This year’s class of Top Young Professionals includes architects, engineers, project managers and executives at national and regional firms across Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. With educational backgrounds ranging form bachelor’s degrees to doctorates, these young leaders all exhibit their commitment to serving the AEC sector and local communities through their work in the field and beyond.

The competition was keen, with an impressive quality of nominees submitted to ENR Southwest from across the AEC community. Companies could nominate multiple people and individuals could also nominate themselves.

为了符合条件，提名人必须在西南地区的商业建筑行业的某些方面全职工作，包括亚利桑那州，内华达州和新墨西哥州，截至2021年1月1日，参赛者必须年满40岁。

Among the key selection criteria are an individual’s professional achievements, such as acquiring or progressing toward industry certifications, success in creating more efficient systems, designing new processes or managing landmark projects, seeking innovative approaches to their work, both within and away from the office, as well as a steadfast dedication to giving back through volunteer work across the industry and within their own communities.

This year’s judges included Dana Aragon, workforce development director, AGC of New Mexico, and Erica Lange, vice president, Arizona Builders Alliance. Also joining this year’s judging panel were four of ENR Southwest’s 2020 Top Young Professionals: Ozzy Bravo, senior associate, Terracon Consultants Inc.; Ali Fakih, principal at Sustainability Engineering Group; Lindsey Schultz, office leader/structural engineer, Meyer Borgman Johnson; and Milos Vasiljevic, program manager, HDR.

The following pages contain profiles of the winners, highlighting their goals, successes and the impacts they have had on their companies and communities. Congratulations to this year’s winners.

相关链接 ENR Southwest’s 2020 Top Young Professionals

Amber Alfson
31, Substation Section Manager
Burns & McDonnell
Phoenix

Alfson’s career success stems from her efforts helping to supply millions of people with safe, reliable power.

A 2011 graduate of the University of Arizona, Alfson has spent nearly a decade implementing hundreds of critical substation projects throughout the Southwest. As a section manager at Burns & McDonnell, she manages electric transmission and distribution projects for some of the firm’s largest utility clients, contributing to more than 250 projects nationwide.

Alfson joined the firm in 2013 after getting her start in the industry at a large local utility. Today, she leads a team of 11 substation engineers, supporting more than 100 projects across the region. The team has grown from three to 14 under her watch, with a 366% increase in technical capabilities.

She is recognized for promoting careers in STEM and partnering with local universities to encourage undecided students to explore career opportunities in STEM-related fields.

Chris Anvik
37, Senior Vice President
McCarthy Building Cos.
Phoenix

Anvik joined McCarthy as a project engineer in 2006. After working in a number of the firm’s U.S. markets, he now leads the Phoenix-based water services team.

安维克（Anvik）在估计的早期工作有助于他晋级麦卡锡（McCarthy）的队伍。在去年被任命为高级副总裁之前，他曾担任高级估算员，施工前经理和董事。

自2008年以来，安维克（Anvik）参与了麦卡锡（McCarthy）的水和废水市场，通过通过协作交付方式提供了价值超过20亿美元的工作，从而巩固了他的声誉。安维克（Anvik）的团队获得了1000多种价值工程的想法，从而为客户节省了2.63亿美元的成本。

Anvik serves as chairman for the Water Design-Build Council’s Advisory Board, a nonprofit established to advance design-build and construction management at-risk delivery methods on municipal water and wastewater projects. He also gives back to the community by supporting local community school improvement projects and serving on internal committees such as McCarthy Heart Hats.

Alex Charland
35, Project Director
Sundt Construction
Tempe, Ariz.

After starting his career at Sundt nearly 16 years ago, Charland now serves as operations director for its industrial group. He advanced through Sundt’s ranks while working on a variety of infrastructure, mining and industrial manufacturing process facilities.

在担任运营总监的角色中，他利用这种经验来改善流程，同时为每个项目团队提供监督。Charland还通过确定高潜力的候选人，帮助将新员工带入船上并促进SUNDT员工的专业增长环境，与SUNDT的人才获取团队合作。这个角色使他看到了将学生与建筑业联系起来的好处。

Charland is heavily involved in Sundt’s college recruiting, serving for more than 10 years on the Construction Program Industry Advisory Board for his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Stout. His goal is to improve the links of real-world construction with the university’s program, improving the talent pipeline and helping to prepare students as they transition into the profession.

Ryan Cogley
36，副总裁
Project Executive
McCarthy Building Cos.
Henderson, Nev.

Cogley joined McCarthy directly from Montana State University, coming aboard as a project engineer before advancing through the project management ranks to become a project director.

He now serves as vice president and project executive for McCarthy Building Group in its Henderson, Nev., office. Cogley has worked on 18 projects valued at nearly $1 billion. He finds health care work to be the most rewarding. He says he is particularly proud of his work on the operating room expansion and post-anesthesia care unit remodel at Spring Valley Hospital in Las Vegas, which was delivered as an integrated lean project.

他的团队最近在拉斯维加斯市中心完成了512间客房的大约度假胜地和赌场，科格利负责监督900多名贸易专业人士和50名麦卡锡管理人员。

He has served as chair for the UNLV Construction Management and Civil Engineering advisory board for the past three years. Cogley is also actively involved with the Nevada Contractors Association’s Construction Training Education Committee, which he started integrating with the Clark County School District in Las Vegas, allowing construction leaders to connect with teachers, parents, counselors and students to provide a better understanding of available construction career paths.

Matthew Cramer
39, President
GEOMAT Inc.
Farmington, N.M.

Cramer holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s in civil engineering from New Mexico State University. He joined GEOMAT as a project engineer and manager, advancing to vice president before becoming president of the Farmington, N.M.-based firm in 2018.

Under Cramer’s guidance, GEOMAT opened a second office in Rio Rancho this past summer, expanding the company’s services to a larger region and client base. The firm achieved 20% revenue growth over the previous year.

克莱默（Cramer）在职业生涯中曾从事500多个项目，包括学校，赌场新利18备用网址，医疗保健设施，道路，办公楼和工业设施。他曾担任新墨西哥州结构工程师协会副主席，并担任新墨西哥州专业工程师协会圣胡安分会主席。克莱默还在他的社区中执教青年，并在2019年被评为美国青年西部地区年度男孩教练。

Colleen Cunningham
36, Interior Design Director
Gensler
Phoenix

Cunningham was drawn to a career in interior design from her early interest in how humans experience their environment. This, along with her artistic abilities and technical skills, merged into a career that led her to Gensler’s Phoenix office in 2020 as its interior design director.

坎宁安（Cunningham）为公司带来了各种各样的经验，包括高等教育，企业工作场所，酒店，综合用途，政府和历史保护项目的设计。新利18备用网址坎宁安（Cunningham）作为她行业参与的一部分寻求指导机会，包括在2018年担任亚利桑那州立大学的兼职教授，在那里她继续通过参与工作室批评和学生作品集评论来支持设计计划。

She also is an active member of the International Interior Design Association’s Southwest Chapter, having served for two years on the Southwest region’s board as director of professional development. Cunningham achieved her National Council for Interior Design Qualification certification in 2019.

凯瑟琳·德克（Kathryn Decker）
35, Design Manager
Gensler
Phoenix

Decker’s transition to an interior design career came about after becoming a parent and operating a licensed family home childcare center.

尽管她的业务成功了，但她很快发现自己的角色对儿童的学习环境的影响有限，因此她回到学校完成了原始的专业室内设计。当一名学生赢得了11个奖项时，包括最佳投资组合和学术卓越的奖项，以及美国室内设计师协会的3个奖项。她还是学校历史上第一位在三年内获得ASID奖的学生。

Decker graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in interior design from the Art Institute of Atlanta in 2017. She joined Gensler not long after and was quickly promoted to design manager, where she oversees several concurrent projects and serves as Gensler’s early childhood education expertise team leader. Decker helps incubate design strategy within the firm’s Phoenix office and is heavily involved with the Association for Learning Environments, which is a cross-discipline nonprofit dedicated to improving the quality of educational environments.

Kate Dimock
38, Principal/Interior Designer
Dekker/Perich/Sabatini
Albuquerque

迪莫克是德克负责人/ Perich /萨巴蒂,where she leads the firm’s interior design studio and manages a team of 17 interior designers located across Arizona, New Mexico and West Texas.

Dimock is a “doer-seller” who oversees and mentors her team, leads business development for the interior design practice while also managing the firm’s interior projects.

Dimock earned a master’s degree in organizational learning and instructional technology from the University of New Mexico and uses that knowledge to improve projects and services the firm provides to its corporate workplace clients.

Dimock is a former TEDxABQ speaker and continues to share her knowledge about the impact of good design through published case studies and by hosting webinars on the future of working in a post-COVID world. She is a founding member of DPS’s Continuum Program, which provides employees with mentorship, continuing education and professional development.

A passion for networking, economic development and community engagement also drew Dimock to Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW), where she is an active member and has been part of both the finance and sponsorship committees. In addition, she engages as a mentor at her firm and in the community with the CREW Mentorship Program.

胡安·多拉多
32, Associate/Architect
Dekker/Perich/Sabatini
Albuquerque

Growing up on a farm in a small town in New Mexico continues to influence Dorado’s work as an architect at Dekker/Perich/Sabatini in Albuquerque. He uses his background and insights into rural and remote areas to create significant projects that perfectly fit small communities. Upon starting his career at a small firm in Carlsbad, N.M., Dorado discovered a passion for small projects at schools and businesses, increasing his involvement in the community. He has served in leadership positions on the Carlsbad Main Street board of directors, Carlsbad Rotary International and Carlsbad Medical Center board of trustees.

When the firm closed, Dorado moved to Albuquerque, joining Dekker/Perich/Sabatini. He became a licensed architect in 2019 and was named an associate later that year. Today, he is a project manager on the $58-million, fast-track design-build project for the Bureau of Indian Affairs that includes a new K-8 school, a student dorm, teacher housing and a fire station in the small community of Lukachukai, Ariz. Dorado enjoys mentoring interns, training other staff in software like Bluebeam and coaching colleagues in marketing efforts.

Alicia Duffy
31, Project Manager
M.A. Mortenson Co.
Chandler, Ariz.

After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in sustainability from Arizona State University, Duffy found the perfect career fit as a project manager in M.A. Mortenson Co.’s Phoenix office. She applies green principles to the firm’s projects, helping ensure sustainability measures are carried through from design to construction.

Duffy also aims to incorporate sustainability measures in the company’s overall operations. Her submission of a water-bottle-free site was one of five ideas selected to advance in an internal competition on innovation, with more than 60 entries submitted. The idea included installation of water dispensers sourced from the municipal water supply on site, eliminating extra waste from single-use water bottles. Duffy has been instrumental in redefining Mortenson’s safety standards by pioneering the development and implementation of a 5S program that aims to reduce waste, improve safety and optimize productivity by employing visual cues, maintaining an orderly workplace and improving operational efficiency.

Boe Evanson
39，高级项目经理
The Weitz Co.
Phoenix

Soon after graduating from Brigham Young University in 2007, Evanson joined Weitz Construction as a project engineer. Today, he is a senior project manager handling some of Weitz’s largest projects across the region, including a $75-million phase of a senior-living community at Sagewood Life Care Services.

Managing more than $200 million of construction work on the Sagewood campus for the past seven years has provided him with an opportunity to play a key role in helping to support the care and well-being of 500 seniors in the operational facility. As a senior project manager, Evanson also mentors junior project managers and leads quarterly project engineers meetings. He connects to the community through his work with Habitat for Humanity, where he recently led the members of his church in building a home in Gilbert, Ariz. Evanson also devotes five hours a week to mentoring boys, aged 15-18, at his church.

Phil Glenn
38, Project Director
Kitchell Contractors
Phoenix

作为凤凰城基奇尔承包商项目主任，格伦负责管理综合大价值项目，包括该公司在Valleywise Health Medical Center的当前工作，这是Maricopa县的63.7,000平方英尺，十亿美元的社区教学医院。新利18备用网址因为这是一家由公共资助的医院，所以他必须将公共遵守流程纳入Kitchell自己的严格程序，同时与多个利益相关者进行沟通。格伦（Glenn）在快速节奏的医疗保健项目上壮成长，在工作医院校园工作时应对患者新利18备用网址安全，感染控制和急诊护理的挑战。他获得了DBIA认证，将行业的设计建设最佳实践带入了Kitchell的流程和程序，并倡导了一种“大房间”项目方法，该方法将所有者的代表，承包商，设计团队和主要贸易伙伴带入一个办公室工作。

He is active in Boy Scouts, serving as troop leader for the past eight years; he also leads a young men’s youth group in his church.

Mark Ibarra
37, Regional Global Practice Manager
1898 & Co., a Division of Burns & McDonnell
Phoenix

伊巴拉领导一个团队的权力系统顾问for 1898 & Co., a business, technology and security solutions consultancy division of Burns & McDonnell.

His experience across the utility spectrum includes 14 years in the electric power industry, during which time he worked on projects ranging from power generation and renewables to energy delivery and demand side management.

Ibarra spent the first five years of his career as a mechanical engineer at Arizona Public Service Co. (APS), where he managed large capital projects for the APS natural gas and coal-fired fossil fleet.

He is passionate about renewable-energy technologies, bringing his experience with energy-rebate programs to the benefit of 1898 & Co.’s clientele. For his efforts, Ibarra was selected to participate in Burns & McDonnell’s Emerging Leaders Program. He also was recently appointed to Leadership West, a 501(c)3 leadership development program that brings Phoenix’s West Valley area business leaders together to help solve community challenges.

Brendan Miller
31, Project Manager
Hensel Phelps
Phoenix

自从大学毕业我北部owa in 2012 and joining Hensel Phelps, Miller has worked on $3.3 billion worth of projects. He holds DBIA and LEED AP BD+C accreditations, an OSHA 30-Hour certification and LEAN-CM and Construction Risk Insurance Specialist (CRIS) accreditation.

Miller’s experience in building specialized semiconductor manufacturing facilities led to a role as project manager on a $2.7-billion confidential project under construction in Chandler, Ariz., the client’s largest project to date with Hensel Phelps. His work on the project includes overseeing a team of 183 employees and more than 4,500 tradespeople on site at peak activity.

Miller considers the project to be one of the highlights of his career, but his project experience includes all types of delivery methods.

He is passionate about design-build and green building, holding both DBIA and LEED AP BD+C accreditations. Miller has been a member of the Arizona DBIA Chapter and is currently the acting Young Professionals Chapter Committee chair, which he volunteered to establish when he joined DBIA in 2019.

米勒（Miller）参与了其他几个组织，例如亚利桑那州建设者联盟（Arizona Builders Alliance），并且是ACE导师计划的成员。

Benjamin Mlinar
34, Division Manager
Rosendin
Tempe, Ariz.

Located in Rosendin’s Tempe, Ariz., regional office, Mlinar oversees 30 office employees and more than 500 field personnel. His interest in construction started in high school, when he spent every summer working for a small construction company in rural Nebraska. He built barns, irrigation systems and small concrete projects. He pursued a bachelor’s degree in construction management from the University of Nebraska while working in the field, gaining direct knowledge of masonry, carpentry and electrical trades. That led to an offer to work on the Maricopa County South Court Tower project for Rosendin in 2010.

Since then, Mlinar’s career has rapidly progressed, helped along by his efforts working full-time for Rosendin while completing the MBA program at Arizona State University. Mlinar is involved in several industry organizations, serving as a board member for the Arizona ACE Mentor Program, where he leads the scholarship committee. He is also a 2019 graduate of the Arizona Builder’s Alliance Leadership Development Forum.

Cesar Ochoa
30, Civil Engineer
花岗岩建筑公司
Phoenix

Ochoa began his construction career in Colombia, working on airfield projects. After moving to the U.S. in 2015, he pursued a master’s degree in civil engineering and construction management at Arizona State University and joined Granite Construction, where he worked on some of the largest transportation projects in the country, including the Tappan Zee bridge in New York.

在完成硕士学位优异之后，Ochoa转向支持Granite在西南部的工作。他被分配到南山高速公路，这是一项17亿美元，22英里的设计建设高速公路项目，也是亚利桑那州历史上最大的基础设施项目之一。新利18备用网址Granite的领导团队归功于Ochoa对自我执行的工作和分包商的管理层的管理，并帮助该公司提前几个月交付。Ochoa是公司中公认的导师，不断地分享最佳实践。他目前正在学习实现下一个目标：通新利18备用过专业工程师考试以获得PE许可证。

Mahroo Soroush
36, Virtual Design and Construction Manager
Hensel Phelps
Phoenix

索鲁什（Soroush）在伊朗出生和长大，从设拉子大学（Shiraz University）获得建筑工程学士学位，然后搬到图森（Tucson）与SBBL Architecture + Planning实习。

She transitioned from design to construction, joining the Phoenix office of Hensel Phelps in 2013. She advanced from virtual design construction engineer to VDC lead engineer, where she worked on one of the world’s largest semiconductor projects, valued at $2.7 billion. Soroush created and implemented the BIM execution plan and worked with the procurement team to help prequalify more than 100 trades on the contract.

除了领先30 VDC engineers, Soroush manages project execution, budget and schedule for Hensel Phelps’ Western district projects. She looks for ways to share the power of technology across the industry, participating in panels to educate Arizona State University students about the power of technology in real estate development.

Jimmy Tometich
39，高级项目经理
Layton Construction
Phoenix

Tometich earned bachelor’s degrees in both physics and mathematics while playing baseball and football for Wartburg College, where he graduated magna cum laude. He then transitioned to construction management in the master’s degree program at Iowa State University.

After working across a broad range of project types, Tometich joined Layton Construction in Phoenix in 2018, where he currently serves as a senior project manager. Tometich manages client relationships, develops new business and oversees projects. His experience during the past five years includes project management and oversight of more than 15 projects valued at more than $400 million. The firm credits his expertise as a key factor contributing to Layton’s recent growth in the region. He is a recognized mentor within the firm and gives back to the community by serving on the Executive Council 70 in Phoenix, a nonprofit that raises funds for metro area youth organizations. He also serves as a Big Brother as part of the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Arizona.

Ellie Volosin
34, Traffic Engineer
Aecom
Phoenix

Volosin combined a love of civil engineering and academics to create a career that uses research to deliver better design solutions for some of the biggest challenges facing transportation. With both a master’s degree and a bachelor’s in civil engineering from Arizona State University, Volosin continued her work in multimodal transportation microsimulation systems by pursuing a PhD there. An offer from AECOM to join its Phoenix office in 2013 pushed her thesis work to nights and weekends until she earned her doctorate in 2014. Since that time, Volosin has honed her skills with traffic microsimulation models. As deputy project manager, Volosin manages a team of trainee traffic engineers. Her goals include learning and growing as a traffic engineer while adding project and team management responsibilities to her workload.

Registered as a professional engineer in Arizona, she is dedicated to giving back to the profession through organizations such as Women in Transportation and internal AECOM team initiatives to share best practices companywide.

卡拉·亚尼（Karla Yanni）
34, Estimator
Mortenson
Chandler, Ariz.

Yanni的父亲在采矿业都度过了自己的职业生涯，为她提供了早期的大型建筑设备和在泥土中玩耍的乐趣。这导致她从事设计和建设职业，并于2009年获得瓜达拉哈拉大学的建筑学士学位。Yanni随后回到美国，在那里她与亚利桑那州电气承包商一起开始了职业生涯。

Since joining Mortenson’s Phoenix office more than five years ago, she has become a key part of its estimating group, working on some of the firm’s most notable projects in the region, including the Great Wolf Lodge in Scottsdale and an off-season renovation to the Milwaukee Brewers’ American Family Fields.

Her role at the company offers her an opportunity to fulfill her passion to create an inclusive culture. She is among the founders and serves as chair of Mortenson’s building inclusion and diversity affinity group, which is focused on attracting, developing and retaining diverse team members in order to build a community that is cohesive, supportive and inclusive.

Yanni还担任西班牙裔商会和Gateway社区学院的导师学生的大使。