Transportation guru Mary Peters joins HDR while Perini promotes key employees to vice president.

Mary Peters has joined HDR as national director for transportation policy and consulting. She will be based in HDR's Phoenix office. Peters will be responsible for building a management consulting practice and formulating public policy initiatives for the firm's transportation program.

Prior to joining HDR, Peters was Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Before joining the FHWA, Peters was the director of the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT). She provided leadership to more than 4,800 employees in administering the state's transportation program. Peters joined ADOT in 1985, working her way up through the ranks before her appointment as director in 1998.

In September, Peters received the American Road and Transportation Builders Association's highest honor, the ARTBA Award. She was recognized for her exemplary career in public service as a long-time champion for improving transportation program efficiency at the federal and state levels, and for measures aimed at improving roadway work zone safety.

Perini Building Company promoted Travis Burton, Shelton Grantham, Patrick Hubbs, Michael McLean, and Ken Schacherbauer to vice president of field operations. Perini Building Company also promoted Richard Gohl to vice president of estimating.

As vice presidents of field operations, Burton, Grantham, Hubbs, McLean and Schacherbauer will be responsible for supervising project managers, field personnel and jobsite logistics on specific projects.

Burton, Gohl, Grantham, Hubbs, McLean, and Schacherbauer have collectively worked on Perini's largest, most complex projects in management positions. Major projects include the Mohegan Sun Expansion, several Caesars Palace projects, Marriott Grand Residence Club, Green Valley Ranch, Renaissance Las Vegas Hotel, America West Arena, Chase Field and Glendale Arena.

Summit Builders Construction Company recently promoted two senior managers in their Phoenix, Arizona headquarters office.

Bryan Doolen was promoted to vice president of operations. Doolen joined Summit Builders in 1995 as a project engineer and most recently served as senior project manager. He will be responsible for all of the administrative and operational activities of the firm's Arizona office.

Mike Tylwalk was recently named General Superintendent. Tylwalk began his employment at Summit Builders ten years ago as a construction manager. He was promoted shortly after to project manager. Tylwalk will oversee field personnel and monitor all project job sites in Arizona.

Bill Johnson has joined The Korte Company's Las Vegas Division as a construction superintendent.

In addition, Brad Wood has joined The Korte Company's division of preconstruction services as a project estimator. He is a graduate of Southern Illinois University's Construction Management Program.

Suzanne Walker has also joined the firm as administrative assistant.

Parsons Brinckerhoff Construction Services (PBCS) has named Luis Mota as area manager for Arizona.

Mota has over ten years of experience in the construction of major infrastructure projects. He previously served as marketing manager for PBCS's Southwest region.
He has also been a PBCS project manager, responsible for managing airport and highway projects in Chicago and Arizona, including several runway projects at Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport. Mota earned a B.S. degree in civil engineering from Purdue University.

New Mexico One Call, Inc. (NMOC) , a nonprofit organization that operates a statewide "Call Before You Dig" center, has appointed Dennis J. Woodruff as the organization's new operations manager. Woodruff graduated from Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Fla. With a bachelor of science degree in business administration in 1994. In 2003, he earned a Master of Business Administration from Wayland Baptist University.