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.
Thomas Posey
Thomas Posey has more than 25 years of experience in project management,
engineering consultancy and construction materials testing practices. With
a broad knowledge of soil-structure interaction for a variety of foundation
systems, Tom’s abilites to address geotechnical design and constructability
issues during the earliest stages of a client’s project provides them with the
opportunity to improve project performance. The breadth of his experience
within the Gulf Region include the complexities of building on soft and
compressible soils near shorelines and waterways, in addition to the
challenges of highly-expansive soil environments.
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.
Brady O'Neal
Brady O'Neal has been promoted to Director, Environmental Planning and Permitting. Brady has previously held the roles of Assistant Director, Senior Project Manager, Project Manager and Environmental Scientist, at Raba Kistner. He has been a key leader in delivering environmental due diligence resources for various transportation, commercial, and energy projects across Texas. Brady excels in growing and supporting our Environmental Planning and Permitting (EPP) team, meeting clients’ needs, and expanding the service line. In his new role, Brady will manage and further develop our EPP service line to achieve our Environmental Division's goals by supporting our broad range of clients and communities.
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.
Eric McClanahan
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.