PERSPECTIVES
Office Opened, Inspector Hired
Ayres Associates has opened an office in
Titusville, Florida. The office provides structural
inspection, transportation engineering,
structural engineering, and design services.
Tim Howell has joined
Ayres’ structural inspection
group in Florida, providing
inspection services, project
management, and business
development from our
Titusville office.
Howell brings more than 24 years of experience
in the management, operation, maintenance,
construction, and inspection of bridges and
other structures throughout Florida. For the
past 13 years he has served as a consulting
regional bridge project manager responsible for
$100 million in asset management contracts.
Howell, a project manager/lead inspector, is a
Florida DOT Certified Bridge Inspector and holds
several certifications in construction engineering
inspection.
Urban Planner Joins Ayres
Matt Ashby has joined
Ayres Associates,
bringing urban planning
expertise to complement
Ayres’ engineering,
architectural, geospatial,
and environmental services.
Based in our Cheyenne,
Wyoming, office, Ashby will provide planning
services on projects nationwide. He served the
past seven years as planning director for the
City of Cheyenne and brings nearly 15 years of
planning experience.
Educated at the University of Colorado, Ashby
holds dual master’s degrees in urban design
and urban and regional planning, as well as
planning and urban design certifications from
the American Institute of Certified Planners.
Project Manager Added in Colo.
Dale Mathison has joined Ayres’ municipal
group in Colorado, bringing 16 years of
experience in project
management, municipal
utilities, pipeline design,
and hydraulic analysis.
He brings public and
private sector design and
construction perspectives,
having previously worked
for Ayres Associates before a lengthy stint with
the Department of Utilities in Sacramento,
California. Mathison, a project manager, has
managed water, sewer, and stormwater capital
improvement projects from planning and design
through construction, including cured-in-place
pipe lining, large diameter gravity systems, pipe
jacking, and pipe bursting projects. He also
brings experience with river hydraulics analysis
and land and bathymetric GPS surveying. He
holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering
from Colorado State University.
New Executive VP Named
Bruce Ommen was recently
named executive vice
president at Ayres Associates.
He will continue to serve as
vice president of the firm’s
Wisconsin and Arizona
transportation operations,
in addition to overseeing the
architecture and Wisconsin engineering services
divisions. Ommen joined Ayres in 1990, initially
designing bridges and performing construction
observation for the transportation structures
division. He later moved to the highways
group and served as vice president of Midwest
transportation operations. He holds a bachelor’s
degree in civil engineering from the University
of Minnesota and is a registered professional
engineer in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Colorado,
Oklahoma, Georgia, and Florida.
Pulse Elected ACEC Fellow
Tom Pulse, Ayres Associates’
president, was elected to
the American Council of
Engineering Companies
College of Fellows, a
distinguished class of
engineers chosen by
their peers as deserving