Caleb Swanson
Caleb Swanson’s experience includes serving as an owner’s representative and project manager on building and infrastructure projects throughout Nebraska. He appreciates developing trusting relationships with his clients while simultaneously helping revitalize and improve communities through redevelopment. Caleb’s expertise lies in public and municipal projects, where he enjoys bringing together the multiple stakeholders inherent in these projects to make lasting impacts on the communities where they reside.
Scott Story
Scott is President of Drake Environmental, LLC, a division of Raba Kistner, which offers a complete range of environmental compliance and construction services. Drake's total focus is Stormwater/SWP3 protection & management, including Erosion & Sediment control. They serve all phases including design, development, construction & post-construction. Drake's customers include large & small Commercial & Residential General Contractors, Developers, Utility Companies, Energy Companies, Civil Engineers, Municipalities, Heavy Highway and Civil Constructors. Drake has been trusted with SWP3 contracts on more than $5 billion in projects since 2014. Drake has offices in College Station, Houston & Austin Texas.
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, CMQOE
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.
Ian Perez, PE
Ian is responsible for client relationship development, and scoping geotechnical engineering investigations and construction materials testing opportunities in the New Braunfels area. Once procured, he is responsible for developing the action plan for any field activities, coordinating with key personnel both within and outside of our organization, and ensuring that the scope is fulfilled to the clients’ satisfaction. Ian serves as the primary point of contact for clients in the I-35 corridor between San Antonio and Austin before, during and after projects.
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.
Eric Neuner, PE
Eric oversees the Geotechnical Engineering and Consulting projects for the San Antonio Engineering Unit. With more than 20 years of experience, he is responsible for scope development, financial management, and effectively allocating corporate resources for responsive client satisfaction. Eric has had the opportunity to provide geotechnical engineering services in the Midwest and in the San Antonio, Texas area. He has also been the geotechnical engineer and/or project manager on numerous new and rehabilitated pavement projects for the public and private sector.
Katrin Leonard, PE
Katrin is recognized for her commitment to meeting client objectives for prompt and practical facilities engineering solutions. As an Associate with Raba Kistner’s Rio Grande offices, she has assumed progressive responsibility in management, administration, and coordination of geotechnical and facilities services throughout South Texas, the Texas/ México border, and Northern México. On a day-to-day basis, Katrin provides project management in several areas of facilities engineering.
Tom Kolko, PE
Tom is a licensed Professional Engineer with extensive experience in Civil Engineering and Construction Project Management. With over 25 years of experience, Tom has a proven record of improving quality, safety, customer satisfaction, productivity, and profitability through automation and process improvement. He is skilled in identifying areas of strength and weakness and establishing / implementing policies and standards.
Rick Klar, PG
Rick has more than 25 years of diversified experience in geologic and hydrogeologic investigations and serves as the corporate discipline leader for geoscience services. He is responsible for implementing/overseeing site exploration and characterization activities in support of geologic/hydrogeologic investigations, geotechnical engineering, water resourcing planning, Edwards Aquifer protection, and environmental assessment objectives.