Michael Walker
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Michael has over 20 years of experience in the consulting engineering industry, including work as a designer, surveyor, inspector, Project Manager, Group Manager, and Branch Manager. He focuses on leading diverse projects and teams and growing professionals to help them achieve their personal and professional goals.
Michael has trained hundreds of professionals through multiple programs, including one on one coaching, group management, and FIDIC’s Future Leaders Management Certificate Program. He specializes in Project and Program Management, with a focus on communication and risk management. Additionally he is the Discipline Head of Project Management for FIDIC Academy, a member of the FIDIC Sustainability Committee, and a long serving member of ACEC-SK though many roles including the Chair of the Careers in Consulting Committee, as well as a past member of the Board of Directors of the Consulting Engineers of Alberta. He has won multiple project and personal awards through his career, and helped many others to also achieve success and awards. Michael has been involved with DFS both as a student, and now as a trainer and partner. Michael has participated in the successful delivery of the FIDIC FLMC program (currently in its third year). He has presented at many ACEC-SK and ACEC-Canada conferences and events and is a regular volunteer for career fairs and presentations to Universities as an ACEC-SK representative. Michael is skilled in delivering DFS courses live, virtually, and is also leading the on-demand e-learning offering of our courses. |
Richard Stump
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Richard Stump is a Vice President of RS&H., a global architectural, engineering and construction management company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. Based in Chicago, Richard serves in RS&H’s federal practice while working initiatives across aviation and aerospace sections. Mr. Stump’s work experience spans 27 years, including business development, large project and program management, and managing new and existing markets in the US and globally. His professional activities have included business development and project execution of multidisciplinary building and infrastructure works in the Pacific, the Middle East/Southwest Asia, Horn of Africa and North Africa, India and Afghanistan. His work experience includes projects in 39 different countries; he has lived outside the continental North America in Israel, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Guam and Hawaii.
Richard has been a trainer for DFS since 2020, contributing to the professional education of more than 140 engineering professionals. He is a regular presenter at conferences for FIDIC, for the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME), and he serves a facilitator for design workshops and charrettes. In the past ten years, Richard has completed 55 design workshops with up to 110 participants for projects valued at up to $350million USD. Richard is the current Chair of the Integrity Management Committee (IMC) and was a key founder of what is now the FIDIC Future Leaders Advisory Council. He has served in various roles in the FIDIC IMC since 2008. He also served as the American Council of Engineering Companies’ International Committee Chair, on the SAME National Board of Direction, and as SAME Pacific Regional Vice President. Prior to joining the AEC industry, Richard served as an officer in the US Air Force. A registered architect in the United States, Richard is also a LEED-accredited sustainability professional (Building Design and Construction). His academic degrees include a Master’s degree in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Bachelor of Science degree in Architectural Studies from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. |
Andrew Steeves
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Andrew has over 40 years of consulting engineering experience in a variety of technical and management positions. Most of his experience was with employee-owned firms providing consulting and design services in engineering, architecture and environment science. At ADI he held several positions including design engineer, Manager of the Public Works Division, Vice-President (Administration) and Secretary-Treasurer.
From 2011 to 2017 Andrew was Engineer in Residence at the University of New Brunswick. In this role he acted as lecturer and industrial mentor for teams of students working on final year design projects. He continues to mentor senior Civil Engineering students working on their team design projects. Andrew is a graduate of the University of New Brunswick (UNB) with Bachelors and Master’s degrees in both Engineering and Business. Andrew’s volunteer and committees experience includes;
Andrew is the author of several other technical and business articles and presentations. He has taught business and engineering courses at the University of New Brunswick, Mount Allison University and the University of Prince Edward Island. He has presented papers, webinars, courses and talks at numerous national and international conferences for groups including the Association of Canadian Engineering Companies (ACEC) Canada, ACEC-NB and for several Young Professionals and Future Leaders groups across Canada and around the world through FIDIC (YPMP, FFLMC) and ACEC Canada. |
Jeshika Moonsamy
Pr Eng, BSc. Eng (Civil) |
Jeshika Moonsamy is a professionally registered engineer with over 15 years of experience in the consulting engineering industry across South Africa and the United Kingdom. With extensive experience in the water sector, Jeshika's interest has extended into the sustainable development and infrastructure space.
She has a passion for the technical delivery of multidisciplinary projects, has experience in the leadership and management of project and organizational teams, governance and capacity building. Jeshika is an enthusiastic mentor and trainer. In addition to workplace training of her direct reports and mentees, she is also a trainer for FIDIC's Future Leaders Management Certificate Programme where she focuses on Quality, Risk and Sustainability Management. Jeshika's involvement in the engineering industry extends across several technical organisations as well as in consulting engineering for Consulting Engineers South Africa, FIDIC Africa and FIDIC as a member of the Sustainable Development Committee and as the Discipline Head of Sustainability Management in the FIDIC Academy. |
Jomanah Al-Btoush
B.Sc. (Civil), MBA, PMP |
Jomanah Al-Btoush holds a bachelor’s in Civil Engineering, MBA degree, and post graduate Diploma in International Construction Contracts.
She is a certified PMP Professional, certified Green Project Manager (GPM-b), certified Carbon Reduction & GHG Manager (CRM). She has diverse working experience in water and environmental sectors in Jordan and the Middle East, as a project manager, technical leader, modeller, and contact specialist. Currently, she is working as a Project Management Specialist in the Water Resources and Environment Office at USAID Jordan. She participated in FIDIC Young Professionals Management Training Program in 2011, was a former chair of FIDIC Young Professionals Forum Steering Committee, and an active member in different committees and task forces. In 2018, Jomanah won the FIDIC annual Young Professionals Award. |