Sullivan Engineers, DPC announced several new hires at its main office in Utica. ELIZABETH BYRON has been hired as a water resources engineer. She is a graduate of Oregon State University, where she majored in ecological engineering with a minor in humanitarian engineering. Byron is a registered engineer-in-training (EIT) and has been performing hydrologic and hydraulic studies and performing stability analyses. WILLIAM FRIERS has been hired as a senior civil/structural engineer. He has an undergraduate degree in civil and environmental engineering from Clarkson University, and earned his master’ degree in engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Friers is a licensed professional engineer with extensive engineering experience related to dam, water resources, hydroelectric, water supply, flood control, irrigation, and navigation projects. Prior to joining GSE, he served as senior hydropower engineer in support of MCA-I, the government agency charged with managing the Green Prosperity Project in Indonesia. While in Indonesia he provided oversight of planning, design, and construction activities for 21 mini-hydroelectric power projects with a combined capacity of 64 MWs. ELIZABETH WROE joins the firm as a geotechnical engineer. She has undergraduate and graduate degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in geotechnical engineering. Wroe’s experience has focused on dam safety, slope stability and seepage analyses, bearing capacity and settlement calculations of shallow and deep foundations, and estimating soil properties based on subsurface investigations and laboratory test data. BROOKE SLAG has been hired as an administrative coordinator/project assistant. She is a graduate of SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry where she majored in environmental and forest biology. Slag’s experience includes preparing wildlife and habitat protection plans as well as federal, state, and local permits for agencies including the National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, and USACE.