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John Adams Joins Dewberry’s Expanding Southeast Transportation Group

Senior transportation manager joins firm’s Raleigh, North Carolina, office.

John Adams

Dewberry announced that John Adams, PE, has been hired as a vice president and transportation department manager in the firm’s Raleigh, North Carolina office. His responsibilities consist of client communications, technical services oversight, service offering expansion, and staff growth.

Adams comes to Dewberry from a globally recognized engineering firm where he most recently was the department of transportation northeast and mid-Atlantic business unit operations manager. In this position, his responsibilities included key client account management, budgeting and revenue forecasting, profit/loss management, staff recruiting, project performance reviews, and quality oversight.

“We’re thrilled to welcome John to our Raleigh office,” said Darren Conner, PE, southeast president with Dewberry. “His decades of experience are invaluable to our transportation division in the southeast.”

Throughout Adams’ 24-year career as a transportation engineer, he has had diverse project experience, including transportation planning, freeway facility systems planning, corridor studies, roadway design, traffic operations, feasibility studies, environmental documentation, and public involvement. He earned both his master’s (1993) and bachelor’s (1991) degrees in civil engineering from North Carolina State University. He is a professional engineer in Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina, and is a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers, the Professional Engineers of North Carolina’s Central Carolina chapter, and the North Carolina Institute of Transportation Engineers.

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