Members in the News – 2002

Gary D. Anderson, AICP, has received the Max O. Urbahn Medal from the Society of American Military Engineers. The Urbahn medal is awarded annually to an architect in civil or military practice for the most notable contribution in the profession of architecture. Anderson, a certified planner and registered architect in six states and D.C., is vice president of STV Incorporated. His Baltimore office team specializes in the planning and design of Department of Defense installation projects.

Daniel J. Baer, AICP, has been promoted to vice president of STV Incorporated, a firm in the STV Group. Since joining STV in 1999, Baer has been responsible for obtaining and managing major studies for transportation and site-related projects.

Jeff Barfield, AICP, is a newly appointed vice president of RBF Consulting. He will be vice president for planning in the firm's San Diego office. RBF is headquartered in Irvine, California, and has offices throughout California, Nevada, and Arizona.

Jennifer Keith Barrett, AICP, joined the City of Palm Coast, Florida, recently as Comprehensive Plan Manager. She is spearheading the city's effort to draft its first comprehensive plan after incorporation in 1999. Barrett was formerly the Planning Director for Flagler County, Florida, in which Palm Coast is the largest city with more than 65 percent of the population.

Hilda J. Blanco has been appointed chair of the Department of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington in the College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Blanco joined the department as an associate professor in 1996. She received her Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning and her Master of City and Regional planning degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a member of the editorial advisory board of the Journal of the American Planning Association.

Andrea Brewer has joined The Planning Center of Costa Mesa, California, as an environmental planner. She will be responsible for management of the environmental review for projects including schools, general plans, residential communities, and commercial and retail facilities. Previously, Brewer worked with the Urban Resources Initiative of the City of Baltimore Planning Department.

Denise Scott Brown's work with the architectural firm Venturi Scott Brown and Associates is the subject of a retrospective at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. The show is called "Out of the Ordinary: The Architecture and Design of Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Associates." It will be on view in the museum's Heniz Architectural Center November 8, 2002, through February 2, 2003. The museum's web address is www.cmoa.org.

Thomas Burdett, AICP, has been appointed Community Development Director for the City of West Jordan, Utah. Formerly Planning and Community Development Director with Oak Harbor, Washington, Burdett is directing planning, zoning, community development, building, and safety in a rapidly growing city of 82,000 in the southwest area of the Salt Lake Valley.

Anthony J. Catanese, FAICP, has given his name to a nationally known applied research center on growth management issues at Florida Atlantic University. The center is now called the Anthony James Catanese Center for Environmental and Urban Problems. Catanese left the university on June 30 after 12 and half years at its helm to become president of the Florida Institute of Technology. The center was established in 1972 by the Florida Legislature and the Board of Regents as an applied research center to be operated cooperatively by FAU and Florida International University.

Joyce Crosthwaite, AICP, a senior policy analyst with Project Design Consultants in Cardiff, California, has received a 2002 fellowship from the Knight Program in Community Building, based at the University of Miami School of Architecture. Fellows pursue independent research projects and take part in community-building workshops, seminars, and a charrette. Crosthwaite's areas of expertise are affordable housing, community building, and social equity.

Michael DeRosier, AICP, has been promoted to Senior Project Manager in the Loudoun, Virginia, office of Christopher Consultants, an engineering, surveying, land planning, and landscape architecture firm. DeRosier has been leading the planning efforts in
Loudoun and has years of landscape architecture experience.

Lawrence M. DiVietro Jr., AICP, was appointed to the Rowan University board of trustees at its recent annual meeting. DiVietro is the president, CEO, and founder of Land Dimensions Engineering in Turnersville, New Jersey. Rowan University is located in Glassboro, New Jersey.

Adrian P. Freund, AICP, (photo left) has been appointed Director of Community Development for Washoe County (Reno), Nevada. He was the Director of Planning and Landscape Architecture for Mindel, Scott & Associates, Inc. of Louisville. Freund is a past Director of APA, and immediate past Chair of APA's Divisions Council. He was formerly the Director of Planning and Environmental Management for Louisville and Jefferson County, Kentucky.

Margarita D. Gagliardi has been named senior vice president of STV Incorporated and has been promoted to deputy manager of the firm's National Transportation Group. Gagliardi has more than 25 years of professional experience. She joined STV in 1991 and has managed the firm's planning and project management oversight work for transportation improvement projects around the country.

William Gietema, Jr., cofounder of Arcadia Realty in Dallas, has been awarded a 2002 fellowship from the Knight Program in Community Building, based at the University of Miami School of Architecture. Fellows pursue independent research projects and take part in community-building workshops, seminars, and a charrette. Gietema's areas of expertise are land planning and market research.

Stephen A. Goldsmith is the new director of the Frederick P. Rose Architectural Fellowship of the Enterprise Foundation in Salt Lake City. Goldsmith most recently served as planning director for the Salt Lake City Planning Division. The Rose Fellowship supports young architects and community-based organizations in low-income communities.

Fred D. Goodrow, AICP, is the new District Manager for the Ocala, Florida, office of the municipal professional services firm Berryman & Henigar. He was serving as Vice President/Planning Manager. Goodrow joined Berryman & Henigar in 1991. He will be responsible for new business development for the Ocala office and will lead the company's Community Development Division in Florida.

Randall Gross's company, Randall Gross/Development Economics (RGDE), based in Washington, D.C., has opened a branch office in Johannesburg, South Africa. In independent practice since 1997, RGDE has provided economic and development consulting services for a broad range of clients in the United States, southern Africa, and beyond. The new office will build on Gross's existing client base in Africa.

David S. Hunt, AICP, is a new senior project manager in the Delaware office of Vollmer Associates, a national engineering, landscape architecture, and planning firm. Hunt has more than 10 years of experience in transportation planning, urban revitalization, economic development, and public capital financing. He formerly was project manager for a consulting firm in Philadelphia. Previously, he was transportation director and senior transportation adviser to the mayor of Wilmington, Delaware.

Susan Jackson, AICP, a Community Planner at RBF Consulting's Urban Design Studio, has been recognized as a Certified Main Street Manager by the National Trust for Historic Preservation's National Main Street Center. She completed the requirements of the Main Street Certification Institute in Professional Downtown Management.

John C. Jennings, AICP, has joined the engineering and consulting firm Schoor DePalma as a project manager in the Traffic & Planning Division. Jennings formerly worked in the New Jersey Department of Transportation. At Schoor DePalma he will work on needs assessments, feasibility studies, and highway access management planning.

Christopher D. Keller, AICP, has joined the staff of the West Palm Beach office of Greenhorne & O'Mara as Project Director. He will be responsible for expanding the firm's planning and landscape architecture practice throughout Florida. Keller has more than 18 years of experience in land-use planning, master planning, site planning, and landscape architecture for both public and private sector clients.

Philip C. Kennedy, AICP, was promoted to vice president of CDM, a consulting, engineering, and operations firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Kennedy has more than 25 years of environmental review and permitting experience and leads the company's environmental planning and sciences group. He has completed more than 100 environmental impact assessments for CDM projects nationwide.

Joon Kim has joined Reid Middleton Inc.'s planning group in Everett, Washington, as an entry-level planner. Kim is responsible for land-use review services for the City of Seattle, planning-related research, and preparing professional documents. Prior to joining Reid Middleton, Kim interned with the city of Lynwood and the city of Mukilteo.

Bruce M. Kriviskey, FAICP, is retiring after more than 35 years as an architect and historic preservation planner. He worked with government and private sector organizations in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Galena, Illinois. He directed the urban design and historic preservation programs for the American Institute of Architects in Washington, D.C., and, for the past 12 years, served as the Chief of the Heritage Resources Branch and Historic Preservation Planner for Fairfax County, Virginia.

Chip (Harold) Leslie, AICP, has relocated to the Ontario, California, office of RBF Consulting, where he is senior planning manager. He will be responsible for the management of all planning activities for the new office of RBF, which has 12 offices in the western U.S. Leslie has been a project manager for RBF for 14 years. Previously he was city planner/community development director for the City of Lake Elsinore.

Timothy F. Madden, AICP, has received the Home Builders Association of Maryland Land Development Council's Consultant of the Year Award. Madden is principal of Morris & Ritchie Associates, Inc., an engineering and architectural firm. The Land Development Council's award program recognizes development professionals who provide superior and creative development projects that are sensitive to the community and make apprpriate use of existing natural elements. In addition to being a certified planner, Madden is a registered landscape architect in Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, and North Carolina.

Lance Michaels will retire in September from the New York City Department of City Planning, where he has served as Executive Director for the past 13 months. He served the City of New York for 30 years and will continue his planning career in the private sector.

Grant Murakami, AICP, (photo left) has been promoted to Senior Associate/Planner by PBR Hawaii, a planning and landscape architecture firm. Murakami joined PBR Hawaii in 1994. His new responsibilities include serving as project manager and lead designer for campus master plans, resort/residential master plans, urban design plans, and design guidelines for both private and public sector projects.

Donald A. Neu, AICP, has joined WilsonMiller's Sarasota, Florida, staff as a senior project manager. Neu was Sarasota County's lead land development official for the past four years, and for nine years was a division manager and a plan review engineer in the transportation department. Before that he supervised public improvement projects for a private construction company. He will work on public and private sector projects with WilsonMiller.

H. Peter Oberlander has been elevated to the rank of Officer in the Order of Canada in recognition of "national achievement and merit of a high degree." In announcing the award honoring the Jubilee Year of Queen Elizabeth II, the Governor General paid tribute to Oberlander's important advocacy of sustainable urbanization and his service "as a Senior Advisor for the UN Commission on Human Settlements and Canada's Ministry of the Environment." Oberlander was the first Canadian president of ASPO and is a long-time APA member.

Kevin O'Neill, AICP, was recently appointed Strategic Planning Manager for the City of Bellevue, Washington. O'Neill has more than 15 years of municipal planning and community development experience with jurisdictions in Washington State and Missouri, and most recently worked as a Strategic Advisor for the City of Seattle Strategic Planning Office. He also serves as Professional Development Officer for the Washington Chapter of APA.

Laurence Parnes, AICP, has been selected as the New York City Department of City Planning's Deputy Executive Director for Land Use and Environmental Review. Parnes has been with the department since 1970. He started his career in the Bronx office, served as the department's liaison to the Board of Estimate, and was director of the Queens office. He was Director of Technical Review since 1989.

Carol Stricklin, AICP, has joined Renaissance Planning Group in Orlando, Florida. The firm specializes in the integration of transportation and land use and has recently created a land planning practice which Stricklin will lead as the Director of Land Planning. Stricklin was formerly a chief planner with Orange County, Florida. She is the President of the Orlando Metro Section of the Florida Chapter of the American Planning Association.

Robin A. Schabes has been named Special Assistant for Technology Development by Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. Her task is to develop the city of Chicago's high-tech growth strategy and mobilize private sector support. Schabes had been a Chicago deputy planning commissioner since 1997. She holds a master's degree in urban planning and policy.

Susan Schalk, AICP, has been elected the 2002 president of the Airport Consultants Council, an international trade association that represents consulting firms involved in the development of airports and related facilities. Schalk is president of the Indianapolis-based firm Aerofinity, Inc., which she founded two years ago.

Tom Schnell, AICP, is newly appointed Associate/Planner for PBR Hawaii, a planning and landscape architecture firm. Schnell has experience in both the public and private sectors of land planning, analysis, environmental planning, and governmental permit processing and entitlements. He will be responsible for processing land-use related governmental permit documents.

Sue Schwartz, AICP, who represents Region 2 on the AICP Commission, was an invited participant in the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Joseph C. Canizaro Mayor's Forum in San Antonio, Texas, February 27-28, 2002. The forum provided an arena for mayors from across the U.S. to discuss and learn about practical responses to development challenges in their communities. As the sole public sector planner invited to the participate in the forum, Schwartz provided effective strategies for working with planning boards and commissions.

Robert W. Swanagon, AICP, (photo left) has been appointed senior vice president and officer in charge of Turner Collie & Braden Inc.'s Denver office. Swanagon has more than 22 years of experience in project and program management, transportation planning and design, and traffic engineering. He holds a master's degree in regional and city planning from the University of Oklahoma.

L. Robert "Bob" Ulibarri, AICP, has been named Senior Environmental Project Manager in the Planning Department of the San Jose office of RBF Consulting. Ulibarri has served in both the public and private sectors as a planning director. At RBF, he will be responsible for the management and preparation of CEQA/NEPA documents, including environmental assessments prepared for tribal governments.

Stephen R. Wells, AICP, (photo left) has been elected a vice president of Wilbur Smith Associates of Columbia, South Carolina. Wells has been with the firm since 1992, and is the associate-in-charge of the Kansas City, Missouri, office. His areas of expertise include transportation policy and planning, environmental impact assessments, and highway corridor studies.

Bruce T. Yoder, FAICP, has been named Senior Vice President of the Southeast General Civil Services Group of Greenhorne & O'Mara, Inc. Yoder began his career with G&O in 1979 as Director of Planning. As Senior Vice President, he will oversee planning, civil engineering, and surveying operations in the firm's Georgia and Florida offices. He has served on the Board of Directors for G&O since 1992. Among his many professional activities, he was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners in 2001 and served as national president of the American Society of Consulting Planners in 1988 and 1989.

Previous Years of Members in the News

1999-2001 Members in the News