PERSPECTIVES
18│ TRENDS
Aerial Mapping group
adds surveyor
Richard Kleinmann has
joined Ayres Associates’ aerial
mapping group, bringing more
than three decades of survey
experience in the municipal,
state, and private sectors,
including managing consultant surveying
contracts for the Wisconsin Department of
Transportation’s Southeast Region and serving
as West Bend’s city surveyor for 21 years.
Kleinmann will work with Thomas Tym,
technology solutions leader, expanding Ayres’
commitment to serving the mapping and
asset management needs of southeastern
Wisconsin counties, municipalities, utilities,
and transportation officials. He will work with
Ayres surveyors Mitch Reimer and Ben Larson
to support the company’s surveying operations
in southeast Wisconsin. He is licensed to pilot
unmanned aerial systems (drones).
Kleinmann is president-elect of the Society
of Southeast Wisconsin Land Surveyors and
previously served as vice president.
Leadership changes announced
Daryl Myers was promoted to transportation
manager for Ayres’ Southeast Operations and
will oversee transportation operations in Ayres’
Jacksonville, Tampa, and Titusville offices.
Myers is a registered
professional engineer in
Florida and South Carolina
and has been with Ayres
Associates since 2002. He
has 18 years of professional
engineering experience related
to roadway and drainage
collection system design for projects ranging
from major roadway improvements to minor
intersection improvements. Elements of work he
oversees include survey, right-of-way mapping
and acquisition, roadway design, stormwater
collection and treatment, soil and subsurface
investigations, permitting, utility relocation and
coordination, and public meetings. He holds a
bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering
from the University of Florida and has been
active in the Florida Stormwater Association.
David Stroud joined the Jacksonville office as
a project manager, bringing traffic engineering
and transportation planning expertise.
Stroud has more than 35 years
of transportation planning and
traffic engineering experience.
He has served as a consultant
to state departments of
transportation, metropolitan
planning organizations,
municipalities, and other
consulting firms regarding transportation
corridor improvements, traffic access and
circulation, parking demand and supply, parking
facility design, urban development issues, and
highway network computer modeling.
He is certified by the American Institute
of Certified Planners and is a registered
professional engineer in Florida, North Carolina,
Texas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
He holds a bachelor’s in civil engineering from
Youngstown State University in Ohio. He is active
in the Transportation Research Board’s efforts
with managed lanes, planning applications, and
programming and investment decision-making.
Craig Schuh has been named
manager of municipal services
in our Green Bay area office.
With nearly 19 years of
experience at Ayres Associates,
he is committed to serving the
municipalities and developers
in northeastern Wisconsin.
Schuh has been responsible for management
or design on about 200 projects, including
his primary responsibilities on municipal and
site civil projects, assisting transportation
engineers with stormwater design, and
providing construction observation/supervision.
His expertise includes project planning and
development, street and utility design, water
supply, site development, agency/utility
coordination, and public involvement.