Five professionals join Wightman & Associates

Wightman & Associates, Inc. recently added five professionals to its team of service providers. 

Bennie Boyd of Stevensville has joined WAI as a survey crew member in the company’s Benton Harbor location. He is a graduate of Lakeshore High School and earned an Associates Degree from Southwestern Michigan College.

Griffin Dekker of Holland has been hired as a part-time and summer survey crew member based in the WAI Allegan office. He is working on his Bachelor of Science degree in Survey Engineering at Ferris State University. He has been a survey crew intern the past two summers with other firms in the Holland/Grand Rapids area.

Laura Fredrickson of Kalamazoo joins WAI’s team as a landscape architect based out of the company’s Benton Harbor and Portage offices. With nine years of landscape design and architecture experience in the Midwest, she has a thorough knowledge of plant species for urban settings, conceptual design, and project management. Fredrickson earned a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree from Iowa State University.

Melanie Stanage of Fishers, Ind., has been hired as a civil engineer to serve clients out of the WAI Benton Harbor office. Her background is in transportation engineering including roadway design and modeling, hydraulic design and analysis, and roundabout design. Stanage is a graduate of the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering.

David Ulrey of Charlotte joins the survey team in the WAI Benton Harbor office as a survey drafter. He has more than 20 years of survey experience with organizations including the State of Michigan, the U.S. Forest Service, and U.S. Army Corp of Engineers. Ulrey earned a bachelor’s degree in Surveying from Michigan Technical University. He is a licensed professional Surveyor in Michigan, Indiana and Illinois.

Source: Wightman & Associates, Inc.