Joseph Shea has been named senior vice president of Woodard & Curran, a Dedham, Mass., engineering firm. A 16-year company veteran, he leads its sanitary wastewater service line. The firm also promoted the following to vice president: project managers Kelley Begin and Rebecca Corbin; Shannon Daigle, technical leader in its Providence, R.I., office; and Tedd Gifford, service line manager for electrical instrumentation and controls. SHEA div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Neil Lucey has joined Parsons Brinckerhoff, New York City, as a senior vice president and area manager in New York. He was a senior vice president for HDR, overseeing

GUSTAFSON WINDMAN Arnold L. Windman, a former top executive of consulting engineer Syska & Hennessy, New York City, and an early advocate of tort and liability reform, died on June 19 in Hilton Head, S.C., of complications from a fall, says his family. He was 83. As a senior engineer, partner, president and vice chairman of the firm, Windman oversaw a number of its key design projects, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the American Hospital in Paris. He retired in 1991. A former president of the society that preceded the American Council of Engineering Companies,

Chester Engineers, a Pittsburgh environmental engineering firm, has hired William Sukenik as senior vice president and national wet-weather practice leader. He had been a vice president at MWH Americas Inc., based in Atlanta. Chester Engineers ranks 268th on ENR’s list of the Top 500 Design Firms. SUKENIK Greg Huston has been promoted to president of Slayden Construction Group, Stayton, Ore. An 18-year firm veteran, he was vice president of operations. Slayden also elevated general counsel Chuck Schrader to executive vice president and named vice presidents Scott Austin, Larry Gescher, Jeremy Lawson, Roger Silbernagel and Jeff Wall to the company’s board.

Leslie Butterfield has joined Hill International, the Marlton, N.J.-based global project management and claims firm, as senior vice president and head of Australia operations. The role follows Hill’s acquisition of McLachlan Lister Pty. Ltd., a Sydney project management consultant of which she had been CEO since 2002. The firm has a staff of 50. Butterfield, an associate fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, is a former strategic development committee chairwoman of the federal government’s Industry Research & Development Board. BUTTERFIELD Trow Global, a Brampton, Ontario, engineer, has named Anthony Brown as senior vice president. He was senior vice president

Samir Brikho has been CEO since 2006 of U.K.-based AMEC plc, a leading global engineering and project management services provider to the oil and gas, energy, water and environmental sectors. A former CEO of ABB Lummus Global and a former senior manager at France’s Astom, Brikho was born in Lebanon and received advanced technical and business degrees In Sweden and the U.S. ENR Business Editors Debra K. Rubin and Gary Tulacz interviewed him on June 10 in New York City. BRIKHO How will the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico affect your projects and work with BP? AMEC is

McNAMARA Robert S. McNamara has joined developer-builder Lend Lease, Sydney, Australia, as CEO of its New York City-based Americas division. Lend Lease is the parent of Bovis Lend Lease and Actus Lend Lease, both with U.S. units. Since 2006, McNamara was president and CEO of LVI Services Inc., a New York City abatement and demolition firm. LVI is a key subcontractor to Bovis on demolition of the Deutsche Bank building in Manhattan, damaged on Sept. 11, 2001. McNamara, also a former Fluor Corp. senior group president, now directs Lend Lease Americas units involved in development, project management, construction, public-private partnerships

James S. “Jim” Myers, former senior engineer at The Louis Berger Group Inc., Morristown, N.J., whose 40-year career included some of the firm’s toughest global assignments, died on May 13 of natural causes in Northport, Wash. He was 75. Myers held engineering and law degrees and was a certified scuba diver, licensed instrument pilot and marksman. “He was a man of such engineering brilliance, tenacity and dedication, he forever will be a legend at Berger,” says Larry D. Walker, Louis Berger president. Photo: Louis Berger Group Engineer Myers (left) at memorial to workers killed during an Afghanistan road rehab project

WUESTNECK John Wuestneck has been promoted to the new position of chief operating officer of engineering firm Birdsall Services Group, Sea Girt, N.J. Formerly president, he has been with the firm since 1987 and is based in its Lakewood, N.J., office. Alain Bentéjac and Jacques Gaillard have been named co-chairmen of ARTELIA, a new engineering firm formed by the merger of Paris-based Coteba and Sogreah, based in Grenoble, France. Bentéjac had been chairman of Coteba, and Gaillard was in the same role at Sogreah. The merger creates a design and project management firm with about $378 million in total 2009

PATTISON Robert K. Pattison, a high-speed-rail advocate and former public- and private-sector transportation senior executive, died on May 12 in Fairfax, Va. He was 88. Pattison’s career in freight- and passenger-rail engineering, operation and administration spanned four decades. He served as president and general manager in the 1970s of the Long Island Rail Road, the largest U.S. commuter railroad, and was general manager of the Penn Central-Conrail Railroad. Pattison also is a former vice president of Parsons Brinckerhoff, where he was technical director of railway engineering on all its domestic and international rail projects. He also is a founding member

Yves François is a firm owner who defies convention. The 45-year-old designer was born in Haiti but spent most of his childhood in Brooklyn. In 1986, he earned an architecture degree from the New York Institute of Technology and went on to work for 10 years at Pepsico as a facility manager and architectural consultant. He later held similar positions at Philip Morris and Cablevision. Photo: Aric Mei François, born in Haiti but raised in Brooklyn, derived his firm’s name from the names of his children, Erin and Chandler. Related Links: Congress Moving on Aid for Haiti, But Little Rebuilding