Promotions recognize leadership in North Carolina environmental and surveying disciplines
2/28/01—FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
HUNT VALLEY, MD—KCI Technologies, Inc., a Hunt Valley, MD-based engineering firm, has appointed James M. Gellenthin, PLS, and Joseph J. Pfeiffer, Jr., PWS, to the position of vice president. Gellenthin heads KCI’s surveying division in North Carolina. Pfeiffer leads the company’s environmental planning and construction operations in the Southeast.
Gellenthin joined KCI in 1995 and quickly expanded the office’s surveying team of three to a profitable regional division with five, three-person crews. In the past year, he helped launch a subsurface utility engineering (SUE) business unit that uses minimally invasive technology to locate and map underground facilities. KCI Senior Vice President Timothy P. Donohue, PE, attributes much of KCI ’s corporate-wide success in SUE to Gellenthin. “Jim had the foresight to assess the benefits of SUE long before our competitors, and he had the persistence to position KCI as a leader in delivering SUE services once the market was ready to expand.”
With more than 12 years of experience, Gellenthin has worked extensively with the Department of Defense and with private and public sector clients on Federal, State, and local projects. He maintains professional survey licenses in North Carolina, Florida, and Tennessee and is a member of the North Carolina Society of Surveyors.
Pfeiffer joined KCI in 1988, and worked at corporate headquarters until 1996, when he became the senior environmental scientist in the Raleigh Office. As a licensed professional wetland scientist, Pfeiffer brings a unique blend of technical expertise to wetland mitigation, watershed analysis, and stream restoration projects in both the design and construction divisions under his direction. Donohue commented, “In the last five years, Joe has recruited a team of 13 environmental scientists and built a sizeable client base by providing innovative, cost effective project solutions. We’re working in the private sector with clients like 3M Corporation and in the public sector with the North Carolina and Georgia Departments of Transportation—building a reputation as having the best and the brightest in the environmental field.”
Pfeiffer attended Towson University in Maryland, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in natural science and a master’s degree in environmental planning. He is a sustaining member of the Society of Wetland Scientists.
FIRM OVERVIEW—With revenues of $65.6 million in 2000, KCI is ranked near the top 100 engineering firms in the country by the Engineering News Record. The employee-owned, multi-discipline engineering firm employs more than 650 people operating in 22 offices in eight States—Delaware, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia—as well as the District of Columbia.
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