As a professional Engineer for over 18 years, Ali has successfully managed the production of a variety of public and private projects in the western U.S.

Ali is committed to continual research and contributions to the LEED program in civil engineering applications. Ali reviews all specifications for environmentally friendly products, and his best management practices incorporate green alternatives. SEG considers natural solutions for erosion and dust control in design applications. Ali’s research includes economically feasible bio-solutions for treating storm water and grey water.  Ali founded SEG based on the principle “LEEDing and Developing Smart Projects.”

As Principal and Project Manager, Ali has successfully managed the production of many hydraulic/hydrology projects, public roadway projects, and land development projects in Arizona for both Maricopa County and State of Arizona Transportation Departments’ on-call engineering contracts.  Ali requires value engineering at the start of all projects to ensure successful realization of budget and timeline goals. He determines, monitors and reviews costs, operational budgets, schedules, and staffing requirements for project teams.

EDUCATION:

PHD in Sustainability, Transportation Engineering Program – Arizona State University

Master of Construction Engineering Management – Lawrence Technological University

Master of Civil Engineering, Water Resources – Lebanese University

Bachelor of Engineering – Lebanese University

LICENSURE:

AZ Professional Engineer #45621

CA Professional Engineer #74431

LEED AP

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Civil: CIVIL 3D, INROADS, MICROSTATION V8, AutoCAD 2D and 3D, Land Desk Development 2007, G.I.S. ArcView, AutoTurn,

Management: Microsoft Project, TIMBERLINE, PRIMAVERA, Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

Structural: ROBOT (Millennium 16.1, CBS), ARCH, CONCAD, WIN BEAM, STAAD, G.I.S

AFFILIATIONS:

Phoenix Business Journal 40 Under 40, 2017 Honoree

City of Scottsdale Planning Commission, Board Member

City of Scottsdale Development Review Board, Former Board Member

Arizona Association of Environmental Professionals, Former President

National Association of Environmental Professionals, Member

With over 30 years of experience in the engineering and construction industry, Steve personally ensures that Quality Assurance protocols are maintained on all SEG projects.  In his five years with SEG, Steve has worked on public, residential, industrial, automotive, and power generation projects.  During the document checking process, Steve performs Value Engineering reviews to ensure the most economical construction methods and materials are specified.  To maintain the highest quality and efficiency of design, Steve reviews all construction documents, specifications, reports, and correspondence prior to submittal to clients and reviewing agencies.

Steve’s personal philosophy and commitment to the highest quality standards has defined his role at SEG as a leader in acquiring, mentoring, and retaining talented staff to meet client needs and SEG goals.  He works in a committee environment with SEG staff to develop corporate standards and protocols throughout the project process.  Steve’s accessibility builds excellent client relationships through the design and construction processes.  He works closely with clients in project planning, permitting, budgeting, and scheduling.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Construction Engineering Technology

AS, Drafting Technology – Northern Montana College

Eric joins SEG with over 20 years’ experience in land development. Eric has successfully provided the oversight and management skills necessary to effectively complete short-term and long-term multi-phased projects, achieve business growth and revenue objectives, and enhance positive municipal and community relationships.

Eric is especially skilled in the coordination of land-planning, entitlement, and community/neighborhood outreach, but with a wide and versatile expertise in all facets of development, including engineering review, estimating, contract negotiation and horizontal and vertical construction-management.

He is self-motivated, and results oriented with strong analytical, organizational, communicative and managerial skills. Readily adaptable to the dynamic working environments and team challenges that real estate development can create.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Arts – University of Arizona

Dave has more than 30 years of airport experience in the state of Arizona. He has continuously been involved with the design of private and public-sector projects since the mid-1980s. He has provided engineering services to many of Scottsdale’s major planned communities including Greyhawk, Whisper Rock, The Boulders, Troon and Troon North, and Windgate Ranch. He is very familiar with design standards and review procedures and has worked with City staff and project stakeholders including homeowner’s associations to resolve issues relating to project development.

Dave has successfully served as project manager for on-call, multi-year engagements, and individual projects at general aviation airports throughout the state of Arizona. His involvement has included the design and construction administration of both air and landside projects as well as preparation of special studies and technical reports. Dave has been involved with the Arizona Department of Transportation’s Airport Pavement Preservation Program since its inception.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota

Master of Science, Civil Engineering
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

CERTIFICATIONS:

AZ Professional Engineer #10277

AFFLIATIONS:

American Society of Civil Engineers, Member
Arizona Airports Association, Member

Brad has 25 years of Arizona experience in land development of retail centers, residential/multi-use, restaurants, commercial buildings, and surveying.   He oversaw all aspects of the project, including collaboration with clients, municipalities, architects, surveyors, soil engineers, title companies and neighborhoods.  Brad managed contracts and invoicing, as well as onsite inspections.  He coordinated with engineers, designers, and surveyors, as well as ensuring quality control of 4 design teams.  Noteworthy Projects; Scottsdale Pavillions Shopping Plaza, Arrowhead Target, Paradise Valley Mall expansion, Cracker Barrel Restaurant, McDonalds, Uhaul, and two US Post Offices. Brad is proficient with AutoCAD and has extensive knowledge of engineering design and municipality design standards.

• Civil Engineering – Glendale Community College
• Civil Engineering – Arizona State University

Doug is a registered civil engineer bringing 25 years of municipal and 14 years of private sector experience to SEG.  His strengths include oversight of development processes from conceptual planning to construction, open communication, and alternative design considerations.

As a civil engineer with the City of Scottsdale’s Capital Project Management group, he implemented a construction document review process providing quality assurance and compliance with the applicable design codes and obtained considerable experience with the design and construction of streets, trailheads, parks, libraries, fire stations, reservoirs, reclamation plants, pump stations, water transmission lines, lift stations, wastewater trunk lines, storm drains, culverts and bridges.  Doug is proficient at coordinating plans sets across the civil, architectural, structural, mechanical, plumbing, electrical, landscaping, irrigation, and dry utility disciplines.

As a principal engineer in the City’s Water Resources Department, he proactively assisted and directed developers, property owners, and engineers on the requirements and potential solutions to keep projects moving forward.  He likes open communication and freely utilized resources in the City’s planning, financial services, legal, transportation, storm water, fire, plan review, water wastewater operations, water conservation, and field inspection services divisions.

Doug’s project experience in Colorado and Arizona includes master planned communities, resorts, residential properties, commercial centers, state land planning, roadways, military bases, and industrial sites.  Doug is proficient at developing agreements and preparing easements, plats, and specifications and reviewing construction product data, schedules, and geotechnical reports.

Nara comes to SEG with over 7 years of experience in construction management and engineering. As a field engineer, he provided engineering and survey for various scopes of work to include: grading, excavation, concrete, and asphalt paving. He managed construction documents such as submittals, RFIs, shop drawings, and work plans. As a project engineer on the Sellwood Bridge Project in Portland, OR, Nara has extensive experience coordinating subcontractors across multiple scopes with sequencing and schedules. He also has experience with contract administration, change order processing, performing and reviewing takeoffs, and estimating.  He maintained a live set of project plans and specifications using Bluebeam Studio to collaborate with owners, project staff and subcontractors. Nara is proficient with AutoCAD Civil 3D and has used it to design temporary structures, provide survey, and perform site layouts.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Science – Civil Engineering, Washington State University

CERTIFICATIONS:

Engineer in Training (EIT)

Arizona Professional Engineering License #67901

Gary has more than 25 years diverse professional project management, design, construction administration and plan review experience in master planned communities and infrastructure projects in Arizona. He has excellent communication and organizational skills. Gary has a long professional history with most of the local agencies, associated reports, concept plans, detailing, and quality control of civil plans.  Gary works with SEG Design Engineers to ensure plans reflect constructability in the project design plans and reports.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Science – Civil Engineering, Arizona State University

CERTIFICATIONS:

AZ Professional Civil Engineer #13135

AZ Registered Land Surveyor #17535

OSHA 10 Training

ASSOCIATIONS:

American Society of Civil Engineers

Arizona Professional Land Surveyors

Home Builder Association

Westmarc

Phoenix Chamber of Commerce

Valley Partnership

Bob is a well versed registered architect professional with over 20 years of diversified experience. As Lead Architect at SEG, he has completed numerous retail, restaurant and fuel center site plans and structures.

Prior to starting at SEG, Bob performed all phases of design and construction processes for public and private work in Arizona, Nevada, Utah, California, and Haiti. Bob has extensive architectural project management experience in various construction markets including healthcare, commercial, residential, public municipalities, justice, and higher education.

In 2011, Bob was awarded ENR’s “Best of the Best” project for his Solar Thermal Hot Water Heating System for Maricopa County Facilities Management – Lower Buckeye / 4th A:venue Jails, in Phoenix, AZ.

Outside of his architectural role, Bob is a key contributor to SEG’s branding, marketing, and website design.

EDUCATION:

Master of Architecture – University of Utah

Bachelor of Environmental Design – Arizona State University

Chuck has 25 years of Architectural experience in Kansas and Arizona.  He is experienced with multi-family housing, senior living, education and residential sectors as a Architectural Project Manager.  Chuck peformed construction administration duties, as well as reviewing and ensuring all plans adhered to code standards.  In the solar and roofing industry, Chuck managed inhouse design teams and collaboration with clients and consultants. Notable projects; Corbin Theater, Famous Footwear, Old Navy, 3 public schools, Hiland Exchange Lofts, Assisted Lifestyles of Blackhawk, and urban planning in Sedona, AZ. Chuck is proficient in AutoCAD, Sketchup, Salesforce, Adobe Acrobat, and PV Watts.

EDUCATION:

Master of Architecture – University of Kansas

As a recent Graduate student in Design for Sustainability, Apeksha brings excellent work experience from several Architectural firms.  She delivered projects by conceptualized designs, client presentation and detailing, and managed projects to ensure time execution and project cost components. She is skilled with both detailed and conceptual drawings. and proficient with AutoCAD, Archicad, Sketchup, Artlantis, Revit, ArcGis, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Microsoft Office.  Her deep understanding and experience with Sustainable Design concepts allowed her to assist in the review of the City of Savannah’s Renewable Energy Initiative.  She understands the principles of Green Building Design, and is able to implement those.  She has provided a cost analysis for community solar programs, and also educated firms in her homeland of India about LBC certification and procurement of materials to achieve that.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Architecture – Institute of Architecture, India

Master of Arts, Design for Sustainability – Savannah College of Art & Design

VOLUNTEER:

Volunteer Advocate at the UN and researcher.

Kenya is a recent graduate student from NAU. As an undergraduate student, Kenya interned with a prominent engineering firm where she gained valuable experience working in a variety of design and construction projects. She worked with the NAU College of Engineering, Forestry, and Natural Sciences providing instructional assistance with engineering software.

Kenya is proficient in AutoCAD Civil 3D, HydroCAD, HEC-RAS, EPANET, Websoil Survey, MAG standards and details, NTUA specifications and details, ADEQ, and IHS design standards.

• Bachelor of Science – Civil Engineering, Northern Arizona University
• Bachelor or Arts – Modern Languages: Spanish, Northern Arizona University

Starting with SEG as a Junior Engineer, Dirk has worked on both residential and commercial projects. As an undergraduate student, Dirk interned with 3 prominent engineering firms where he gained valuable experience working in a variety civil and structural engineering projects using AutoCAD Civil 3D.  He prepared plan sets for projects  including roadway, water, wastewater and channel design.  Dirk assisted in structural design and drafting plans for roadway, bridge, and other structural projects.  During his graduate years, Dirk worked as an adjunct instructor teaching student Computer Aided Drafting (2D, 3D and customization).  He is proficient in AutoCAD Civil 3D, Infraworks, Micro-Station and Solidworks. He is also an expert in AutoLISP programming and AutoCAD customization.  He has working knowledge of Multi-layer Elastic Theory and analysis, MATLAB and MDSolids.  Along with his certification in Additive Manufacturing, he has a working knowledge of 3D printing and scanning.  This includes associated software of Insight, Catalyst, Control Center, DesignX, Control, Verify, Magics 3D, Meshmixer, Repetier-Host, Makerware, and Replicator-G.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Science , Civil Engineering – Arizona State University

Master of Science in Civil Engineering, Transportation Materials Engineering – Arizona State University, School of Sustainability and the Built Environment

CERTIFICATIONS:

Mitutoyo Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) Training

Additive Manufacturing, Society of Mechanical Engineering, America Makes – Milwaukee School of Engineering

Verify Software, Phoenix Analysis and Design Technology

Erneset has over 15 years experience as a Civil Engineering Designer with residential, commercial, and infrastructure projects.  He specializes in grading and drainage, roadway, water and wasterwater, and accurate design concepts.  He has worked for several prominant engineering firms on residential land development projects with engineering sketches, survey data, D.T.M. and D.E.M. data, and topography base maps.  Ernest handles all aspects of design from lotting layout concept to final engineering design approvals.  Ernest is proficent in AutoCAD Civil3D.

EDUCATION:

Engineering – Phoenix College

Engineering – Glendale Community College

In his role as Junior Engineer, Maher assists senior team members in the design of fast food restaurants, assisted living, major retail and residential projects.  As a Graduate student at ASU, Maher was a Research Assistant developing a web-based tool to assist decision makers in choosing a project delivery method for a water/wastewater treatment plant projects. As an undergraduate student, Maher interned with prominent construction firms in Lebanon where he gained valuable experience in construction and structural engineering.  Maher is proficient in AutoCAD, Sap 2000, Revit, Navisworks, Sketchup, R Studio, Success Estimator, Primavera, Bluebeam, C++, MATLAB, MS Word, Excel, Power Point, and Adobe Acrobat Pro.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering – American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Master of Science, Construction Management – Arizona State University, Tempe

AFFLIATIONS:

American Society of Civil Engineers, Member

American Society of Civil Engineers, Camp Volunteer

Habitat for Humanity – ASU Chapter, Member

As a recent graduate, Janak gained experience with a prominant engineering firm of one of the leading highway developers. He supervised the layering of the 1st micro-surfacing project in that geographical area.  He ensured quality assurance during construction, monitored project progress and adherence to design specifications. He was published in the International Journal of Road Materials and Pavement Design and a speaker in the RAR2018 Conference in South Africa. Janak is proficient in AutoCAD/Civil3D, MicroStation/InRoads, Pavement ME, FAARFIELD, STAAD Pro, GAMS, VISSIM, DTALite/Nexta, and JMP Pro.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Engineering – Civil Engineering, G.H. Raisoni College of Engineering

Master of Science – Civil, Environmental & Sustainable Engineering, Arizona State University

Sarah has a diverse professional background that blends sales, recruiting, marketing, business management, public speaking, and employee training and development. She has over 5 years experience with operations and office management, collaborating with engineers, manufacturing, and sales teams to meet project deadlines.  Working for an engineering firm, she developed project management skills and applicable technical knowledge. Sarah oversaw accounts payable, receivables, product service and returns, and client communication.  She is proficient in Microsoft Office, graphic design concepts, CRM software, various accounting software, and social media marketing platforms.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Business Administration, Marketing – Pacific Lutheran University

As a Senior Portfolio Manager and Chief Financial Officer, Julie brings financial expertise to SEG.  She has a solid understanding of financial planning and investment concepts.  She has a long history of maintaining company budgets, creating financial reports, and overseeing accounts payables and receivables.  Julie is active in her community and church, as well as providing seminars for youth programs and adult groups on personal finances, budgeting and savings.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor’s of Finance – Brigham Young University, Marriott School of Management

Lauren has a strong culinary background in restaurant management.  She has worked for a diverse set of restaurants, and is a gifted chef and caterer.  Her skills sets outside of the kitchen include strong organization, hard working, independent, excellent time management, and the ability to multi-task.  During her time working in a office setting, she gained proficiency in all Microsoft Office Programs, scheduling, and office management tasks.  She has furthered her professional skills at SEG gaining knowledge of the administrative components of land development projects.

EDUCATION:

Diploma in Culinary Arts, Baking & Restaurant Management – Arizona Culinary Institute

Associate of Arts – Mesa Community College

Sofia is a current student obtaining her Bachelor of Architecture.  She has a worked in hospitality and childcare part-time while finshing her degree.  She is friendly, outgoing, and has excellent communication skills.  As the Administrative Assistant at SEG, she is organized and hard working.  She handles a diverse set of administrative tasks and is the welcoming face for our Clients.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Architecture – Scottsdale Community College 2021