TODD

David A. Todd has joined the Los Angeles office of contractor Bovis Lend Lease as executive vice president of U.S. national technical services. Most recently, he was vice president at Walt Disney Imagineering, overseeing the $1-billion expansion of Disneyland’s California Adventure attraction in Anaheim, Calif.

Bryce Little has been named vice president and director of strategic initiatives in the Los Angeles office of Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB), New York City. An attorney and certified planner, he previously was employed in the infrastructure practice group of law firm Nossaman LLP, also New York City. PB also has named David J. Carol to the new position of vice president and market leader for high-speed rail, based in Charlotte, N.C. He had been project manager of commuter-rail projects for the Charlotte Area Transit System and previously served as vice president for high-speed-rail corridors development with Amtrak.

BRANDON

MACTEC, an engineer-architect-contractor based in Alpharetta, Ga., has appointed Lisa Brandon vice president and director of design operations. She is located in Wakefield, Mass. Previously, Brandon served as vice president of engineering for The Shaw Group LLC, Baton Rouge, La. She also was chief engineer of the environmental sciences and engineering division at Boston-based Stone and Webster, which Shaw acquired.

The Federal Transit Administration has appointed Therese Watkins McMillan as deputy administrator. She takes that position in July, moving from her current role as deputy executive director of policy for the San Francisco Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission.

Ausra Inc., a solar energy provider headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., has hired Thomas J. Bartolomei as senior vice president of business development. He most recently was vice president of sales and marketing for the power and industrial division at Burns and Roe Enterprises, an Oradell, N.J.-based engineering firm.

Paul F. Boulos has been named president of MWH’s new Middle East region. He will continue in his current role as president and chief operating officer of MWH Soft, a software-provider unit of the firm, but will relocate from the engineer-contractor’s Broomfield, Colo., headquarters to an undisclosed location in the Middle East.

Reginald “Reg” J. Arnold II has joined New York City contractor Structure Tone as senior regional vice president for the Washington, D.C., area. He was president and general manager of the mid-Atlantic division of Suffolk Construction.

Eric Thorkildsen joined engineer Greenman-Pedersen Inc., Babylon, N.Y., as vice president. He was the national director of bridge inspection for Collins Engineers, based in Chicago.

LABRECQUE

Kevin Labrecque has joined Limbach Facility Services, Pittsburgh, as senior vice president. He comes to the mechanical contractor from Bovis Lend Lease, New York City, where he was vice president and director of commercial risk.

Electrical contractor Truland Systems Corp., Reston, Va., has hired Brian Brobst as vice president of business development. His most recent position was as principal for critical facility services for Hewlett Packard Corp., Palo Alto, Calif. Before that, Brobst served as principal and eastern region director of business development for its subsidiary, EYP Mission Critical Facilities.

Paul Malmrose has joined engineer Tighe & Bond, Westfield, Mass., as vice president. Malmrose, who will be based in Middletown, Conn., previously was vice president at CH2M Hill Cos. LLC, Englewood, Colo., and also served as planning and design manager for program management at the Chicago Dept. of Water Management. He also is a past American Water Works Association committee and subcommittee chairman.

Engineer Fugro Consultants, Houston, has hired Anwar Akhtar as construction materials engineering and testing department manager. He was senior project manager in the Houston office of engineer Terracon, Olathe, Kan.