Regional expansion continues to lead to new expertise for the professional team at Wightman & Associates, Inc. of Benton Harbor where they have recently added five new players to their team of service providers.
Bennie Boyd of Stevensville joined WAI as a survey crew member at the company’s Benton Harbor headquarters. He is a graduate of Lakeshore High School and holds an Associates Degree from Southwestern Michigan College.
Griffin Dekker of Holland (not shown in the accompanying photo) has been hired as a part-time and summer survey crew member based in the WAI Allegan office. He is working on his Bachelor of Science degree in Survey Engineering at Ferris State University. He has been a survey crew intern the past two summers with other firms in the Holland/Grand Rapids area.
Laura Fredrickson of Kalamazoo joins WAI’s team as a landscape architect based out of both the company’s Benton Harbor and Portage offices. With 9 years of landscape design and architecture experience in the Midwest, she possesses a thorough knowledge of plant species for urban settings, conceptual design, and project management. Fredrickson holds a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree from Iowa State University.
Melanie Stanage of Fishers, Indiana, has been hired as a civil engineer to serve clients out of the WAI Benton Harbor office. Her background is in transportation engineering including roadway design and modeling, hydraulic design and analysis, and roundabout design. Stange is a graduate of the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering.
David Ulrey of Charlotte, Michigan, joins the survey team in the WAI Benton Harbor office as a survey drafter. He has more than 20 years of survey experience with organizations including the State of Michigan, the US Forest Service, and US Army Corp of Engineers. Ulrey earned a bachelor’s degree in Surveying from Michigan Technical University. He is a licensed professional Surveyor in Michigan, Indiana and Illinois.
To learn more or to contact one of these talented professionals, you can call Wightman & Associates, Inc. at 269-927-0100 or click the online link to their website: http://www.wightman-assoc.com.
Wightman & Associates, Inc. is a civil engineering, architectural, and survey firm that has been serving Southwest Michigan and Northern Indiana since 1946 with offices in Benton Harbor, Portage, and Allegan.
