DEA Team

Becky Smith, PE
Ms. Smith is an experienced engineering manager with fourteen years of experience in construction management, maintenance engineering, environmental compliance, and service contracts. Her experience with Project Controls includes analyzing contractor schedules for progress, potential delays, and opportunities for improvement using Primavera and Microsoft Project; generating conceptual schedules; interpreting specific contract requirements; and developing estimates for the negotiation of change orders.

Steve Long, PE
Mr. Long has a diverse background in civil engineering that includes highway, rail, aviation, light rail and drainage projects. He is experienced in all phases of project development including environmental compliance planning, final document preparation and construction management implementation. In addition, he has been a senior representative on value engineering studies throughout the Denver Front Range and the western United States. Specializing in complex multimillion dollar, multidisciplinary projects, Mr. Long provides expertise in constructability and risk assessment.

Clifford (Kip) Coulter, PE
Mr. Coulter is a senior structural engineer specializing in complex bridge and transportation projects. He has more than 40 years of experience in transportation and structural engineering and has managed a variety of projects for clients in Colorado, New Mexico, Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, California, and Washington. His clients have included the Federal Government, state departments of transportation, municipalities, railroad companies, light rail transit agencies, and private entities. His structural design experience includes significant light rail projects in Denver and the Pacific Northwest, complemented by heavy experience in rail structure. He has managed numerous structural projects of all types in Colorado over his 23-year practice.

Paul Greco, PE
Mr. Greco is a bridge engineer with more than 16 years of design experience with an emphasis in transportation related bridge design. His experience includes extensive roadway and highway bridge designs, as well as frame analysis and girder design for a four-mile monorail system. Mr. Greco also has diverse experience in concrete design including pre-cast, post-tensioned, spliced and cast-in-place box girder bridges. Additional experience includes the design of curved and straight steel-plate girder bridges including unique slant-leg structures and trusses, pedestrian facilities including pedestrian bridges and pedestrian tunnels, and a variety of miscellaneous structures including box culverts and all types of retaining walls including MSE walls and cast-in-place concrete walls.

Perry Palmer, RLA
Mr. Palmer is a landscape architect and project manager with 15 years of experience. His professional career has allowed him to work on a wide variety of projects including large scale master planning, parks and linear trails, sport complexes, corridor enhancements, site planning, bridge enhancements and fountain design. Always meeting the needs of a project, his design approach is comprehensive, natural, context sensitive, and realistic. Mr. Palmer has a proven track record for organizing and directing multi-disciplined, multi-office teams on difficult and fast-paced projects.

Jerry Adamson, RLA
Mr. Adamson has over 35 years of experience in landscape architecture design, stormwater and SWMP design elements, aesthetic design treatments and restoration techniques. He is highly experienced in the administration and management of private sector and governmental projects. His knowledge includes all aspects of project management from the early stages of planning to construction management and project closeout. His experience consists of parks and recreation master planning, site design, trail planning and design, transportation corridor enhancement design, mitigation monitoring, construction document preparation and construction administration. In addition, his expertise includes QA/QC administration, project estimating, field observation, grant application preparation and permit process assistance.

Jon Blake, PE
Mr. Blake has more than 22 years of experience in civil and environmental engineering including a diverse background in project management, civil design, and construction observation on a wide variety of transit, transportation, aviation, civil/site, telecommunication, and landfill projects. He has a proven track record of completing projects on time and within budget. In addition to his technical skills, Mr. Blake's enthusiastic approach and coordination skills have continued to win over clients throughout his career.

Gary Leak, PLS
Mr. Leak brings over 20 years of experience in land surveying, mapping and right-of-way projects. He has managed multiple projects for various Denver area cities, counties, utility associations, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT), and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Mr. Leak is very familiar with performing ALTA/ACSM land title surveys, preparing subsequent subdivision plats, rezoning and the annexation of documents for commercial development projects. He has been responsible for managing survey teams involved in control and mapping projects, the preparation of plan sets to CDOT and FHWA standards, and preparing legal descriptions and exhibits for the acquisition of easements and right-of-way. He combines his extensive experience in boundary surveying with an understanding of the rights of real property owners.

Mike Grant, CET
Mr. Grant is a civil designer with experience in the design of highways, roadways, and related structures and plan preparation for numerous transportation projects. He is also an experienced CADD Technician/Designer in roadway and civil design utilizing Bentley Microstation, Inroads, and COGO software. Mr. Grant has a strong background with Colorado Department of Transportation in plan preparation and roadway design requirements along with those of various municipalities.

Tonya Anderson - Project Coordinator
Ms. Anderson spent the first 7 years of her career in the Air Force as a Project Manager. Her experience includes Technology Teacher, Data Analyst, and Executive Administrative Assistant. She is currently the Project Coordinator for the FasTracks West Rail Line Final Design project.