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December Meeting Speaker

Posted by jen on 11/30/2012 12:00 am  /   Keynote Session

December Meeting

December 10th, Dallas/Addison Marriott Quorum Hotel

Main Speaker: Lesley Schwalje, P.E. 

 Topic: Dallas Levee Project



Lesley Schwalje is a project manager with HNTB Corporation with nearly 15 years of consulting experience in Kansas City and Dallas. Her experience includes transportation / roadway studies and design, as well as levee assessment and design.  HNTB brought Lesley to Dallas in 2009 to manage the City of Dallas’ Levee Remediation Project.  She has spent the last four years working with the City of Dallas, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Federal Emergency Management Agency and other key stakeholders to assess and implement measures to bring the City of Dallas’ Trinity River Levees up to current criteria to allow for continued FEMA Certification.

Lesley has a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Iowa State University and is licensed professional engineer in the states of Kansas and Texas.  Prior to her work with the City of Dallas, she worked on multiple levee systems in the Louisiana Gulf Coast Region as well as various highway/roadway projects throughout Kansas and Missouri.