About Our Team - CPWG Engineering

Thomas Clark

Mr. Clark’s 20 years of experience in construction and construction project management make him a welcome addition to the team. He is a skilled Project Superintendent and Construction Inspector that has worked with city municipalities on civil engineering projects including parks, roadway bridges, and temporary dam construction. He has utilized application engineering to design, develop, and implement commercial water treatment applications in response to customer needs. In addition to his talents in new construction, he is well versed in commercial building demolition.

Certified licensed inspector (No. HI11315)

Rob Gregg

Mr. Rob Gregg has over 40 years of experience in the public transportation field including senior management positions with transit agencies in Tampa, Florida; Sacramento, California; and Orlando, Florida. He was the Program Director of the Transit Management and Innovation (TMI) Group at the Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR), located at the University of South Florida (USF). He has a broad base of expertise including such areas as transit management, financing, planning, operations, marketing, paratransit, procurement, grant development and compliance, major capital investments, technology development, and system evaluations.

Tommy Barfield, P.E.

James “Tommy” Barfield, PE, is an Associate Principal and FDOT Division Leader for CPWG. He has 30 years of management in multimodal planning and transportation design experience. In his role, Tommy will focus on expanding our business with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) statewide and County and Municipal governments across North Florida. As a former district secretary for (FDOT), Tommy has overseen projects that have been critical to the sustainability of Florida’s transportation infrastructure and growth. He was also responsible for an annual budget of one billion dollars and over 600 employees.

Dan Hart, P.E., DBIA

Mr. Hart is an Associate Principal and Municipal Division Leader for CPWG. Dan has 23 years of experience performing Dynamic Pile Testing and deep foundation engineering and design working for FDOT, seaports, airports, and for agencies such as the South Florida Water Management District. He has spent his t career primarily working on Florida infrastructure projects, with an emphasis on Design-Build project delivery. He applies his experience to forge successful partnerships with owners and contractors and has accumulated experiences on projects throughout the United States.

Ron Daniels

Mr. Daniels is an experienced utility professional with 36 years of experience. He has a proven record of teamwork, leadership, and construction processes. He has experience as both a Senior Construction Technician and Senior Construction Designer. Mr. Daniels is a skilled designer of underground and overhead power distribution facilities. His responsibilities on other utility projects have included coordinating with other utilities affected by facility changes, easement acquisition, customer service, assistance with disaster recovery, and coordinating crew scheduling to meet customer needs. He was the Chairman of Empire Lighting Committee and a committee member for restructuring Empire’s design standards

Yaima Ballester

Ms. Yaima Ballester, has 15 years of civil engineering experience, including extensive international experience. She is a skilled project manager, working on numerous projects in Havana, Cuba and Quebec, Canada. In previous positions she has been responsible for engineering design of roadways, retaining walls, site grading, stormwater drainage, sanitary sewer, and water distribution systems and necessary permitting for residential, commercial, and industrial land planning and development projects.

Ms. Ballester is skilled in stormwater management modeling, design, and programming including storm sewer; channel; and pond design to fit both municipal code requirements and project development budgets. She is experienced in the design and inspection of on-site subsurface sewage treatment systems in accordance with municipal regulations. As a project manager, she is familiar with managing the tracking and implementation of preparatory, initial, and follow-up control phases and has implemented procedures to tracking construction design and construction deficiencies including acceptable corrective actions and verification that the deficiencies had been corrected.

Mike Stalzer, P.E.

Mr. Stalzer is a Principal and the Land Development Division Leader. He has 28 years of experience working with all aspects of plan development and design. His projects include site design, water and wastewater treatment design, stormwater management including detention basin design, erosion and sediment control design, pump station and pipeline design for sanitary sewer, water storage and distribution design, deep wells, hydrologic modeling and grading for a variety of residential, commercial and light industrial projects. He also has extensive experience coordinating with local, state, and federal agencies for regulatory compliance and permitting.

He has extensive experience developing accurate final budgets, construction contracts, schedules and bid forms for all phases of construction. He routinely processes contractor pay applications and provides construction inspection/quality control services. He has coordinated with local, state, and federal agencies for regulatory compliance and permitting in both Florida and Missouri.

Jeffrey Schwartz, PSM, P.E.

Mr. Schwartz is a Principal and the Chief Operating Officer for CPWG. He brings over 20 years of surveying, mapping and engineering experience to the team. The majority of his previous experience has been focused on project management, client relations, production, and design. He takes pride in completing a project on schedule and under budget while meeting the client’s project requirements.

Mr. Schwartz is very familiar with the Oviedo area and understands the unique needs of the area. His clients have included the Florida Department of Transportation, Central Florida Expressway Authority, Orange County, Seminole County, Seminole County Public Schools, City of Orlando, City of Longwood and other engineering firms.

Todd Chandler, P.E.

Mr. Chandler is the CPWG Central Region Practice Leader. He has over 13 years of experience in the areas of transportation and civil site engineering, with an emphasis on major highway and site development projects. His experience includes work in the areas of roadway, roundabout, and intersection design; as well as stormwater analysis, utility coordination and site development.

Mr. Chandler works in our Branson, Missouri office. He is a licensed professional engineer in the states of Missouri, Texas, Kansas, and Arkansas. Todd has successfully completed numerous projects in each state. He is a committee member with the Missouri Department of Transportation (SW), Liaison Committee for American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Construction Institute. He prides himself on delivering designs that are practical, aesthetically pleasing and of high quality.

Jack Houseman, PSM

Mr. Houseman is the Lead Professional Land Surveyor in the CPWG Branson office. He has 35 years of surveying experience covering a wide range of municipal and commercial projects. He is highly skilled in Field Supervision and has completed multiple survey contracts in the Northwest Arkansas and Southwest Missouri area. He is an active member of the Missouri Society of Professional Surveyors, the Arkansas Society of Professional Surveyors and the National Society of Professional Surveyors. Jack is also skilled in Condominium, Land Planning, and Development as well as Flood Plain Management.

David Winters, PSM

Mr. Winters is the Surveying and Mapping Division Leader. He has over 15 years of surveying and mapping experience and has worked with multiple clients throughout Central Florida including the Florida Department of Transportation, Orange County, Seminole County, Central Florida Expressway Authority and Seminole County Public Schools. Mr. Winters has a strong background in topographic surveys, right of way surveys, sketch and descriptions and right of way mapping and is capable of completing surveys in both AutoCAD and Microstation. David has additional experience in subsurface utilities.

Grace Harrison, PLA

Ms. Grace Harrison is the Landscape Architecture Division Leader. She has 32 years of experience specializing in landscape architectural design, project management, public involvement, and feasibility studies. She is a Registered Landscape Architect with a solid background in all phases of site development from concept and visioning through construction documentation, making her a valuable asset to any team. Ms. Harrison is knowledgeable in conducting site inventories, preparing site analyses, developing site layout plans, developing specifications, creating final construction installation instructions, inspecting and reporting landscape installation processes, as well as providing quality control.

Cory Carnes, P.E.

Mr. Carnes is the CPWG Power Division Leader. He has over 9 years of experience in transmission and distribution engineering, design, project management, and leadership. Mr. Carnes comes to CPWG from the Tampa Electric Company where he served a Senior Engineer – Transmission. He is skilled in 69kV, 138kV, and 230kV line design, maintenance, relocations, conflict mitigation, and attachment requests. As a transmission engineer, he completed transmission corridor mapping projects, supporting LiDAR scanning to collect all topographic and existing line data.

Mary Bates, PLA, FASLA

Ms. Bates has 20 years’ experience providing landscape architectural services. During this time, Ms. Bates designed and managed a range of projects including parks and recreation, community planning, site planning, healthcare facilities, urban design and streetscapes. Previous park clients include Orange County, Lake County, Marion County, City of Orlando, Celebration and Walt Disney Imagineering. Other clients include Orlando Regional Health Center, Florida Hospital, Marriott, and Baccarat Resort Community.

Roland Raymundo, P.E., CFM

Mr. Roland Raymundo is a Senior Project Manager with 32 years of diverse engineering and proven public works experiences. He has a wide range of civil engineering experience in planning, design, construction and operation of public works infrastructure projects. Extensive knowledge and skills in handling state and federal grant programs, permitting and environmental requirements, acquisition of public right-of-way and easements. In a previous position, Mr. Raymundo was responsible for the management of numerous types of infrastructure projects from planning to construction completion. He was heavily involved in FEMA’s Flood Insurance Program, Community Rating System (CRS), hurricane preparation and damage assessment, as well as FEMA and other Federal grant and mitigation programs.

Michael Trawick

Mr. Michael Trawick has over 36 years of experience in Construction Engineering and Inspection. He is skilled in the areas of soils and construction materials testing, threshold/building inspection representation, foundation inspection (including piles), deep soil stabilization, post tension inspection, storm water and utility installation, asphalt paving inspection, pile driving monitoring, pre-stress inspection, FDOT independent and assurance testing and construction engineering inspection, and construction management.

Tania Lopez, EI

Ms. Lopez has over 15 years of Civil Engineering experience with a focus on Roadway Design and Signing and Pavement Markings Design. She is well versed in FDOT standards. She has worked side by side with Project Managers to complete design documentation such as Pavement Designs, Cross Slope Analysis Reports, Design Exceptions, Design Variations, and Design Memos when required per project. She also has extensive experience in Plans Production for Roadway, Signing and Pavement Markings, Signalization, Lighting, and Drainage plans for FDOT projects.

Jason Alderman

Mr. Alderman is the CPWG North Florida Area Manager. He has 23 years of experience in the Florida transportation planning community, including 15 years of experience in transportation project management and planning with the Florida Department of Transportation. Jason has managed transportation corridor studies, master plan updates, growth/development studies and policy updates in both public and private practice. He is also managing a CPWG Constructors team that is actively working to repair damage caused by Hurricane Michael.

Kathy Rudd

Ms. Rudd has over 25 years of experience in the transit field, including 22 years in transit project management with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) District 3. During the tenure with FDOT, Kathy managed more than 10 different state and federal programs to in include Transit Corridor, Service Development, Commuter Assistance, Park and Ride, Urban Block Grant, FTA Section 5311 Non-Urbanized, FTA Section 5310 Persons with Disabilities, FTA Section 5317 New Freedom, FTA Section 5316 JARC, and FTA Section 5303 Planning. This included working with 16 counties and 4 metropolitan (TPO) areas along with Planning Councils, West Florida Regional Planning and Apalachee Regional Planning.

Steve Tarte

Mr. Tarte has 28 years of experience providing services in the consulting engineering field. Mr. Tarte has developed and managed projects with municipal, state and federal agencies and private corporations. Mr. Tarte has managed projects in over fifteen states with public agencies such as The Army Corps of Engineers Districts (St. Paul, St. Louis, Rock Island, Vicksburg, New Orleans, Jacksonville, and the Waterways Experiment Station), The Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service and the US Geological Survey.

Mr. Tarte also manages the firm’s construction business and activities. On projects, he is actively engaged in developing bid packages, documents, and managing all field construction activities. He also has extensive expertise in conducting public information workshops for projects such as roadway design, stormwater master plans, and pavement management implementations.

Greg Hass, CGC

Mr. Hass is a construction professional with 32 years of general contracting and project management experience. Overall management accountability and technical expertise in all aspects and phases of construction to ensure profitability and on-time project delivery. From client presentations, preconstruction planning and value engineering through scheduling, project team coordination, budget control and reporting, quality assurance, turnover, training, closeout and warranty fulfillment. Greg is highly skilled in financial analysis, problem-solving, contract negotiations, written and verbal communication.

Andrés Núñez, Jr., P.E.

Mr. Núñez brings with him more than 42 years of direct professional managerial, planning, and engineering related experience in both the public and private transportation engineering design and planning sectors. Mr. Núñez has served as a Gubernatorial Appointee to the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council representing Pinellas County since 2006, served as the Council’s Chair in 2015-2015 and currently serves on the Tampa Bay Transportation Management Area Leadership Group.

Mr. Núñez has been recognized many times for his outstanding abilities as an engineer. He was awarded the 2003 National Pioneer of the Year by Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers and was recognized as the Tampa Bay American Society of Highway Engineers (ASHE) Engineer of the Year in 2003 and 2008. He has shared his knowledge by publishing a wide array of transportation and traffic related publications. A small sample of these include “Low Cost Transportation Energy Savings Alternatives”, “A Strategy for the Removal of Unwarranted Traffic Signals”, and “Multi-Jurisdictional Computerized Signal System Project – A Case Study”.

Matti Rukholm

Mr. Rukholm is a Florida Registered Landscape Architect and International Society of Arboriculture Certified Arborist. He has over 15 years of experience working in both the private and public sectors. His previous supervisory roles include Supervisor of Park Design and Development and Coordinator of Park Services for a city of 100,000 residents. Mr. Rukholm has been involved in all steps of the landscape design process from public consultations and initial concept plans to working drawings, specifications, bidding documents, and landscape maintenance requirements. He is comfortable using an array of 3D landscaping programs including Land F/X (AutoCad Civil 3d Plugin) and Sketch-Up. Mr. Rukholm holds a Bachelor of Arts in Earth Sciences and is continually improving his knowledge through seminars and courses.

David Greene, EI, BSEE

David E. Greene, has 27 years’ experience in the Building, Construction, and Engineering field. Although his primary specialty is as an electrical engineer, he has extensive design, project management and utility management experience working with the Coastal Communities of Florida.

David is also an Association of State Floodplain Managers Certified Floodplain Manager (ASFPM) and Building Plans Examiner. He has served as Utility Division Manager and Project Manager for Municipal Public Works organizations, as well as the lead Electrical and Controls engineer for plant design and expansion.

CPWG Core Values

Clients First: We build relationships through trust and accountability. We provide solutions in a timely and cost-effective manner.

Commitment to Excellence: We strive to consistently exceed expectations

Effective Communications: Working as a Team is always better than working in a alone. It is imperative to have good communication both internally and externally.

Managed Ingenuity: We employ an entrepreneurial spirit to solve challenges using innovation and technology.

Family as Source of Strength: We encourage our Team to continually strive for balance in their lives. CPWG strives to build a culture of a family-oriented business.

Honesty and Integrity: We make commitments and keep them. We focus on maintaining an open and honest environment with our team and clients.

James Golden

Mr. James Golden is highly experienced professional in the pavement management and IT industries. He is the founder and CEO of the Pavement Management Group (PMG), which was initially founded under the name JG3 Consulting in 2011. Prior to that Mr. Golden had a 14-year career managing and directing pavement management projects for a local engineering firm. In January of 2017, James re-branded JG3 to The Pavement Management (PMG) to provide turn-key pavement management and engineering solutions to the public and private sectors, nationwide.

As the head of two professional service based consulting firms, James believes his mission is to provide the highest level of Pavement Management, Business Management and IT Management services and support to our clients while building lifelong business relationships.

Sheila Tarte

Ms. Tarte incorporated CPWG in 2004 and along with Mr. Earhart and began providing engineering services to government clients throughout the State of Florida. As the President of CPWG Ms. Tarte is responsible for the day to day business operations of the company including hiring decisions, facilitating banking relationships, facilitating legal relationships, reviewing and executing all legal agreements and contracts, preparing and reporting all financial records, obtaining and maintaining all insurance, business licenses and professional licenses and functioning as the Human Resources Director.

Ms. Tarte is also the Chief Financial Officer performing all accounting functions relating to the operation of the company including project costing, budgeting, invoicing, payables, receivables, payroll and monthly and annual financial statement preparation.

Jeff Earhart. PE

Mr. Earhart has over 26 years experience as a civil engineer managing many facets of the community needs ranging from stormwater, planning, roadway design, to overseeing continuing projects. In the area of stormwater, Mr. Earhart’s work includes stormwater, master planning, stormwater retrofit projects, stormwater utilities, stormwater permitting, potable water and waste water. He is an expert in water quantity and water quality modeling.

Mr. Earhart’s possesses a Masters Degree in both Water Resources Engineering and Engineering Management. In addition, Mr. Earhart has experience in the design of recreational park systems and providing general engineering services to municipalities and local governments. He has managed multiple continuing engineering contracts for Cities and Counties throughout Florida including the City of St. Pete Beach, City of Madeira Beach, City of Tampa, City of Clearwater, Lake County, Pinellas County, and Orange County. He has an excellent track record of successfully managed contracts in Florida.

Jeff Earhart, P.E., F.ASCE is is currently serving as the ASCE Region 5 Governor.

Susan Woodbery, PE

Ms. Woodbery’s 32 years of experience in stormwater engineering has allowed her to gain unique expert experience in stormwater retrofit projects. Many of the projects she has managed include extensive restoration, exotics removal, and native plant refurbishment. Ms. Woodbery is a certified wetland delineation expert and has a long track record of looking for innovative ways to include green infrastructure and water conservation apparatuses into her project designs.

In addition to her roadway and stormwater retrofit experience, Ms. Woodbery manages projects that have included stormwater master planning, watershed management, GIS field mapping, stormwater infrastructure inventory, hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, pollutant load analysis, stormwater retrofit design for water quality improvements, wetland delineation, wetland impact evaluation, wetland mitigation and endangered species surveys.

Mike Crawford, PE

Mr. Crawford has 30 years’ experience and has been responsible for a wide range of transportation studies including major multimodal corridor initiatives (including NEPA documents), regional and sub-regional plans, traffic engineering and operations studies, transit studies and initiatives. His clients include state Departments of Transportation, metropolitan planning organizations, transportation and transit authorities, cities, counties and special authorities.

Mr. Crawford has also served as project manager for transportation planning studies, traffic impact studies, conceptual roadway designs, travel time studies, signal designs, access plans, pavement marking plans and other planning and operations studies. In addition, he has provided expert testimony on the transportation aspects of various types of civil suits. He also has extensive experience in the application of microcomputers for transportation engineering, including capacity analysis, signal system timing plan design and traffic flow simulation-programming modeling.

Our expertise is a promise, never broken.

We will get the job done, no matter what.

We will answer any questions, solve any problems, and

clear any obstacles our customers encounter.

Established in 2004, CPWG has served public and private clients with our full complement of engineering consulting services.

Our highly skilled team is ready to plan, design, and administer your Infrastructure, Environmental, Development, or Recreation projects. We always want to ensure that we thoroughly understand our clients’ needs and project objectives.

We strive to think outside the box and create a cost-effective solution that meets the project objectives and exceeds expectations.

Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, CPWG also has offices in Orlando, Clermont, Clearwater, Atlanta, and Branson, Missouri.

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CPWG Core Values

Client’s First

Commitment to Excellence

Effective Communication

Managed Ingenuity

Family as a Source of Strength

Honesty and Integrity

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