Posts for Archives: People

Everyone loves Jackie. And Jackie loves everyone (well, almost anyway). As DBIA’s Certification Manager, she’s got the challenging task of helping design-builders navigate through the full certification process. It’s not always easy, but you’d never know it by watching Jackie in action. She’s a born customer-service pro because she loves to laugh and make others […]

Don’t you hate it when you call a business or walk into its lobby and the first person you meet seems annoyed you bothered them? That makes Keisha crazy too and, as DBIA’s first point of contact, she’ll ensure you know she really is happy to meet you. In her spare time, Keisha enjoys a […]

Michelle joined DBIA’s membership team in 1998 and is the voice you hear when you register for one of DBIA’s many events or courses. Michelle’s decades of DBIA member services experience helps ensure our engaged design-build community can register for DBIA offerings with ease. Her big heart has her volunteering each month delivering necessities to […]

Education is our mission. So it’s no surprise that Mihisha spends her days ensuring our fastest growing department continues to deliver the nation’s best courses and training for design-builders. One part cat-wrangler, two parts logistician and many parts sooth-sayer, Mihisha works to keep DBIA education on the leading edge of our industry. In her youth, […]

Organizing DBIA’s many education courses and workshops requires a logistical powerhouse with the patience of Job, even in a good year. And, as we all know, the COVID years certainly can’t qualify as “good years.” In spite of it all, Education Program Coordinator, Paige Hawkins, keeps our top-notch instructors, eager design-build students and our many […]

At DBIA we always say, “We love our members!” And we really do. Mia has been on the front lines of our member engagement since 2014 and says the favorite part of her job is meeting so many of our members at DBIA conferences. Mia is into animation/anime, comedies, action and foreign films, sci-fi, and […]

Being a good webmaster involves far more than just the technical side of working code and CMS; the magic comes in the creativity and artistry. Here at DBIA, Fred plays his computer like a Stradivarius. He got an art degree from the University of Maryland after studying graphic design, printmaking and animation. At DBIA you […]

Chris Gaskins is a true champion and innovator for design-build in the state of South Carolina. As Preconstruction Design- Build Engineer for the South Carolina Department of Transportation, Gaskins leads a dynamic 12-engineer group that oversees the delivery of statewide design-build projects. He also facilitated the development and implementation of the Design-Build Procurement Manual and, […]

Jim Avitabile has worked on projects from California to Maine, and everywhere in between, working on roadways, limited- access highways, bridges, toll roads, interchanges, rail and transit facilities, and more. Jim leads RS&H’s Strategic Initiatives related to its Transportation Practice and has assisted public agencies such as TxDOT, FDOT, MDOT, CDOT, and LYNX refine their […]

Adrian Price is the Design-Build Coordinator at Flatiron Construction and for nearly a decade has worked on a variety of design-build projects. Adrian is currently working on the one hundred and forty-five million-dollar N.C. 12 Rodanthe Bridge project for the North Carolina Department of Transportation. As an engineer and young professional, Adrian represents the future […]