Walid Hatoum was appointed president of PBS&J International in Tampa. Hatoum, who worked for PBS&J from 1986-1990, joined PBS&J International as director of international business development in May. He has 27 years of experience in program management, project leadership, project engineering, business development, public relations and administration.

Prior to joining PBS&J International, Hatoum served as division manager for Parsons International, operating out of London, England and Abu Dhabi, UAE. He also served as chief of party for the USAID Iraq Infrastructure Reconstruction Program, Phase II, in Baghdad, with responsibility for the water sector of that $1.7-billion program. More recently, Hatoum served as the U.S. East division manager for Parsons Water and Infrastructure.

Hatoum holds a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Tampa and a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of South Florida.

Bill Stahlke was named president – investments for Lane Strategic Investment, announced Lane Co., the Atlanta-based multifamily real estate firm. Stahlke’s responsibilities include developing Lane Co.’s acquisition strategy and overseeing acquisitions.

Stahlke came out of retirement to take the position. Before his retirement, he was president of Windsor Capital Partners, an investment firm which acquired large apartment communities for institutional pension funds and high net worth individual clients.

Helen Xiaoxin Littleton has joined engineering firm Jordan, Jones & Goulding of Norcross, Ga., as wastewater technology leader. As a senior technologist and experienced environmental engineer, Littleton is considered an industry expert in aerobic and anaerobic biological process design. She has more than 30 years of experience.

Van Tilley was promoted to executive vice president at Palmer Electric Co. In Winter Park, Fla., in charge of all operating units. Tilley, who joined the company in 2002, most recently served as vice president of the company’s commercial division. He remains on the firm’s board of directors. He has 30 years of electrical contracting experience.

Randy Osburn was promoted to vice president for engineering firm HDR. Based in the company’s Raleigh, N.C., office, Osburn is a senior project manager for the company’s East region. His responsibilities include special project assignments.

Danny Gordon, associate principal with HuntonBrady Architects of Orlando, will be the firm’s new principal in charge of commercial interiors.

Gordon has more than 15 years of experience designing and master planning commercial, educational and medical office buildings throughout Florida.

Steve Plane joins Faithful+Gould as the consulting firm’s new operations director in the Atlanta office. Plane has more than 28 years of experience in construction, engineering and consulting.

Prior to joining Faithful+Gould, Plane was the president and partner of a mechanical contracting firm, where he was responsible for business development, recruitment and establishment of the firm’s operating and internal process plans.

James Clayton was named director of diversity and community development for Rodgers Builders of Charlotte, N.C. Clayton has been with the company since 2001. Clayton will lead RBI’s diversity outreach programs and continue his involvement with numerous strategic organizations. Prior to this new position, Clayton served as project manager.

AECOM Technology Corp. recently announced personnel appointments within its Southeast region transportation division. Richard P. Markwith was named regional business development manager. He has more than 25 years of highway, bridge, tunnel and building project management experience. In this new position, Markwith will be responsible for the growth of AECOM’s transportation business in Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee.

David W. Gwynn was named Southeast region highway and bridge market segment leader. He has more than 26 years of experience managing business operations and major transportation projects throughout the Southeast.

Tom J. Marwood was named Florida district manager and will be responsible for the development and management of the transportation practice throughout Florida. He has more than 25 years of industry experience, and most recently served as AECOM’s South Florida district manager.

Todd Stanislaus and Michelle Beaudet- Smith recently joined Atlantic Southern Paving and Sealcoating of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Stanislaus joined the firm’s sales team. Beaudet- Smith will work in sales and marketing. Stanislaus has 27 years of experience in the asphalt construction industry. Beaudet- Smith has more than 15 years of experience in sales and marketing, and served the last seven years in the construction and home improvement industry.

Gresham, Smith and Partners has hired Tyler Strickland as a senior transportation engineer in its Chipley, Fla., office. Strickland has more than eight years of experience in public-sector design and project management in Florida.

BCArchitects of Miami has hired F.W. “Dub” Evins and Sandy Cohan to lead the firm’s new health-care division. Evins will serve as principal, director of health care, and Cohan as director of physician and clinical services.

Evins has more than 30 years of healthcare construction and design experience. Cohan has more than 25 years of health-care imaging experience, and previously launched HealthCare Growth Concepts.

The new division will offer feasibility studies, planning, design, budgeting, construction documents, permitting and construction administration for medical campus, health care and hospital buildings, physician’s offices, imaging and surgical centers, emergency centers and walk-in clinics.

Douglas Glenn has joined Longwood, Fla.- based, Comprehensive Energy Services as manager of the company’s newly formed engineered systems group. Glenn has 16 years experience in the life safety industry. He joins CES from I-Tech Solutions, where he was company principal and branch manager.

Denise Young has joined Suffolk Construction’s office in Sarasota, Fla., as director of business development for the company’s Southeast region. Young has more than 12 years of industry experience. Most recently, she served as director of business development at Kraft Construction Co. in Sarasota.

Perry Mayhew has joined WSP SELLS in Mooresville, N.C., as municipal services group leader. He has more than 15 years of experience as a municipal services project manager, focusing on the utilities sector.

Alan Bressler has joined the Atlanta environmental practice of Ames & Gough, a specialty insurance broker that serves architects, engineers, contractors, owners/developers and law firms.

Bressler previously was a managing director and leader of the environmental practice at Marsh.

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