| 1725 220th St SE Building C, Suite 200 Bothell, WA 98021 Phone: 425-205-4930 |
Our Staff |
| Staheli Trenchless Consultants diverse staff provides a wide range of expertise and experience which can be applied to trenchless construction. All of our firm members work closely, sharing project experience and technical expertise to provide exceptionally thorough and well balanced services suited to the needs of our clients. |
| Kimberlie Staheli, Principal Engineer, Ph.D., P.E. For 15 years, Kimberlie Staheli, Ph.D., PE, has specialized in trenchless engineering. Ms. Staheli's expertise ranges from geotechnical evaluations to microtunneling, horizontal directional drilling, and pipe jacking. She has extensive experience with feasibility studies, preliminary designs, plans and specifications, constructability reviews, prequalification packages, and on-site specialty construction inspections. She has served as an expert witness on numerous projects involving trenchless technology. She holds a PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Geotechnical Engineering. |
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| Michelle Ramos, Senior Project Engineer, P.E. L.E.G. Michelle Ramos, P.E., L.E.G. has been practicing geotechnical engineering since 1996. She has performed site investigation, project management, and construction monitoring and inspection. Over the years, she has become a well-rounded engineer with clients ranging from home owners to small municipalities to large counties. Her project experience has included field explorations, design studies, contract drawings and specifications, and report preparation. Michelle’s project experience has included sewer systems, water-systems, lift-stations, pump stations, wet wells, and ground improvement for infrastructure. Since 2005, Michelle has become specialized in geotechnical engineering associated with trenchless projects. These projects have involved many different trenchless technologies including: horizontal directional drilling (HDD), microtunneling, earth pressure balance (EPB) tunneling, pilot tube microtunneling, and pipe jacking. Many of these projects have been followed from preliminary feasibility assessment through design and construction. |
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| Eric Buer, Project Geologist, M.S. Working with STC Eric has completed numerous feasibility studies for a variety of methods and environments, preliminary and final design work, geotechnical investigations, plans and specifications, bid services, constructability reviews, and construction inspection for a variety of horizontal directional drilling, microtunneling, pipe bursting and pipe jack auger boring projects. His previous experience includes extensive surveying, structural modeling of ocean-ocean subduction zones, sediment geochemical tracer studies and landscape development research. In his spare time Eric enjoys whitewater kayaking, backpacking and rock climbing. |
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| Laura Wetter, Project Geologist, M.S. Laura Wetter is involved with feasibility studies, geotechnical investigations, risk assessment and project design for a variety of trenchless methods that include microtunneling, horizontal directional drilling, pipe ramming and auger boring. She has extensive experience with geotechnical writing, and holds an M.S. degree in Geology from the University of California, Davis. Laura enjoys rock climbing, backpacking and ultimate frisbee. |
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| Tina Richardson, Operations Manager Tina Richardson joined STC in 2006 with over 15 years of Office Management experience. She manages the company's accounting functions, takes care of human resource needs as well as providing staff support for project work. Most of her background had been in the Health Care field before getting the opportunity to transition to the exciting world of Trenchless. Tinas interests are cooking, boating and getting stamps in her passport. |
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