Dewberry announced that Lisa Betz, PE, LEED AP BD+C, and Aaron Cheskis, PE, have been promoted to associate in the firm’s Baltimore, Maryland, office.
Betz has been in the industry for more than 15 years. She is an experienced site/civil project manager focused on total project consulting for multidiscipline, land-based projects including residential, commercial, and institutional developments. She is currently involved in the ongoing work at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center to provide improved infrastructure, including access and utility upgrades, and the Mattawoman Energy Power Plant where the firm is developing lateral designs for reclaimed water, gas, and transmission lines.
Betz earned her bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Duke University (2002) and is a member of the Urban Land Institute. She is a professional engineer in Maryland, Nevada, and Pennsylvania; and was the coordinating editor for the third edition of Dewberry’s Land Development Handbook, a textbook widely used in college engineering programs.
Cheskis has been in the transportation engineering industry for nearly two decades. His broad range of experience as a civil engineer in transportation and land development design projects includes horizontal and vertical alignment of roadways, drainage design, coordination of utility relocation, cost estimating, erosion and sediment control, and grading. Cheskis spent nearly five years working as a designer on the Dulles Corridor Metrorail project in northern Virginia and seven years on the Intercounty Connector project in Maryland.
Cheskis earned both his master’s (Virginia Tech, 2003) and bachelor’s (University of Michigan, 1998) degrees in civil engineering. He is a professional engineer in Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, Washington D.C., and Virginia; and an erosion and sediment control designer in Maryland. Cheskis is a member of the American Society of Highway Engineers and the American Society of Civil Engineers.
