Bartlett Cocke Appoints New President, Officers

Also, Linbeck, Walter P Moore, Raba-Kistner, and Pate Engineers announce new hires, promotions.

Bartlett Cocke General Contractors recently announced that Randy Pawelek, a 25-year employee of the firm, has been promoted to president. Duane Pozza made the announcement. Pozza previously held the title in addition to being company chairman and CEO. The firm appointed four other executives to the officer group. Bill Gellhausen was named chief financial officer, Jerry Hoog was promoted to vice president/operations for the San Antonio region, Steve McCleskey to vice president/operations for the Austin region, and Kirk Kistner to vice president of marketing and business development. Pawelek joined the company in 1981 and has more than 30 years of experience in the construction industry. He graduated from Texas State University with an industrial arts degree. Gellhausen, a certified public accountant, joined the company in 1999 and has more than 20 years experience in financial accounting and construction bonding. He holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from St. Mary's University and a master's in business administration from The University of Texas at San Antonio. Hoog came to Bartlett Cocke in 1983 after graduating from Texas A&M with a bachelor's degree in engineering technology. In his new role, he will oversee all construction operations for San Antonio and South Texas. McClesky has a bachelor's and a master's degree in building construction from Texas A&M and more than 30 years of experience in the Texas construction industry. Kistner joined the company in 2000 as manager of preconstruction services. He has more than 20 years experience in the commercial construction industry and is a graduate of Texas A&M with a bachelor's degree in building construction.

Linbeck recently announced the following promotions and new hires: David Stueckler was promoted to executive vice president and regional general manager in charge of operations in Fort Worth, Dallas, Memphis and Northern California. Stueckler, a 24-year employee of Linbeck, previously served as vice president and client executive for Houston. Manuel Colaco was named senior vice president and director of risk management. He previously served as vice president. Colaco joined Linbeck in 1979 and is responsible for managing all corporate-risk-management functions and individual project policies. John Go was promoted to vice president and client executive from team manager. He has more than 25 years of multifaceted experience that includes the project management of large, complex buildings. John Barnes was promoted to vice president and client executive from senior project manager. Barnes is responsible for all Linbeck services including all aspects of assessments and preconstruction through project execution and closeout. He has more than 18 years of commercial construction experience in construction management and supervision. Craig Fredrickson and Joel Kaufman were promoted to client executive from senior team manager and development manager. Bill Bailey was promoted to senior team manager from team manager. Lloyd Nakayama has joined Linbeck as client executive and development manager for the Houston region. Also, Linbeck announced the following employees have received LEED AP designation: John Barnes, Jeff Bryson, Bruce Cooper, Craig Fredrickson, John Go, John Hargrove, Michael Moore and George Watts.

Walter P Moore recently announced that Ernest L. Fields, P.E., has been promoted to managing director of civil engineering for the firm's Dallas office. Fields has more than 13 years of experience in civil engineering design for private and municipal projects. He has specialized in the design of a wide variety of retaining walls, channel drainage improvements and stormwater systems.

Mayor Oscar Trevino, of the city of North Richland Hills and president of J.L. Steel LP, a heavy-highway contractor based in Roanoke, was recently elected president of the North Central Texas Council of Governments 2006 - 2007 executive board. He was also named chair of the Tarrant Regional Transportation Coalition and vice chair of the Regional Transportation Council. Trevino has served on NCTCOG's executive board since 2003 as a director, secretary/treasurer and vice president. Since 1999 he has served on the city council in North Richland Hills. He was first elected as a council member and became mayor in 2002. He holds a bachelor's of science in civil engineering from Texas A&M University and is a registered professional engineer.

Pate Engineers Inc. recently announced that Lisa L. Ruth, director of marketing for the firm, has been selected to serve on the Transportation Committee and Public Relations Committee for the 2006-2007 term for the American Council of Engineering Companies. Ruth joined PATE in 2003. The firm also announced it has hired David R. Balli, P.E., as vice president of transportation services. Balli's career includes 28 years with TxDOT.

Raba-Kistner recently announced that Robert R. Costigan, Ph.D., P.E., has joined the firm as senior vice president, chief operating officer and member of its board of directors. Costigan replaces Gary W. Raba, D.Eng., P.E., who was transferred as president and chief operating officer of the firm's Infrastructure subsidiary. Costigan brings more than thirty years of consulting and management experience with national engineering firms with multiple offices. Also joining Raba-Kistner is Wentao "Brian" Pan has joined the firm as database manager in the firm's information technology department. Pan received a bachelor's of arts in international economics and trade from the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, China and a master's of science in computer information systems from the University of Houston.