Gresham, Smith and Partners, a multi-disciplinary design and consulting firm for the built environment, announces Giny Jacob has joined the firm’s Water Services market in Atlanta. In her role as a project engineer, Jacob will provide engineering support in the planning, design and construction of water and wastewater infrastructure.
“We interviewed numerous candidates and immediately felt that Giny offered all of the skills we were looking for in a candidate. Her well-rounded experience in Georgia, Florida and the mid-Atlantic states complements our program geographically and her technical expertise in treatment and conveyance is what we needed to deliver our strong backlog of project work in 2012,” said Christopher M. Haney, P.E., south division water operations manager and senior vice president at Gresham, Smith and Partners.“
Jacob has more than nine years of experience in the design and permitting for water and wastewater treatment plants, conveyance system analysis, project management and construction phase services. Her recent projects include improvements to the Frank E. VanLare Aeration System in New York’s Monroe County, an expansion of the North River Wastewater Treatment Facility for the Harrisonburg Rockingham Regional Sewer Authority in Virginia and numerous sanitary sewer new pump stations in Pasco County, Fla., and Hillsborough County, Fla. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in environmental engineering from the University of Florida and she is a certified engineer-in-training (EIT) while actively pursuing her Professional Engineer (P.E.) license.
Source: GS&P