Engineer Promoted to Senior Associate
7/31/02—FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
HUNT VALLEY, MD—KCI Technologies, Inc., an engineering firm with offices throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Southern United States, has named Marianne Kiernan, PE, to the position of senior associate and head of the company’s Laurel, MD, Office. Since joining KCI in February 1999, Kiernan has managed and designed plans for major civil and telecommunications engineering projects throughout the region.
According to KCI Senior Vice President Charles A. Phillips, Jr., RPLS, Kiernan will lead the efforts of 31 employees and oversee the office’s transition into new growth markets. “Right now, about 70 percent of our work in the Laurel Office is in telecommunication, with 30 percent in institutional and industrial development,” said Phillips. “Next year, we may be looking at a 50-50 split. Marianne has managed high-visibility, multi-discipline projects in both civil and telecommunications engineering, and this experience will help us deliver design services for multi-task projects in new markets, requiring mechanical, electrical, structural, and environmental engineering as well as environmental planning and permitting expertise.”
During an 11-year career, Kiernan prepared a feasibility study for restoring 300 acres of dredged materials on Hart-Miller Island in the Chesapeake Bay and designed more than 500 telecommunications facilities in the Baltimore/Washington corridor for the nation’s leading carriers and service providers. She earned a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from Villanova University in 1991 and is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Kiernan resides in Potomac, MD.
FIRM OVERVIEW—With revenues of $75.8 million in 2001, 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 750 people operating in 20 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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