American Society for Quality (ASQ)
Raba Kistner values Quality Management Systems and the deployment of best practices and assessment tools that are used to achieve client confidence and satisfaction with each project. Many Raba Kistner senior managers and project managers hold American Society for Quality (ASQ) certifications, including the Manager of Operation Excellence designation.
Certified Manager of Quality/Operational Excellence (CMQ/OE)
The CMQ/OE champions process-improvement initiatives corporately and within projects, and shares best practices within Raba Kistner and among the clients we serve. The CMQ/OE monitors client and consultant relations, evaluates staff, supports strategic planning initiatives, develops systems to determine organizational improvement, determines and evaluates risk, and employs tools and techniques in resolving organizational challenges.
Certified Quality Engineer (CQE)
Raba Kistner CQEs understand principles of product and service quality evaluation and control. They are educated in quality engineering and quality control and are trained in researching and preventing unnecessary costs through lack of quality, lost production costs, and lost market share due to poor quality. The CQE certification is given by the American Society for Quality.
Certified Quality Auditor (CQA)
Raba Kistner CQAs understand the standards and principles of auditing and the auditing techniques of examining, questioning, evaluating, and reporting to determine a quality system’s adequacy and deficiencies. They analyze a quality system and judge its degree of adherence to the criteria of industrial management and quality evaluation and control systems.
David White, RRC, RWC, RRO, CDT, CEI, CIT-III
David’s primary duties consist of facilities project management with emphasis on scope development, budget estimates, roofing inspection reports, surveys, roofing redesigns, and engineering solutions with attendant specifications. He actively serves as the client’s trusted advisor by planning, staffing, and executing projects involving roofing and building forensics services. Additionally, David oversees project management tasks covering roofing consulting and design work. He monitors the professional practice of his staff, including QA/QC protocols, and ensures compliance with generally accepted policies.
Devin Williamson
Devin serves as Raba Kistner’s strategic growth leader in the Austin marketplace and oversee the regional growth of Raba Kistner’s four business lines across public and private sectors — engineering consulting, infrastructure, environmental, and project management. Devin brings over 20 years of sales and marketing experience to Raba Kistner.
Yvonne G. Thomas, PE
Yvonne is responsible for the management, administration, coordination, and reporting of a variety of geotechnical engineering projects throughout Texas, with a primary focus in north and central Texas regions. As a geotechnical engineer, her responsibilities include subsurface investigations and engineering analysis and consulting of the design and construction of foundations, pavements and roadways. She has consulted on various foundation and pavement design recommendations for residential, commercial institutional, schools, industrial projects, as well as infrastructure.
Merrill Stanley
Through collaboration and building consensus, Merrill Stanley approaches each project with excitement for transforming an Owner’s vision into reality. His involvement in creating facilities that have a meaningful impact upon the community is truly humbling, one that he considers a privilege and an honor. Merrill brings over 22 years of significant healthcare project management experience to his role as Vice President of Healthcare. Merrill is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin and Texas State University.
Ben Reese, PE
Ben brings more than ten years of experience in inspection management to Raba Kistner. Mr. Reese is responsible for overseeing Construction Materials Engineering and Testing projects in the San Antonio area. He has technical and managerial expertise in soils testing and inspection, foundation inspection, reinforcing steel placements, structural steel inspection, asphalt pavements, and concrete plant and placement inspection. He works closely with architects, engineers, contractors, owners, and developers on various types of projects.
Clark Prothero, PE, CMQ/OE
Clark has over 26 years experience in Construction Construction Quality Managment, Construction Management & Engineering positions. He currently manages our Infrastructure business development for large projects pursued outside of Texas. He is also responsible for overseeing these projects as they are secured, while managing the Utah Division. Overall, Clark is responsible for 70 plus employees, 3 material testing labs, and development of our proprietary documentation software ELVIS.
Preston Parker, PE, PMP
Preston brings more than 20 years of experience in Construction Materials Engineering and Testing to Raba Kistner. He is responsible for overseeing Construction Materials Engineering and Testing projects in the San Antonio area. Preston has technical and managerial expertise in soils testing and inspection, foundation inspection, reinforcing steel placements, post-tensioning stressing inspection, structural steel inspection, asphalt pavements, and concrete plant and placement inspection. He performs engineering investigations and studies dealing with construction related issues.
Martha Oseguera, MBA
Martha provides financial, business and administrative support to the Company and Project Managers. She brings over fifteen years of experience in financial accounting in the Professional Service Industry. Martha has experience planning and directing treasury activities, financial forecasts, cash flow projections, formulation of budgets for project, overhead and capital expenditures as well as monitoring budget performance and revenues, recommendation of cost controls, and changes in billing multiplier rates to assure profitability of operations.