The University of Maine - Construction Management Technology

We always enjoy hearing from alumni. Please drop Knud Hermansen a note to let CMT faculty and other alumni know what you are doing.

The hearsay is listed in the order it was heard, not necessarily the order that the events occurred.

Ryan Labrecque (2002) is currently working (since 2/06) in downtown Providence building two condo towers above a 500 car underground parking garage. The buildings are 18 and 20 stories tall respectively and house 193 townhouse and condo units. See the attached link if you are interested and buying one... www.liveatwaterplace.com. He has been managing the concrete, steel, pre-cast wall panels, spray fire-proofing, studs/drywall/general trades and appliance bid packages (these packages total in excess of $50 million). He has been quite busy over the last year or so and is now transitioning into the field as a superintendent overseeing the exterior landscaping/pavers, exposed aggregate walkways and ramps etc.

Gilbane has been pursuing work in Maine with the thought of opening an office at some time in the future. They are currently working on the new Mercy Hospital project and have been awarded a large project at EMMC. They are also working on another large condo project 70 + units on Commercial Street in Portland. Who knows, he may end up in his home state soon...

All is well on the home front. He has been working diligently on the renovation of their home and tries to mix some fun in between all the work as well... This "fun" will include a few camping trips to Maine over the summer in an attempt to escape the city life!

Jon Bradstreet (2005), with 4 weeks left on the Capital Commons project ($25million dollar public/private job), bid Cobb Hill Construction farewell and joined the Bureau of Construction for the New Hampshire Department of Transportation. He got a raise in pay and much better benefits. He now has an opportunity to pursue his EIT, and plans on taking the Fundamentals of Engineering exam within the next year, he and his wife are still working on updating their condo and will be very happy when they can afford to sell it and move into a real house!

Joni Fournier (1996) has been promoted to a Senior Project Manager position at her company, ARC Integrated Program Management, Inc. in Boulder, CO. She will be moving to Palm Springs for the next year to work on a $51 million Ritz Carlton project in Rancho Mirage, CA. ARC Integrated Program Management will represent the owner on this project. She is also building a $4.6 million laundry facility that will support this particular Ritz, so it has been a very interesting learning curve for her to switch from GC Construction into the Pre-Construction process on the Owner's side.

John Doughty (2004) is a construction inspector working for HNTB Corporation out of the Westbrook office. HNTB is a multifaceted national engineering company whose regional office works closely with the Maine Turnpike Authority offering engineering and inspection on bridge, highway, and building projects. Currently John is ensuring quality assurance at the Gray/Cumberland Travel Plazas at mile 56 on the Turnpike and pursuing certification as a Professional Engineer. Future work involves traffic control and inspection for bridge steel painting contracts this summer and as a senior building inspector for the proposed Gardiner Travel Plaza beginning this year. Thankfully he gets paid mileage.

Rick Powers (1993) is still a Project Manager with Harry C. Crooker & Sons, Inc. in Topsham, Me (Since 1996). He handles all of their Projects at Bath Iron Works, Brunswick Naval Air Station, Bowdoin College as well as numerous other commercial site & utility projects. He is married to Sarah, with two girls Abby (5yrs) and Emily (2yrs).

Ben MacDonald (2002) is a Sales and Project Manager for Houses & Barns by John Libby, a residential firm in Freeport about 5 minutes from his house in Pownal. The company is a house and barn builder specializing in authentic timber frame construction. Ben and his wife, Meghan, are about to have their first child.

Michael Archer (2004) enjoys his work and was at the Ingersol Rand plant attending a training seminar. The training session has been great and he would highly recommend their training sessions. He plans to go to Fort Kent with Shane Amoroso (2004) and Isaac Thomopson (2004) snowmobiling.

Erik Updyke (1979) is a Senior Civil Engineer, Los Angeles County Department of Public Works, Construction Division

Patrick Hopkins (2005) was working for Sargent in Portland all summer on a landfill. He is engaged to Lindsey. They are currently living in Bangor.

Pete Parizo (2002) - Pete and his wife Marci are expecting their first child in April. Craig Shorey (1995) and Pete will be heading to the Trimble Dimensions conference in early November to immerse themselves in all things GPS.

Ian McCarthy (2003) and Curtis Marston (2006) both got married this summer to lovely ladies. In the CM field they are called first marriages - especially when it involves these alumni. Curtis Marston is a field engineer.

Congratulations to the following for achieving the Spring 2006 Dean's List: Jeffrey Bailey, William Bannister III, David Biette, Ryan Carrigan, Robert Clark, Zachary Davis, Lacey Fogg, Kathryn Hurley, Jason Jendrasko, Jeffrey Kelley, Ryan Levesque, Matthew Love, Justin Loveitt, Daniel Lyons, Aaron Madison, Benjamin Manning, Kabe Micklon, Jerard Murray, Jonathan Rose, Nicole Rubenstein, Brayden Sheive, Nicholas Sobey, and Marius Tawembe

Cory Verrill (2000) and his wife Jessica gave birth to their second daughter Addison Kendall Verrill. She has a two year old sister Lily. They are still living in Stetson, ME. He has been working in Milford, CT for Cianbro where he has been a field engineer at our Milford Power River Water Conversion project. The project will convert an existing power plant to use brackish water from the Housatonic River to cool the plant instead of city water that it had been using. From May through July he was on the Missisquoi Bay Bridge project in Swanton / Alburg, VT as a surveyor and cost engineer.

Aimee Castonguay (2001) is working for Turner Construction, and enjoying every minute of it. She is working on a development project in W. Hartford, CT. It is worth approx. $117 Million. She is managing the budget and monitoring the risk.

Spencer Maynard (2003) is an assistant engineer with the Maine Department of Transportation. Currently he is working on the Conant Road in Presque Isle. He is getting married in November to his fiancé, Heather.

Spencer Maynard (2003) is currently in the assistant engineer training program with MDOT. He will be working on the Conant Rd. this summer in Presque Isle/Easton. It is basically a full reconstruction of the road and shoulders with drainage and ditching included. His family is well and life is going pretty good for him. His daughter turned nine years old.

John Abbot (1994) is a project manager with Gilbane. He lives in Manchester, CT and works in Norwalk, CT. In July he'll be running a school project in Manchester. He has two kids - a boy and girl, ages 10 and 8. He is doing lots of coaching in the limited spare time - baseball, football, softball, and hockey.

Jon Hodgkins (1997) is married to Kerri and has been married for six years. They have two boys: Alex, who is 20 months and Andrew, who is one month old. Jon has spent the last two years building his own house on nights and weekends. He finally moved in. This experience has made him realize that working with his hands and head is really what floats his boat. After six years with Maine Masonry and 1-1/2 years with Maine Steel, he started his own company: Fine Home Builders of Maine. He is specializing in the designing and building of high end New England and cottage style homes.

Eric Calderwood (1991) has recently left Maine DOT to start a business specializing in bridge design.

Virgil Gray (1995) has recently accepted a position with MOCA Systems, Inc. as Vice President. MOCA Systems, Inc., delivers capital project intelligence services to world's leading organizations and their design and construction teams. As the detailed performance management platform for capital programs and specific projects, MOCA unlocks the potential for defining accurate capital programs and then optimizing project resources throughout design and construction.

Dan Dennis (1996) is an estimator/ buyer with High Construction Company in Lancaster, PA.

Jeremy Whitehouse (2005) works with fellow CMT graduates Ron Milley (2000) and Chad Merritt (1998). Jon Weaver (2005) also works for Consigli Construction but he is at the Milford, MA office. He worked at the Jackson Lab in the summer on a new 3000 sf sterile corridor to transport mice. He also worked in Bar Harbor on the restoration of a church. Now he is working on a new classroom building at the University of Maine in Farmington. It is a 46000 sf building for the college of health and rehabilitation.

Matthew Gagnon (2000) is a project manager with Lee Kennedy Co., Inc. out of Boston, MA. He is the project manager for the construction of a new High School in North Conway, NH. To view the job see www.siemensjobcam.com

Tim Sommers (2000) is a project engineer with the Pizzagalli Construction Compay currently working on the University of Maine Student Recreation and Health Center.

Jeff Marquis (2004) has been working as a project manager with CCB, Inc. for a little over a year now handling projects in Vermont and New Hampshire. Currently he has two projects going on the Dartmouth College Campus that will keep him busy through next spring/early summer. Outside of work, he recently had his first child, a healthy little girl, and he couldn’t be happier.

Gregory A. Schaub (2005) is a project engineer at the Lane Construction Corporation. He is very pleased with his employment and encourages others to apply to Lane Construction Corporation out of the Hermon plant. Upon being hired he received a truck, laptop, cell phone, and gas card. He has been working with Cooper Holmes (1999). He spends time out in the field as well as in the office which makes for good learning experience as well as being in Lane's LEADER program which helps to train new engineers in the ways of the company. He has taken trips to southern states for the LEADER program to receive training on excavation/dewatering, surveying, concrete paving, as well as one final trip that will be on estimating. He has done a variety of different things in his first five months with the company, such as: traffic control plans, asphalt takeoffs, layout, setting up the job site for superintendents, talking with DIG SAFE, talking with utilities about work to be performed on the jobs, attending preconstruction meetings, as built drawings, checking x-slopes, markups, surveying w/ total station, level loops, and working with Terra Model to name a few.

Anissa Brescia (1999) worked for Acheron Engineering Services in Newport for a few years after graduation where she earned her P.E. license. In 2001 she began her own company, Brescia Consulting Services, Inc. She just relocated to Ocala, Florida in August of this year. She has three children, Jennifer and Jessica 14-year old twins, and an 8-year old son Jonathan.

Ron Milley (2000) is now with Consigli Construction. He just finished building a house in Freeport and is still married (to the surprise of his friends).

Brad Moll (1995) just became partners in Newman concrete with Doug Newman, He recently built a house in Freeport. He is married to Melanie and has two kids Emma and Ben.

Eric Hodgkins (2001) works for Horne Construction in Rochester NH. He recently built a house in Auburn ME. His wife is Melissa.

Dustin Littlefield (2001) is working as a project manager for Reed and Reed Construction. He bought a house in Yarmouth and is still married to his wife Kristen and they are expecting in February.

Matt Gagnon (2000) has moved from Granger Northern, Inc. to start a new job with Lee Kennedy, Co. where he will be working on a project in North Conway, NH for the next three years. He recently married Sara and they live in a house that they bought about a year ago.

Jon Bradstreet (2004) is working in design development for Cobb Hill Construction, Inc. He is at Capitol Commons (a 24 million dollar office building and 500 car parking garage) as a field engineer. This is a two year long project with the first 16 months focosued on the building shell and the last 6 months doing the leased space fitups.

Ben MacDonald (2002) is a project engineer for Wright-Ryan Construction, Inc. He completed working on the Mitchell Center in Gorham and the Knox County Courthouse in Rockland. He's starting on the Brickhill Castle (office fitout) in So. Portland. He's also doing quite a bit of estimating for some residential projects in the area. On the personal side, he is in the process of building a house for himself in Pownal which has been like a second job.

Spencer Maynard (2003) has been working for Maine DOT for approximately two months. He is in the regional program which involves roadway rehabilitation, milling, reclaiming, drainage and safety improvements, etc. His first year is a training program. For about the first six months he is in the office and on projects. The final six months of his training he works throughout the other five regions, or wherever they place him. He has recently completed the 10 hour OSHA training course through the MDOT.

Andrew P. Grant (1992) is Director of Engineering at Keiser Industries. Keiser Industries is a modular homebuilder located in Oxford, ME.

Jonathan R. Bradstreet (2004), along with his fiance, have joined the world of the mortgage holders. They have closed on a townhouse condo. He may end up working on the Capitol Commons job site in the field trailer helping out the two project managers. Right now he is working on a budget estimate for a 3.2 million dollar house on Lake Winnipasauke as well as a bunch of other estimates.

Cecil "Buddy" Kershner (2001) took a lateral assignment to the Cianbro Office in Pittsfield where he is coordinating all Cianbro owned equipment. It has kept him very busy tracking roughly 2400 pieces from Maine to Maryland.

Matthew Ek (1988) is the senior survey manager at Sebago Technics, Inc., One Chabot Street, P.O. Box 1339, Westbrook, Maine 04098-1339

Cory Verrill (2000) started working for Cianbro as a Project Engineer. He will be working on three fish lifts at a hydro dam in central Maine this summer. He and his wife live in Stetson and have a 10 month old daughter.

Chris Patch (1996) is working for Coler & Colantonio, Inc. based in Norwell, Massachusetts. He is managing the pipeline engineering section in Houston.

Spencer Maynard (2003) has accepted a position with the Maine Department of Transportation. He works with Chris Helstrom (CIE) another UM graduate.

Virgil Gray (1995) has taken a position as the division manager for Coler & Colantonio's Transportation Division.

Loren Blair (1997) is employed with Dearborn Construction (Gorham, ME) as project manager for the past six years. He is married with two children.

Jon Bradstreet (2004) is doing great and enjoys his job. Along with his fiance, he is currently looking at a Condo and planning their wedding. He is currently working for Cobb Hill Construction in Concord, New Hampshire. He is working in Design Developement. Mainly he's doing high end addition, renovation, and estimating. Some of the projects are in the $400,000 dollar range (this is a house addtion at 400K). He is also currently working on two new homes, one is at $1.8 Million and the other is at $900,000. The commercial side is in the bid process on collecting sub contracts on a $24 million dollar building on Main St. in Concord with an attached parking garage. People can check out the website at www.cobbhill.com.

Chad Merritt (1998) is a project engineer in Consigli Construction Co., Inc. He has been transferred up to Consigli's Portland office from their main office in Massachusetts after two years.

Shane Oates (1995) is an Engineering Project Manager with Coneco in southeastern Massachusetts.

Tim Sommers (2000) is a project engineer with Pizzagalli. This summer he was working at the new science center on UMO. He is currently working on a new health and physical education center at Umaine, Presque Isle. Tim came to the University of Maine from New Jersey. He loves to fly fish.

Dan Dennis (1996) was recently promoted from an Assistant Project Manager to an Estimator. The first bid was for a work-out facility. His company was second out of four. The second bid was for a hotel in eastern Maryland. His company is currently going through value engineering. The third bid was for another work out facility in Harrisburg, PA. His company was awarded the project. Thanks to Chuck Gould for teaching Advanced Estimating.

David A. Hosking (1996) is still working for the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) in their Construction Section. He recently accepted a promotion to the position of "Finals Engineer" with the Construction Section. He is now working out of the central office of VTrans in Montpelier, Vermont. It is about a 30 to 45 minute commute from the Burlington area. This position is more of an in-house office position, a change from the field environment he has been working in for the past few years. He is involved with reviewing or "finaling" AOT construction projects (checking documentation, calculations, quantities, record plans, etc.) as they are completed and come to the central office for final payment. He is also involved with project claims (from and to contractors) and actively involved with Site Manager®, our AASHTO Trns*Port Construction Management Software. He recently came back from a national TEA/TUG Conference on this software system hosted by Alabama DOT in Mobile, AL. He has a small staff that help him. If he can offer one word of advice to all the CMT alumni out there working, it word be "Documentation." He can't stress enough how important it is to have good project documentation. He remembers both Chuck and Knud emphasizing it's importance.

Adam Lawson (2003) is still with Shawmut Design and Construction, now as an Assistant Project Manager (APM). Currently he has two projects, a PF Chang and a Tahari retail store, that he is about to turn over in Atlantic City, NJ in the Tropicana. Next on the list is a Hard Rock Café in Manhattan, a PF Chang's in St. Louis, and a Tiffany's Jewelry store in New York. Since becoming an APM he has worked mostly with PF Chang's, a negotiated client, building approximately 10-15 units a year. His responsibilities include RFI's, submittals, change orders, scheduling, purchase orders, invoices (client and sub), legal riders (contracts and buy-out), cost to complete (CTC's), and all aspects of warranty work associated with the projects. In addition to his duties at the office, he is now an executive member of the YCC (Young Contractor's Council), which is associated with the Massachusetts AGC. This has been a rewarding experience for him and has given him more perspective into the construction industry in this state. He got engaged August 20th to his long time girlfriend Karen Estey. They have planned the wedding on August 20th 2005. She has recently moved down to Massachusetts (after graduating from grad school at UMO) and is employed as a speech language pathologist.

Andrew Forst (1999) is a project engineer at Skanska USA Building. He started working with Sordoni Skanska as a Project Engineer in Parsippany, NJ in June of 1999 in the estimating department. The company modified its name a few times before ending up with Skanska USA Building. He completed four years of estimating and was finally assigned to a field job in June of 2003. It was a design build project of a 410,000 sf parts distribution center for Mercedes-Benz in Robbinsville, NJ (outside of Trenton, NJ). This was completed in June of 2004. He is currently assigned to a project in Suffern, NY in June 2004 for Avon (cosmetics company). His company is building their new global research and development building.

Michael A. Connolly (2002) landed a career position with the Coast Guard, Industrial Service Division. He survived a month of intensive panel interview(s) and background checks. He felt like he was working for Donald Trump. One of his first days on the job he was sent out on the road (and high seas) to check out the projects underway. He left S. Portland in a new government issue F-250 Super Duty with a V-10 under the hood. His job was to restore light houses that went to the Island Institute Organization 10 years ago. He says that he finally found an organization worthy of his effort, sweat, and skills. He utilized all he has learned in the field and college, a competitive combination, thanks to CMT. His office will be designing a new ship docking system soon and plans on utilizing the very best of everything. Mike is a former sea urchin diver and is very familiar with boating regulations and the Maine coast.

Ryan Russell (2004) is currently in Kabul, Afghanistan working with Perini Corp. in the PMSI division. He is currently working under a CENTCOM contract under the Army Corps of Engineers building bases for the Afghan National Army. He is in Kabul at the main office waiting to mobilize on the job site located in Gardez, which is approximately two hours south of the capital, Kabul. The contract is a full design-build that includes a power station, waste water treatment, barracks, recreation field and 50 bed hospital. His position on the project is as one of the engineers in the field. Right now the main concern is building temporary living quarters and security. He cannot complain about the pay. He is well taken care of. The first 80k is tax free and then the tax after that is as though it were your only income, so the taxes are very, very low. In this area of the world the politcal arena is begining to heat up. Last night, there was a car bomb about four blocks from his house. Unfortunately, the bomb killed seven people including two Americans. The Taliban is really starting to make their presence felt again because there will be national elections in October. Down the road, Perini will more than likely be looking for more people to come overseas. Ryan says this project might be something for some of the graduates to think about.

Pete Parizo (2002) is working at Sargent & Sargent, coordinating surveying. He constantly runs into CMT grads out in the field. Glenn Adams (2004) recently took a job with Sargent & Sargent and has fallen into the role of Pete's partner in the surveying/layout department. He has made the transition from college student to full time contributing member of society nicely. Pete ran into Mike Giles (2002) at Colby College in Waterville . Sargent & Sargent is building a new multi purpose turf sports field and Mike's with H.E. Sargent working on the "Colby Green" project. Sargent & Sargent is also reconstructing the Belfast airport runway under the supervision of Dufresne-Henry (Portland, Presque Isle). Spencer Maynard (2003) works with this firm. On a personal note, he recently married his best friend, Marci, and purchased a home in Bangor. Marci aspires to be a psychologist and Pete aspires to retire from construction at the age of 30 and play golf professionally.

Spencer Maynard (2003) has been doing a lot of survey work the past few weeks. His company recently acquired a new SET530R Sokkia Total Station with an Allegro CE data collector. He has worked as far north as Frenchville and plans to head to Houlton for more survey work. Most of his work is traversing and topography. He has also been working in the office performing project design. In the near past he has completed engineering estimates, quanitity take-offs, grading and construction inspections. He is using AutoDesk Land Desktop (AutoCAD) quite frequently. His daughter is seven years old now and she starts 2nd grade this year. Spencer is very proud of her.

Aaron Cianchette (2001) is living on the upper east side of Manhattan and working on a job at Coney Island. He isgetting married on the 26th of June at Sunday River in Bethel and will take a week in Aruba immediately after.

Adam Meyer (2002) has earned a master of science in civil and environmental engineering (geotechnical). Adam works as a project manager for Engineering Technologies, Inc.

Alumni were well represented at the 12 May 2004 ACM dinner held at the University of Maine. Alumni present included Mark Bancroft (1993), Craig Shorey (1995), Ian McCarthy (2003), Kevin J. Gresser (1994), Adam Meyer (2002), and Travis Whitehead (2003)

Walter "Bert" Kiesow Jr. (1996) "Bert" just reached his 4th year anniversary with Kinetics System Inc. He has been working in the Portland Maine office since he was hired. He has been running the office for the past year. Bert is currently a Senior Project Manager for the company which specializes in installing, designing, and fabricating process piping, delivery systems and HVAC equipment from Semiconductor and Pharmaceutical facilities. Bert works for the semiconductor/construction division. Over the past 7 month Kinetics/Maine has performed over $5million worth of installation. It is currently working on a $4million dollar expansion with hopes to perform another $1-2million worth of work in the next 4-6 months.

Matt Hebert (2002) is an estimator with Cianbro. He has been working on an estimate for a rehab of a bascule bridge in St. Augustine Florida. Its the Bridge of Lions with several websites discussing the bridge. The project is full of different tricks and challenges. It's on the national historic register. The engineer's estimate is around $60 million.

Spencer Maynard (2003) has been doing quantity take-offs. He has also been working on hydrology and hydraulics for stormwater permitting . HydroCAD and AutoCAD are the computer programs he uses besides the basic Microsoft programs. His firm recently landed a Big Rock Ski Mountain job in Mars Hill, Maine.

David Hosking (1996) is currently working for the Vermont Agency of Transportation as a Resident Engineer in their Construction Division. The project that he assigned to is an $11 million dollar urban reconstruction project for a 1 mile section of US Route 7 in South Burlington, Vermont. The General Contractor is Paragon Construction, Inc. out of Orford, New Hampshire. Traffic count is around 26,000 vehicles per day. Trying to proceed with work without affecting traffic too much is a major effort. The VAT is going to advertise the next 2 mile segment of this project this Spring. That segment will be in the $10 to $15 million range. This is big dollars and a big project for this area. Contract completion date for segment 1 is Oct 2004, although it will likely be Summer 2005. Segment 2 looks to be done on paper by late 2006. Check out David's project website [http://www.us7shelburneroad.com] for more information on the project.

Ryan Labreque (2002) has been assigned full time (as of 2/1/04) to a new project which should be very interesting. He is part of the construction of a $70 million Life Science Building for Brown University in downtown Providence. The project has been delayed for a few years due to the surrounding neighbors/businesses and the resulting extensive litigation. The project is finally under way in the shoring / excavation / blasting stages. He should be there for a few years as the scheduled completion date is January of 2006. Currently he is in an engineering role (swimming in paper) but hopes to get some time out on site performing superintendent functions over the course of the project. It is just not dirty enough in the site office.

Travis Whitehead (2003) graduated from the CMT program in May of 2003. Right around this time last year he started sending out resumes and doing interviews. By March he had three job offers with four interviews. This was typical for everyone in his class. Travis is a project engineer at Knowles Industrial Services in Portland Maine. They are a specialty contractor. The company does projects such as wet and dry-mix shotcrete, waterproofing, linings, industrial flooring, grouting, etc, etc. Check the company web page at Knowlesindustrial.com Travis' job consists of bidding work, writing proposals, writing work orders, starting up the jobs with our foreman, and managing projects that are bid. If anyone has any questions feel free to contact Travis at twhitehead@knowlesindustrial.com

Timothy J. Sommers (2000) is currently working for Pizzagalli construction company on a dormitory project for the University of Maine at Fort Kent as a Project Engineer. After graduation from CMT, he worked in Washington, DC; Baltimore, MD; Vermont; Bangor, ME; Newport, RI; and Portsmouth, NH; for Russell Construction, a small environmental contractor. Most recently he worked for HE Sargent's (now defunk) building division as a project engineer and superintendent. He currently has a house in Etna, ME with his girlfriend. Tim loves to fly fish and has found the fishing in Fort Kent to be very good. (Tim came to UM from NJ for both the program and the fly fishing and has not returned.) He saw Scott Harrington (2001) about six months ago. Scott is working with Bar and Bar down in Boston and seems to be doing very well. He also say Mark Shibles (2000) about the same time. Mark is working for MDOT up near the Forks.

Brian Masterson (1996): Brian married Becky on October 7, 2001. He has been living in the Lancaster, PA area since graduation from U-Maine. He is currently working as a Project Manager at Strausser Surveying and Engineering Inc.. A large portion of his clients are from the Amish Community. He works on projects consisting of subdividing farms for family members and land development projects for businesses. He also works on larger community subdivisions and commercial land development projects throughout central and southern Lancaster County.
They are currently awaiting the completion of our new home in Southern Lancaster County.

Mark Bancroft (1993) was presented with the Distinguished Crowe Award. The Crowe award is a college of engineering award given to engineers who have distinguished themselves in their career and helped advance their profession.

Kathy Wilder (2003) is working as an engineering specialist for Cianbro on the Amethyst Project in Portland, Maine. She loves her job on the oil rigs and manages approximately 30 workers ranging from carpenters to welders to pipers. While she enjoys marine construction she is looking forward to seeing the rigs sail for Brazil and is uncertain where she will be sailing next.

Matt Hebert (2002) spent the last nine months as a project/site engineer for Cianbro at the MeadWestvaco Paper Mill in Rumford. Last week he began a new assignment working in the estimating department in Pittsfield. He says there is a big difference in trying to estimate a small job for a private client that the company can negotiate with versus a large bridge project for a state DOT. At the moment he's on the estimating team that is estimating the new Waldo/Hancock bridge in Bucksport. He found a new place to live in Pittsfield. He is hoping to be able to find and buy a house next year.

Cecil "Buddy" Kershner (2001) is working on the EMH office building in Brewer. He's also trying to get his house he's building closed in before Winter.

Spencer Maynard (2003) is working on the Belfast Airport doing some stormwater drainage design for a runway project. He has also done some drainage design and profiling for ledge designation under existing grades for the Rockland Airport runway project. He is using autocad and hydrocad every now and then. He's also been doing a lot of surveying.

John Phillips (2003) is working for Reed& Reed as a field engineer. He has been working in Augusta on the new Route 3 bridge over the Kennebec. It's a great first project: $10 million curved girder bridge, over 1000 feet long, and 100 ft in the air. John is responsible for all the day-to-day layout on the bridge. There's a great picture of the job on the company website reed-reed.com (go to company news link and Augusta bridge).

John "Scotty" Linscott IV (2003) is working for H.B. Fleming. His first project was a small bridge job in Harpswell. He has been estimating, designing and coordinating details for projects. He has been working with the partner on a product and construction procedure called a soil anchor. He has also been flying from time to time.

Christine Webber (2003) is working at Pike Industries in Portland. She spent half the Summer being trained in estimating and project management. She is now a project manager on Congress Street.

Tom Carey (2003) is currently working at Wright-Ryan Construction in Portland. His position is project engineer. He thinks it is a great company. Project Engineers work with the same project manager. The project engineers stick to the projects their project managers are working on. Tom runs the submittal process using Expedition, updates the schedules (Suretrak) for the projects, and also does shop drawing review. Other duties include soliciting quotes for various items and scopes of work, draft RFIs, and prepares purchase orders and subcontract agreements. He says that Adam Roy (2003) is still in Connecticut, Adam Lawson (2003) is still in Boston, and Ian McCarthy (2003) is still working for Sargent & Sargent. Last time he spoke with Ian he had been promoted to Project Manager.

Ron Milley (2000) continues employment at Granger Northern. He just completed a 350 space parking garage in Lewiston. Presently both Ron and Dustin Littlefield (2001) are working on a 1200 space garage for the University of Southern Maine in Portland off 295. It is scheduled to be completed in January 2004.

Ben MacDonald (2002) is working for Wright-Ryan Construction. (Tom Carey (2003) also works at Wright-Ryan.) Ben lives in Portland. For those that know Ben, you'll be shocked to learn that he is engaged to get married in July 2004. His fiancee is smart and beautiful. (Ben's friends question her common sense.)

Welcome to the 2007 alumni class (and some that will be in the class of 2008, 2009, etc.)

Spencer Maynard (2003) has been surveying during the past few weeks at the Belfast airport. He has recently examined some inverts on the Belfast airport for stormwater analysis. He has also performed some hydrology, construction and permitting issues with the D.E.P. In the future he is going to be working on as-built drawings for a Rockland project that was just completed. He is learing how to use AutoCAD and HydroCAD. Spencer reports that his daugther recently started first grade and is proud of her progress. P.S. He is still doing all of Travis' work and letting Travis get the credit.

David Triggiani (1999) is still working with Neill and Gunter, Inc., Design and Consulting Engineers out of Scarborough, ME. He has responsibilities that include project technician as well as a handful of projects to manage on his own. Three of the four projects are now complete and came in under budget and ahead of schedule. (He attributes his success to the wonderful teaching staff in the CMT department.) He has been deemed the scheduler for the company as well as the estimator using Primavera P3, Suretrack, and Timberline Estimating respectively. Neill and Gunter has adopted the use of an internet based web site to collaborate with the clients more effectively. The software is called Buzzsaw and put out by Autodesk. He has been traveling around to major client sites establishing relations as well as creating master schedules, reviewing capitol cost estimates and setting up the guidlines for project controls. David is still involved with real estate. He's purchased another apartment building and is busy renovating an apartment for himself as well as another one in the building. Between work and tenants there isn't a whole lot of time for anything else!!!

Cory Verrill (2000) and his wife have purchased a house in Stetson, ME. She has started her new job at UMaine's Pulp and Paper Research Center. Cory is still working at MIT and projected to leave at the end of the month. Right now he works five days in Cambridge and drives home for the weekends. Jacobs currently has no openings but is trying to find the right project to transfer me to. He is searching for a job in the Bangor area and hoping to stay with Jacobs.

Tom Perkins (1996) is working in Boston at the convention center. He is now next in line to be General Superintendent in charge of six other area superintendents. The convention center job will wrap up early next summer, provided the architects can pick the right shade of white to paint on the walls. Who knew there were so many shades of white? His company has painted the walls so many times there is more latex than gypsum now. Oh and incidentally, he says there will be plenty of billable hours for legal
types when this job is over.

Aaron Cianchette (2001) is a short timer in Florida. He is still on the Hathaway Bridge in Panama City, Florida, but only for two more weeks. He is taking a transfer to New York City and should start work on the 6th of October. He will be a superintendent. He will be assigned to a project for the short term to get accustomed to the system. With the next successful bid, he'll go to that job and start from scratch. He visited a few of the jobs about six weeks ago up in New York. His company currently has nine jobs going in the metro area. He saw Ryan Maheux (2002) on the Howland Hook Marine Terminal project on Staten Island. Ryan seems to be doing well. The accomplishment he is most proud of over the past year is that he passed his written and practical exam and is now a licensed crane operator (National Commission Certification of Crane Operators). He is not actually an operator, but he can make picks and do lift plans. He does run a rig now and then if they are in a bind. On the personal front, he got engaged in June. His fiancee's name is Tonya. She is originally from Canada. They met in Florida. She is an account manager for a medical testing laboratory, but will be getting a new job in a different field in New York. She may work for the Republican National Convention in the media relations area, but if that doesn't pan out, she's going in to real estate. They will be married in Maine next June.

Pete Parizo (2002) is doing layout/surveying for Sargent & Sargent and living in Bangor. He oversees GPS dozers that run off of sitevision systems and the Volvo grader that operates hydraulically using a Trimble ATS 600 robotic total station. He has worked on several interesting projects in the last year including: Walmart in Brewer, Target in Bangor, Eastern Maine Health Care in Brewer, runway improvements on the Portland Jetport, Crosby Manor Estates townhouses in Belfast, artificial turf fields at Hampden Academy and Husson College, 2 cells at PineTree Landfill in Hampden, waterline improvements in Milo, street improvements on Railroad Street in Bangor, intersection improvements on Wilson Street in Brewer, etc.

Matthew Richard (2003) After only a few months working for Fusco, Matt reports he is responsible for submittals, RFI's, meeting minutes, Union minority requirement reporting, some problem solving in the field, SBI (small business ignitiative) requirement reporting, and a little scheduling. He interacts directly with the architects, subcontractors, and various consultants. He even sits in on the City of New Haven's project planning meetings. He reports it has been a great experience thus far. Fusco works exclusively in Connecticut, so not much traveling is required.

Kevin J. Gresser (1994) is a manager in the firm Nickerson & O'Day, Inc.. Previously, Kevin worked on the Big Dig.

Adam Myers (2002) has passed the fundamentals of engineering (EIT) exam and should have a masters in Civil Engineering (geotechnical) in December 2003.

Adam Lawson (2003) is employed with Shawmut Design and Construction as a Construction Management Supervisory Trainee (CMST). The CMST is a three year training program that includes rotations as a junior estimator, assistant project manager and assistant superintendent. Currently he is in the junior estimator phase. He as been involved with the Louis Vuitton renovation in New York at the flagship store. It was a four floor renovation worth over 10 million dollars. He has also been working on CPK's California Pizza Kitchen. Shawmut will typically build 20-25 a year under a negotiated contract. Shawmut is always looking for a few more candidates for the CMST program.

Dan Dennis (1996) married Dyann on October 12, 2002 and has been living in Lancaster, PA since graduating from Maine. He is working as an assistant project manager for High Construction Company in Lancaster, PA. In his spare time he can be found remodeling his house, riding his Harley Davidson motorcycle, or waterskiing. He is interested in finding the where-a-bouts of Kirk Sandvoss (1995), a fellow alumni.

Spencer Maynard (2003) is a staff engineer at Dufresne-Henry. He is working in Presque Isle near family, friends and daughter.

Mathew Richard (2003) just started work at the Fusco Corp. Hist first assignment is a 100,000 sf., two story K-8th grade school. He said "lots of details, and just like Knud said, lots of paperwork, or how Fusco likes to say 'document control.'" He is doing submittals in PRO-LOG, and will be acquiring new responsibilities in the near future.

Shane Oates (1995) is currently a project manager at Coneco Engineers & Scientists in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. They have offices located in Connecticut and Rhode Island. After a short period of employment at home in Portsmouth, New Hampshire after graduation, he had a great opportunity with a firm in Birmingham, Alabama where he stayed for three very hot & humid years. He then returned to the New England area and worked for three years in Boston at Ammann & Whitney before seeking employment without the wonderful Boston morning commute. He currently lives in East Taunton, Massachusetts. He is engaged to be married next year.

Ryan Labreque (2002) attended the Rhode Island Construction Exposition to showcase Gilbane and to recruit for the CMT program. Thank you Ryan!

Scott Dunbar (1994) Scott has left H.E. Sargent to begin working for Dunbar & Brawn Construction. Scott will be partner in this general construction firm. The target work will becommercial and light industrial. The specialty is clean room construction. The firm should be up to 6-7 employees by the end of the month and adding 5 more next year.

Scott has a daughter, Heather, who's in her sophomore year at Bangor High School (3.6 GPA says the proud father). She keeps busy with ROTC, music and boys. Ryan's son is into his second semester as a plebe at West Point. Scott says it's an unbelievable place.

Kellie J. Kelliher (2002) Kellie reports that Florida is great. She doesn't miss the winter at all. She enjoys working for Granite. She is in charge of all the drainage, utilities, landscaping, and brick paving. This keeps her busy. Granite is sending her to California for their annual orientation the first week of March. On the personal side of her life, she is having a house built. It's supposed to be ready to move into in four months. Kellie's brother Gerry Bard is now enrolled in the CMT program. Gerry is a Navy veteran.

Christopher Patch (1996) is a Project Manager with Coler & Colantonio, Inc's Pipeline Services Division. The Division is involved in the design, permitting and construction of major energy infrastructures across the country and the world. Coler and Colantonio has offices in Norwell, MA; Holyoke, MA; South Easton, MA; Portland, Maine; Houston, Texas; Krakow, Poland, and Peru. The company is the beginning stages of forming a construction management group within the company. Chris sat for and passed the LSIT exam in April (2002) and is seeking registration as a professional land surveyor in Massachusetts. Chris' wife of 12 years (Shalom) and Chris currently reside in Plymouth, Massachusetts where they are raising two sons Ryan (age 5) and Cooper (age 3).

Joni Fournier (1995) is working as an assistant project manager for Alexandra Construction in
Newton, MA. She is currently assigned to a library project in Lexington, MA, and a middle school project in Spencer, MA. Her responsibilities involve submittals, running job meetings, doing the schedule, and writing seven day notification letters to subcontractors. It's great, big change from the Big Dig where she worked for the past 5 years. Joni is currently training for the Boston Marathon, marathon #6 (26.2 miles). She is running for a charity by the name of Healthworks Foundation <www.healthworksfoundation.org>. She says it's a GREAT program.

CMT faculty had a night out. Present were Dana (CIE chair) and Barb Humphrey, Claude (CET130-Construction Drawing) and Kim Junkins, Karl Ward (CET124-Safety), Chuck (retired-CMT) and Suzanne Gould, Ray (CMT faculty) and Pam Werkmeister, Mac (CMT faculty) and Marion Gray, and Knud (CMT faculty) and Sue Hermansen. Picture

Matt Hebert (2002) was featured in a UMaine Today article. Matt works at Cianbro.

Ron Milley (2000) is a project manager for Granger Northern, Inc. Ron has just been assigned to another project for USM — a parking garage in Portland. Dustin Littlefield (2001), Eric Hodgkins (2001), and Matt Gagnon (2000) also work for Granger and are in various managment positions. Ron loves the construction business and is having a great time. At this time, we are pleased to report that to the surprise of many that know Ron, Ron's new wife has not attempted to divorce him.

Jason St. Peter (2001) Jason is employed as a field engineer with Kiewit's new district called 'Offshore' in Corpus Christi, Texas. He is dealing with heavy steel fabrication, mostly 3" thick steel plate. He reports that everything is huge; large cranes, heavy picks and heavy steel. Upon graduation, he started with Kiewit in Boston on the Big Dig. Next, he worked on the South Boston Interchange ($320 million contract), which had 3 bridges and MBTA subway station along with about 5 miles of cut and cover tunnel. Presently, Kiewit's Offshore is working on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The contract is to build 28 EA 800 ton steel footings ($100 million contract). On a personal note, Jason is engaged and will be married in June of 2003.

Craig Shorey (1995) is a project manager for Sargent & Sargent. He is married with a 14 month old daughter. He recently finished building a house in Hermon. He also does a lot of work with 3D terrain models and Trimble survey equipment (Sargent & Sargent has two Site Vision systems and one Blade Pro system).

Eric Hodgkins (2001) is a project manager with Granger Northern, Inc. He is currently working on the Southern State Correctional Facility.

Jim Braley (1993) is a project manager with Sargent & Sargent. He is married with four children.

Ron Milley (2000) is a project manager for Granger Northern, Inc. His current project is the Lewiston Parking Garage and Piper Shores II. Some poor girl married him in 2001.

Matt Gagnon (2000) is a project manager for Granger Northern, Inc. His current projects are the Maine State House, DTAVII (UM), and the Augusta Mental Health.

Dustin Littlefield (2001) is a project Manager with Granger Northern, Inc. He is currently working on the Brewer Shop and Save. He is engaged to be married.

Steve Gould (1993) is a graduate of the two-year civil engineering program with a concentration in surveying. Steve is president of the Maine Society of Land Surveyors.

Rick Powers (1993) is project manager with Harry C. Crocker & Sons, Inc. His current project is the BEQ at the Naval Air Station and BIW. He is married with a baby girl.

Andy Nightingale (1998) is assistant superintendent/field engineer at CPM Constructors. His current project is the Vinalhaven School.

Cecil "Buddy" Kershner (2001) is craft superintendent with Cianbro Corporation. His current project is the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Buddy's wife recently graduated with a degree as a dental hygenist.

Chip Reeves (1991) is the director for public works in the town of Bar Harbor. His current project is the treatment plant upgrade. He is married with two children.

Mark Bancroft (1993) is president of Bancroft Contracting Corporation. He is married with two boys. He loves to fly the company plane.

Eric T. Calderwood (1992 ) is a design engineer for the Maine DOT bridge program. He is married with two girls and a boy. He is active in the South Gardner Babtist Church.

Marc Belanger (1999) is a project manager for CCB, Inc. His current project is the AES granite Ridge Powerplant and electrical switchyards.

Joe Burke (2001) is working for CCB, Inc. as a superintendent. His current project is a U.S. Passport center renovation

Ryan Labreque (2002) is working for Gilbane Building Company since his departure from UMaine. He has been scheduling various projects throughout New England, mostly for public school systems, colleges, and government agencies. He is living in Warwick RI.

Pete Parizo (2002) is in Bangor, Maine working for Sargent & Sargent as a field engineer (surveying). He works with GPS, robotic layout, and computer systems.

Joni Fournier (1996) is an assistant project manager for Alexandra Construction in MA.

Anthony Beaulieu (1999) is an estimator and project manager with Pike Industries. He lives in Litchfield, ME.

Ryan Lazaro (2001) Ryan lives in Stow, MA. He is working for J.F. White Contracting.

Chad Merritt (1998) is a assistant project manager with R.W. Granger & Sons, Inc. in their Shrewsbury, MA office. Chad says that R.W. Granger & Sons, Inc. are currently looking for two individuals that have a interest in Project Engineer/Assistant Project Manager positions.

Cory Verrill (2000) is a project engineer working for a division of Jacobs Engineering Group called Jacobs Facilities. After Cory graduated, he was employed as a Project Engineer/Document Control Tech on the Keystone Project in Harrisburg, PA for about a year. The Keystone project was a $180 million office building for five state of PA agencies. After Keystone closed out he transferred to a construction project at MIT in Cambridge, MA. At MIT he does the Construction Quality Management on three projects. The NW30 Graduate dorm was a renovation of a warehouse into a dormitory. It was approximately a $20 million construction value. Currently Jacobs is completing a new Sports and Fitness Complex with approx $45 million construction value. The third project is a renovation of a chemistry laboratory building designed by I.M. Pei in the 60's. This is a three phase project currently in the second phase, the building is functional as a graduate/research lab in the other two phases while construction takes place in the current phase. This project is also at a $45 million construction value.

Aaron Cianchette (2001) is working as assistant superintendent and also a foreman on the substructure for the Hathaway Bridge Project in Panama City, FL for Granite Construction. His crew is building the footings. The footings range in size from 1154 to 1320 cy. Aaron would like to hear from anyone from the Class of 2001.

Jared Williams (2000) is working for Plexus Corporation. He does scheduling for the contractor and the owner on various projects. He has worked on a 10 million dollar infrastructure project around the stadium; a 25 million dollar site work package for the Patriots; and a 37 million dollar portion of the Central Artery where the new I-90 connects to the Ted Williams Tunnel. Since graduating, Jared has his Engineering in Training certificate (EIT) and his Associate Constructor Certificate.

Kellie Kelliher (2002) has moved to Valrico, Florida to begin her new employment. She is planning to go for Primavera and AutoCad training before beginning her new duties.

Gene Sawyer (2002) is currently employed with H.E. Sargent (Old Town, ME) as a formwork supervisor in the Commerical/Industrial Division.

John Abbot (1995) is currently working for Gilbane on the Trinity Library project

Cassie Magoon (1999) married in May. She is currently employed as Assistant Project Manager by HBE Corporation, based out of St. Louis, MO. She has been assigned to a $49.5 million hospital project in Cranberry, PA that is due to break ground the 24th of June. Right now she is working on an interim project, helping to close out a hospital addition in Westerly, RI.

Cianbro employee, Paul Francheschi (1994), was interviewed by reporter Jim Cyr of WPXT TV doing an article on the Portland power plant breeching project at Ricker's Wharf. Other alumni working at Cianbro include Cecil "Buddy" Kershner (2001), Tharyn Smith (1991) and Debbie Wilson (formerly Murgita) (1995). Tharyn, Buddy, and Deb are project managers. You can check out Cianbro at http://www.cianbro.com/.

Virgil Gray (1995) has accepted a Managing Engineer position with Pare Engineering, Inc. You can check out Pare Engineering at www.parecorp.com

Virgil Gray (1995) will be finishing a master of science of Civil Engineering this Spring semester through Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He earned his P.E. in 1997. He worked on the Big Dig in Boston from 1997 through 2000 for the Bechtel Group. After working for the Bechtel Group, he has been with Washington Group International as a Project Manager for design and construction of infrastructure projects in the northeast and central US. He has had the opportunity to work on various tunnel, structure, highway, bridge, airport, light and heavy rail, and resort projects since graduating from the University of Maine. He is marred to Anne. She is a teacher of computer technology at the Pollard Middle School in Needham, MA. Anne has a Masters of Education through Lesley College. They recently bought their first house in North Grafton, MA.

David Triggiani (1999) works for Neill and Gunter, Inc., an Engineering Consulting firm. His job position is Project Technician/Project Manager. He reports that he really enjoys his work and the company he works for. David also delves into real estate in the form of an apartment building.

Tom Perkins (1996) is currently a superintendent for Clark Construction. He is involved with building the new Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. This 2 million square foot structure is comprised of 100,000 cubic yards of concrete and just over 25,000 tons of steel. Previously, Tom worked for Atkinson Construction (now a subsidiary of Clark) at BIW's new Land Level Transfer Facility in Bath. Tom passed the EIT/FE in 1996 and plans to sit for the PE in the Fall 2002. He and his wife are expecting their first child in May.

Cooper Holmes (1999) is getting married. Cooper is working for Lane Construction.

Ron Milley (2000) stopped in to visit the CMT program and reported that he enjoys working for Granger Construction. Currently working for Granger are Mark Drury (2000), Dustin Littlefield (2001), Matt Gagnon (2000), and Eric Hodgkins (2001).

Mark Shibles (2000), presently working for the Maine Department of Transportation, has passed the fundamentals portion of the engineer's exam (EIT).

Adam Meyers (2002) has successfully passed the Certified Professional Constructors exam (Level 1).

Keith Anderson (1996), project supervisor for Kiewit, was awarded the Distinguished Crowe Society Award at ceremonies held at the University of Maine.

The following seniors have passed the Associate Constructors Exam (level 1): Bill Bannister, Jacob Bowler, Brad Edwards, Matt Love, Curtis Marston, John Merrill, Andrew Mosley (CMT Minor), Jonathan B. Nadeau, Ryan Peters, John Sieber, and David Starr (CMT Minor).

The University of Maine Design Build Team took 2nd place at the ASC regional competition. More Information (PDF).

The following students achieved a milestone in their professional careers by passing the fundamentals of engineering exam:

Glenn Adams (2004), Kirk Ball (2003), Byron Beauregard (2005), Jake Bryant (2005), Neils Knudsen (2005), Robert Lightbody (2005), Dan Loring (2005), Seth McGee (2005), Jessica Mitchell (2005), Ryan Peters (2005), and Jeremy Whitehouse (2005).

Congratulations to the following Construction Management Technology students for achieving the Fall 2004 Dean’s List:

Jeffrey Bailey, William Bannister III, Byron Beauregard, Kristofer Demasi (2005), Bradley Edwards, Ryan Levesque, Matthew Love, Curtis Marston, Seth McGee (2005), Russell McLean, Kabe Micklon, Jerard Murray, Jeffrey Newcombe (2005), Travis Ridky (2005), Jonathan Rose, Jason Sanborn, Eric Saucier, Gregory Schaub (2005), Brayden Sheive, Matthew Thibault, and Jeremy Whitehouse (2005)

Travis Ridky, P. Brady McGowan, Byron Beauregard, Seth McGee, Robert Lightbody, Gerard Bard, and Anthony Cincotta took part in the ASC regional heavy highway construction competition and won SECOND place! Will Manion and Phil Dunn were coaches for the team.

Brian Emmons, Aaron Lewis, Travis Ridky, and P. Brady McGowan received ACM scholarships at the September ACM meeting.

Congratulations to the following Construction Management Technology students for achieving the College of Engineering Dean’s List during the Spring Semester 2004:

Shane Amoroso (2004), Michael Archer (2004), Byron Beauregard, Jacob Bowler, Ryan Carrigan, Jason Jendrasko, Christopher Kiernan, Kurt Knudsen, Ryan Levesque, Matthew Love, Seth McGee, Jessica Mitchell, Jeffrey Newcombe, Travis Ridky, Jonathan Rose, Jason Sanborn, Eric Saucier, Robert Schultz, Andrew Seymour, Andrew Soucia, Matthew Thibault, Isaac Thompson (2004), and Jeremy Whitehouse.

Glenn Adams (2004), Byron Beauregard (2005) Robert Lightbody (2005) and Jeremy Whitehouse (2005) passed the Spring 2004 fundamentals of engineering exam!

Michael Archer (2004), Patrick Hopkins (2005), Matthew Love (2006), Jason Sanborn (2006), Jeremy Whitehouse (2005), and Adams Williams (2005) have all earned the President’s 3.5 award for academic excellence in ceremonies held on 16 April 2004.

See http://www.records.ume.maine.edu/prespin.htm for requirements

Congratulations to Jessica "Jess" Mitchell (2005) for being awarded the AGC Ival R. Cianchette Undergraduate Scholarship.

Congratulations to the following students for making the Fall 2003 Dean's list:

Michael Archer (2004), Kathryn Hurley, Andrew Kittredge (2004), Kara Lawson, Neils Knudsen, Matthew Love, Seth McGee, Jessica Mitchell, Jerard Murray, Travis Ridky (2004), Jonathan Rose, Jason Sanborn, and Jeremy Whitehouse

Prof. Mac Gray has received the Dean's Award for Excellence on 5 December 2003. Mac has been with the CMT program since its inception. Congratulations Mac!

Congratulations to Shane P. Amoroso for receiving the Construction Institute (ASCE) scholarship.

Congratulations to the CMT students that earned the honor of being recognized in the Spring 2003 Dean’s list:

Shane P. Amoroso, Michael G. Archer, Jason C. Babbidge, Kirk J. Ball (senior), William F. Bannister III, Thomas D. Carey (senior), Brian R. Emmons, Mark W. Grimes, Patrick S. Hopkins, Andrew E. Kittredge, Neils E. Knudsen, John S. Linscott IV (senior), Matthew E. Love, Jessica A. Mitchell, Kimberly S. Ouellette, Travis A Ridky, Adam D. Roy (senior), Gregory A. Schaub, Joseph P. Valley (senior), Travis J. Whitehead (senior), Adam J. Williams.

posted 19 Sep. 2003

Congratulations to Gaeton Bergeron (Cianbro Corporation Scholarship), Kimberly Ouellette (Herbert E. Sargent Scholarship), and Shane Amoroso (CPM Constructors/Eldon Morrison Scholarship) for receiving Associated Constructors of Maine Scholarships.

Scholarship recipients

posted 12 Sep. 2003

Michael Archer (2004) was awarded the Donald P. Corbett Scholarship.

posted 12 Sep. 2003

Shane P. Amoroso (2004) was awarded the Nelson Scholarship on 25 April 2003.

posted 21April 2003

Jessica A. Mitchell (2004), was awarded the CFMA Scholarship at its 18 March 2003 meeting.

CFMA Scholarship Recipient

posted 21 April 2003

Jessica A. Mitchell (2004), Joseph P. Valley (2003), Shane P. Amoroso (2004), Adam Lawson (2003) and Travis A. Ridky (2004) have all earned the President’s 3.5 award for academic excellence.

See http://www.records.ume.maine.edu/prespin.htm for requirements

posted 15 April 2003

Congratulations to Michael Archer, Jason Babbidge, Kirk Ball, William Bannister III, Gerard Bard, Jacob Bowler, Thomas Carey, Matthew Hebert, Patrick Hopkins, Jeffrey Kramer, Adam Lawson, Ian McCarthy, Jessica Mitchell, Travis Ridky, Jonathan Rose, Joseph Valley, and Joseph Winzinger for making the Fall 2002 Dean’s list.

Matt Hebert with the Francis Crowe award (shown between his father and mother) has completed the program and is going to work for Cianbro. Congratulations Matt!

posted 20 December 2002

Congratulations to Shane Amoroso, Kirk Ball, Michael Connolly, Matthew Hebert, Kellie Kelliher, Adam Lawson, John Linscott IV, Adam Meyer, Jessica Mitchell, Travis Ridky, and Joseph Valley for making the Spring 2002 Dean’s list.

See http://www.records.ume.maine.edu/deanlist.htm for information on Dean's List

posted 12 September 2002

John Linscott (2003) passed the Fundamentals of Engineering exam (EIT) that he took in the Spring 2002.

posted 6 September 2002

2002 Crowe Awards

2002 Group picture of CMT student inductees into the Francis Crowe Society. From left to right: Ryan Labreque, Ben MacDonald, Adam Meyer, Chris Cudmore, Kellie Kelliher, (Prof. Ray Werkmeister), Ryan Maheau, Gene Sawyer. (Escaping from the picture were Michael Giles and Shawn McDougal)

posted 17 May 2002

Kirk Ball (2003) received the Hovey Award for academic excellence.

posted 25 April 2002

Robert Lightbody (2004) received the Stephen Nelson Scholarship.

posted 25 April 2002

Thomas Carey (2002), Christopher Cudmore (2002), Matthew Hebert (2002), John Linscott (2003), and Adam Meyer (2002) have all earned the President’s 3.5 award for academic excellence.

See http://www.records.ume.maine.edu/prespin.htm for requirements

posted 25 April 2002

Kathy Wilder (2004) was awarded the 2002 AGC schlarship!

posted 5 April 2002

The competition team won 3rd place in the National Competition! This was Ray's first time advising the team. The team and Ray are to be congratulated for their efforts, hard work, and placement. Ray plans to enter two categories next year.

posted 3 April 2002

Congratulations go to:

Ryan Labreque (2002)
Matt Hebert (2002)
Adam Meyer (2002)
Kellie Kelliher (2002)
Ryan Maheux (2002)
Shawn McDougall (2002)

For winning FIRST place in the Region 1, Associated Schools of Construction Competition in the Heavy Highway Class (the Northeastern States). Although their projects were more difficult than anticipated, their solid preparation, technical skills, and strong organizational approach to preparing their estimate, bid, schedule, means and methods prevailed over stiff competition from four other strong schools in the Heavy Highway competition class.

The next step is for the UMaine CMT Team to represent the University of Maine and Region 1 of ASC in the National Competition at the AGC National Competition next week. Faculty advisors were Ray Werkmeister and Chuck Gould.

posted 11 March 2002

John Phillips (2003) has received the Construction Financial Management Association Scholarship!

posted 7 March 2002

Congratulations to the following CMT students for making the Fall 2001 Dean's List:

Kirk Ball, Gaeten Bergeron, Randall Burgess, Thomas Carey, Matthew Hebert, Kellie Kelliher, Ryan Labrecque, Adam Lawson, John Linscott IV, Adam Meyer, Jessica Mitchell, Travis Ridky, Gregory Schaub, Adam Williams

See http://www.records.ume.maine.edu/deanlist.htm for information on Dean's List

posted 2 January 2002

Congratulations to the following CMT students for making the Spring 2001 Dean's List:

Michele Alley, Kirk Ball, Thomas Carey, Thomas Coyle III, Christopher Cudmore, Kellie Kelliher, Cecil Kershner III, Ryan Labrecque, Adam Lawson, Adam Meyer, Katherine Wilder

See http://www.records.ume.maine.edu/deanlist.htm for information on Dean's List

posted 15 June 2001

Ryan Labreque (2002) was inducted into the Senior Skulls. Kellie Kelliher (2002) was inducted into the All Maine Women. The Senior Skulls and the All Maine Women are honor societies recognizing both academic excellence and leadership.

posted 30 April 2001