Ahead of the Curve

Featured Designer(s) - January 2010

by Dallas Harris

At the end of 2009 we began running the Featured Designer piece. While there’s been a lot of very positive feedback from readers about the content and the people we’ve chosen, we are still looking to shine a spotlight on a standout designers in the Transportation segment of the Civil Engineering industry. So, if you think you have the right stuff (or know someone who does) to be the Featured Designer, drop me a quick email introducing yourself and you might just be our next Featured Designer.

To start 2010 off, we are looking inside Transoft Solutions at two in-house designers, Steven Chan, EIT and Billy Chan EIT (no relation). These guys are doing some great work and under Senior Engineer, Daniel Shihundu, P.Eng., MIHT. Their abilities and their work has helped create some of the recent innovations here at Transoft Solutions.

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Featured Designer

December 2009 - Jim Poorbaugh

December’s Featured Designer is TORUS user Jim Poorbaugh, P.E. M.S.C.E., Project Manager for Bohannan Huston in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Although now a project manager, Poorbaugh’s passion is still for design - something that has been with him since his college days when he was drafting - by hand! We are excited to shine a spotlight on someone with a true enthusiasm for what he does.

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Featured Designer

November’s Featured Designer is Blake Gallagher, Junior Designer at HOK Seattle. With the launch of AeroTURN 3.0 and AeroTURN Pro 3.0 we are excited to spotlight an AeroTURN Pro user and an enthusiastic designer who did his training at Cal Poly and post grad at the University of Washington. We chatted with Blake to get to know him better.

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Featured Designer

At Transoft Solutions, we’re very interested in the people who use our software and the projects they work on. We have been fortunate to work with some really great designers over the years. Top designers and scholars have written (and continue to write) some fantastic case studies and white papers focusing on design obstacles that come with challenging projects and the power of our software. However, we wanted to take a closer look at the people who develop the ideas and designs and shine a spotlight on them in a new regular feature aptly named, Featured Designer.  

For the first edition of Featured Designer, we are honored to shine a spotlight on Todd Lanphear, CADD Manager for Traffic Planning and Design Inc. (TPD) in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. TPD was recently chosen by CE News magazine as the number 1 Civil Engineering Firm to work for in the US in 2009. We chatted with Todd to get to know him a little better.

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