Carlos Ceballos has joined Raba Kistner Consultants Inc. as area project manager for the firm's Brownsville office.

Ken Hunter has been promoted to senior superintendent at MYCON. He has worked on 38 projects during his 15-year career at the firm and is responsible for approximately $130 million worth of work.

Daniel Searight has joined Perkins+Will as a senior designer and senior associate. He leads design teams on corporate and commercial, science and technology, higher education and health care projects.

Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc. (WJE) has promoted Lee Lawrence to director of practice development. Lawrence has served as Austin unit manager since August 2001. Before joining WJE, Lawrence was with the materials and test division of the Texas Dept. of Transportation.

In addition, Matt Carlton, who joined WJE in 1995, has been promoted to unit manager. Carlton has been associate unit manager since 2013.

Steve Stacy has joined R.G. Miller Engineers Inc. as site development department manager. He was previously public works director and city engineer as well as the floodplain administrator for the city of Huntsville, Texas.

Smith Seckman Reid Inc. (SSR) has made several new hires. Duane A. Carlson has joined the firm's Houston office as an electrical project manager. He was previously a principal in an electrical engineering firm.

Alan Frare has been hired as a senior electrical designer in the Dallas office. Lonnie Leger has joined SSR as a senior construction administrator in the Dallas office. William Ryan Young has been hired as a technology consultant in the Houston office.

Hoar Construction has made several new hires in its Austin office. Tala Matchett is the new director of business development; Matt Allen is an account executive; Jonathan Mouton is a project manager; and Grant Pallan is a project manager.

Emre Ozcan has joined JE Dunn Construction Co. as the new Houston office leader. With 17 years of experience in the Houston construction market, Ozcan focuses on health care, biopharmaceutical and commercial projects.